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Interview with Tim 14 Jan 2013 | 10:07 pm
Tim had a nice mini-interview with Michael Hall of UGTastic, who is also (as far as I'm concerned) the public face of the Software Craftsmen McHenry County in the far north suburbs of Chicago, Il. Th...
Continuous Improvement In A Flash 14 Jan 2013 | 01:47 am
Jeff and I have been busy working independently. I borrowed the "brand" but Continuous Improvement In A Flash is a whole different kind of work than Agile In A Flash. It is essentially a guide for sc...
Premature Passes: Why You Might Be Getting Green on Red 3 Jul 2012 | 11:22 pm
Red, green, refactor. The first step in the test-driven development (TDD) cycle is to ensure that your newly-written test fails before you try to write the code to make it pass. But why expend the eff...
Simplify Design With Zero, One, Many 26 Jun 2012 | 07:00 pm
Programmers have to consider cardinality in data. For instance, a simple mailing list program may need to deal with people having multiple addresses, or multiple people at the same address. Likewise, ...
The "Flash a Friend" Contest: A Covert Agile Give-Away! 5 Jun 2012 | 09:30 pm
If you're reading this blog, you're probably a believer that a good agile process can make a difference. And maybe you've recognized someone on your team, on another team, or even in a different compa...
Seven Steps to Great Unit Test Names 15 May 2012 | 10:45 pm
You can find many good blog posts on what to name your tests. We present instead an appropriate strategy for when and how to think about test naming. Don't sweat the initial name. A bit of thought ab...
Is Your Unit Test Isolated? 26 Apr 2012 | 01:53 am
(Kudos to the great software guru Jeff Foxworthy for the card phrasing.) An effective unit test should follow the FIRST prescriptions in order to verify a small piece of code logic (aka “unit”). But ...
Test Abstraction Smells 1 Dec 2011 | 08:17 am
In our article Test Abstraction: Eight Techniques to Improve Your Tests (published by PragPub), we whittled down a convoluted, messy test into a few concise and expressive test methods, using this set...
The 4 Ts of Engaging Management 23 Nov 2011 | 05:24 am
Teams self-organize and self-direct, so much of the Taylorist views of what a manager can do seem to not apply at all. What is the working arrangement between an agile team and their manager? Time (s...
Management Theater 13 Oct 2011 | 03:42 pm
Great managers can improve teams in meaningful ways: smoothing the workflow, selecting targets worth hitting, wisely managing budget and schedule, and working to align teams with organizational goals....
