An Agile Alternative to Usability Testing

Published June 14th, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

This video argues that traditional usability testing is too slow to properly support an iterative approach to product design. He presents the “design checkpoint” as a complementary activity: an informal exercise in which 1 designer meets with 1 user for 1 hour every 1 or 2 weeks.

How to Make Your Culture Work with Agile

Published June 6th, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

This video reviews the company culture model created by William Schneider and then use it to understand the Agile Manifesto, the Manifest for Software Craftsman and Kanban Principles to understand what their implied cultural bias.

Video Producer: http://agilitrix.com/

Metrics Based Refactoring

Published May 30th, 2011 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

Metric_fu makes it easy to generate reports that measure code quality. Once you’ve created the reports, what do you do next? You know your code could be better. Now what? As lead developer of metric_fu, Jake Scruggs is in a great position to make recommendations about the best ways to leverage the tool.

Video Producer: Chicago Ruby

Continuous Deployment to Production 50 Times a Day

Published May 25th, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

This video Eishay presents the advantages of using continuous deployment at a rapid pace, dozens of times a day, the process and the tools needed to attain it and practices to ensure code quality.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Continuous-Deployment-50-Times-a-Day

Test Management Solution Can Help You to Improve your Testing

Published May 25th, 2011 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Software testing has always been a challenge. Companies are looking for testing methodologies and tools which will help them to improve their testing results, while improving software quality and cycle time. The SaaS revolution made it easier for new vendors to bring new solutions to the markets, offering high quality tools at a surprising price, with all the benefits of software as a service over old-time installed solutions.

One of these solutions is Testuff test management. A comprehensive suite, active for over 4 years now, with high standards of ease-of-use. Testuff flexible tool, allows different methodologies uers to implement theirs, keeping procedures and work-flows in place, while making testing a much easier job.

With a few unique features, such as video recording for defects, rich formatting test editor, dedicated test runner and more, Testuff also integrates with many other testing tools of various types such as bug trackers and automation applications. This integration requires only a simple and quick setup. Any user can import their tests to Testuff and get started with real testing within just a few minutes.

Video sponsored by Testuff

Big Balls of Mud in Agile Development

Published May 19th, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

In his presentation “Big Balls of Mud in Agile Development: Can We Avoid Them?”, Joseph Yoder explores why much of the software development comes as BBoM, what leads to such code and what can be done to contain it and keep it to a manageable size, offering possible Agile solutions

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Big-Balls-of-Mud

Setup Eclipse for Maven, TestNG, SVN and Selenium

Published May 18th, 2011 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

This video will show you on the Mac, how to setup your Eclipse IDE to use Maven, TestNG, SVN, and Selenium. I will also quickly show you how to create a project and set it to use these tools.

More information and source code: http://jcwebconcepts.net/?p=409

Toxic Code: Technical Debt Analytics

Published May 18th, 2011 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

Recent advances in source code analysis enable us to quantify technical debt and express it in dollars terms. Technical debt analytics can help your team improve its design, coding, testing and project management skills.

Video Producer: Agile Roots Conference

Saros Distributed Pair Programming for Eclipse

Published May 10th, 2011 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

Saros is an open source Eclipse plugin for distributed pair programming. It allows to do collaborative text editing with support of many participants at once. All members of a session have an identical copy of an Eclipse project and Saros keeps these copies synchronized.

http://www.saros-project.org/DemoVideo

What’s it Take to Make an Agile Transition?

Published May 9th, 2011 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

This talk examines the organizational, cultural and individual changes needed for a business to successfully embrace Agile methods. A number of organizations have implemented Agile techniques on pilot projects or in small groups to great success, and then stumbled when trying to scale to a larger company-wide rollout. This has led to the myth that Agile only works well in small companies or in isolated groups. This video relates experiences assisting a number of organizations in their Agile journey and provides some key pointers and practical advice which will help create an environment that enables Agile success.

Video Producer: Agile Australia Conference


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