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I've revised and extended my old talk on Test-Driven Development. Here it is as a nice PDF, and below the fold as a text outline.
And here are my book references in an Amazon List
Test-Driven by Alex Chaffee (firstname.lastname@example.com)
- Test-Driven
- by Alex Chaffee
- alex @ pivotallabs.com
- Pivotal Labs
- by Alex Chaffee
- Intended Audience
- Developers or QA Engineers
- Familiar with JUnit
- Want more detail on Automated Testing in general
- Want to know the case for Test-Driven Development
- Want to know style tips and gotchas for Testing and TDD
- Part I: The Blank Page
- Let's test-drive a utility class…
- Red-Green-Refactor
- Arrange (set up preconditions)
- Act (call production code)
- Assert (check the results)
- Assert
- The heart of a unit test
- An Assert is a declaration of truth
- Failed assert -> false (incorrect) behavior
- "assert your postconditions"
Set set = new MySet();
set.add("Ice Cream");
assertTrue(set.contains("Ice Cream"));
- One Step At A Time
- Don't be over-ambitious
- Each test — especially each new test — should add one brick to the wall of knowledge
- Code:Brick :: Test:Mortar
- Pick tests (features) in order of growth
- The Null Test
- A great first test to write
- Input and output are trivial
- Helps you focus on infrastructure and API
- Assert First
- When you get stuck on a test, try starting with the assertion(s) and then work your way backwards to the setup
- Start with the assert
- One Step At A Time
* Then add the code above it
Set set = new MySet();
- Helps focus on goal
- Fake It 'Til You Make It
- Start with hardcoded results and wait until later tests to force them to become real
- Triangulate To Abstraction
- Make the code abstract only when you have two or more examples
- Helps focus on goal
public void testSum() {
assertEquals(4, plus(3,1));
int plus(int x, y) {
return 4;
public void testSum() {
assertEquals(4, plus(3,1));
assertEquals(5, plus(3,2));
int plus(int x, y) {
return x + y;
- Test List
- Before you begin, make a TODO list
- Write down a bunch of operations
- For each operation, list the null test and some others
- Also put down refactorings that come to mind
- Why not write all the tests in code first?
- Could box you in
- Interferes with red-green-refactor
- Obvious Implementation
- aka Don't Be Stupid
- If you really, really, honestly know the right way to implement it, then write it that way
- But keep track of how many times your "obvious implementation" was broken or untested
- Edge cases, off-by-one errors, null handling... all deserve tests and often the Obvious Implementation is not covered
- Test List
- Part II: Testing Philosophy
- Automated Testing Layers
- Unit
- Integration
- Acceptance
- A Good Test Is...
- Automated
- Isolated
- Repeatable
- Fast
- Easy to write and maintain
- Focused
- Easy to read
- Robust (opposite: Brittle)
- Tests are "Executable Specifications"
- Someone should be able to understand your class by reading the tests
- Live documentation (better than dead trees)
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."
"" Martin Fowler
- Why do you test?
- Why do you test?
- Prevent bugs
- Regress bugs ("bug repellant")
- Localize defects
- Understand design
- Document (or specify) design
- Improve design
- Support refactorings
- Enable experimentation and change
- Confidence
- Catch errors the language can't
- Long-term sustainability and maintainability
- When do you test?
- When do you test?
- Before checkin
- After update
- Before deploy
- While coding
- In the background
- When do you test?
- All the time
- When do you write tests?
- Never
- After coding
- During coding
- Before coding
- Why test first?
- Why test first?
- Gets tests written
- Easier than retrofitting tests onto an existing system
- Guarantees 100% test coverage
- In practice, you never have time after the code is written, but you always have the time before
- Go figure :-)
- Reduces scope of production code
- Proves that your objects have usable interfaces
- more useful methods and fewer useless ones
- Guarantees testability
- Test-last code is often hard to test
- Sustainable Feature Velocity
- How can you write tests for code that doesn't exist?
- Think of tests as examples or specs
- One trick: write code in test class, then extract to production
"If you can't write a test, then you don't know what the code should do. And what business do you have writing code in the first place when you can't say what it's supposed to do?" - Rob Mee
- What to test?
