10 Contracts for your next Agile Software Project | Agile Software Development

So this is the simulation that I use in my Agile Testing class, as well as in other contexts where I want to teach lessons about increasing Agility. The mechanics of the simulation itself are very general: the simulation models the organization of...

The first thing I need to say, right off the bat: Chinese users will not buy your software. Period. That does not mean that there is no money to be made, it simply means that they will not pay for your software license.

I've seen this granularity problem on every project, product or program I've worked on. Often in non-agile methods it comes it up in the form of traceability requirements on top of the actual requirements.

Adding a gem means you take over the liability towards the external code.

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Based on "To gem, or not to gem":

• Gem is really needed (prefer writing your own code for simple requir...

Sometimes you need to access a dev server running on localhost from another machine that is not part of the same network. Maybe you want to use your phone to test a web page, but are only in a guest WiFi. In the past, we often used [some port forw...

Choosing the right product to develop is crucial. Great execution is also very important. But if you develop a product that no-one wants or no-one is prepared to pay for, then you are going to fail, no matter how well you execute it. You can often...

While injecting the dependency appeared to make the classes more tightly coupled, it simply revealed the coupling that already existed. A was already tightly coupled to B and B to C. When we tried to inject the dependency, we made that coupling mo...

When projects run for many years, they require special regular maintenance to stay fresh. This kind of maintenance is usually not necessary for small or quick projects, but required to keep long-running projects from getting stale.

You should be ...

When you develop a gem and you have a Gemfile in your project directory, you might be surprised that your gem dependencies aren't already required in your specs. Here is some info that should help you out:

• Bundler actually doesn't automatical...