The term “technical debt” was first introduced by Ward Cunningham as a metaphor. It was in the early 90s, when the rift between developers and business people was growing wide. The business people would urge developers do release untested, ugly code. The developers tried to explain why this was a bad mistake. (Not like today,
My two-step forward, one-step back dance with Trello began way before I boarded the kanban train. In the beginning we used it as our main tool for planning, documenting and controlling development. The team was willing to try it, after using a whiteboard and (not-so) sticky notes with the planned-doing-done trio, which we copied to
This is the presentation I gave today at the “QA and Development in Agile” conference (It’s a bit more detailed than what the people in the room saw). This wasn’t a technical presentation, just an overview to the newly initiated to unit testing – third of the room wrote unit tests, the rest didn’t. And
Apparently, I’ve become addicted to my task list. My latest “things that work” to juggle tasks works great. Except when it doesn’t. When’s that? Weekends. I took precautions to have the ability to write down tasks when I’m away from my computer. But, I still manage to think about things to do when I’m not
If you’re like most people you’re under-resourced. You have many more tasks than you can handle. Your team is fully booked. And the work keeps pouring in. They ask: “What should we do first?” What should we work on first to go into the product? Bugs coming in from support calls? Maybe this cool new
The answer is yes. Microsoft is killing off Silverlight. Don’t underestimate the truth said in the PDC keynote: Microsoft is going the HTML5 way. But this is not a review of the he said/she said MS is playing for the last week. It’s about the risks associated with selecting a technology, or making an architecture
Last week, I gave a presentation at the Israeli SharePoint user group on unit testing SharePoint applications. Slides below. Me closer (lurking in the shadows). As an objective observer, I compared the two and only alternatives for Isolation frameworks for SharePoint: Typemock Isolator and Microsoft Moles. And here’s my objective decision: Isolator wins by a
I read this post and really sympathized. I see that a lot of these in software – there’s a new flavor of the month every, well month. And we forget how we got to this point. And then we throw away the baby with the bathwater. And then we do it again. Another thing we
As part of my design for testability talk, I talked about how tools and languages impact testability. Then I came about Brett Schuchert’s post about TDD and if it’s language neutral. The post concentrates on how different TDD looks like in different languages. Moreover, how it is interpreted, based on the language of choice. And
InfoQ has a treasure trove of good advice. Go read it.