Unit test enthusiasts, Painful critters, Retirement plans
"You’d think that life was good and code was well tested. You might think so — I know that I did — but reality shows a jarring disconnect between all of the enthusiasm for unit testing and the amount, and quality, of test code actually written. Why do I say this?" (simonpeter.org)
"Many developers seem to look upon software build tools with disdain. They see them as painful creatures put on the earth to gnaw at their patience. The developer just wants to get on with Real Work (coding), and not have to deal with such annoying details. This attitude arises for a few reasons" (Learn Your Build Tool. Well.)
Does the rise of "Agile religion" signal that the moment has arrived to retire the "Agile" label? (Debating Agility at ThoughtWorks)Jay Flowers follows up on his earlier article, A Tune-Up for TDD? in Refinements, Clarifications, and Simplifications of a Tune-Up.
"I have been working for some time on getting my organization to adopt TDD. I began with manipulation." (Tipping TDD, Jay Flowers)
"Current SOA processes and guidance generally encourage a phase-based approach to SOA implementation, fully understanding the problem and defining the solution before implementation begins. Digital Focus, an east-coast firm specializing in Agile software development and integration, is convinced that Agile development practices are equally suited to implementing SOA." (InfoQ Interview: Using Agile for SOA)
George Malamidis simplifies his mocking: "Up until recently (a few hours ago, that is…), I lived with the notion that Mock Objects are a necessary evil. You don’t exactly like them, but you can’t really do without them. They have obvious advantages, but something about them never felt quite right." (From Mocks to Expando)
Mockrunner 0.3.8 is out.
Dave walks through the installation of Continuous Integration with Hudson on Glassfish.
"The best way to use multiple versions of IE on one machine is via virtualization. Microsoft has recently made Virtual PC 2004 a free download; we’ve taken advantage of that by releasing a VPC virtual machine image containing a pre-activated Windows XP SP2, IE6 and the IE7 Readiness Toolkit to help facilitate your testing and development." (IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine, IEBlog)
IntelliJ IDEA announces that the Early Access Program for TeamCity 1.2 and Agra (1.5) is open.
