Report on the Agile Tour in Geneva
I participated on October 12 to the Geneva stage of the Agile Tour which was a great success. Here is a summary for three interesting presentations... more »
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Grails Testing Alias to Rerun Failed Tests
Quick set of shell aliases to rerun only the grails tests that previously failed (or rerun all tests if there were no previous failures).
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Mingle 3.0 and Google Wave Join Forces
ThoughtWorks Studios' Adaptive ALM software unveils major updates today at the Enterprise 2.0 conference. The company is announcing its newest version... more »
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Think different about mock objects!
Another (different) point of view on mock objects, too much times used merely as a testing tool. They are more then that, and knowing how to use them... more »
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Article about the Scrum Master
Scrum gets more and more common as an agile method for the management of projects. Those who want to use the model of Scrum successfully should first... more »
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Git – Working on a User Story
We recently started using Git as our version control system at Rally. Switching to Git has been a learning experience for many of us. I would like to... more »
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Imagination, process failures doom software projects
Scores of well-publicized software failures have taken a toll on careers, lives and resources, yet projects continue to fail at an alarming rate. Top... more »
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Testing Zend Framework Action Controllers With Mocks
In this post I’ll demonstrate a unit test technique for testing Zend Framework Action Controllers using Mock Objects. Unit testing controllers... more »
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How is Tellurium Data Driven Testing Implemented
Data Driven Testing is one of the most important features of Tellurium. This article will introduce some implementation details about it such as the... more »
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Success of the Success Tour
The power of being like your own customers is magnetic. Nothing beats the intuitive understanding that comes with designing, marketing and selling the... more »
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Agile Methods are Disruptive
What does agile methods and disruptive technologies have in common? They might have more to do with each other than you first think. A successful... more »
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/2
Sun's stock value drops as investors worry about the Oracle acquisition, ThoughtWorks tests your agile adoption, and experts debate who has the best... more »
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Ruby and Rails Ecosystem White Paper
The Ruby and Rails Ecosystem is a very large and robust community of companies, entities and individuals. This paper is meant to be an educational... more »
How We Use Kanban Board. The Real Example.
A real life example of how a product development team use Kanban board in their work - someone might want to try these ideas as well.
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Does Your Life Cycle Create a Project Smell?
I'm at the PNSQC conference this week, and gave a talk where I said pragmatic project managers select a life cycle that manages the big risks for... more »
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TDD Invades Space Invaders
As a follow-up to our "Avoiding 5 Common Pitfalls in Unit Testing" article we did a webcast where we took a problem from the audience and solved it... more »
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Kaizen and Software Engineering
Kaizen is a very interesting approach, also in the software industry. Kaizen aims to eliminate waste, to improve the process or activities... more »
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What are Your JUnit Pain Points, Really?
Scala ScalaTest JUnit
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Process Not Working -- Must Have More Process
After all, programmers are all lazy and stupid. Got his complaint recently. "Developers on a fairly routine basis check in code into the wrong... more »
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Architecture and Engineering in Business Engineering
Article highlights: - We can create more business-IT alignment and agility by moving from software engineering to business engineering. - Business... more »
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Agile Testing: The Fastest Way to Test a Specific User Story
This article is worth your attention if you're looking for the ways to effectively manage test cases and do QA with agile project management tools.
Free TDD Webinar at 10am Tomorrow (10/27/2009)
Tomorrow at 10am Pacific time Llewellyn Falco and I will be giving a live, unscripted, and no safety-net demonstration of Test Driven Development... more »
Mature Scrum at Systematic
This article presents an experience report about mixing CMMI and Scrum in the same company
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Joel Spolsky, Snake-Oil Salesman
Hawking your own product onto college courses while admitting it won't solve a problem that others have been studying for longer than you and in more... more »
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The Case for Agile Business Service Management
Agile business service management enables the business to become more competitive by speeding up the pace of delivery of new functionality and... more »
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