InfoQ Homepage Articles
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Interview with Simon Baker, Author of No Bull
InfoQ has interviewed Simon Baker, cofounder of Energized Work and the 2009 recipient of the Agile Alliance Gordon Pask Award, author of the "No bull" publication on the past 12 years of Agile.
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Writing a Comprehensive Unit Test
A common theme amongst people professing “best practices” for unit tests is that you should only write a single assertion for each test. People who make these proclamations rarely show any unit test and those that do only show one. Yet this pattern may require a dozen other unit tests to ensure quality for even a trivial operation. This article uses examples to question that recommendation.
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Designing and Developing Cross-Cutting Features
Every developer has had to integrate with another system, API or component at one point or another. And, often, a business feature must span systems. If you’ve been on a project like this or have one in the pipeline then this article provides strategies to handle the change. Also, this article covers separating system boundaries and what that means for your technical design.
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Introduction to MongoDB for Java, PHP and Python Developers
The NoSQL movement is here to stay. The need for reliable storage that can be easily queried and easily scalable without the pain of SQL schema migration is real. Developers want more agile systems. This article uses MongoDB to introduce NoSQL concepts. This article covers the basics of MongoDB architecture, caveats and programming in MongoDB for Java, PHP, and Python developers.
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An Implementer’s View of Cloud Computing Readiness Assessments
Are Cloud Computing Readiness Assessments a red herring or a valuable tool to help management decide if the organization is ready to adopt?
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Distributed Version Control Systems in the Enterprise
Every major Open Source project worldwide has already embraced Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS), will enterprises be next?
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Swarming Across Distance
"Swarming" is a technique whereby many members of a team work together to deliver a User Story, taking advantage of the skills of many team members working together at the same time. It is recognised as a powerful approach to delivering high quality stories quickly. Johanna addresses how to achieve the same results when your team is geographically distributed?
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Dan Allen on Arquillian Testing Framework
Arquillian is an integration and functional testing platform that can be used for Java middleware testing. It helps bring the tests to the runtime environment, freeing developers from managing runtime from within the test. InfoQ caught up with Dan Allen to talk about the framework features and its future roadmap.
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How to Integrate Models And Code
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.
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Rob Eisenberg on Caliburn.Micro and MVVM
We spoke with Rob Eisenberg, creator of Caliburn and Caliburn Micro, about his experiences creating the popular framework and his thoughts on the MVVM in general.
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The Future of Authentication
In this IEEE roundtable discussion hosted by guest editors Richard Chow, Markus Jakobsson, and Jesus Molina, the panelists discuss current authentication approaches, how to authenticate users on mobile devices and the future direction of authentication.
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HTML5 offline web applications using ASP.NET MVC
One of the major constraints of web applications has always been connectivity, especially with mobile applications. In this article, Jef Claes shows you how to use HTML’s offline capabilities to ensure the application keeps working even when the network connection isn’t.