Rivers
Institute
What's
New!- Four-part
screencast on TDD (test-driven development), $7.50 each or $25 for
all four. I cover advanced topics like slicing big tests and features
to improve feedback and designing incrementally.
- JUnit Max, accelerate
developer testing in Eclipse for Java with this continuous testing tool.
Regularly $100/year, now 50% until August 1, 2010.
- Just Ship, Baby, out of fear, I
sometimes replace big, scary goals with dogma.
- Learning From Lean,
both lean production and lean product development offer lessons for
software development.
- Two More Implementation Patterns, I always think of new things to add to a book after it comes out. This time I thought of them before the book came out.
- Implementation Patterns, a book that focuses on how to communicate effectively with code. Available in November. Here is a sample chapter.
- Appreciating Your Way to XP, applying Appreciative Inquiry to encourage change
- Slicing Functionality: Alternate Paths, with William Wake, Joseph Leddy, and Kent Beck
- Accountability in Software Development
- Executive summary of Extreme Programming
- Getting Started with XP: Toe Dipping, Racing Dives, and Cannonballs, Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres.
- Cutting with the Grain: The Rhythms of Design, with Joseph Leddy and William Wake. This paper came out of the first Programming Intensive Workshop.
- Untangling Spaghetti: Debugging Non-terminating Object Programs talks about what to do with complicated infinite loops.
- Where, Oh Where, To Test, choosing an effective level for tests requires paying attention to cost, reliability, and stability.
- Abstract vs.
Concrete Parameters:
Contradictory Patterns for Testable Designs, making code more testable requires resolving a tradeoff between flexibility and cost. - Refactoring by Example, a twist on refactoring that maintains concrete thinking longer.
- Programming in the Concrete, a trick for programming that gives you more information while you code.
Interviews
- Interview
with Kurt Christensen about Implementation Patterns.
- InfoQ
interview with Niclas Nilsson about Implementation Patterns.
- InfoWorld
interview, Paul Krill and I talk about agility, cowboy coding,
defects, and the role of technology in development (11/4/07).
- A Five
Questions interview with Michael Hunter
- Interview with Kurt Christensen of InfoQ
- Podcast Interview with Wolfgang Strigel of QA Labs
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- Who is Kent Beck?
- Blog
- Gallery: Extreme Programming in pictures