Writing Testable Code
Misko Hevery made a presentation at Google Tech Talks about unit testing. He tells us that “There is no secret to writing tests… … there are only secrets to writing testable code!”. He describes the different category of tests and shows the importance of unit testing. He describes how to …
10 ways to screw up with Scrum & XP
Scrum & XP may sound deceptively simple. But once you get down to the everyday practical stuff there are many subtle traps hiding about. Common mistakes that are easy to make and hard to detect, mistakes that cancel out many of the benefits that Agile methods were supposed to give. …
The secrets of doing agile offshoring with success
In this interview from JAOO 2007 Jeff Sutherland and Serge Beaumont discuss the secrets of doing offshore development in an agile way based on their real life experience. Jeff Sutherland, Scrum co-founder, has been helping others to do agile the right way and Serge Beaumont works for Xebia, a company …
Countdown to PDC2008: Did somebody say Agile Pre Con at PDC? Chat with Mary and Grigori.
When Dilbert talks about Agile, you know it has become main stream. This is also evident from the increased adoption of agile techniques and practices in the software development industry. Mary and Grigori just finished their duties as the program chair of the recently concluded Agile Conference and now are …
Kent Beck Keynote at RailConf 2008
Kent Beck is the founder and director of Three Rivers Institute (TRI). His career has combined the practice of software development with reflection, innovation, and communication. His contributions to software development include patterns for software, the rediscovery of test-first programming, the xUnit family of developer testing tools, and Extreme Programming.