- Simple Rule:
- Test everything that could possibly break
- Depends on definitions of "everything" and "possibly"
- (and "break")
- This means, don't test things that couldn't possibly break
- E.g. Getters and Setters
- Unless you think they could fail!
- Better safe than sorry
- How much to test?
- Personal judgement, skill, experience
- Usually, you start by testing too little, then you let a bug through
- Then you start testing a lot more, then you gradually test less and less, until you let a bug through
- Then you start testing too much again :-)
- Eventually you reach homeostasis
- Test for "essential complexity"
- Not too big, not too small
- Same concept as high coherence, low coupling
- Meszaros' Principles of Test Automation
- Write the tests first
- Design for testability
- Use the front door first
- Communicate intent
- Don't modify the SUT
- Keep tests independent
- Isolate the SUT
- Minimize test overlap
- Minimize untestable code
- Keep test logic out of production code
- Verify one condition per test
- Test separate concerns separately
- Ensure commensurate effort and responsibility
- Tests Are An Extension of Code
- Every time you write code, you write tests that exercise it
- That means that if you change the code, and the tests break, you must either
- Change the tests to match the new spec
- Change the code to meet the old spec
- Do not remove the failing tests
- Unless they no longer apply to the new code's design or API
- Do not work around the failing tests
- Test code is not "wasted" or "extra" -- tests are first-class citizens
- If you feel like they're too much work, examine your process
- Maybe you're writing the wrong tests, or your tests are too brittle, or they're not refactored enough
- Unit Testing Is Hard
- It forces you to really understand the code
- It forces you to really understand the tests
- It forces you to create code that is truly reusable and modular and testable
- "put your money where your mouth is"
- These forces drive you to keep your code and your tests simple and easy to understand
- Test-Driving Is Slower At First
- Need to spend time on infrastructure, fixtures, getting comfortable with TDD
- Business case for TDD: sustainable velocity
- for feature velocity, stabilty > early oomph
- Famous graph
- Two D's
- Test-Driven Development
- Good old-fashioned coding, now with tests!
- Test-Driven Design
- Free your mind and the code will follow
- Quite a lot of overlap, but worth keeping difference in mind
- Lots of XP gurus are all about the Zen, but you don't need to buy into that
- But it's actually pretty cool to try Zen Testing
- Automated Testing Layers
Part III: Advanced Techniques
- Full Range Testing
- Positive Tests
exercise normal conditions ("sunny day scenarios")
E.g. Verify that after adding an element to a set, that element exists in the set
- Negative Tests
Exercise failure conditions ("rainy day scenarios")
E.g. verify that trying to remove an element from an empty set throws an exception
- Boundary Conditions
Exercise the limits of the system ("cloudy day")
E.g. adding the maximum number of elements to a set
E.g. test 0, -1, maximum, max+1
- Positive Tests
- Outside-in vs. Inside-out
- Matter of preference
- Both are useful at times
- Inside-out
- Start with domain objects
- Next layer of tests
- Outside-in
- Start with customer story or user interface
- Makes you think like a user
- Tests capture these requirements
- Lower layers implemented with Test Doubles (mocks)
- After you're done, either replace mocks with real objects, or leave them there (perhaps at higher maintenance cost)
- Outside-in design, inside-out development
- Write a bunch of UI-level tests
- Leave them there while you test-drive inside-out
- When they all pass, you're done
- Test Doubles
- A Test Double replaces the "real" instance of an object used by the production code with something suitable for the currently running test, but with the same interface
- Stubs
- Hard-coded values
- Mocks
- Pre-programmed with expectations
- Fail-fast
- Test Doubles in general are often called Mock Objects, so be careful about terminology
- Fakes
- Can store values across calls, but don't really do what the live object would do
- E.g. in-memory database
- Spies
- Remember what methods were called with what values
- Tests can inspect these lists after code returns
- Saboteurs
- Blow up in ways that would be difficult to make happen for real
- To test what would happen when, e.g., the database goes away, or the disk is full
- Self Shunt
- The test itself declares methods or classes implementing the above, and passes in a pointer to itself
- Dependency Injection
- Two types:
- DI Frameworks
- Complete Construction
- This is the one I'm talking about
- Pass in dependencies to the constructor (or, if necessary, to setters)
- An object under test will receive references to all external services
- Allows tests to inject Test Doubles at will
- Forces objects to be isolated
- Example: TBD
- Verbose Test Naming
- instead of SetTest.testEmpty
- how about SetTest.testShouldHaveSizeZeroWhenEmpty
- or EmptySetTest.testHasSizeZero
Should Statements
- Optional first parameter to JUnit asserts is "message"
- Assertion messages can be confusing
assertEquals("set is empty", set.isEmpty());
Does it mean "the set must be empty" or "the test is failing because the set is empty"?
