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HTML 5 Design and Development Tooling

Topics
HTML5,
CSS3,
Javascript,
HTML,
Rich Internet Apps,
CSS,
Web Development,
Markup Languages,
QCon San Francisco 2011,
Dynamic Languages,
Cross Platform,
Languages,
QCon,
Mobile Development,
Adobe,
Tools,
Conferences,
Programming,
Mobile,
Companies,
Agile,
Browsers

Greg Wilson and Christophe Coenraets demo Adobe Edge, a motion and interaction tool, CSS Regions and Shaders, and PhoneGap.

News about Tools

Xamarin’s Mono for Android Now Includes a Visual Designer

Topics
C#,
Cross Platform,
.NET Languages,
Visual Studio,
MonoDevelop,
Mono,
.NET,
IDE,
Android,
Mobile Development,
Microsoft,
Tools,
IDEs,
Companies,
Programming,
Mobile,
Operating Systems,
Agile

Xamarin has announced a visual designer for their Mono for Android development tool integrated with Visual Studio or MonoDevelop.

Power Tools for TFS 11 Beta

Topics
Team Foundation Server,
Artifacts & Tools,
Visual Studio,
Microsoft,
Tools,
IDE,
.NET,
Agile,
Programming,
Source Control,
Companies

The Power Tools for Team Foundation Server have been updated for version 11 Beta. These tools provide essential functionality that isn’t included with the main TFS release including PowerShell support, Windows Shell Extensions, and the ability to modify process templates.

Hypersensitivity To Tool Use In The Agile Community

Topics
Artifacts & Tools,
Application Lifecycle Management,
Tools,
ALM,
Agile,
Enterprise Architecture

Steve Ropa challenges agilists on the use of tools in agile software development, and InfoQ seeks further opinions on "individuals and interactions over processes and tools".

Articles about Tools

How to Integrate Models And Code

Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Tools,
Languages,
Model Driven Development,
Modeling,
Programming,
Eclipse,
Agile

While creating models in a form or another is very common, their combination with the code has been challenging. As a result, models are usually thrown away once the implementation has progressed. The reason is partly in the modeling languages used and partly in the tools applied. The article describes proven practices for working with both models and code.

New Book: Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio

Topics
Team Foundation Server,
Visual Studio,
Microsoft,
.NET,
Tools,
IDE,
Agile,
Companies,
Visual Studio 2010,
Programming

“Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio – from Concept to Continuous Feedback” is a new book that provides a deep-dive into the Visual Studio-TFS features, that can help Agile teams manage their application lifecycle better. It is written by Sam Guckenheimer (Product Owner, Visual Studio Strategy at Microsoft) and Neno Loje (Independent ALM Consultant and TFS specialist).

Virtual Panel: Specification by Example, Executable Specifications, Scenarios and Feature Injection

Topics
Communication,
Distributed Teams,
Collaboration,
Unit Testing,
Software Testing,
Tools,
Teamwork,
Acceptance Testing,
TDD,
Testing,
Agile,
Specifications,
Community,
Process,
BDD,
ATDD

In the last couple of years terms like Specification by Example, Executable Specifications and Feature Injection have showed up quite frequently in the community, often in relation to Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) or tools like Cucumber or SpecFlow. InfoQ have talked to some of the leading experts in this domain about what these practices are and how they relate to BDD.

Presentations about Tools

Glu-ing The Last Mile

Topics
Puppet,
Strange Loop 2011,
Devops,
Continuous Deployment,
Tools,
IT Service Management,
Agile Techniques,
Strange Loop,
Operations,
Conferences,
Agile,
Cloud Computing,
Infrastructure

Ken Sipe introduces Glu, an open source deployment automation tool coming from LinkedIn, showing how to perform Glu configuration along with a demo of using it.

Testing, Testing, iOS

Topics
Automated testing,
Strange Loop 2011,
iOS,
Tools,
Automation,
Strange Loop,
Testing,
Mobile,
Conferences,
Operating Systems,
Agile

Heath Borders introduces several testing tools for iOS - OCUnit, Google Toolbox for Mac (GTM), GHUnit, UISpec, UIAutomation, OCMock – making some recommendations on which is better.

Interviews about Tools

Jeff Patton on the Product Owner’s World

Topics
Communication,
Customers & Requirements,
Artifacts & Tools,
Distributed Teams,
Product Owner,
Collaboration,
Delivering Value,
User Stories,
XP,
Project Management,
Scrum,
Tools,
Lean,
Teamwork,
Agile Techniques,
Pair Programming,
Agile Alliance,
Software Craftsmanship,
Agile,
Agile2011,
Agile Manifesto Anniversary,
Story Mapping

In this interview, Jeff Patton discusses the Product Owner role and points out that Agile has never been very focused on the customer. While Agile development excels at “delivery”, it struggles to support “discovery” (i.e. defining what the customer really needs). Also discussed are techniques such as Lean Startup and story maps and the importance of defining business value in an Agile context.

Whats Happening with the AAFTT and Entaggle

Topics
Agile Techniques,
Tools,
Agile Alliance,
Community,
Agile2011,
Agile

Elisabeth talks about the current state of functional testing tools and the work being done by the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools program and how it is influencing the direction of tools development in the testing space. She also describes the new community-based site for giving and getting professional recognition- Entaggle.

Books about Tools

Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks

Topics
Visual Studio Express,
Visual Studio Team System,
Artifacts & Tools,
Visual Studio,
.NET,
Tools,
IDE,
Microsoft,
Programming,
Agile,
Companies

Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks is a book explaining how to use VS.NET efficiently. Organized into short and easy-to-grasp sections, and containing tips and tricks on everything from editing and compiling to debugging and navigating within the VS.NET IDE, this book is a must-read for all .NET developers, regardless of expertise and whether they program in C#, VB.NET, or any other .NET language. This book covers the Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, and 2005 Beta 1 releases.