Archive For The “Agile” Category
There are a lot of reasons why you should love REST. It’s fast, simple, stateless, and easy to debug. This makes it absolutely fantastic to test against. REST APIs get you great end-to-end test coverage Line for line, an end-to-end system test covers a lot more code than a deep down class-level unit test. They [...]
Working in an agile team means delivering software early and often — several times a day even. The only way to achieve this without going crazy doing releases all the time is to eliminate all the manual steps in your release process, until you’re leave with a single mouse-click to get your code into to [...]
As you may know, I’ve recently started at a new position here in London. Last week I was pair programming all day, every day, with a couple of the other developers, learning the ins and outs of the system. It reminded me of an important tip for beginners: good pair programming requires both driver and [...]
Yesterday I attended BarCamp Agile Wellington, and although I had to leave early, I thought the event was a great success. In keeping with the theme of BarCamp I thought I’d share my notes from one of the sessions: an unmoderated group discussion on Agile advocacy in large organisations, and how to convince stakeholders to [...]
