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Links: Being Successful with Agile and unit testing

It is always nice to hear when a fellow developer succeeds and what makes these posts even better is the fact that they also contain valuable tips as well. Lessons learned from an Agile project (David Tchepak): Dave^2 writes about an agile project he’s been part of for the last 18 months - and he has a lot to tell you about it. They’ve been doing XP and Scrum using 2 week iterations and as far as the post goes it was great. The post explains about several points that attributed to the project success...
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This Week In Test Webcast

If you’ve been reading my blog you may have noticed that I’m not above self advertisement and this post is no different. At Typemock we’ve started a series of webcasts called “ this week in test ”, as you might have guessed we post a new episode each week. This is the place where two guys talk about interesting topics from blogosphere some even related to unit testing (and testing in general), software development, Agile and everything else interesting (to us). The first three webcasts were feature...
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Book Review: IronPython in Action

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you might have noticed that I’m in the process of learning IronPython , Half way through my IronPython project I felt I was missing something, Although I have read Dive Into Python I had a feeling that I’m actually writing Python and that I need a more IronPython focused book that will teach me how to write dynamic code that uses .NET as well, luckily for me I stumbled upon IronPython in Action and found exactly what I was looking for. Writing a book that...
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TestDriven.NET 2.19 Released

There are some development tools that after a while I can’t understand how could I work without them. One of those tools that I’ve been using since I’ve staed software development in C#/VB is TestDriven.NET . For those of you that never heard of TestDriven it brings integration of several 3rd party tools to Visual Studio, And for me using NUnit without it is just not as agile as I need it to be. And the really great thing about TestDriven is that it is completely free for non-commercial use. Today...
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One of my posts was linked from Stackoverflow

As you might know I'm currently working at Typemock . Since I've started working there I have the feeling that software developers do not fully understand Test Driven Development and those who do have a hard time understanding why they should use mocking/faking framework. Beginner developers when deciding to learn how to use unit tests as part of their development have a hard time finding entry level tutorials that have a section about using mock objects and most tutorials that show how to...
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Agile Bibliography Wiki

IMistaken blog has a post about The Agile Bibliography Wiki - a great resource that anyone who uses Agile development methodologies should know. It has links to various studies and papers on all things Agile: How effective is TDD ? How to apply Agile in difficult situation (ex. GUI testing). Success stories of large companies using Agile methodologies. And much more. So if you're into Agile and want a better understanding the how and the why of it - this is a good place to start.
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