Steve Freeman

Update: Nice follow-up from “TestObsessed”, you can get your free certification from her. As she suggests out, I’d rather be a sucker for an elaborate joke than have this be true.

There is now, apparently, a “World Agile Qualifications Board” offering Agile certification programs (I won’t link to it directly, but it’s at waqb (dot) [...]

I’ve come across what might be a synchronisation bug while working on the book.

The end-to-end tests for our example application use the WindowLicker framework to drive the Swing user interface. Our test infrastructure starts the application up in another thread (it’s as close as we can get to running from the command line), then [...]

Karl Scotland has a post on whether Kanban is only suitable for mature teams. (in case you haven’t guessed, he thinks not).

The magic of Kanban is that it all it really does is make the current situation explicit. If the team is in a position to respond then they will figure it out and do [...]

From D-Squared

At the recent Software Craftsmanship conference in London, Willem and Marc ran a session on Responsibility-Driven Development with Mocks for about 30 people. Nat Pryce and I were sitting at the back watching and occasionally heckling.

The first striking thing was that when Willem and Marc asked who was using “Mock Objects” most everyone put [...]

Cay Horstmann, Professor of CS at San Jose State University, Sun Java Champion, and consultant in Internet Programming, says
I perform an occasional unit test after I’ve encountered a failure that I don’t want to have recur, but I rarely write the tests first. If so many experienced developers don’t write unit tests, what does that [...]

Just found this useful guide

Anyone new to [TDD] should begin with a partner who is more experienced, not only because it is safer but also because one can learn from the other’s experience.

Before starting the [TDD], it is important to have a general picture of the route and how it should be [TDD]‘d. If the [...]

I run my own company, perhaps I should make a business card like this: .

from Alexander Kjerulf via Diana of Portland