Agile development practices within a traditional sdlc(instantiate.co.nz)

submitted by lukus7(135) 1 year, 9 months ago

Agile development practices greatly improve quality and productivity. There are "agile" development practices that can be applied to any project independently of the project methodology. In this post I talk about a recent project and some of the development practices that worked really well for our team. read more...

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Kanban Distilled(kanbandistilled.com)

submitted by powerrush(3873) 2 years, 2 months ago

A very quick but helpful description of the Kanban agile software development process. read more...

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Is your debugger making you stupid?(blog.decayingcode.com)

submitted by arch4ngel(585) 2 years, 7 months ago

What is one of the greatest advance of Visual Studio since the coming of .NET? You might think it is the Garbage Collector or the IL which allows interoperability between languages? I think of one the great advance of Visual Studio 2003 (all the way through Visual Studio 2010) is the debugger. Previously, debugger were hardly as powerful as Visual Studio. And that is the problem. read more...

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Waterfall development just work as great(blog.decayingcode.com)

submitted by arch4ngel(585) 2 years, 11 months ago

Waterfall development is still a valid way to develop software. Setting up the requirements, making proper analysis, coding and then testing works just as fine. However… not for ever changing software like a website. If I were to build an e-Commerce website, I would never choose to go Waterfall. read more...

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Why should I use mocking objects in my Unit Test?(blog.decayingcode.com)

submitted by arch4ngel(585) 2 years, 11 months ago

If we cut out any "fanboy" or favouritism toward certain framework and that we try to keep it in a one liner... I would say: "To simulate behaviours of objects that are impractical or impossible to incorporate inside a unit test". The Wikipedia's article about Mock Object mention some reason an object should be mocked. read more...

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Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever(noop.nl)

submitted by powerrush(3873) 3 years, 8 months ago

In this post I proudly present the Top 100 of Best Software Engineering Books, Ever. I have created this list using four different criteria: 1) number of Amazon reviews, 2) average Amazon rating, 3) number of Google hits and 4) Jolt awards. read more...

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Scrum Explained in 5 Minutes(softhouse.se)

submitted by powerrush(3873) 3 years, 8 months ago

PDF entitled "Scrum in Five Minutes" from http://www.softhouse.se/ read more...

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When does design happen in Agile?(codebetter.com)

submitted by powerrush(3873) 3 years, 8 months ago

Someone at work, new to agile approaches, asked me about when agile projects do design. I thought I would share my answer in case others were still wondering, and to try and explain where experience may have lead to us activities that are not textbook... read more...

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Reality-driven development(duartes.org)

submitted by gustavod(775) 3 years, 11 months ago

A way to think about software development as evolution directed by users and technical quality. read more...

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Richard Feynman, the Challenger, and Software Engineering(duartes.org)

submitted by gustavod(775) 3 years, 11 months ago

When Richard Feynman investigated the Challenger disaster, he issued a brilliant report with many insights into the nature of engineering. These apply directly to modern software development. Not sure if this one is on topic - it's about general software engineering. read more...

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Test Supported Development (TSD) is not Test Driven Development (TDD) (blog.troyd.net)

submitted by powerrush(3873) 4 years ago

"Test Supported Development" (TSD) intends to characterize the creation of tests during ANY/ALL stages of development, that is, tests are not necessarily created before their respective System Under Test (SUT), but not necessarily created as an afterthought, either... read more...

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Explicit Strongly Typed Selective Proxies (CORRECTED)(jpboodhoo.com)

submitted by powerrush(3873) 4 years ago

“How could I dynamically create a proxy around an object (interface based proxies are not a problem) and then selectively apply interceptors at a method by method level if necessary?”. read more...

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TDD Proven Effective! Or is it?(scruffylookingcatherder.com)

submitted by powerrush(3873) 4 years ago

So when Phil Haack announced that Research Supports the Effectiveness of TDD I was more than a little interested in seeing what the linked report actually contained. read more...

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Agile's Dark Side(blog.natural20software.com)

submitted by powerrush(3873) 4 years, 2 months ago

"Being a self-proclaimed Agile Advocate I seem to find myself in discussions regard the bad points about agile. Books, articles, and talks on the subject of agile always paint the rosy happy story about using agile. I’m no fool, and I realize that things aren’t quite as happy as some people make it out to be..." read more...

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Confessions of a Terrible Programmer(kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com)

submitted by powerrush(3873) 4 years, 4 months ago

I’m a terrible programmer. You would think that having done this for nearly 25 years that I should be pretty good at it by now. But nope, I still put bugs in my code, use the wrong types for variables or subprogram arguments... read more...

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SQL Server: How to modify data in any table in a resultset made up of (weblogs.sqlteam.com)

submitted by spirit1(3160) 4 years, 5 months ago

Recently i'm seeing a lot of questions about how to modify data in the tables which are part of the multi-join select statement. And i keep wondering how can this be so hard to remember. The methodology is quite simple. read more...

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