http://www.testearly.com Thought Leaders in helping development teams optimizing Agile software production Wed, 06 May 2009 13:47:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My friend Andy Glover will be leading a two-day training class in Reston, VA on April 2nd and 3rd, 2009. If you haven't attended any of Andy's training sessions, you're missing out. Having worked with Andy for several years, I can tell you first hand that he's got unique combination ... http://www.testearly.com/2009/03/23/jump-into-groovy-and-grails/ The Integrate Button website (from Paul Duvall's book on Continuous Integration) recently published a screencast on using the Hudson Continuous Integration server - along with Subversion, Ant, HSQL and other tools. Click the image below to get started. The screencast demonstrates the following steps: Checkout source files from the Subversion repository ... http://www.testearly.com/2009/03/17/screencast-on-using-hudson-continuous-integration/ Jurgen Appelo who writes a blog on Understanding Development & Management asked Stelligent CEO Paul Duvall to answer 5 easy questions about his toughest challenge, software development and other interesting topics. His answers join a list of software luminaries such as Steve McConnell, Grady Booch, Mike Cohn, Ron Jeffries, ... http://www.testearly.com/2009/02/28/5-easy-questions-for-paul-duvall/ I like repeatable processes. To me, it's a waste of time to do the same thing more than once. I'm also reminded of this when I start repeating answers to the same questions. When considering knowledge companies, virtually everything valuable to us are our people and information, not physical ... http://www.testearly.com/2009/02/11/if-its-not-in-the-system-it-doesnt-exist/ It can be a significant burden to manually apply upgrades to an existing database. Moreover, it's often an error-laden activity. IBM developerWorks' recently published an article on this topic for Paul Duvall's (Stelligent CTO) popular Automation for the people series called Hands-free database migration. Databases are often out of sync ... http://www.testearly.com/2008/11/11/hands-free-database-migration/ Last week, JavaLobby published an article about easyb called “Is easyb Easy?”. Yes, that's exactly what you will find out by reading this article. easyb is a BDD framework for the Java platform written by Andrew Glover. This article goes in detail about how to write a 1. Scenarios within ... http://www.testearly.com/2008/09/24/is-easyb-easy/ http://wondermark.com/d/445.html http://www.testearly.com/2008/09/23/but-i-dont-like-to-learn-new-things/ Yes, this is exactly what I am frequently asked by my clients and many developers. It isn't easy to answer this question. There are several projects using Ant. Should you run away from Ant just because there is a new cool tool out there called Gant? Should you switch ... http://www.testearly.com/2008/09/23/ant-or-gant/ Roy has some provocative thoughts on TDD and getting developers to write unit tests.  I don't agree with all of them, but it's worth a read. Some of his interesting points: 99% of the developers out there aren’t ready for the “testability” message Don't call them 'mocks' or 'stubs' - say things like ... http://www.testearly.com/2008/09/22/roy-osherove-on-tdd/ In the last two articles, "UML Diagrams within Javadocs" and "Visual Documentation of Ant Dependencies in 3 Simple Steps" we saw how easy and valuable it was to automate technical documentation. By using open source tools, we were easily able to provide good technical documentation within a few minutes, ... http://www.testearly.com/2008/09/10/javadoc-or-doxygen/