Month: March 2009

  • Software Craftsmanship…

    Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship I think this is long in the making and something that’s sorely needed in the industry. Too many people are getting away with too much these days. People call themselves “senior developers” but don’t have a clue when it comes to writing well understood and valuable code. Too many people entering…

  • Testing…

    Found an interesting article on generating test data entitled Testometer – Triangle Test. Here’s a blurb from the site to entice you to go there, give it a whirl, it’s quite good, I managed to score a 7 out of 10: “This is probably one of the most common question in software testing interview. This…

  • An (agile) environment…

    Scrum often talks about “ideal development environments” (Mike Cohn has a nice blog post on this entitled The Ideal Agile Workspace, well worth the read) and this often excludes anything related to engineering (hardware, software etc.), for the obvious reason that Scrum does not profess to offer guidance on engineering practices (but clearly states they…