- Solution: should statements
assertEquals("set should be empty", set.isEmpty())
- or even better:
assertEquals("a newly-created set should be empty", set.isEmpty())
EDD/BDD (specs)
- Changes the language of tests to emphasize that they're specifications or examples
- Replaces "assert" with "should"
- Fixtures and Object Mothers
- A natural progression of refactoring your test data
- literals
- constants
- local variables
- instance variables (defined in setUp())
- creation methods
- parameterized creation methods or objects ("object mothers")
- Other patterns
- test objects / graphs ("fixtures" or "cast of characters" or "menagerie")
- external fixture files
- Test-Only Methods
- Philosophy: a test is a valid client of an object
- Therefore don't be ashamed of adding a method just because it would make a test easier to write
- Used -> Useful
- Remember, tests are examples of use
- Refactor Test Code
- Spend time refactoring your tests
- It'll pay off later, when writing new tests or extending/debugging old ones
- Refactor for readability, not necessarily for removing all duplication
- Different priorities than for production code
- Extract methods
- Shorter lines
- Break up long tests (scenario tests) into several short tests (feature tests)
- One technique: "Refactor production code on green, Refactor test code on red."
- for complex cases, break the code, make sure the refactored tests still reveal the breakage, then fix it
- Evident Data
- Full Range Testing
assertEquals(86400, new Day().getSeconds())
assertEquals(60 * 60 * 24, new Day().getSeconds())
secondsPerMinute = 60
minutesPerHour = 60
hoursPerDay = 24
assertEquals(secondsPerMinute * minutesPerHour * hoursPerDay, new Day().getSeconds())
- Matrix Tests
- Problem: several axes of variability, combinatorial explosion
- Solution: Loop through a matrix of data in your test, call a "check" function on each row
- Characterization Tests
- aka "Golden Data Tests"
- Grab the complete output of a routine, put it into the test
- Not amenable to test-driven development
- Effective for large or risky refactorings
- Quite brittle, so often thrown away after the refactoring is done
- Exception Tests
- Matrix Tests
public void testUnknownCountry() {
try {
fail("Should have thrown an exception for unknown country");
} catch (UnknownCountryException e) {
// ok
- Pair Programming
- A pair's job is to keep you focused
- "Wait, let's write a test first."
- "Wait, let's refactor first."
- "Wait, let's discuss this."
- "Can I drive?"
- Ping-Pong Pairing
- One pair writes a test
- The other pair makes it pass and writes the next test
- Repeat
- Good way to get out of a rut, or cure a keyboard hog
- Regression Test
- When a defect is reported...
- The first step is to write a (failing) test that reproduces the bug
Fix the bug by writing code to make the test run successfully
Verify the bug in the running application
Add the bug test to the automated suite
Check in the bugfix code and test
Now it's always run "" instant regression test!
- "Regression tests are test that you would have written originallly." - Kent Beck
- May also want to write a failing Acceptance Test, but that's optional -- you definitely want a failing unit test
- Do Over
- Often the best thing to do is throw away your work and start again
- Leave One For Tomorrow
- At the end of the day, write a failing test and leave it there for tomorrow
- Based on writer's trick: start a sentence and leave it unfinished
- Continuous Integration
- Any time all the tests are green, you can check in
- Run all the tests all the time
- Don't check in until all tests pass
- If you broke "someone else's" tests, you are responsible for fixing "their" code
- Remember, they are in the room, so go get them if you need help
- Learn to Love the Orb
- ccmenu
- The Need For Speed
- Tests are only valuable if they're run all the time
- If they're slow, people will not want to run them all the time
- So keep them fast!
