We are now officially starting the Puget Sound chapter of the International Association of Software Architects. This chapter has been formed to provide a...
Hi All, The final release of NUnit 2.2 is available at http://nunit.sourceforge.net now and will be on our web site (http://www.nunit.org) in the next day or...
Hi All, The next Seattle XP Users Group meeting will be on Thursday, August 12 2004 at our usual location. ( Note that the name of the company has changed, but...
Hi All, I'm forwarding this note from Dorset House publishers. The book in question is by Jutta Eckstein, someone I know from various European conferences and...
The one I mentioned re Unit testing... Don't Let Yourself Get Unitized: http://www.theserverside.com/blogs/showblog.tss?id=Unitized And the one re Practices vs...
George A. Smith @ SNS
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Aug 13, 2004 1:21 pm
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Sorry I didn't make it to the meeting last night. If someone would be interested in posting some of the main points people seemed to agree on and disagree on,...
... I find that the article contains way to much hyperbole. "Wake up and smell what you're shovelling, Martin - unit tests are dead simple to write, only catch...
... Ah, thank you for bringing that to the surface. Even though the bozo-bit is still flipped for this guy, here we have a point worth giving some thought to. ...
I too also flipped the "bozo-bit" on the author of: "Don't Let Yourself Get Unitized" but, having "bumped" into the limits of JUnit, I was still interested in ...
George A. Smith @ SNS
zgas@...
Aug 14, 2004 4:06 pm
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On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:12:54AM -0700, George A. Smith @ SNS ... Another option might be put the new functionality into a layer that sits on top of JUnit....
In defense of the XP 'thought leaders', I think part of their emphasis on unit testing is to convince newbies who don't do it yet. Also at least two XP...
Hi, I wanted to make sure everyone knew about our next free seminar and our upcoming public course on design patterns. The free seminar, "Pattern Oriented...
I am a new member, not a spammer. My website is http://www.gerardvignes.com, for anyone who is interested. I became interested in XP because of my interest in...
The issue is really one of location of the work. XP focuses on programmer testing, rather than relying on a third party to test the software. In doing so, it...
I've been following XP for two to three years now and think I understand XP from a programmer point of view. In fact I worked on a project for two years that...
Steven Kaney
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Aug 25, 2004 6:36 pm
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... Hello Steven, The two most recent issues of Cutter IT Journal are on Agile Project Management. They contain some good ideas on the kinds of questions you...
... Can you speak more about what you mean by "phases" ? If you go through the release planning process of identifying stories, estimating the stories and ...
In 'classical' project management there are several steps or phases that the project must go through before it gets to the point that XP seems toaddress. The...
Is "Pragmatic" another software development evolution (like XP), or is it something else? I tried researching this with Google, but I couldn't get a clear ...
... http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ Pragmatic Programming as I understand it is the name that Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas use for the philosophy they...
I have been looking for XP Projects here in Seattle for the past few weeks, and I have only seen a few listed in the major job boards. Is XP more widely...
... You also might want to look at Scrum: - Agile Project Management with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber - http://www.controlchaos.com/ Scrum complements XP quite...
... Another area to look at is model based testing: http://www.geocities.com/model_based_testing/ Whereas xUnit testing is a white-box mechanism largely aimed...
I am a very strong believer in Unit Testing in the languages that I work with. The additional Testing methodology that I have been most impressed with is...
Ivey, Joel L.
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Aug 31, 2004 5:44 pm
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On 8/31/04 at 4:46 AM, the Clouds of Zero <thecloudsofzero@...> ... Folks, It might be nice to have a list of the XP projects in the area- it might help...
