A (Mostly) Agile Java Day at Jazoon
Published June 26th, 2009 Under Conferences, Methods & Tools, News, Software Development | 3 Comments
Methods & Tools is the sponsor of a large number of software development conferences, but I cannot find the time and budget to visit them. This year I managed to find some time after the publication of my summer issue to visit Wednesday the Jazoon, an important Java event located in Zurich. Besides the global morning keynote, the conference has five parallel tracks, so the first thing in the morning is to make your choice between 30 presentations. This is easier for me, because I am not a Java specialist and so I focused on talks with content that could reach outside the Java community. Read more
Should Developers Come Only from Mars but Project Managers from Venus?
Published June 23rd, 2009 Under Humour, Methods & Tools, Software Development | 1 Comment
Once upon a time was the “software crisis” that persuaded people to “engineer” software in a 1968 NATO conference. Methods were created to structure the requirements and the software development process. They use models to define more precisely the requirements and the target system. They had a top-down approach that was aimed at increasing management control on projects. The object oriented revolution changed the perspective of the models with the subsequent creation of the UML, but not the industrial vision of the software development process. In 2001, 17 people signed an agile manifesto that tried to push back the balance more on the “people” side. Two of the main value preferences of the manifesto (“Individuals and interactions over processes and tools” and “Customer collaboration over contract negotiation”) are explicitly focused on people and their relationships. Read more
Summer 2009 issue of Methods & Tools
Published June 22nd, 2009 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers, testers and project managers. Summer 2009 issue’s content:
* Responsibility Driven Design with Mock Objects
* Agile Coding and Testing
* How to Quantify Quality: Finding Scales of Measure
* Scrum Product Owner Guide
* TDD, FDD and BDD Compared
* Open-Source Messaging Servers
60 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from
http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?summer09
My 10 + 1 Favorite Unit Testing Articles
Published June 16th, 2009 Under Links | Leave a Comment
This is a (personal) list of articles dealing with unit testing that I like. I have chosen to include material that is longer than the usual (short) blog posting. I encourage readers to give more objectivity to this subjective set by submitting in the comments what they preferred ;o)
Test Flexibly with AspectJ and Mock Objects
Automation for the People: Continuous testing
Exploring The Continuum Of Test Doubles
End to End, or, Another Run on the Hamster Wheel of Life
In Pursuit of Code Quality: Unit Testing Ajax Applications
Apply Test-Driven Development to your Database Projects
What It Means to Mock: Isolating Units for Testing
Unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD) for Flex and ActionScript 3.0
Unit testing Web 2.0 applications using the Dojo Objective Harness
A Guide to Testing Rails Applications
Additional unit testing article resources
TestDriven.com – Articles Directory
IBM DeveloperWorks
Quality Assurance Links Directory – Articles Section
Software Development Articles, Unit Testing Section
Another Suitor for Borland?
Published June 11th, 2009 Under News, Software Development | Leave a Comment
According to Reuters, Micro Focus, which agreed in May to buy Borland, said on Monday that Borland had received a preliminary non-binding indication of interest from an unnamed financial buyer. The price offered would be $ 1.20 versus the $ 1 offered by Micro Focus. If the transaction is not approved by the shareholders, Borland would have to Micro Focus $3 million.
Borland entered a nondisclosure agreement with the new suitor and it has granted it access to its accounting books. Among the possible buyer, the name of Embarcadero and Oracle are mentioned. Embarcadero already bought last year the CodeGear division and might be interested for some new tools that will complete its current offer… for cheap. Oracle, who just bought Sun, could seize the occasion to create a more complete offer of software development tools around Java. JDeveloper, the Java IDE from Oracle, was originally build around the JBuilder technology from Borland.
keep looking »