Spec by Example workshop in London – June 18-19
The best course I’ve attended in my career. I loved that the instructor challenged us to think for ourselves and did not give us the answers straight away – Trond Svensen, SITS
Archive for October, 2007
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The Zero-Testing Time Bomb
Posted on October 23, 2007 | 1 CommentEvery now and then some ingenious project manager thinks of a way to deliver faster by negotiating to skip testing. At first glance, this looks like a win-win deal: customers get software faster or cheaper, as long as they “understand” that there will be problems. Developers, on the other hand,... -
DbFit User guide updated
Posted on October 22, 2007 | No CommentsThe DbFit User guide is finally updated to reflect all the changes in the past few months. It is now called Getting Fit With Databases (to reflect that SQLServer and MySQL are also supported), and explains the differences between Java and .Net implementations. Download it from SourceForge. -
DbFit 0.91 available: Update fixture and type cleaners
Posted on October 22, 2007 | No CommentsDbFit 0.91 is available for download from SourceForge. Most important changes in this release are: support for type normalisers in Java, which can transform content coming out of the database. That provides workarounds for JDBC driver inconsistencies and finally brings proper support for Oracle Timestamp, CLOB and REF cursor support... -
See you at XPDay
Posted on October 4, 2007 | No CommentsIf you are interested in how agile development works with databases, come to XPDay 7 in London on November 19th. I will be talking about the project that inspired me to create DbFit, and sharing my experiences on how to fight attitudes and technology to bring database development into an...
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