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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.

Outsourced Testing - Friend or Foe?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:58:09 GMT

A practical guide on when and how to outsource (or NOT) some of your software testing activities

10 Questions to Choose Candidates for Your Large Agile Company

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:37:01 GMT

This set of questions was created to help corporate managers select Agile-experienced consultants and candidate employees for project work.

Acceptance TDD Explained

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:59:42 GMT

Acceptance test-driven development is what helps developers build high-quality software that fulfills the business's needs as reliably as TDD helps ensure the software's technical quality.

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.

Four ways to a Practical Code Review

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:34:35 GMT

You may think that code review is good but heavyweight inspection process is not practical, the next question is: How do we make reviews practical? This article describes four lightweight techniques: Over-the-shoulder, Email pass-around, Pair Programming, Tool-assisted.

Confessions of a Software Developer

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Has anybody else ever felt overwhelmed with the sheer mass of "stuff" involved with software development?

Exploratory Testing: Finding the Music of Software Investigation

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:07:58 GMT

As a software testing consultant and musician, I meet a lot of skilled testers who do amazing work. Through experience and a lot of trial and error, they have developed skills they can't easily explain. Unfortunately, with software testing, there aren't as many obvious avenues for skill development as there are for musicians. Many software testers don't realize that there are learnable exploratory testing skills they can develop to help them become even more valuable to software development teams.

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.

Compatibility and IE8

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:16:03 GMT

Chris Wilson explains how IE8 will handle standards and backwards compatibility.

Part Cover a code coverage tool that works with Static methods

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:17:45 GMT

I just found this great free tool, open source, that produces xml, that has a command line interface and a nice GUI. Simple to install and start usint (less that five minutes). Why you should considered it and how it compares with Ncover.

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.

A Microcosm of Agile Design

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:34:09 GMT

Jeremy discusses a real-life example of using agile design in the enterprise and how YAGNI can save you work... if only we'd take the time to think it through.

TDD with ASP.NET MVC 3.5 Extensions

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:46:04 GMT

Doing TDD using the new ASP.NET MVC 3.5 Extensions

Will Pair Programming Really Improve Your Project?

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:47:23 GMT

This article takes a critical look at the pair programming practice

Change and Pray Development Methodology (CPD)

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:31:06 GMT

A quick posting about a new development methodology that has been coined.

Software Factories for Mass Customizing Solutions

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:34:07 GMT

Software Factories are a new paradigm that promotes the formation of supply chains to deliver software solutions. This article of Jack Greenfield, software architect for Microsoft, explains how to achieve this objective.

The IoC mind set: Validation

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:16:03 GMT

Great approach for business validation.

A "Bones" Approach for Dead Projects

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:11:19 GMT

Once they are finished, often the best thing that will happen is a little celebration for the project team. Nobody will formally look back at a project to understand what went well or wrong and why those things happen, so that this project can actually rest in peace and lessons learned could be used for the next projects. There is however an activity to analyze project after their completion. It is called "post mortem" analysis or "retrospective" in the agile approach and here are some resources on how to do it.

Argotic Syndication Framework 2007.2 Released

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:16:02 GMT

The Argotic Syndication Framework is a Microsoft .NET class library framework that enables developers to easily consume and generate web content syndication services from within their own applications. The latest release now includes ASP.NET controls to make it easier than ever to serve syndicated content in your ASP.NET applications.

Practical Experience in Automated Testing

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:26:29 GMT

This article presents a practical perspective on test automation and the various points to consider for achieving positive results in this area.

Test-Driven Development for Embedded Software

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:34:09 GMT

Despite a prevalent industry perception to the contrary, the agile practices of Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration can be successfully applied to embedded software. We present here a holistic set of practices, platform independent tools, and a new design pattern (Model Conductor Hardware - MCH) that together produce: good design from tests programmed first, logic decoupled from hardware, and systems testable under automation. Ultimately, this approach yields an order of magnitude or more reduction in software flaws, predictable progress, and measurable velocity for data-driven project management. We use the approach discussed herein for real-world production systems and have included a full C-based sample project to illustrate it.

43 Exceptionally Useful AJAX Applications

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:46:03 GMT

Usability on websites is exploding right now. AJAX has enabled web developers everywhere to add functionality to their sites like never before. They've gathered 43 extremely useful AJAX applications for use on any website.

More than 100 Web 2.0 Online Generators

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:31:02 GMT

Here the list of online generators specifically for web 2.0 design: enjoy it!

Lean Configuration Management - Evolving the CM Discipline Through the

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:30:39 GMT

The increasing popularity of agile development methods is putting new demands on the traditional CM discipline. A working CM environment is essential for the rapid nature of agile development methods, but the CM process and the CM role has to be adapted to the present evolution of software development methods as well as automated tools. This article discusses lean principles and agile values within a CM scope and also introduces a method to classify the CM discipline in relation to development method and level of tool automation.