Dan Bunea

CHAPTER 4: Learning and adapting

Becoming Agile — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:28:15 GMT

4. Learning and Adapting Introduction Software development is a continuous learning activity between the customer who knows the business domain and the developers who know the software. Since the software product needs to combine the two areas of knowledge...(read more)

CHAPTER 3 (continued) : 3.4 Collaborating

Becoming Agile — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:51:47 GMT

3.4 Collaborating Introduction One of the values of the agile manifesto states: “Customer collaboration over following a contract” being completed then in the principles by: “ Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project...(read more)

CHAPTER 3: Communicating and Collaborating

Becoming Agile — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:06:21 GMT

3.1 Introduction Communication is considered to be the main factor in a project’s success or failure. Alistair Cockburn calls software development “a game of communication and invention”, in his book “Agile Software Development”, where a big part is dedicated...(read more)

CHAPTER 2: Agile methodologies

Becoming Agile — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:25:40 GMT

2.1 Introduction What is a methodology? A methodology for software is a set of related rules, principles and practices that, once put in practice, can help deliver valuable software, to the client on time, over and over again. Your methodology is everything...(read more)

CHAPTER 1: Problems and causes with the way we develop software

Becoming Agile — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:37:43 GMT

Troughout this chapter I will try to show briefly how the software industry went from one extreme to another, in the processes used to develop software. If at first chaos was the main problem, then the software industry went straight into the other extreme...(read more)

The agile mini book - a 6 week series

Becoming Agile — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:51:05 GMT

About 2 years, ago, I spoke with someone about writing an agile mini book. I wrote the book, but things changed, and it wasn't published. Now I decided, to publish it, chapter by chapter, week by week so for the next 6 weeks this is what can be expected...(read more)

Lucene indexes as agile databases

Becoming Agile — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:06:43 GMT

Download Source code Introduction In product development, as opposed to bespoke project development where each client gets its own software, you deliver the same software to each client. This has some advantages: single development stream, with multiple...(read more)

Testing drag'n'drop with WatiN

Becoming Agile — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:35:27 GMT

Many of the recent Web 2.0 applications require drag and drop functionality. Sometimes it is useful, sometimes it is just marketing, but if you have to do it and at the same time you want to write all your code test first (TDD), a new problem arises:...(read more)

Test First Web Applications: TDDing a Castle MonoRail application with C# and Selenium

Becoming Agile — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:36:42 GMT

Published on InfoQ.com Download Source code Introduction TDD samples are mostly based on very simple unit tests. But how could we do something like building a web application test first. What we need to do Let's say that we need to write test first...(read more)

Model View Presenter - is testing the presenter enough?

Becoming Agile — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:13:52 GMT

Source code: Download Lately, I have noticed that the Humble Dialog Box or Model View Presenter are gaining more and more acceptance among software developers, especially in agile communities, because of its benefits regarding the very good separation...(read more)

Ajax Scaffolding with Castle MonoRail and C#

Becoming Agile — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:21:36 GMT

Download Sources, and view demos Goal Let's say we need to write an application very fast, that can do the basic CRUD operations for a Product. Ruby on rails ( www.rubyonrails.org ) came up with the excellent idea of scaffolding, and the idea was...(read more)

Ajax Scaffolding generator with Monorail: a VS.NET 2005 addin

Becoming Agile — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:24:02 GMT

Download the VS 2005 addin In my previous article, I explained how by modifying Marc Andre Cournoyer's generator, we made it generate Ajax based, scaffolding code for Castle MonoRail. In the meantime, my colleague Gabi Munteanu, managed to put together...(read more)

To obtain good code, writing tests and code is faster then code alone

Becoming Agile — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:38:33 GMT

A few weeks ago on the TestDrivenDevelopment mailing list, Ron Jeffies, one of the XP gurus stated that "in order to obtain good code, writing tests and code is faster then just code". To find out if this is true or not let's make a small...(read more)

Agile adaptive planning and fast delivery sample

Becoming Agile — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:34:07 GMT

After seeing that there are very many people that find it hard to see how agile handles adaptive planning, letting the customer not know from the beginning what he wants, I wanted to develop a mini sample to show these concepts in practice. A small agile...(read more)

How TDD improves development speed and is very cost effective

Becoming Agile — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:31:25 GMT

When it comes to automated tests the first impression everyone (including myself) thinks that that would certainly increase the amount of time a certain feature is developed in. However as I started to practice TDD, Test First Programming, increasing...(read more)