Jim Martinez wrote: > Hi, > > I'll give a 5 minute Lightning Talks at YAPC next week (I'm already in > Toronto, yea). > > I submitted the talk using this... > > Topic Apache::Test and hangman > Description Show how Apache::Test is useful to refactor hangman
that's interesting for a 5 minute slot. good luck with that :) > > I was thinking I'd use Apache-Test to show how to refactor a cgi hangman > game, aiming the talk at the type of people who would not attend, say, > Geoffrey Young's "Writing Tests with Apache-Test" YAPC talk. People who > might not know anything about Apache-Test. who wouldn't attend my talk? ;) > > 5 minutes isn't a lot of time. Instead maybe I could just give a 5 minute > Apache-Test info-mercial type of talk. sounds like a much better idea. > > Here's my current outline, please feel free to comment on it: > > * Intro - Apache Test is a way to test web applications in an automated > way. my "intro" path has been more "A-T takes care of the Apache-part for testing web applications so you can focus on your tests" lately. really, for the "testing" part it merely offers some syntactic sugar, such as a GET method that automagically intuits the host and port. all the rest can be Test.pm function, Apache::Test function, Test::More functions, WWW::Mech functions, etc. but what you want to say is really up to you, so ymmv. a lightning talk will come off much better if you are comfortable with what you're saying and can click through some slides or a demo with the confidence of someone doing this kind of thing every day. so, "hey A-T rocks but everyone thinks it's so difficult to use and it's not. here's what I do every day" might work better than some contrieved hangman example that you need to work up and stumble through in 5 minutes. but here I am rambling about me and what I'd do, when really this is about you and what gets you excited enough about A-T to want to talk about it. focus on that and you'll do fine :) --Geoff
