I am currently looking for some good options to do this as well. As a result, I came across this question, and a few other potential candidate solutions. Admittedly, I haven’t tried any of them yet, so I can’t speak to their quality, but at least they are some other avenues potentially worthy of researching. … Read more
Actually, neither Agile nor Lean have a precise definition. Both cases are rather about a set of principles and practices – in the former case, basing on Agile Manifesto, whilst the latter is based on the Toyota Production System adapted to software/IT industry. I would say that both Lean and Agile are two flavours of … Read more
I’m not about to blindly follow anything. That’s the right attitude. I use TDD all the time, but I don’t adhere to it as strictly as some. The best argument (in my mind) in favor of TDD is that you get a set of tests you can run when you finally get to the refactoring … Read more
The best template I have found is: As a <user> I want to <do something> so that <I can accomplish goal>.
Use Source Control for EVERYTHING Develop specifications and get signoff before starting – there will be resistance, but explain it’s for their own good. Unit tests! It hurts because you just want to get it done, but this will save you in the long run. Use bug tracking – Bugzilla or FogBugz if you can … Read more
About your question about having only one interface implementation. When you use IoC, it is still useful to use an interface. It will be much easier to create real unit tests (that doesn’t depend on the interface implementation to be working correctly) using mocks for these interfaces. The core of using IoC is making code … Read more
It’s almost impossible without some understanding of the underlying code. If you understand the underlying code, then you can better sort the wheat from chaff of the zillion bits of information you are getting in your heap dumps. Also, you can’t know if something is a leak or not without know why the class is … Read more
How do you know your unpaired programmers are any more efficient ? I sometimes think the single/pair is comparable to the old fairytale of the rabbit and the tortoise. Pairing doesn’t drift off into days of counter-productive work. I have no idea of how often I’ve seen developers spending weeks working on stuff that later … Read more
Small Projects can have a habit of turning into big projects without you realizing, then you wish you’d started with TDD 🙂