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  • Tips for Effective Software Reuse

    Vijay Narayananoffers 10 practival tips on succeeding with systematic reuse of software components, based on his experience with multiple projects. The collection of tips is not intended to be exhaustive but will help developers and team leaders to appreciate the variety of strategies that one has to undertake in order to succeed with systematic reuse.

    Vijay Narayanan
    on Jun 18, 2009

  • Pulling Power: A New Software Lifespan

    Elizabeth Keogh looks at how Kanban and Feature Injection can play into Behaviour Driven Development, to work together to help identify the most important software, reduce unnecessary artifacts at each stage of development, and produce the minimum necessary to achieve a vision.

    Liz Keogh
    on May 27, 2009

  • Metamodel Oriented Programming

    In this article, Jean-Jacques Dubray questions the belief that code and models are two separate worlds. He presents a unified view of Model Driven Engineering, Architecture and Programming models. In particular, he introduces a novel approach to specify execution element semantics in DSLs.

    Jean-Jacques Dubray
    on May 26, 2009

  • Where To Now with Build Automation?

    Most developers nowadays are familiar with the basic tenets of Continuous Integration, but arguably only a small proportion of these are fully benefiting from an optimized CI set up.This article, discusses taking Continuous Integration beyond merely being a glorified cron job and making it an effective, productivity-enhancing hub for development activity.

    John Smart
    on May 15, 2009

  • Using SketchFlow to Create Better Prototypes

    All good developers use some kind of prototyping as a communication channel to customers. Simon Guest of Microsoft introduces a new technology from Microsoft, SketchFlow, and shows how it could be useful to developers as well as the primary audience of designers. The discussion covers coverage (WPF and Silverlight), functionality, workflow, prototyping, and documentation.

    Simon Guest
    on Apr 29, 2009

  • Virtual Panel: Is the Backlog a Vital Artifact and Practice or Waste?

    Mary Poppendieck, Ron Jeffries, Jeff Patton, David West, Steve Freeman, and Jason Yip give us their take on backlogs and their importance to successful Agile teams.

    Amr Elssamadisy
    on Apr 20, 2009

  • Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2009

    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, Tutorials, Web as a Platform, Emerging languages in the enterprise, Real World SOA, Systems that never stop, Architectures in Financial Applications, Agile Organisational patterns, Historically bad ideas, Java.Next and many more!

    Ryan Slobojan
    on Apr 09, 2009

  • 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

  • What's New in Groovy 1.6

    Groovy project lead writes about Groovy 1.6 changes and improvements, including include performance enhancements, integration of JMX Builder, and OSGi readiness.

    Guillaume LaForge
    on Feb 27, 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
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