OpenUP is a lean Unified Process that applies iterative and incremental approaches within a structured lifecycle. OpenUP embraces a pragmatic, agile philosophy that focuses on the collaborative nature of software development. It is a tools-agnostic, low-ceremony process that can be extended to address a broad variety of project types. Author: Per Kroll Published: IBM developerWorks, [...] ...
For any software developer who has spent days in "integration hell," cobbling together myriad software components, Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk illustrates how to transform integration from a necessary evil into an everyday part of the development process. The key, as the authors show, is to integrate regularly and often using continuous [...] ...
As more and more people move towards adoption of Agile practices, they are looking for guidance and advice on how to adopt Agile successfully. Unfortunately many of the questions they have such as: "Where do I start?", "What specific practices should I adopt?", "How can I adopt incrementally?" and "Where can I expect pitfalls?" are [...] ...
For many years now, developers have had the upper hand when it comes to Test-Driven Development. No matter the language, there was a handy toolset to use – NUnit, JUnit, ...
MockMe is a simple tool to test Java mobile application’s client code without waiting for the service layer to become available. In complex applications this means not having to wait ...
Selenium Grid allows you to run Selenium tests in parallel, cutting down the time required for running acceptance tests to a fraction of the total time it currently takes. Run ...
BeanCooker is a tool to automatically set mock values to all properties of any java bean. The simplest usage will put "fooBar" in Strings, 12345 in integers, 123.123 in floats ...
Unitils is an open source library aimed at making unit testing easy and maintainable. Unitils builds further on existing libraries like DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with JUnit and TestNG. ...
Unit testing can be difficult sometimes. In some cases, you need to refactor your code-under-test to make it more testable; in other cases, you need to apply some special techniques ...
R2build system is a tool/framework to establish your daily build (or nightly build, or build automation, or continuous integration system) in a very easy way. It includes, but is not ...
There is, of course, no shortage of management tools for Agile software development. But none of them seem to be targeted at developers, small teams, or first-level managers. They seem ...
Many people assume that agile methods mean an absence of design. Design still happens in agile projects, but it shifts from an up-front phase to a continual evolution. Design decisions ...
Not properly-speaking a unit-testing tool, this is an Eclipse plugin for Oracle Developers and Admins, loaded with features to ease database management.link ...
Agile methods are a set of development processes intended to create software in a lighter, faster, more people-centric way. You may have heard of Extreme Programming, Scrum, Dynamic Systems Development ...
It is clear that normal unit-tests represent individual cases only. A specification presents a complete description of a unit’s behavior. Unlike unit-test, sequence diagrams are perfectly readable but unlike sequence ...
SMock is a Mock Object implementation for Dolphin Smalltalk.link ...
Updated list of Agile and Lean software development events worldwide.link ...
There are two different kinds of automated tests recommended by the Agile disciplines. Unit tests, which are written by programmers, for programmers, in a programming language. And acceptance tests, which ...
A common objection to TDD is this: "We don’t have time to write so many tests. We don’t even have enough time to write features!" Here’s why people who say ...
I’ve been a big believer in unit testing for years now, but was never serious about test-driven development (TDD) until a few months ago. It sounded like an interesting idea, ...
CUTE (a Concolic Unit Testing Engine for C and Java) is a tool to systematically and automatically test sequential C programs (including pointers) and concurrent Java programs. CUTE combines concrete ...
In test-driven development, you first write an executable test of what your application code must do. Only then do you write the code itself and, with the test spurring you ...
Announcing Software Quality Engineering’s first conference for software professionals investigating or implementing agile development practices, processes, technologies, and leadership principles. Explore the latest trends in agile development approaches through keynotes, ...
JavaWorld published the article Test-Driven GUI Development with FEST, written by yours truly This article introduces FEST, demonstrates what separates it from other GUI testing frameworks and provides a hands-on ...
JSSpec is a Javascript BDD(Behavior Driven Development) framework supporting IE6/7, FF2, Safari3. It works similarly to RSpec(BDD framework for Ruby) but provides more useful failure message. For example, [url=http://jania.pe.kr/aw/moin.cgi/JSSpec?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=jsspec.png]it shows ...