As we were sharing in an article in Today Software Magazine (Adrian Bolboaca & Alexandru Bolboaca) our views about software craft, we came to the fact that Test Driven Development is one of the core practices for software crafters. Besides the increasing number of articles, blogs, short movies or books on this subject, Test Driven Development (TDD) […]
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(Guest blog post by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, originally appeared on her blog. Republished with permission.) What a busy, intense week Agile 2013 was! It was a great opportunity to connect with old friends and meet folks who share common interests and energy. I also had a lot of fun spreading the word/exchanging ideas about two things I’m
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(Guest blog post by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, originally appeared on her blog. Republished with permission.) Agile designers embrace change. But that doesn’t mean change is always easy. Some things are harder to change than others. So it is good to know how to explain this to impatient product stakeholders, program managers, or product owners when they ask
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Let’s say you start an agile project. You identify the requirements, write them down as user stories, define your releases, setup the infrastructure. Are you ready to start sprinting? Before we can answer, let’s try adding in more context. I see two different situations: 1. You have one team that will build an application starting
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“As aspiring Software Crafters we are raising the bar of professional software development by practicing it and helping others learn the craft.” The Manifesto for Software Craft I am very glad to be one of the 70 developers and testers who attended the SoCraTes UK unconference. We were all hoping to work together towards the
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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock decided to give us an interview on more topics. She will be a speaker at I T.A.K.E. Unconference, Bucharest, 30-31 May 2013. During this video she explains the main reasons why she likes this event: the open space and the fact that it is a coding conference. Another topic of the interview is
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock is having a discussion with Alex Bolboaca about Agile. She says that Agile existed long before it had a name, as a set of values. Rebecca has been using the Agile principles for Software Architecture and Design.
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Rebecca Wirfs-Brock in a discussion with Alex Bolboaca about how much Architecture and Design should programmers know.
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An interview of Rebecca Wirfs-Brock with Alex Bolboaca. Rebecca talks about her experience in software development. Also her experience of creating the Smalltalk language that had the first users, among others, Ward Cunningham and Kent Beck. She talks about the books she wrote Object Design: Roles. Responsibility, and Collaborations and Designing Object-Oriented Software.
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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
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