I'm speaking at the Richmond CodeCamp 2008.2 this weekend. I'm not afraid of public speaking in general, but I was becoming fairly nervous about this presentation. My trepidation was mostly based on the fact that I know many of the people in attendance, and I just want to make sure that my session will provide value to developers of varying levels of unit testing familiarity. However, as I've pulled the presentation and code examples together, my anxiety is fading. I feel pretty confident now that my talk will have a few fresh ideas even for seasoned unit testers.

The title of  my talk is "Test Smarter - Patterns and Tools to make unit testing easier and more maintainable." From my anecdotal evidence of talking to client developers, the main resistance to writing unit tests is that it takes too much time for the value it provides. The goal of this talk to give people some strategies for making that experience better.