Linkopedia February 2009

DevCreek is a community dedicated to improving software quality through the collection, analysis and sharing of project metrics. DomainDrivenDesign.org is a open forum to share ideas and interact with other people interested in domain-driven design. Apache Cayenne is an open source persistence framework providing object-relational mapping (ORM) and remoting services …

Three Thinking Gems for Software Development Projects

I have just started reading the book “Scaling Lean & Agile Development – Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum” from Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. You will read the complete review later on this blog, but as the book is full of interesting wisdom from the beginning, I couldn’t …

CMMI: Less Hyped Than Agile but Equally Popular?

A recent Methods & Tools poll examined at what stage is the CMMI approach adoption in software development organizations. Not aware 13% Not using 29% Investigating 8% Analysed and rejected 4% Trying to reach Level 2 12% CMMI Level 2, 3 or 4 20% CMMI Level 5 14% Participants: 392 …

Linkopedia January 2009

XUnitPatterns.com test patterns presents material about refactoring test code. FlexMonkey is a testing framework for Flex apps that provides for the capture, replay and verification of Flex UI functionality. Automation for the people: Deployment-automation patterns, Part 1. This article identifies a collection of key patterns for developing a reliable, repeatable, …

From Finger in the Air Estimating to Finger Pointing Tracking

As Giovanni Asproni says it “estimation is a fundamental activity of every project”. Or at least it should be. The meaning of “estimation” varies however often for the different participants to software development projects. For the customer, “estimation” means an almost accurate amount of money he will spend and time …

Winter 2008 Issue of Methods & Tools

Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers, testers and project managers. Winter 2008 issue’s content: * Fingers in the Air: a Gentle Introduction to Software Estimation * Behavior Driven Database Design * Optimizing the Contribution of Testing to Project Success * Service Components and Compositions 45 pages …