Pickle with Cucumber
Published March 10th, 2010 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment
Pickle adds many convenient Cucumber steps for generating models. Also learn about table diffs in this episode. Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid – all rolled into one format. Pickle gives you cucumber steps that create your models easily from factory-girl or machinist factories/blueprints
http://railscasts.com/episodes/186-pickle-with-cucumber
Maven 3 Reloaded
Published March 10th, 2010 Under Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
The Maven team has gone to the ends of the earth to ensure backward compatibility, improve usability, increase performance, allow safe embedding, and pave the way for implement many highly demanded features. This talk will briefly cover the process and tooling changes that have occurred in the Maven project in order to accomplish what we have done with Maven 3.0, as well as discuss the architectural and feature changes. Some of the process changes include setting up a multi-platform Hudson grid, building out a framework of over 440 integration tests, creating integration tests for all core Maven plugins, and systematically seeking out Maven 2.x OSS projects to validate Maven 3.x’s compatibility. We also built out a framework that measures disk I/O, network I/O, memory consumption, and CPU utilization to ensure that performance doesn’t degrade.
Tips And Techniques For Implementing An Agile Program Across Distributed Teams
Published March 10th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
Tamara Sulaiman presents experiences in implementing Agile in teams across different time zones in large companies. She shares the pleasure and the pain, ideas that worked as well as ideas that didn’t. She also shares the critical success factors in making program level implementations successful and sustaining.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/distributed-team-tips
Learn About Continuous Integration With Hudson Directly From the Source
Published March 8th, 2010 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment
San Francisco Java User Group presents Kohsuke Kawaguchi from Sun who introduces us to Hudson, an open-source continuous integration (CI) system, which improves the productivity of a development team by automating various things.
Additional resources:
Continuous Integration: The Cornerstone of a Great Shop
Continuous Integration Tools Directory
Lean Thinking: What is Distinctive About It and Where is It Going?
Published March 8th, 2010 Under General | Leave a Comment
Marc Baker discusses the origin of Lean and how it has developed into a complete business system. He also reviews the current frontiers of lean thinking and practice and wraps it up with insights from lean transformations for IT and software development.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/lean-thinking-distinctions
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