- Difficult quest, but worth it
- Automatic Suites
- Suites are a pain to maintain
- Write code to automatically scan for tests and run them together
- Possible to do in JUnit, but annoying
- Mock Clock
- Pair Programming
- Part IV: Test-Driving UI
- Part V: Q&A
- Thanks!


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Friday 09 July 2010
Three men have been convicted of plotting to murder hundreds of people in an al-Qa'ida attack.
Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan and Waheed Zaman will be sentenced on Monday after being convicted of conspiracy to murder by a jury at Woolwich Crown Court. They face life in prison.
The three men were recruited to detonate homemade liquid bombs on seven transatlantic jets. They were cleared by a jury of their role in targeting aircraft but found guilty at a retrial of plotting mass murder.
Scottish independence referendum: A nation divided against itself
Scottish referendum results: Cross-party consensus collapses amid Tory-Labour spat on the 'English question'
Scottish independence: David Cameron is becoming the 'George Bush of Britain'
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Archbishop of Canterbury admits doubts about existence of God
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Chicago ranked fourth on Forbes' list of America's most miserable cities for 2013. Chicago was behind Detroit, which topped the list, Flint, Michigan and Rockford, which ranked No. 3.
A little further down the list at number nine is Lake County in our Northern Suburbs.
Forbes looked at cities with more than 250,000 people and based their list on nine factors: unemployment rates, commute times, violent crime, weather, home values, foreclosures, property taxes, income taxes, and whether people in general are moving into a city or moving out.
Why is Chicago so high on the list? In a synopsis of Chicago's drawbacks, Forbes cited long commutes, falling home values, bad winters and high foreclosure rates. It also said a lot more people are moving out than moving in. It did not mention Chicago's crime, though that may still have been a factor.
About Lake County, the list notes it's one of the wealthiest places in America, but it says home prices are way down and the commutes are long. The weather was a knock as well.
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This course is designed to integrate the study of the structure of English with work on grammar and mechanics. The course incorporates traditional, structural, and transformational theories of grammar so as to help students to better understand their language intuitions and instincts through a variety of ways of understanding and explaining English grammar and usage. The course avoids role learning and engages students in analytical thinking; it encourages learning concepts through prototypical cases and applying these cases to the analysis of the usual and exceptional. The course emphasizes an understanding sentence patterns, word forms and functions, style and meaning, grammatical terminology, and usage and correctness. It is strongly recommended that Education and Communication majors take ENGL2540(The Study of Language) before taking this course. 3 credits
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FIL has edema in the face now. SIL things multiple system failure. DH wanted to leave today, but it would be the kind that takes 2 or 3 stops and 35+ hours, which he cannot physically do right now. So, he's leaving tomorrow night, the 20 hour flight we normally take. I really hope he gets to see his dad, preferably on the mend.
In other news, my preggo friend let me know yesterday that her doc is planning to do a C on Friday of next week. We are watching their two dogs. Then today, she told me that her platelets are down and BP is up; not sure if this means junior might need to come out sooner. It will be interesting times, 4 dogs and one kid by myself.


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A motorist was taken in serious condition to a hospital after crashing into a school bus on the West Side Thursday morning.
About 7 a.m. the driver of a pickup crashed into the school bus near West Chicago and North Long avenues in the Austin neighborhood, authorities said.
No one was injured aboard the school bus, which was transporting "a couple of kids" at the time of the crash, said police News Affairs Officer Michael Sullivan, citing preliminary information.
Sullivan said one of the vehicles apparently struck a pole after the initial collision.
The driver of the pickup was taken in serious but "stable" condition to West Suburban Hospital in Oak Park, authorities said.
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It was a spectacular celebration for the UCSF community that culminated in the ceremonial "turning on the lights" at the new Mission Bay medical center. Browse some of the day's colorful sights.
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When urologist Peter Carroll, MD, MPH, did his residency at UCSF 30 years ago, cancer was "a word that was whispered," a knowledgeable patient was someone who just followed doctor's orders and oftentimes a diagnosis wasn't made until disease was advanced.
