Effective Unit Testing: Patterns and Suggestions to ensure truly unit oriented test code
Unit testing can be fairly simple to implement with immeasurable value for both the customer and the implementing team. Unfortunately... more »
Remember when Software Testing was Considered an Artform?
Over the last few months I’ve had the opportunity to attend a number of extremely interesting and mind-expanding conferences focusing on... more »
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Hothousing: New Concept or New Word?
Have you heard the term hothousing? Want to know what it is and how to run a session? When do you use this? What's the format like? What... more »
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The difference between Test First and Test Driven Development
If you tend to fall into the "one-two-everything"-trap while doing TDD, this blog post might give you some perspective on what... more »
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Martin Fowler: User Stories
User Stories are chunks of desired behavior of a software system. They are widely used in agile software approaches to divide up a large... more »
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Master the unpredictable
Have you ever come to work on a Project that you cant quite overlook? Are Requirements not yet clear or changing fast? Here are some tips... more »
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Agile, Technical Debt & Resign Patterns: Interview with @ppapapetrou76
An agile enthousiast who seeks excellence in software engineering. This is how Patroklos Papapetrou defines himself. Let’s have a... more »
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Code Ownership - Who Should Own the Code?
A key decision in building and managing any development team is agreeing on how ownership of the code will be divided up: who is going to... more »
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Product Backlogs in Practice
The seeds of backlog decay are often sown in the very willingness of an agile team to be adaptable. Urgent tasks are dealt with as they... more »
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Technical Debt: Refactor your Code on the fly in Eclise with Scertify’s Quick-Fix feature
When dealing with technical debt, it is important to handle it as soon as possible. The best way to handle it, of course, it to get rid... more »
codemotion Berlin 2013 technology lab: The aftermath
At the codemotion Berlin 2013, we, i.e. Michael Lex and Ben Ripkens, gave a technology lab. We had an ambitious plan: In three hours we... more »
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10 Resources for Code Review and Other Peer-based Software Quality Assurance Techniques
Code reviews and software inspections have existed for a long time in the software engineering world. They have been however only adopted... more »
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Assuming Everybody Else Sucked
The year was 2010. We were searching for the next big Facebook app, high off our previous successes. This was when Facebook just released... more »
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Who is Responsible on a Scrum Team?
[Video] Where has the project manager gone? Cross-functional teams are empowered to self-organize and be accountable.This is from a new... more »
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The difficult relationship between developers and business
In the worst places where you want to work, business people such as internal software customers or sales people are an adversary to the... more »
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Automated Testing is Not Agile Testing
Test automation can surely play an important role in an Agile testing strategy, but the ultimate goal has nothing to do with automation,... more »
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How we do the Daily Scrum in my team
In a typical Daily Scrum, every team answers the three questions about what was done, what is next and which impediments there are. We... more »
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Teaching programming, we have a huge problem
I’ve been a professional programmer now for over a decade, and during this time I’ve met a LOT of excellent programmers. Most of them are... more »
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The fluent calculator kata
We are currently preparing for the next coding dojo in our team. A team mate and I came up with a nice kata which we are going to try out... more »
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JIRA 6 gets a UI makeover, mobile view
New release of world-beating issue tracker focuses on faster, user-friendly interface.
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So, I Heard You Guys Like Software Comics
We don't exactly have Scott Adams on staff to draw witty satires about office shinanigans, but we always enjoy putting out a few good... more »
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Estimates in Software Development - New Frontiers.
I think we should embrace estimate distribution and invent new ways to model and use it. We shouldn’t fight it. This will be a war... more »
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Atlassian - Git Flow Comes to Java
Git Flow makes managing features, releases, and bug fixes really simple and provides structure to the dev cycle. But there’s one problem:... more »
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Scrum Still a Minority in Software Project Management
As Agile approaches like Scrum are supposed to be dominant for enterprise software project management, the latest Methods & Tools... more »
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Story Tests
Story tests are Business Facing Tests used to describe and verify the software delivered as part of a User Story.
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