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Scott and I had a good discussion this evening about how to design the layers of an application as a whole, and I tried to brain dump on my blog. Check it...
More agile development dialog this week over lunch at the Mongolian BBQ at North Lamar & Rundberg (http://tinyurl.com/4ls9p). Wednesday, Apr 14 11:30 AM 9200 N...
Bridging the Gaps: Communicating to Build Influence and Partnership - Steve Whiteford, Whiteford Resources Location and time Dell Parmer Campus Building S1( ...
Present - Claude Garret - Mike Peletier - Scott Bellware - Jeffrey Palermo - Jeremy Miller - Greg Banister - (and two other folks whose names escape me...
At lunch today, I mistakenly remembered this tool as a NAnt IDE. It's not.. but it looks pretty fine: http://www.finalbuilder.com/ Here's the feature matrix: ...
How to Transition to Agile Development at the Hyatt Regency on Friday, April 22nd, 2005 at 9am. If you haven't registered and would like to attend, you can...
Just got in from the Rally Roadshow. The first session was an overview of Agile practices. The presenter, Jean Tabaka, did a solid job of outlining agile...
Can everyone make lunch this coming Wednesday, 4/27? at the usual lunch spot. I've got some exciting stuff going on where I work. I've sold _one_ more dev on...
The agile beat goes on this week over lunch at the Mongolian BBQ at North Lamar & Rundberg (http://tinyurl.com/4ls9p). Wednesday, Apr 27 11:30 AM 9200 N Lamar...
I have been asked to provide "proof" for my group that adoption of TDD will yield a positive benefit in either or both of a) improved productivity or b)...
I need any and all tips for how to kick start TDD on an existing code base. The code base is of .NET WinForms based. I am thinking that at a minimum the code...
You should take a look at Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers. It addresses the very problem that you describe. _____________________ Bret...
Peter, Good to meet you today, BTW. I second Bret's book recommendation; it's a good read. On an informal level, if you should do a Google search on "test...
Likewise, Here at our office, TDD is initially being seen as a productivity hindrance - too much rework, allowance for errors. In lieu of this, there is some...
I think you have to use TDD and refactoring and pairing and incremental development of business value to start seeing benefits. One of the major benefits of...
Also, be sure you differentiate the different parts of TDD ... - having unit tests as part of the app - writing the unit tests before you write the app code...
Agreed. One of the hardest selling points I've had to make with TDD is that while there is an increase in up-front development time, it pays off in decreased...
Actually i don't think TDD slows up-front development. It's *learning* TDD that slows things down. Once developers learn TDD well, they stick with it because...
I don't know about any hard statistical evidence, but my experience has been increasingly positive. Brett's comment about learning TDD being difficult is...
... If you're writing generator directives on functional code that you already have in order to generate tests for this code, you couldn't possibly be doing...
... This hs been my experience as well. Every now and then I try to delude myself into believing that I can make up some time by relaxing on the TDD, but the...
Hey guys, are we going to have lunch next wednesday? Also, I can book a room at the Dell parmer campus for a presentation. I just need to know a date and...
