Videos tagged with Artifacts & Tools

Summary This presentation explores the issue of context automation, the forces driving it (clouds, extensible browsers, internet identities) and then focuses on issues of identity and how identity services augment context and facilitate using features of the cloud and extensible browsers to provide a richer and more secure user experience. Bio Phil Windley is the Founder and CTO of Kynetx. He i...

Summary A two-part presentation with part one focusing on an overview of Mylyn's task management features including offline editing, background synchronizations and change notifications with demos of how these work for Bugzilla and JIRA. Part two is an overview of how Mylyn's frameworks can be extended when building IDE, desktop, and server-side applications. Bio Mik Kersten is the President an...

Summary This presentation has three interwoven parts: an exploration of lean development principles, "as-a-service" deployment models, and the ways in which Spring and SpringSource technologies support this style of development. Numerous demos illustrate the solutions to the issues raised in the discussion. Bio Adrian Colyer is the CTO for SpringSource. He provides direction and oversees develo...

Summary Software testing is a multidisciplinary enterprise. Its form and function is driven by the needs and perspectives of developers, testers, designers, managers, and other stakeholders. So how do you build a single tool that will satisfy them all? You don't; you build a toolchain. Gallio is an open, extensible and neutral test automation for .Net. It provides the foundation for a rich suit...

Summary Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith open with a definition of the Open Web, the tension arising from multiple Web technologies, the diversity and "polyphony" of Open Source, the future of Web development tools, and the debate associated with the possible evolution of Javascript. The potential impact of HTML 5 on tool and Web development in general is discussed. Bio Dion Almaer and Ben Galbrai...

Summary Ivar Jacobson, one of the founders of UML, RUP, use cases, introduces his vision for a next generation development methodology that is both agile yet large like UP, by having humans collaborate with 'Intelligent Agents'. Ivar also talks about his views on UML, MDA, AOP, and the future. Recorded at JAOO (jaoo.dk). Bio Dr. Ivar Jacobson, co-founder of Jaczone AB, continues to be one of th...

Summary InfoQ interviews Dave Astels and Steven Baker, two of the authors of the successful Rspec framework about enabling Behavior-Driven Development in Ruby, and the implications of moving from a test-centric point of view to one that is more specification-driven. Bio Dave Astels one of the founders of the RSpec project, co-author of "A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming" and au...

Summary The project code-named TESLA in Microsoft Research is being spearheaded by Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer. LINQ is the first technology aimed at democratizing the Internet coming from Microsoft. From Monoids to LINQ, Brian and Erik provide insight into the future of the .NET Framework languages at Microsoft and how they plan to change the Cloud as we know it today. Bio Dr. Brian Beckman ...

Summary The PM of the Eclipse Process Framework project explained at Agile2006 how IBM's Eclipse-based process tools allow teams to select the practices they want to create a customized methodology that works for them. With a wiki and hooks to insert custom in-house documentation and practices, it provides a framework to configure the approach you want, or to grow into the approach you need. Bi...

Summary The goal of VSTS is to provide a tool that is not prescriptive and highly customizable for managing the software development process. Kevin Jones provides a soup to nuts framework for utilizing VSTS to support a development team and build better applications. He covers project management, source code control, class designers and various designers available to software architects. Bio Ke...