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To mark the near-completion of the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, UCSF is holding a celebratory Hard Hat Walk followed by the Lights On Festival, featuring food, music and a spectacular light show on Sept. 6.
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Lisa Mogannam, a registered nurse in Neurology, was selected to lead a team of her clinical colleagues to ensure that the Mission Bay hospital is patient ready and that the clinicians treating them will have everything in place for the Feb. 1 opening.
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Ten years after the UCSF Mission Bay campus was established, UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay – the key patient-care component of the campus – is only two years away from opening.
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Diabetic nephropathy is kidney damage that occurs with diabetes. It is the job of the kidneys to:
- Filter blood
- Catch needed substances and return them to circulation
- Creates urine to pass waste out of the body
Damage from diabetes can prevent the kidneys from working well. In some cases, this can lead to kidney failure .
Blood passes through small filters in the kidneys. Changes in the blood vessels due to diabetes can cause damage to these filters. Blood sugar levels that are not well-controlled can have the greatest impact on the kidney filters.
Over time the damage to the filters increases. The damaged filters cannot clean the blood properly and protein from the blood can leak into the urine. If left untreated, this can lead to kidney failure.
Risk Factors
Factors that may increase your chance of diabetic nephropathy include Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes with:
- Poor control of blood glucose
- High blood pressure (puts further stress on your kidneys and increases your risk of kidney damage.)
- High cholesterol
Symptoms may not appear until the kidney damage is very severe. Tell your doctor if you have any of these:
- Fluid buildup may appear as swelling in feet or hands
- Weakness
- Loss of appetite
- Difficulty sleeping
- Confusion and trouble concentrating
If you have any of these symptoms, do not assume they are due to kidney problems. Symptoms may be caused by other conditions.
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Tests may include the following:
- Blood tests to check your kidney function
- Urine tests to check for protein in your urine
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you.
Treatment is aimed at preventing or slowing further kidney damage. It may involve lifestyle changes and medications. Your doctor will also work with you to help control your diabetes and blood pressure. This may help prevent further kidney damage.
Lifestyle Changes
Lifestyle changes that will help control your blood sugar and blood pressure include:
Lifestyle changes that will help control your blood sugar and blood pressure include:
- Lose weight if you are overweight
- Exercise
- Eat less salt
- Stop smoking
- Avoid alcohol
- Follow your diabetes management plan
Your doctor may prescribe medicines to help control blood sugar. To help control your blood pressure and protect your kidneys, your doctor may prescribe:
- Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors)
- Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs)
Treatments for Kidney Failure
If the damage to your kidneys progresses to kidney failure, you may need dialysis . Dialysis takes over for your kidneys. Blood passes out of your body into a machine. The machine filters waste out of the blood then pumps blood back to you.
If the kidney failure progresses you may eventually need a kidney transplant .
To help reduce your chances of getting diabetic nephropathy, take the following steps:
- See your doctor regularly. During checkups, you will have your blood pressure, urine, blood, and organs monitored for changes.
- Control blood sugar levels. Follow your diabetes treatment regimen as directed.
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I'm posting in here because I figured you all would be more likely to share my point of view
Even if you don't watch tv I'm sure everyone is aware of the Supreme Court hearings going on this week. It's all over FB, and for the most part people are posting very supportive things from what I've seen come across my newsfeed. Until this evening.
My DH was actually the one who text me and said "Look at Todd's post. There goes that friendship." His friend posted a picture of a = with a line though it. OK.... *breathe*..... he's allowed to have his own opinion, even if I think he's wrong. But then I read the hate filled text that was shared along with the picture, and it made me sick to my stomach. I told him so. What followed hasn't gotten any better, and I'm pretty sure the friendship is over because of it. I KNOW I disagree with so many of my friends on so many different topics, but I have a feeling this particular disagreement is going to destroy all of our friendships- Ryan's friendship with Todd, and my friendship with Todd's wife. I'm kind of sad, but not sad enough to not stay anything. I *have to* take a stand for something I believe this strongly in. I'm sad that I didn't know he's such a douche.
How do you deal with differences of opinion? I've been able to navigate the religious thing pretty well, the parenting differences aren't even a big deal because everyone does things their own way, I chose not to talk politics- not even with family.... but equal rights isn't something I can say "we'll agree to disagree on it."


