January 31, 2009
by j pimmel
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I was so open-mouthed with amazement at this post by Uncle Bob that I had to re-post! I know Joel Spolsky has a lot of followers so you would expect statements like “Quality doesn’t matter that much” to be backed … Continue reading
January 28, 2009
by j pimmel
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Reading this question/answer on Stackoverflow I tangentially wondered whether working to Agile practices played any greater a role in my technical skills development compared to ‘back in the day‘ when I wasn’t using Agile methods. There ought to be no … Continue reading
January 22, 2009
by j pimmel
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For the past few years myself and colleagues have used Selenium extensively to test-drive (and continuously test) all the web-apps which we’ve collectively been responsible for. In that time our massed experience meant we got pretty slick at writing these … Continue reading
January 22, 2009
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Whilst this article is clearly specific to Lean in manufacturing processes what I find pleasing is how fundamentally similar a ‘Morning Market’ is to the morning Scrum in software development. Its a short morning meeting It’s not a forum to … Continue reading
January 15, 2009
by j pimmel
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I have recently been attempting to get my head around Open Flash Chart to, at the very least, get an equivalent ‘Hello World’ version running before I run off customising it. Should be simple right? Well yes, once you get … Continue reading
January 2, 2009
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In my previous article on performance testing, I suggested that incremental and iterative development of performance unit tests was an essential part of your overall performance testing strategy. However, performance testing the parts of a system is vastly different from … Continue reading
January 1, 2009
by j pimmel
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In our last three projects we automated our performance testing extensively. This involved significant effort, which paid off for the 2 projects already delivered: meeting performance expectations owed a great deal to our performance improvements. Interestingly after the bulk of … Continue reading