Merge pull request #13 from everythingfunctional/vegetables

Write an abstract for a vegetables presentation

Author: everythingfunctional

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+# FortranCon2021-vegetables
+
+**Presenter** [Brad Richardson](https://everythingfunctional.com)
+
+**Title**: Your Requirements Specification as an Executable Test Suite
+
+**Abstract**:
+Automated testing is a well established best practice in software development,
+so you are writing test suites for your Fortran projects right?
+But how useful is your test suite after you have finished writing it?
+Does it help you to pinpoint the source of bugs?
+Does it help you to make changes to functionality, or get in the way?
+Would a new developer find it useful for getting their bearings in your project?
+Can you tell which requirement a given test is meant to verify?
+
+Experience in the nuclear power industry,
+with its emphasis on quality assurance and high standards for verification,
+provides motivation to always have satisfactory answers to these questions.
+This presentation provides guidance for writing a well organized suite of tests that leads to positive answers to the previous questions.
+The primary lesson is that a test suite organized as an executable verification of the requirements of the project
+provides long term value in the form of easier on-boarding for new team members and increased developer productivity during maintenance activities.
+Examples and demonstrations are provided using the Vegetables Unit Testing Framework,
+which has been designed to aid in writing test suites of the form described above.