Spec by Example mentoring programme
Specification by example mentoring is aimed at individuals who know the basics, want to improve and need support, knowledge and ideas not available online or through training courses. First group starts 1 June.
Archive for November, 2007
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Golden rule of web caching
Posted on November 29, 2007 | 7 CommentsEffective content caching is one of the key features of scalable web sites. Although there are several out-of-the-box options for caching with modern web technologies, a custom built cache still provides the best performance. -
DbFit 0.92: Inspect fixture and better error handling
Posted on November 26, 2007 | No CommentsNew version of DbFit (0.92) is now available for download from SourceForge. Here are the most important changes: Better error handling, DbFit now prints out missing column/parameter names and warns if table/procedure could not be found new Inspect fixture to help with regression tests: DatabaseTest has three methods to automate... -
Naked agilists – 2008-01-19
Posted on November 26, 2007 | No CommentsI’ve just read about the Naked Agilists conference – seems like an interesting thing to attend. It is a skype conference, so you can listen in from your home, and it is scheduled for 19th of January 2008 from 20:00 to 21:30 GMT. The conference is based around short experience... -
Who should write acceptance tests?
Posted on November 23, 2007 | No CommentsAcceptance tests should reflect customer’s perception of when the job is done, so they must be defined by a customer or a business analyst. That still leaves us with a question who should translate that definition into FIT/FitNesse tables. There was an interesting discussion on this topic at the XPDay... -
Fighting the monster
Posted on November 20, 2007 | 7 CommentsFor the last couple of years, I’ve been working with mid-size and large UK bookmakers, trying to introduce agile development practices into those environments on several projects. Although for most of the readers of this blog using agile practices is no longer a question, agile development is fairly rare when...
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