by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, republished with permission On agile teams, architects do more than design and implement the interesting tricky bits. They typically balance a wide range of concerns: short-term goals, overall system design integrity, risks versus efforts, design expediency. The successful agile architects I know aren’t ivory tower experts. They take a leadership role …
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock president of Wirfs-Brock Associates and IEEE Software’s Design Columnist, is a well-known and respected object-oriented practitioner. She invented the way of thinking about objects known as Responsibility-Driven Design and is the lead author of Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations (2003) and the classic Designing Object-Oriented Software (1990). Through her writing, teaching, consulting, …
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A few months ago we were announcing the launch of a unique technical conference: I T.A.K.E. It’s now time to tell you more about why it’s unique. Speakers are obviously a very important part of a conference. We put a lot of effort into bringing the best development minds from around Europe. They are community …
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My colleague Nicoleta challenged me to write a blog post about agile that even a non-technical person can understand. I accepted the challenge only to find myself facing a big problem: how can I describe a philosophy that impacts everything about how we work (and even live) in a short post while keeping it easy …
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 …
