After an initial romance with use cases, the agile community embraced user stories as its de facto standard for documenting requirements. You have probably seen them a lot by now and maybe even wrote a few: As a <user type> I want <action> So that <benefit> To make them more versatile, Mike Cohn introduced two additional …
Would you like to have better unit testing? We can help with: Attending the “Unit Testing Core Practices” workshop, also available in-company Attending the “Test Driven Development (TDD) ” workshop, also available in-company Attending the “Acceptance Test Driven Development” workshop with Markus Gärtner If the situation is more complex, we would be happy to create a customized package for …
In my early years as a programmer I was always afraid to touch existing code. Usually that code was written by someone else. It was so hard for me to understand it. I found out after a while that this kind of code is called “spaghetti code”. Now I am having fun making convoluted code …
At the time of this post, I have taught unit testing for 5+ years, to a few hundreds of developers, both in classroom and in their own environment, on their own code, be it Java, C#, C++, PHP, Python, Javascript, Objective-C or ActionScript. No matter the technology or the environment, the problems they encountered were …
A guest post by Markus Gärtner, republished with permission. Michael Bolton beat me on blogging about it. Though, I still want to throw in my pieces to the structure in Exploratory Testing debate. The source of the conversation was On Twitter, Johan Jonasson reported today that he was about to attend a presentation called “Structured …
Our team is very proud to launch an innovative conference, unique in Central and Eastern Europe: I T.A.K.E. It will take place in Bucharest, on 30-31 May 2013. I T.A.K.E. is a technical conference targeted at everyone involved in software development. It is different because: Many passionate developers, testers, architects and managers coming from …
This is the story of the first 4 days of an ongoing 6 months Kanban adoption that we started with a small company from Cluj-Napoca. The company develops its own web-based product with a good commercial success. It started with the founder and General Manager of the company contacting us for a discussion about their …
Picture this: you have a new project, 10.000 lines of code, no documentation, all developers who worked on the project have left the project and you must get a new version out in 3 months. I bet many of you have been in this situation before. I also bet this was a big challenge for …
Techniques to Safely Change Code You Don’t Understand Read More »
During our work as programmers we often have the feeling of wanting to get the things done. We as programmers feel that cutting corners and taking big steps is a safe way. Until the bugs kick in! And when the changes in the already written software are so painful! This is why for us FAST …