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Rated 5 out of 5Â by MeanMr.Mustard Retro-Grade Being a sneaker mogul, my wife wanted to purchase a pair of sneakers for my birthday. Obviously, I settled on the Somoa Sneaker. I came across them in Footlocker. The next day we went to the Mall to purchase them. Five stores later no luck. I was looking for the White and Colegiate Blue Trim. We returned home, went on line, 3 sites later, ball dropping from Footlocker because they were outta stock. My wife suggested, why not try the Addidas online service. Problem solved. My sneakers arrived and they are Sweet. Message for the Masses. Addidas is Move. The On-line service, selection etc, will meet the bar. I'm a lifer with Addidas period. Sign: Neal aka Sneaker Mogul June 21, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5Â by nap nap good feeling Most people don't know how to describe this shoe. Don't just buy it because its a Samoa shoe or because there is an ADIDAS LOGO/SIGN on it ...no that's just bad shopping.'' feeling good'' this shoe once not twice but once you put them on that feeling good moment comes back running at you, that feeling when you know your shoes fits, that feeling good moment that even though your 1,000pounds over weight you can still run around the world 3 times ... why? why? why? Adidas, what did you make this shoes with..... seriously this shoe is awesome i recommend it to everyone.. it can wear with anything, it can even wear without clothes and still look good .....and the reason for that is the shoes is perfect .....i'm about to buy one rite now ..... June 26, 2012
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Rated 5 out of 5Â by "O". green Samoa review I was very pleased with the purchase. They were extremely light, great design, came w/an additional pair of laces(which i plan to use) and didnt cost an arm and a leg. Ive gotten several compliments already! Thanks a lot- October 27, 2010
Rated 5 out of 5 by Electricity Cool shoes ⯠I've always wanted to own a pair of Samoa shoes, and now I feel glad that i finally have them. :) The first time I wore these shoes was at CityPlace; which was a concrete, freshly-paved, nighttime entertainment area downtown. However, the only issue I have with adidas Samoas is they might crease too easily. Upon wearing lifestyle/recreational shoes for the first time, I never actually 'knew' how to walk properly in flat footed sneakers, as I normally used to wear Basketball/Running performance shoes from adidas. These shoes 'are' surprisingly very comfortable to run in, though! The EVA midsole provides great cushioning at a heel-strike impact when jogging. â November 6, 2013
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The food-versus-fuel debate has resurfaced again, in amongst one of the worst droughts seen in the U.S. With a much smaller corn harvest projected for the country this year, many groups are calling for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to waive its Renewable Fuels Standards (RFS) mandate.
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The moment General Petraeus put himself into a position where his private behavior became something he needed to hide from the public — as stated in his resignation letter — he essentially put national security at risk. It's exactly the type of compromise which would put any government worker at immediate risk of losing a Top Secret clearance.
