Test Driven Development & RPG Best Practices

Speaker:
Edmund Reinhardt (IBM) and Barbara Morris (IBM)

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 - 1:30pm to 4:30pm

Session 1: Test Driven Development
Abstract:
- The current best practice for producing high quality software is Test-Driven Development.
- This practice can be applied to RPG development on IBM i.
- The end result is software where every single line is covered by an automated test and can easily be regression tested on every build of your deliverable.
- Tools such as RPGUnit and RDi and Code Coverage can be used to support this process and make it easier and more enjoyable.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn the best practice of Test Driven Development
2. Be able to articulate the benefits of this approach
3. See a practical example in the context of ILE RPG and the IBM i
4. See how the open source packages like RPG Unit can help
5. Learn how Rational Developer for i can be used to support this process
6. Learn how Code Coverage can be integrate into this to prove that every line has been covered.

Session 2: Best Practices for RPG Coding
- The features of ILE RPG that allow you to write "modern" code
- Which old features to avoid
- How to reduce the effort of maintenance by limiting exports from modules and service programs

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Edmund Reinhardt has been working on application development tools for IBM i for over 25 years.
Having led the technical direction for Rational Developer for i, he is passionate about engaging and delighting customers with its capabilities. Edmund also believes in helping IBM i developers achieve their full potential by applying the latest software development techniques. He is the father of 4 children and is very involved in humanitarian and spiritual relief around the world.

Barbara Morris is the lead developer for the RPG compilers in the IBM Toronto Lab. She has been working on the RPG compilers since she started at IBM in 1989 after receiving a Computing Science degree from the University of Alberta.

The first enhancement she developed was the ENDIF/ENDDO opcodes for RPG/400 in V2R1. Some of her most recent enhancements were the ON-EXIT and DATA-INTO operation codes for ILE RPG. A few of the other notable enhancements that she developed for ILE RPG include subprocedures, qualified data structures, call-interaction with Java, Open Access: RPG Edition, and fully-free-form RPG.

Presenter Resources:

Strategy_and_best_practice_for_modern_RPG_QUSER.pdf

TestDrivenDevelopmentWithRPGandRDi.pdf

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