Archive for the 'Extreme Programming' Category

Testivus - Testing for the rest of us.

I am a believer in Testivus.

Developers need to take more responsibility for testing their code. But the majority of developers are not willing, nor ready, nor able to jump on the bandwagon of the more extreme and demanding developer testing movements such as Test Driven Development. Testivus is a proposed developer testing movement [...]

Agile processes are fractal.

Fractal: A mathematically generated pattern that is reproducible at any magnification or reduction.

At a seminar called Lean-Agile Software Testing – Practices and Challenges Jean McAuliffe described lean/agile processes as a fractal. She was talking about applying agile principles at each iteration of development. Principles are hard to [...]

Pop Quiz Hot Shot!

Each of two developers can drink a six pack of Mountain Dew in 20 minutes. Together with a third developer, they finish the six pack of Mountain Dew in 6 minutes. In what time can the third developer drink the six pack of Mountain Dew alone? Pair Programming Presented from [...]

Free Design Patterns, Scrum, Unit Testing, and Agile Use Cases Tutorials from NetObjectives

I found out via the Agile Software Testing List at Yahoo! that NetObjectives is offering free, registration required, access to their self-paced training videos. They are currently offering the following:

Advice from the Gang of Four (with the Strategy Pattern)

This presentation investigates the general design advice promoted by the authors of Design Patterns, Elements of [...]

Can I quote you on that? Red, Green, Refactor; Drink the cool-aid.

JUnit green is just like snorting crank off a hunting knife. Cgus

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