Posts Tagged Software development

This is not a manifesto: Valuing Throughput over Utilisation

Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, Lean, Project Management, Software Development, Software Testing on February 11, 2012

In a previous article, This is not a manifesto, I expressed the values I hold as a software development team member. Today, I’m going to talk about the first of these values. Before I do, I’d like to say what I mean by “software development team”. I mean a cross-discipline team with the combined skills [...]

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Old Favourite – Developer Race-Tech: Continuous Testing

Posted by AntonyMarcano in BDD/ATDD, Old Favourites, Software Development on June 6, 2011

The original version of this article appeared on my old blog on 28th April 2010. This version has had some edits… Gearboxes in competitive motor racing are designed to shift as fast as possible. A competitive race-car has computer controlled, hydraulically activated gear shifts that change gears up or down faster than you can blink [...]

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You’re almost cuking it…

Posted by AntonyMarcano in Agile, BDD/ATDD, Business Analysis, Software Development, Software Testing on August 25, 2010

In “You’re Cuking it Wrong”, Jonas Nicklas, shows several examples of bad scenarios (or acceptance tests whichever term you prefer) and demonstrates better approaches. This is an excellent post on common mistakes made when writing example scenarios with Cucumber. I think, however, he could have gone further in one case. One of his examples of [...]

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Monsters, Names, Pot-Roast & The Waterfall Model

Posted by AntonyMarcano in Software Development on July 12, 2010

“Antony” (without the ‘H’) is the anglicised version of Antonius. In victorian times (there or thereabouts I’m guessing), among those wishing to appear oh so intelligent, gossip spread that the spelling of “Antony” was wrong… For, so they would say, it is born of the greek word “anthos” (meaning “flower”) – oh dear… so many [...]

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