Software development knowledge and experience report
As the software infrastructure get more complex with pieces of applications running on server, mobile or cloud locations, the discipline of software architecture is more important than ever. The Agile approach has done its part to bring the software architects down from an ivory tower, but some developers have also …
I have already discussed the concept of self-organization in ” Do Software Developers Want to be Managers?“. Thinking further about this topic suggested the idea that you could compare software development projects and part of the musical world. With maybe a simplistic view about the music industry, I started thinking …
Software architecture is a fundamental discipline in the software development world. Even if this activity was sometimes performed out of an ivory tower, good software architecture is a key element for the long term quality and good evolution of software systems. Software architecture documentation allows also helpt to communicate the …
As mobile computing is becoming more and more important in software development, XBOSoft is organizing a survey to assess the state of software testing and quality assurance for mobile apps. The purpose of this survey is to collect data on how different QA organizations conduct mobile testing and QA and …
As Agile is becoming a more mainstream software development approach, I have seen recently on the Web more content about the importance of having cross-functional people in Scrum teams. Another denomination for this type of developer is to call them “T-shaped” people. The “T” symbolizes the deepness of the expertise …
The recent trend in software development has been to produce less documentation and writing material. Many developers have interpreted the Agile Manifesto preference of “working software over comprehensive documentation” as the authorization to stop producing any document during a project. This has been translated in sentences like “the code is …
