Westminster Professor Presents Work at International Conference

Dr. David Shaffer, an assistant professor of computer science at Westminster College, recently presented a talk on the "SeasideTesting" framework at Smalltalk Solutions Conference in Orlando and the European Smalltalk Users Group Conference in Brussels. 

The conferences were attended by software developers and professors interested in the Smalltalk programming language and environment. 

 For the past two years, Shaffer has been actively developing the software, SeasideTesting, a framework for testing web server applications.  "I presented a half-day tutorial session on the 'Seaside' framework and a 45-minute talk on my 'SeasideTesting,' work" Shaffer said.  "Seaside is a set of tools for developing Web applications.  My tutorial focused on both introductory and advanced Seaside development topics like Web components, decorations, and dealing with object databases.  SeasideTesting grew out of a need for a way to write automated tests for software written using Seaside."

 While at the conference in Brussels, Shaffer presented another testing framework, which he has developed, called "Squellenium," and chaired a session on Smalltalk in education.

While at the conference in Orlando, Shaffer met with Eric Evans, author of 'Domain Driven Design.'

 "His book is a potential textbook for our capstone course, and I had the unique opportunity to sit with him and discuss what parts of it Westminster might be able to use." Shaffer said

 Contact Shaffer at (724) 946-7292 or e-mail shaffecd@westminster.edu for more information.

Dr. David Shaffer