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Ruby Coverage Tool Making Rapid Progress
Earlier this week, Mauricio Fernandez released version 0.4 of Rcov, his tool for simple code coverage analysis in Ruby. Rcov is fast, feature-packed and progressing rapidly.
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Planning 101 for Agile Teams
Detractors have propagated the myth that "Agile teams don't plan", which couldn't be farther from the truth. Planning is essential to Agile, because of its empirical nature: plan, execute, inspect, adapt... plan again. Stacia Heimgartner outlines the five levels of planning required to set good expectations with all levels of the organization.
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Automating "All" Tests
Sure, test automation is a good thing. But we can't, and shouldn't, automate them all. Why then, ask people to "automate all tests"?
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Distributed Teams Can be Effective...Enough
Scrum, being an Agile approach to teamwork, emphasises team co-location. So why is Esther Derby, ScrumMaster, writing about distributed teams? They pose real communication challenges, but are a reality in many organisations adopting Agile, and Esther notes "you can't just hope that communication will work." In this article, she offers Five Tactics to Compensate for Distance on Distributed Teams.
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Detailed JavaOne Coverage Published
Every year, the most detailed coverage of what happened at JavaOne is usually published in really long and detailed day by day coverage articles published on TheServerSide.com. The last of their 4 days of coverage have just been posted.
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Agile DSM Workshop at XP2006
Steven Kelley and Alan Cameron Wills are holding a workshop at XP2006 in Oulu Finland on June 19th where participants will discuss how to add domain specific modeling to an agile software development project.
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Should Architects Code? Agile Ones Do!
One of the "religous" issues within the architecture community is whether or not architects should code, at least this is still being debated within the traditional community. For agilists, the answer is a resounding YES.
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Component based webapp framework Wicket 1.2 released
Component based webapp framework Wicket has released version 1.2 today, the third major release of the project. Major new features include Javascript-free Ajax support with even the ability to render multiple page components in one ajax call, component level authorization, Spring dependency injection integration, and more.
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New Rails Powered Sites Announced
A couple of shiny new Rails-powered websites were announced in the last couple of days. Invitika is described as SMS + mobile blogging + event planning + LBS + photos. Thebeststuffintheworld.com is a comprehensive database of, well, the best stuff in the world, just as implied by the name.
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Anderson's "Agile Management" Reviewed
Stick Minds has posted two reviews of David Anderson's "Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results", in which Anderson combines TOC and Agile approaches. The book targets senior IT executives, project managers, development managers, and team leads. Do manufacturing metrics really enhance Agile software development? Apparently the jury is out.
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Pitchfork: EJB 3 Interception & Injection to WebLogic using Spring
Spring 2.0 is now being used by BEA to provide EJB 3 dependency injection and interception, the result of Pitchfork, a new Spring add-on project by BEA and Interface21 that allows Spring to provide JSR 250 dependency injection and EJB style interception. WebLogic users can also use additional Spring features over the EJB spec, and Pitchfork may be used by other Java EE servers in the future.
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SOA "Soft Landing"
Is SOA a bubble? How will new emerging technologies fit in to the SOA picture? Are we due for an SOA bubble bursting, or a "soft landing" for SOA?
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Informatica Announces On-Demand Integration
Informatica, well-known for data integration products, has announced plans to support data integration across company boundaries.
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Fun: The Truth about Scrum Revealed
High Moon Studios, perhaps best known for their DarkWatch console game, uses the Scrum methodology to get things done. They've put out a passionate (if violent) 90-second video that tells the truth (and a little fiction) about working the Agile way.
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InfoQ Enterprise Software Development Community Unlaunched
Welcome to the "unlaunch" of InfoQ.com, a new community that aims to be your source for keeping up with change and innovation in the enterprise software development community, specifically serving the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities. Please read this news item to learn about the site, its goals, features, and why it matters.