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Book Review: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Ryan Cooper reviews the Clean Code by Robert Martin and concludes that this book belongs on the bookshelf of every developer who cares passionately about quality and craftsmanship. Ryan suggest that this book will be beneficial to new developers and seasoned developers alike.

Ryan Cooper
on Apr 08, 2009
Book Excerpt: Agile Testing

This book is for testers on an agile team, test and quality assurance managers transitioning to agile development, and agile teams learning how to approach testing. The book introduces agile testing, how it's different from testing on a traditional team, and what makes agile testers different. The book contains dozens of stories about the various testing-related issues faced and resolved.

Janet Gregory Lisa Crispin
on Mar 24, 2009
Successfully Adopting Pair Programming

Jay Fields takes a look at pair programming from an adoption perspective. This article is for you if you already know what pair programming is and guidance on how to get to the point of successfully practicing pair programming. Jay goes over everything from an optimal seating arrangement, to effective coaching techniques, to calling out common mistakes to avoid.

Jay Fields
on Mar 05, 2009
InfoQ Editors' Recommended Reading List

We recently had a conversation amongst the InfoQ editorial team about the books we would most recommend to InfoQ readers based on the books that we felt had most influenced us as programmers, architects and managers. Here is the resulting list of sixteen books that we eventually agreed on, plus a few other tips, with comments from the editors who originally suggested them.

Charles Humble
on Feb 17, 2009
Lean and Agile: Marriage Made in Heaven or Oxymoron?

Scrum and agile methods promote the establishment of a product backlog. Some leaders of the Lean community feel that the product backlog is "waste." This article argues that Lean advocates that see backlogs only as "an inventory" of things to be done are making the classic mistake of viewing software development as a production process. Backlogs are fundamental to Agility.

Dave West
on Feb 13, 2009
Case study: Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform Use at CAS Software AG

Eclipse RAP (Rich Ajax Platform) in the real world is covered in this case study which looks at how CAS Software AG used RAP on a recent new product offering. Eclipse Equinox is also used by CAS and covered in the case study.

Craig Wickesser
on Feb 01, 2009
SOA Contract Maturity Model

This article shows how recommended contract versioning design policies relate to a SOA Maturity Model. The goal is to provide a roadmap for achieving the full feature set of versioning and composability as part of SOA Governance.

Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi
on Jan 13, 2009
Making TDD Stick: Problems and Solutions for Adopters

Mark Levison observed that, after solid classroom training, teams in larger companies still struggle to adopt TDD. To better understand the problem he surveyed team members. In this article he shares the problems he uncovered and his own comprehensive strategy, designed to help anyone introducing TDD into an organization.

Mark Levison
on Jan 05, 2009
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2008

This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Interviews, RESTFul Web Integration in Practice, Solutions Track, Performance and Scalability, Being Agile, Ruby in the Enterprise, Cloud Computing, Functional/Concurrent Programming Applied, Effective design and Clean code, and many more!

Ryan Slobojan
on Dec 12, 2008
The Role of the Analyst in Agile Projects

Addressing another Agile Myth (we don't need no analysts!), Shane Hastie, Chief Knowledge Engineer at Software Education, outlines how the Business Analyst can help Agile teamwork - when properly aligned with the business, rather than the development team.

Shane Hastie
on Dec 05, 2008
A Case For Short Iterations

Dave Nicolette, Agile Coach with Valtech, addresses the question are short iterations better than long. Dave demonstrates that short iterations: allow for more rapid response to change, the opportunity to discover and fix problems more often. He also deals with the concerns that short iterations might lead to burnout and other issues.

Dave Nicolette
on Oct 31, 2008
Culture & Methods

"Who Do You Trust?" by Linda Rising

During Agile 2008, Dr. Linda Rising held a presentation centered on experiments conducted many years ago, presenting how deep, powerfully affecting, and difficult to avoid are human “prejudices” and “stereotypes”. This article is a summary of that presentation.

Tsutomu Yasui translated by Kazuteru Tajima
on Sep 23, 2008