A first beta version of Gurock Software's upcoming web-based test case management tool TestRail is now available. TestRail is intended to help software...
0 replies - 185 views - 10/12/09 by Dennis G. in Announcements
There has been a long thread in the kanbandev group at Yahoo about
how to define what a kanban system is, and is not. Defining kanban is
important because...
5 replies - 3835 views - 06/09/09 by Henrik.Martensson in News
Agile 2009 takes place in Chicago
from August 24th - 28th. The call for papers is closed, and the agenda
has been developed. The conference is composed of 20...
0 replies - 1572 views - 05/14/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
Architecture is an overloaded term these days, and one that is not
always easy to define. There's also a myth surrounding architecture and
agile methods - some...
1 replies - 3551 views - 05/13/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
Jurgen Appelo has published the results of his agile practices survey. The information he collected was sizeable, valuable, and interesting. There were a few...
0 replies - 2119 views - 05/12/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
In this presentation, Jurgen Appelo talks about agility and the 12 laws of software development. Among other topics, he talks about motivation,...
1 replies - 3221 views - 04/21/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Videos
About 10 years ago I recall studying profusely so that I might pass
my Java programmer's certification exam. I purchased a copy of an exam
cram book that had...
14 replies - 3657 views - 03/20/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
A core tenet of agile methodologies is to help teams deliver software more quickly. But with the plethora of agile practices available to choose from, teams...
1 replies - 3836 views - 03/16/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
In Big Teams & Agility, I talked about a macro process for agile development on large teams (those up to, possibly exceeding, 100 developers).
1 replies - 2328 views - 03/12/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
The chapters of “Clean Code” are grouped into three parts. As it says in the introduction, part one “describes the principles, patterns and practices of writing clean code.” Part two contains...
1 replies - 5459 views - 03/02/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews
A recent post on InfoQ discusses a two part article
by Israel Gat that argues in favor of internal vs external releases by
decoupling the engineering aspects...
0 replies - 1467 views - 02/18/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
During these testing times, you cannot afford to be inefficient. Correcting problems early in the development process is critical when producing quality...
0 replies - 941 views - 02/06/09 by Anthony Scotney in Announcements
This is an exercise in how to apply the principles found in Robert C Martins new book Clean Code. We performed it a code review last week on functions I had...
30 replies - 6626 views - 02/03/09 by Tomas Malmsten in Articles
Zutubi is excited to announce the release of Pulse 2.0! This release combines two huge new features: templated configuration and plugins, which we have...
0 replies - 1005 views - 12/17/08 by Jason Sankey in Announcements
Let me begin with a story about my friend, a tech lead at a small business company. He was assigned the task of enriching his company's "Expense...
4 replies - 4037 views - 10/15/08 by robbiecheng in Articles