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Jason Zander on Visual Studio's Past, Present, and Future

InfoQ recently had an exclusive interview with Microsoft's Jason Zander to discuss the latest release of Visual Studio and the state of the project as a whole. The wide ranging talk covered everything from C99/C+11 standards compliance plans, to cross-platform support and how Microsoft tries to balance the needs of corporate developers with those of smaller, independent users.

Jeff Martin
on Sep 19, 2012
Interview and Book Review : The Retrospective Handbook

Patrick Kua has recently published The Retrospective Handbook which provides practical advice on how to make retrospectives much more effective. In this book Patrick draws upon his 8 years of valuable experience with retrospectives in real agile teams.

Anand Vishwanath
on Sep 17, 2012
Interview and Book Review: How Google Tests Software

"How Google Tests Software" by James Whittaker, Jason Arbon and Jeff Carollo is a book that details exactly what is described on the cover. It is an informative and interesting look beneath the covers of how a large technical organization like Google deals with the complexity of software testing.

Craig Smith
on Sep 11, 2012
Death by Agile Fever

Agile Fever is a condition that robs otherwise rational people of their common sense in regard to adoption and application of Agile based processes for developing software. Because the consequences of Agile Fever can be very impacting in terms of cost, schedule, and productivity, all software professionals have an obligation to educate themselves in recognizing the symptoms of the dreaded malady.

Alex Bell
on Sep 07, 2012
Automated Error Reporting: The Gateway to Better Quality

Ignorance might be bliss, but it goes straight to the bottom line when it comes to software bugs. Those who can ferret out bugs and improve the quality of their software will be rewarded with greater customer trust, higher renewal rates, lower maintenance costs, and fewer opportunities for the competition. Laila Lotfi explains how automated error reporting aids in this endeavor.

Laila Lotfi
on Aug 28, 2012
The Contradictions of Technical Recruitment

Huw Lloyd identifies key interrelated contradictions of technical recruitment that implicate the desire for team cohesion, effectiveness and development. The normal methods of recruitment are questioned on the basis of numerous psychological insights, leading to compelling reasons to shift the focus towards greater interpersonal collaboration along with some pointers for how to achieve this.

Huw Lloyd
on Aug 27, 2012
Using Kanban to Turn Around Distressed Projects

This case study describes how Kanban and lean development techniques were used to rescue a distressed project that had violated its budget, schedule, and quality constraints. The article presents a detailed account of how the techniques were introduced mid-project to establish control over a chaotic project environment, and is supported with several charts that show the team’s progress.

Steve Andrews
on Aug 22, 2012
Continuous Mobile Application Testing

Given the onslaught of mobile devices and apps into the SDLC, fingers and eyeballs seem to be the only way apps can be tested right now. But manual testing drastically slows down the development process, leaves a huge margin for error, and ultimately lowers the team’s ability to release quality software in a short amount of time. Dan Bartow of SOASTA hopes to offer something better.

Dan Bartow
on Aug 21, 2012
STEP – A Map for an Agile Journey

Are you finding joy in work and delighting your customers? STEP is simple map for an Agile-inspired journey of continuous improvement. Start by Stopping to visualize your work-flow. Transform your way of work, limiting the amount of work-in-process. Then Expand your improvements, inspire more people to develop the habit of team learning. Finally, keep walking, keep Perfecting your way of work.

Horia Slușanschi
on Aug 14, 2012
Plastic SCM – DVCS at Enterprise Level

Building on his earlier article, “Distributed Version Control Systems in the Enterprise”, Pablo Santos discusses his company’s product: PlasticSCM. While other DVCS systems were designed for the needs of the Linux open source community, PlasticSCM addresses the problems facing enterprise software developers, especially those using .NET.

Pablo Santos
on Aug 13, 2012
Wireframes: A Great Way to Start Development Projects

In this article, Andreas Wulf introduces wireframing as a simple and effective way to kickstart your development projects. Wireframes allow you to present your ideas in a tangible form so that can be shared and debated (without writing any code). By leaving out graphic design details, wireframes are not only quick and easy to create and change, they help us stay focused on the “big picture”.

Andreas Wulf
on Aug 07, 2012
Is the Enterprise Ready for DevOps?

As the DevOps movement gains popularity enterprises have started to adopt its concepts and tools to manage large infrastructures and complex delivery processes. InfoQ asked some experienced DevOps adopters about the organizational and technical obstacles still ahead for the movement to step into the enterprise world.

Manuel Pais
on Aug 01, 2012

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