Things are going to be interesting over the next couple of months. I guess that my new role is part of the architecture team. I’ve already had quite a rude awakening of how the industry has bastardized XP and Scrum (after somehow being sheltered by working in a great XP company, and then being onsite…
Month: April 2008
Extremely disappointed with Serena Dimensions
Before I joined my current job, they had just standardized on Serena Dimensions for the source control. In the past, I’ve used several different source control systems – CVS, Subversion, TFS, SourceSafe, etc. But I have never opened up a source control client and been utterly clueless as to how to get the files down….
Calculating differences using queries in DbFit
I’m doing a bunch of things over the next couple of weeks with FitNesse and DbFit, so I’ll be posting tips and tricks from the stuff I’m doing. Today I had to calculate that a specific amount was updated in the database. Since I’m writing characterization tests, I can’t just modify the database to make…
FitNesse DoFixtures and Gojko’s DbFit
Things have been kind of quiet on my front because of how crazy things have been at work. But in a good way. One of the things I’ve been doing is introducing FitNesse as an integral part of our strategy for capturing business rules and domain logic that isn’t really being captured anywhere. Currently I’m…
What is Agile?
Lately in the software industry, everywhere you turn you hear about "Agile". Its in the conferences, in the literature. You have Agile Modeling, Agile Software, Agile Requirements, Agile Architecture, and a whole host of acronyms that make your head spin. And then people start combining them (XP and CMMI! Scrum and XP! Scrum and CMMI!)….