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Dave Astels (co-author of "A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming" and author of Jolt Award winning "Test-driven Development: A Practical Guide") has over 2 decades of experience in the software field, most of that involved with object-oriented technologies and techniques. Dave has been studying, practicing, teaching, evangelising, and coaching XP and Agile Processes since 1998. Dave\'s experience ranges from embedded process control systems to consumer products (both consumer electronics and shrinkwrapped software) to energy trading systems. Dave is an independant software consultant specializing in the areas of agile process, programming practices, and object design/architecture. Dave attends, and speaks at, a variety of conferences including the XP conference in Europe, JAOO, SD West, SD Best Practices, XPAU, Smalltalk Solutions, and OOPSLA. Dave is one of the thought leaders in the area of TDD, and now BDD.