Software development knowledge and experience report
Architecture is an important asset for good programming and the notion of “pattern” is here to help us apply already trusted code architecture solutions to common problems. Jason McDonald has done a wonderful job to group some of them in a document that should be useful to most software developers. …
As it was confirmed by a recent Methods & Tools survey, the adoption of agile approaches has been increasing recently. Following these results, I asked software practitioners on different discussion forums to share their opinion about the substance of agile adoption. As agility is now becoming “trendy”, we could see …
Over the years I have come to describe Test Driven Development in terms of three simple rules. They are: 1. You are not allowed to write any production code unless it is to make a failing unit test pass. 2. You are not allowed to write any more of a …
We recently run a survey with readers of Methods & Tools to understand what stage is the agile approach (XP, Scrum, TDD, …) adoption at your location? (2005 results)
The thing I like about the pattern form is that it gives you a way to talk about the motivation for what you are doing. So there is a lot of Java style books, and good ones, out there people with lots of experience, people who’ve thought carefully about how …
I have been distraught at the level of dogmatism, bigotry, contempt, or just plain ignorance that I witness in the agile world. I am not blaming the topnotch agilistas, though they sometimes, and just for effect in writings and presentations, reduce their messages to their essential bones, to the slogan …
