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Yes, I was an Agile Manifesto signatory!
09 July 09 11:24 AM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

Yes, I was a relatively early signatory to the Agile Manifesto . I "signed" in the 19 May to 20 June, 2003 , time period. I did my first test-driven development (TDD) using the SUnit testing framework in the Smalltalk programming language. I was immediately...

Filed under: [Software Architecture], [Agile Development], [WebDev], [SoftDev], [TDD]

[Tools] New Version of UMLet is out (UMLet 8)!
30 November 07 03:17 PM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

UMLet 8 is out! UMLet is a light-weight UML diagramming tool for those who need something for UML as sketch drawing. This is not a heavy duty code-generating MDA tool. UMLet is wonderful for sketching out your ideas without feeling so darned formal !...

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[TDD] TDD'ing Sudoku in Ruby
14 July 06 07:30 PM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

Ron Jeffries , of Extreme Programming fame, and some other folks on the Test Driven Development email list , have started several passes at creating a Sudoku solver by following the TDD approach. I really am enjoying following Ron's pursuit in his article...

Filed under: [Languages], [Agile Development], [TDD], [Ruby]

[Agile Development] Fit and Fitnesse
29 October 04 08:47 AM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

Tools such as NUnit provide frameworks that make writing and managing unit tests relatively convenient. Unit testing is primarily a developer-driven process that helps software engineers to constantly ensure the integrity of their work. The success of...

Filed under: [Agile Development], [Tools], [TDD]