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Eradicating Non-Determinism in Tests

An automated regression suite can play a vital role on a software project, valuable both for reducing defects in production and essential for evolutionary...

1 replies - 3058 views - 04/14/11 by Martin Fowler in News

Software Craftsmanship promotes Competence Culture

The rise of anemic Scrum was noted to dismay among the Agile community and in particular by “Uncle Bob” Martin who coined the fifth Agile manifesto...

1 replies - 5952 views - 04/08/11 by Michael Sahota in News

Certification Competence Correlation

Most of my friends and colleagues are very negative about certification schemes in software development, a disdain that I share. This doesn't mean that I...

1 replies - 4158 views - 03/28/11 by Martin Fowler in News

Why do we have Agile today?

Why didn't we have it 20 years ago?! Why Agile enthusiasts insist on not having too much design before hand, less documentation, not much emphasis on...

2 replies - 6385 views - 03/25/11 by Reza Ghafari in News

Maven Plugins v0.2.1 – re-written and open-sourced!

A "0.1" release of these Maven plugins back in November brought a lot of attention to the project, which showed me that other Maven developers...

3 replies - 7273 views - 03/07/11 by Evgeny Goldin in News

Prediction #2: ALM tools become the gateway drug for hooking developers on cloud and PaaS

This is a reposting from Mik Kersten's Tasktop Blog.  Look for more predictions in this series on his blog and on Agile Zone.The productization of DOS by...

0 replies - 3490 views - 03/04/11 by James Sugrue in Articles

ALM Practices Part 3: Unit Testing & TDD

What is it? In essence, Test Driven Development (TDD) is a practice in which the interface and the behavior of a component is designed while writing a...

0 replies - 6146 views - 03/03/11 by Dennis Doomen in News

Prediction #3: Git and distributed version control invade the enterprise, widespread panic and benefits follow

This is a reposting from Mik Kersten's Tasktop Blog.  Look for more predictions in this series on his blog and on Agile ZoneThree years ago, in his...

2 replies - 6448 views - 02/24/11 by James Sugrue in Articles

Pair Programming: “What are you trying to learn?”

I’ve noticed recently that while pairing with various different people that I frequently ask my pair what they’re trying to learn through the approach...

0 replies - 4423 views - 02/23/11 by Mark Needham in Articles

Pomodoro: Observations from giving it a go

I learnt about the pomodoro technique a couple of years ago and while I did try it out sporadically back then, it’s only recently that I thought I’d...

0 replies - 4522 views - 02/21/11 by Mark Needham in Articles

Increasing team sizes: Collective unresponsibility

After a few recent conversations with colleagues as well as my observations of several projects I’m coming to the conclusion that the way that people...

3 replies - 4254 views - 02/17/11 by Mark Needham in Articles

Prediction #4: The single vendor ALM stack becomes extinct in organizations with more than two developers

This is a reposting from Mik Kersten's Tasktop Blog.  Look for more predictions in this series on his blog and on Agile Zone Development managers at large...

0 replies - 4214 views - 02/15/11 by James Sugrue in Articles

Unit Test Case, Subject Matter Experts and Requirements

Here's a typical "I don't like TDD" question: the topic is "Does TDD really work for complex projects?"Part of the question focused on...

4 replies - 4859 views - 02/09/11 by Steven Lott in News

Prediction #5: Open source ALM tools continue to gain market share, give the development manager a migraine

This is a reposting from Mik Kersten's Tasktop Blog.  Look for more predictions in this series on his blog and on Agile Zone.The influence of open source on...

0 replies - 5662 views - 02/09/11 by James Sugrue in Articles

Prediction #7: Web-based code editors become viable, cloud-based IDE platforms remain a pipe dream

This is a reposting from Mik Kersten's Tasktop Blog.  Look for more predictions in this series on his blog and on Agile Zone.A couple of years ago, a...

2 replies - 4359 views - 02/04/11 by James Sugrue in Articles