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Rated 5 out of 5Â by BUBBA_McC Quality Replacement Shoe I bought these to replace my favorite old, warn out adidas shoes. I was looking for something just as classic as what I was replacing, and this is what I found. So far, I have found that, because of the suede and the solid sole, the shoe seems very durable. Also because of these two things, the shoes have been a little stiff, and slow to break in. This is fine, though, because it means that the shoes are durable. The sizing seemed right on, as my previous adidas shoes have also been. Overall, I am very pleased with the shoes, and they are shaping up to be a suitable replacement for my recently retired favorite shoes! March 29, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5Â by Gadzella Adidas Gazelle (the orginals) I've loved these shoes ever since I was first introduced to them by my older cousin in 1997. The pair she passed down to me were old and worn in and I wore them until they were unrepairable. I love the great arch support for my feet and the thick soles for everyday use walking around or wearing to work (where I'm standing the entire time!). These shoes are a great product that give me what I need time and time again. Did I mention I LOVE the price point of these shoes, too?!! June 2, 2011
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Rated 5 out of 5Â by Atlanta gym rat Great shoe, but needs one small fix I've owned several pairs of Gazelles. Great shoe, but Adidas needs to start cutting a slot in the shoe tongue, so the laces can be threaded through it. This will prevent the tongue from sliding side-to-side. I always have to cut a slot with an X-Acto knife. July 18, 2011
Rated 4 out of 5Â by capthappy a shoe well worth the price I have been wearing only Adidas for the last 6 years so I know a thing or two about Adidas brand shoes. This shoe has a very good build quality, they use some good materials in the base of the shoe, but the tongue is made of what feels like some sort of Styrofoam it kind feels a little flimsy, which is odd because the rest of the shoe is well built. another issue I have is the piece behind the Achilles tendon, I have noticed when driving, this tends to irritate my Achilles tendon a bit (especially long trips). but the look of the shoe is flat out awesome very clean with bold use of the white, with a simple design. +Pros -very clean style -white tongue -surprisingly durable -good fit -Cons -cheap feeling tongue (although it has not shown any signs of wear yet after a month of use) -back leather may irritate the Achilles tendon when driving long distances. overall I give this shoe a 4/5 its not as comfortable as the Adidas skateboarding shoe or the ceiros i previously have worn, but they look so good. June 14, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5Â by lottsofjelo purchased as gift bought these shoes for my boyfriend. he likes to rock the gazelles over the all too typical sambas. other than that the best part of my experience was how quickly they arrived. they came the very next day! April 17, 2011
Rated 4 out of 5Â by Reichert Just how I remember them...rad! I owned these shoes as a kid and always loved them. They are exactly how I remember them. They are a little narrow for my feet but stretch a bit as you break them in. They are very lightweight and comfortable. I highly recommend these shoes. September 18, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5Â by JustT Gazelles Rock! These shoes are one of the best shows I've worn, they feel very comfortable. I thought it wasn't going to be comfortable at all but I was wrong. i wear it everyday and its pretty durable. For me it runs a little too narrow but I have wide feet. The tips of the shoe can get a little dirty so I clean it once awhile. October 17, 2010
Rated 5 out of 5Â by SFbboy light as a feather I bought this shoe cause all my friends that bboy say that this shoe is so light,comfortable, and durable for breaking and they were right. This shoe is the best shoe i have ever danced with. Not only that it looks good while u dance but in general they look great to. if u want a shoe for dancing or fashion i really recommend this shoe. March 27, 2011
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SkillsUSA 50th Annual National Leadership and Skills Conference (NLSC)
June 23-27, 2014
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June 24-26, 2014
Kansas City, MO
2014 Strengthening Student Success Conference: Crossing Boundaries
October 8-10, 2014
Orange County/Costa Mesa, CA
National Career Pathways Network (NCPN)
October 12-14, 2014
Orlando, FL
National Council for Workforce Education Conference: Casting Relationships, Forging Partnerships
October 30-31, 2014
Pittsburgh, PA
League for Innovation in the Community College STEMtech Conference
Nov 9-12, 2014
Denver, Colorado
CareerTech VISION 2014 (formerly the ACTE Annual Convention) - Association for Career and Technical Education
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1. Certificates Count:
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2. The RP Group Report: Improving Transfer for Engineering Students
Introduction: Engineering drives innovation critical for California's economic growth and productivity. Yet a recent Governor's Office report projects a shortfall of 40,000 engineers in the state by 2014. One way to address the demand for engineers is to increase the number of community college students who successfully transfer into and complete baccalaureate programs in Engineering. However, research produced by the Research & Planning Group (RP Group) suggests that the current Engineering transfer pipeline is long and leaky—offering several opportunities for improvement
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3. Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy Report:
The Road Less Traveled: Realizing the Potential of Career Technical Education in the California Community Colleges
Introduction: Potential of Career Technical Education Mission is Not Fully Tapped
The Career Technical Education (CTE) mission of California's community colleges is not well understood by policymakers in comparison to the transfer mission of the colleges. This exploratory study, to be followed by a more comprehensive research agenda, is motivated by the belief that CTE is a vital piece of the college completion agenda but is not receiving sufficient attention. While students can be successful in CTE in ways besides earning a certificate or degree, the issuing of workforce-related credentials is an undeniably important function of the colleges.
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1. Find comprehensive research on learning assessment at
2. California Resource Center (CRC):