BestTechVideos: Category XP Videos

Koders Code Search with Microsoft Team System Web Access

drush — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:53:30 GMT

This screencast demonstrates how Koders Pro Edition code search can be integrated with Microsoft Team System Web Access federated search capability to add source code results to any search. The short screencast covers usage and configuration of the free add-on to Koders and TFS.

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How To Plan Projects With Distributed Teams

scoundrel — Fri, 04 May 2007 11:20:11 GMT

Google Tech Talks
April 3, 2007

Hubert Smits will give a hands-on overview of the activities that are involved in larger agile projects. Larger projects stretch out over more then a few months and have more then a single team involved. Things get more complex when the teams are not collocated. Hubert has based the talk on his paper "Multi Level Planning for Agile Projects" and presents a practical implementation of the planning levels. The experience he uses in the presentation is taken from his work as an agile coach for Rally Software Development, which brings him to projects with teams scattered across the globe: the US, Europe, Middle East and Far East.

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The Flow Of Change

scoundrel — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:23:07 GMT

Google Tech Talks
December 4, 2006

ABSTRACT

Branching and merging in the face of agile development, extreme programming, team collaboration, and parallel releases. Find out why branching and merging needn't be any more complicated than driving a car.

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Test Driven Development with Ruby: Part 2 - Exceptions

scoundrel — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:40:51 GMT

Previous screencast of this author was a simple introduction to TDD with Ruby. The intention was to demonstrate TDD and not much else. Having done that there are a number of other topics that need to be addressed including exceptions, database interaction and mocks.

In this screencast Kane Mar focused on TDD with exceptions and error handling.

Notice: Video links would let you to download torrent file for all four parts of this long video. If you want to dowload them by http, you could visit video details page and get all these files from there.

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Test Driven Development with Ruby: Part 1 - A Simple Example

scoundrel — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:28:53 GMT

Test Driven Development (TDD) is something that many people talk about but few actually do. A common misconception is that TDD is about writing acceptance tests before developing the code. It’s really more than automated acceptance tests … it’s about using unit tests to drive the development process.

This series of screencasts (3 in total) are intended to be a very simple demonstration of TDD. In order to achieve that author have left out a lot of complexity that you’d ordinarily encounter in software development. In particular the following items are noticeably absent from the screencast:

Practical value. The class that author build is intentionally very, very simple and as a result has little (if any) practical value.
Exceptions and exception handling. Author have not addressed exceptions as part of this series of screencasts. He intend to do some work with exceptions in my next screencasts.
Database connectivity and related issues. He haven’t used a database as part of my example, and so database interactions are totally absent.
Mocks, httpUnits or other more advanced testing frameworks. There is clearly fertile ground for further work!

But, anyways, this screencast would be great introduction for all developers who are interested in TDD.

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Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great!

scoundrel — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:19:21 GMT

Google Tech Talks
January 25, 2007

ABSTRACT

Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as "post-mortems") are only performed at the end of the project -- too late to help. In organizations where teams develop using iterative, incremental methods, Agile retrospectives at the end of each iteration or increment stimulate continuous improvement throughout the project. Exceptional software process and project improvement grows out of solid data and good planning.

Esther Derby and Diana Larsen, authors of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, will introduce you to a framework for effective retrospectives, provide tips and pointers for sustaining interest in retrospectives throughout the project, and suggest ways to maintain the relevance of improvement to the work of your team.

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Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development

scoundrel — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:51:59 GMT

Google TechTalks March 17, 2006 Dave Astels Dave Astels (co-author of "A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming" and author of Jolt Award winning "Test-driven Development: A Practical Guide") has over 2 decades of experience in the software field, most of that involved with object-oriented technologies and techniques. Dave has been studying, practicing, teaching, evangelising, and coaching XP and Agile Processes since 1998. Dave's experience ranges from embedded process control systems to consumer products (both consumer electronics and shrinkwrapped software) to energy trading systems. Dave is an independant software consultant specializing in the areas of agile process, programming practices, and object design/architecture. Dave is one of the thought leaders in the area of TDD, and now BDD. ABSTRACT Test Driven Development (TDD) has become quite well known. Many developers are getting benefit from the practice. But it is possible that we can get even more value. A new practice is getting attention these days: Behaviour Driven Development (BDD). BDD removes all vestiges of testing and instead focuses on specifying the behaviour desired in the system being built. This talk will be focus on Ruby and will introduce a new BDD framework: rSpec. The ideas, however, are language independent.

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Agile Testing

scoundrel — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:38:01 GMT

Google Tech Talks December 9, 2005 Elisabeth Hendrickson ABSTRACT As more teams are adopting Agile practices such as XP and Scrum, software testing teams are being asked to become "Agile" as well. But what does that mean? Is the Agile label yet another buzzword? Or could it be Agile practices are actually changing the way software is built? In this talk Elisabeth Hendrickson shares her perspective on how test teams can be more Agile based on her experiences working as a tester on Agile teams. Along the way, she'll provide an overview of how Agile practices differ from traditional practices and discuss what those differences mean for independent test teams.

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