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Is Code Coverage Really All That Useful?

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:16:13 GMT

Test driven development proponents often tend to push code coverage as a useful metric for gauging how well tested an application is. 100% code coverage has long been the ultimate goal of testing fanatics. But is code coverage really all that useful? If I told you that my application has 100% code coverage, should that mean anything to you?

Do We Need Unit Testing?

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:37:34 GMT

A recent poll examined how organizations perform unit testing. Despite the fact that the number of TDD adopters has grown nicely since the previous similar survey, unit testing is still widely conducted in a informal manner, when it is not simply ignored by developers.

How to convince developers and management to use automated unit test f

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:01:51 GMT

Introducing automated unit testing in the middle of your product development is hard, especially when you have a live product without thousands of features and being sold to customers. It's incredibly hard to take some break in development and invest the time in building automated unit test where everyone is so forced to build new features only. This article tells you about some ways to convince Developers and then senior Management to take the time to write automated unit tests for a better future.

My Year With TDD

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:46:02 GMT

It's been over a year now since I have been developing using TDD (Test Driven Development) as my primary development practice. I wanted to reflect on what it has done for me professionally. In reality, the past year has been great for my professional career in many ways.

Creating an Agile Environment

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:28:34 GMT

Migrating to Agile is more than changing your process. It also requires a change in culture. For most companies changing culture is the most difficult part. I believe this is true for several reasons. These issues should be addressed in two ways. First, you want to address the culture needs of each group head on. We will lay out a game plan for obtaining support from line management, the team, the individual and executive management.

TDD: The Road so Far

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:16:02 GMT

Rob talks about traveling the TDD road, shares a few lessons learned, and points out a couple of pros and cons he's discovered along the way.

ScottGu: Unit Testing with Silverlight

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:16:02 GMT

One of the important capabilities we shipped with the Beta1 release of Silverlight 2 was a unit test harness that enables you to perform both API-level and UI-level unit testing. This testing harness is cross browser and cross platform, and can be used to quickly run and verify automated unit tests.

Agile, Multidisciplinary Teamwork

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:56:26 GMT

This article presents techniques and tools used to create requirements with a team composed of the different participants of agile projects.

Waterfall Doesn't Work

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Waterfall Doesn't Work; All Non-Agile Projects Eventually Devolve into Necessary Sub-Standard Agile. The traditional life cycle approach effectively ignores these issues and developers have been forced to consider other methods to overcome these problems.

One-week Iterations Possible in Agile Web Development

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:11:22 GMT

Scheme of how to do one-week iteration in SCRUM or Extreme Programming