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Me again… Well, I just wanted to speak about an issue for which I didn’t find any proper answer yet. The matter is gui testing. Currently, at work, we do proper unit test for “framework level code”. By “framework code”, I mean code being in some utilities or services projects which are put there to [...]

hi The last session I was in was about Pomodoro (NB : a free pdf about Pomodoro is available on this website – I didn’t read it yet though). Well, simply put, the idea is to use a timer and then work being focused until it rings. Then one should reconsider whether he’s still making [...]

The 2nd session I went to in the Agile Tour 2009 was about testing in an Agile process. This presentation was done by Frédéric Oehl, from Smartesting. The presentation mainly consisted of 2 parts : one about tests and agility, the others about Smartesting tool for… testing. Surprising isn’t Anyway, the first part provided good [...]

hi I went yesterday to the Agile Tour 2009 event in Strasbourg. Overall, I was fearing it to be a bit dull, the program looking not so attractive. Yet I found it quite interesting and worth the time spent. Maybe low expectations helped, I don’t know, still I’m happy of this outcome. Let’s dig through [...]

At work, we’re currently reviewing our Agile process. So I thought it was a nice occasion to read again Scrum and Xp from the trenches, esp. since we have a paper edition of it. Simply put, this book is why I started to be so much interested in Agile software development : the process it [...]

Last sunday, I’ve been discussing with a friend about planning. In his company, they’re doing it the “traditional” way, with a Gantt like approach. The example was of an excel sheet containing two tasks, coding and testing, one after the other. Quite to my disappointment, I was at pain to express clearly the advantages of [...]

Quite a good talk (Face & Slides) on InfoQ about the (in Scrum speak) Product Owner’s work on agile development. Watch it

Here is good article about Anti-Patterns concerning Continous Integration. While most of the metioned woes are quite obvious, it is a fine article explaining why it hurts so much to, for instance, check-in too infrequently.

I am a JIRA fan and i hate TRAC. Tracs interface seems to be utterly useless and it is not easy to customize it without spending a significant amount of time for that.JIRA is very different. Its interface is clean, flexible and you can easily create groups that have nothing more than a Type/Title/Text-Form to [...]