September 2009 Entries
Jack has great write up on 7 s/w waste. I couldn’t kind index page which provides easy access to all of them. With all due respect to Jack Milunsky, here is my humble try The 7 Software Development Wastes - Part 1 The 7 Software Development Wastes - Part 2 The 7 Software Development Wastes - Part 3 The 7 Software Development Wastes - Part 4 The 7 Software Development Wastes - Part 5 The 7 Software Development Wastes - Part 6 The 7 Software Development Wastes - Part 7 ...
Over this weekend, I facilitated workshop on Refactoring. My company was kind enough to host the screencast for me. Earlier I posted link for ppt and demo application download here.
If you rather prefer to watch it directly at screencast site, here is the direct link
http://www.screencast.com/t/gI7XXQMQ95S
Thanks to Jeffrey Palermo, for the big favor and editing and uploading the screencast.
We at Headspring uses Tarantino for database change management. Earlier I have blog it’s ability to skip certain script file and how to use this feature. As per the standard Headspring practice, we develop our project in the environment that facilitate close collaboration with customer. Which implies that our customer is seating next to developer team and will test user story as and when it gets completed by development team. This unique setup enable early feedback to hone the end product. Since customers are continuously testing system, they need to maintain right set of data that represent real life...
On this Saturday, I facilitated workshop on Refactoring. Since many participants asked for slides and demo application, here they are
presentation and demo application is at
http://austincodecamp09.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/PruningYourLegacyCode
and the final refactored version of DbSnapTaker is at
http://svn2.xp-dev.com/svn/mdmavani-DbSnapTaker
Both of them are svn repositories so you will need svn client to check out them. If you haven’t got it already, here is one.
Fascinated about terms like unit testing and TDD? Praying to work for green field project so that you, too, can do unit testing and TDD?
If these questions sounds familiar to you then let me tell you that you are not alone. While hype of automated testing, TDD, BDD is in air, not everyone is fortunate enough to work on green field project with cutting edge tools and techniques. For years, business has invested lot of money in developing and maintain those “Legacy” system, that everyone seems to hate today. Management is not ready to invest in building new system...