There runs a heated debate about how to build application architectures. Many practitioners believe you must design up front, others feel that doing so leads to over-design. Unfortunately, much of this debate is based on practices, not principles. Practices must change when one finds oneself in a different context. Principles do not. This talk presents a background of several useful principles which can help in building an application architecture dynamically.

The advent of agile methodologies have caused concern and confusion in many an SQA organization; are agile practices like Test Driven Development and Acceptance Testing about to drive the SQA teams and practitioners into irrelevance? To the contrary, with a little adjustment SQA actually emerges in a leading role in software development process!This talk will show how lean/agile methodologies, by their nature, reassign SQA a leading role in software development through the practice of Acceptance Testing and Test Driven Development. We will: