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Brian Marick on Test Maintenance
Brian Marick discusses the difficulties met trying to maintain tests that are vital to a project’s success, and how mocking frameworks can help, providing advice on writing unit and integration tests
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Tasktop Talks Mylyn, Code2Cloud
In this interview Mik Kersten and Neelan Choksi of Tasktop Technologies talk about the Mylyn task-oriented application lifecycle management framework and its role in creating Tasktop. They also discuss the role Tasktop plays in the new Clode2Cloud technology, which is a suite of turnkey cloud-based development, deployment and collaboration tools from SpringSource.
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Elisabeth Hendrickson on the State of Functional Testing Tools
In this interview Elisabeth Hendrickson talks about the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools (AA-FTT) group, a discussion group related to advances in functional testing tools for Agile projects. She says this Yahoo group focuses on automated functional testing as an integral and essential part of Agile development. She also discusses the maturity of the state of functional testing tools.
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ThoughtWorks Studios' Cyndi Mitchell Talks Adaptive ALM, Continuous Delivery
In this interview, Cyndi Mitchell talks about ThoughtWorks’ concept of “Continuous Delivery,” which focuses on the last mile of software delivery. Mitchell also discusses the “adaptive” in ThoughtWorks Studios’ Adaptive ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) strategy, in which Agile solutions must be adaptive to users’ needs. And Mitchell describes ThoughtWorks Studios tools: Mingle, Go and Twist.
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Kresten Krab Thorup, Robert Virding Discuss the Erlang VM
Kresten Krab Thorup and Robert Virding discuss the origins of Erlang, the state of the Erlang VM, integrating native code with Erlang etc. Also: the challenges of running Erjang/Erlang on the JVM.
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Kevin Rutherford on Refactoring Ruby And Code Smells
Kevin Rutherford talks about the challenges of refactoring Ruby code, and his open source tool 'reek' which automates the discovery of certain code smells in Ruby code.
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Martin Fowler and Paulo Caroli on Continuous Integration and Deployment
Martin Fowler and Paulo Caroli discuss testing, continuous integration and continuous deployment, as well as DSLs and REST.
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Joshua Kerievsky Calls for Developer Performance Metrics
In this interview, Joshua Kerievsky, founder of Industrial Logic, discusses the need for developer performance metrics to enable organizations to determine the capabilities of developers. He also discusses his project known as the Limited Red Society. The goal of the Limited Red Society is to help developers limit the amount of time their code is in the red.
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Joe Walker on Bespin
Joe Walker explains the browser-based source editor Bespin: the architecture and implementation, the collaboration features, new ideas for command lines, Canvas vs DOM, speed, extensibility, and much more.
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Dan North on Behavior Driven Development
Dan North discusses the roots of BDD and what it is today. Dan reviews the early history of BDD and then dives into the details of BDD; what it is, how it relates to teamwork, functional and non-functional requirements, and legacy code.
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Michael Feathers and Steve Freeman on Design
Michael Feathers interviews Steve Freeman in an informal setting about current design techniques and the evolution of the software development community. They focus on the role of design in the community, how it has evolved, and where they think it needs to go.
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Nathaniel Talbott on Experiment Driven Design
Nathaniel Talbott discusses the concept of Experiment Driven Design.
