The theme of XP 2012 this year is "Agile by Design" and the conference is very focused on industrial applications of Agile ideas. James and I are both offering...
As many of you know, Llewellyn Falco and I are co-producing the "Development Practices and Craftsmanship" stage at Agile 2012 this year. The Agile conference...
Have you ever considered giving a session at the Agile conference? It's a great way to share what you've learned the hard way, and to meet others who care...
How do practitioners of TDD in C/C++ feel about TDD'ing getters and setters? Especially if they are "simple" (i.e. void MyModule_setProperty( MyModule obj,...
Anyone have advice on how to cope with stakeholders who will not provide feedback? I'm dealing with higher-ups who will most definitely have a fit if they...
I'm trying to unit test a function (CUT) that is defined in a static library and which calls another function (DEP) that is also defined in that static...
Anyone happy with their Excel 2003 based Product Backlog / Sprint Burndown spreadsheet template? Macros and/or VBA are fine. Needs to be totally free. (for a...
Do you all find it useful to specify roles for requirements that primarily refer to communication with other hardware or system components. I'm advising a...
Hello. Just a few words to introduce myself. I come from the PC world where I started exploring the Agile way to better software. Lately I often find myself...
One useful concept I've seen applied in stories with different groups (hardware, analysts, etc) is to have surrogate users/customers within the team/story....
Hi Kelly
The approach sounds fine to me. Also, I suggest calling them ' product stories'. It helps get over this mental hurdle.
That said, i'd be careful...
Per the moderator's request, I'm introducing myself. :-) I'm a Java software developer by trade (where I attempt to live a TDD lifestyle), but I've been...
This morning I heard a spot on WGBH (one of Boston's local public radio stations) for the Embedded Systems Conference which is happening here this week Sept 26...
A live workshop in Medical Software Development using Lean-Agile Methods (visit http://www.meddevgroup.org/courses.htm for information and links for...
hello! I have something i'd love a bit of discussion on, if possible. I work for a company that is making some pretty innovative (for our market) products. As...
Hi. I'm Julian, My group approval email told me to introduce myself, so here goes... I'm an electronic design engineer who's come to have more of a focus on...
Not sure if that's a super-great title, but here's my question: I am currently working on hardware diagnostics software that is intended to be run, sometimes...
Does this even make sense? In a weird way, I kind of like it. It could be used to describe a feature, say, an embedded application writer would want from a...
Hi all! A quick and dumb question is wandering around my head: Is it OK to add functions that are only meant to be used for testing? I would say IT IS,...
What is the dividing line between scenarios (say, specified in Cucumber or FitNesse) and code examples used, say, in RSpec? When does something stop being a...
HIya all, I got a request for some separate CppUTest discussion group. I created it at: http://groups.google.com/group/cpputest Might be useful if you use...
I've been thinking about this a fair bit lately. Here's my current sticking point. Suppose we are writing a linux character device driver and we have the ...
I'm trying to see if I can get my project set up using CodeLite to manage the build. This is for an ARM Cortex M3 target. If anyone else has successfully used...
I've taken to initializing all my file-scope global variables in the module's init function rather than at declaration time, so that in my tests I can call the...
Say I've got the following functions with a shared status variable (for demonstration): static uint8_t Acked = 0; uint8_t sendTestMessage(void) { putchar('t');...
Dear All, We are Software Engineering master students from BTH (Blekinge Institute of Technology), Sweden would like to invite you to participate in our web...
