Archives for the 'Agile' Category
Unit Tests and Developers under Pressure
In TechEd 2008 David Platt interviewed Roy about the future of TDD. You should really view the Tech-Talk as Dave is really funny, although he does miss the number of possible TLA’s (which he recursively defines as a TLA = Three Letter Acronym) by 300.
About 5 minutes into the session David asks a key question: […]
The myth of integration tests
The question of what exactly is a unit test, is one that keeps on plaguing us as a community. I have heard many developers say “oh, no need to test that - its an integration test”.
Well - what is a unit test? and what is an integration test? Guess what: One programmer’s unit test is […]
Estimations and being Agile
There are quite a lot of information in the web about how to estimate tasks in an Agile environments - They are all based on dividing the task to small features and using a statistical technique to estimate the time. But these are quite complex and take allot of resources from the team, and at […]
Agile and Event-Driven Management
I have read an article on VentureHacks on Lean (Agile) Companies. In this article Agile = Less Waste
At Typemock we are take Agile development and being an Agile company seriously. In the development we use a scrum/XP hybrid and we use Event-Driven Management for the company. I will explain Event-Driven Management later, but I want […]
Future of Unit Testing and Economics
Euan Garden managed the PDC 2008 Panel Session on the Future of Unit Testing, and Andrew has made a short summary.
Unit Test => (Automated) Developers Tests
An interesting thought that come from listening to this panel is that there is a confusion about what unit tests are and I agree that we should really call it […]