Has anyone worked at a large company, or on a very large project, that successfully used unit testing? Our current database has ~300 tables, with ~100 aggregate roots. Overall there are ~4000 columns, and we'll have ~2 Million lines of code when complete. I was wondering - do companies with databases of this size (or much larger) actu...
When a large system developed by Agile process requires a sudden large-scale change that affects most everything, what is the best way to go about it using Agile? Does the iterative part change at this point? For example, what if a decision is made to make a centralized system a distributed one? Or choose another large pervasive example...
I want to start Agile practices in a team. I'm assuming the information is available for free online about how to specifically carry it out. Online I can locate the manifesto, the alliances and corporations involved but where is the actual central guide or root instruction set about how to do it? (Maybe the practices themselves are mor...
I work on an agile project using Scrum. Sprints have come and gone and we have fulfilled milestones successfully. The system works well enough to meet the current customer requirements. However, we are left with a system in serious need of refactoring, as much of the development was performed with little eye on the future (instead the...
Given a short sprint, is it ever acceptable to forgo TDD to "get things done" within the sprint. For example a given piece of work might need say 1/3 of the sprint to design the object model around an existing implementation. Under this scenario you might well end up with implemented code, say half way through the sprint, without any te...
Right now, my project is slightly requirements starved; the project managers can't get good requirements as fast as we can build them, so we're being less efficient than we probably could be. How many developers per project manager makes for a good balance? ...
Just attended a presentation where a testing company stated that V-model testing can be used in an Agile development team developing with java and c#. I would prefer testdriven development and automation of acceptance testing before V-model testing. Not sure if V-model testing and Agile testing can be considered the same. Looking for y...
It seems that both these terms get thrown around a lot. Both, I think, describe the same idea. Which was established first? Also, it seems like some people describe it as a good thing to have a low x factor, while others describe it as a good thing to have a high x factor. Which is it? ...
My company uses Jira for storing requirements, which are written in the form of User Stories ("As a ... I want ... So that...") with details in the subtasks ("Given ... when ... then..."). I write requirements, usually an iteration ahead of the developers. I tend to draft my requirements in a word processor before putting them in Jira....
Looking for work at the moment, I'm seeing a lot of places asking for Agile experience, but until I get a job with a team that is using Agile, I suspect I'll never get the experience. Is it possible to adopt Agile methodologies with just one person? Sort of answering my own question, there's similar questions at :- http://stackoverfl...
My organisation has started a continuous integration project to automate the build of their large public-facing Web site. By "large", I mean 30+ REST services, content and integration for an external CMS, and several ASP.NET front-ends. The systems are written with a mix of Java and C# deployed to a mix of Linux and Windows Server boxes...
How do you charge your customer in a project using agile methodology? Per hour? Then a great deal of trust has to been established before the project. Per iteration? There's gonna be a lot of budget decisions, which can take time. Per project? How can you do that when you don't know the scope? The very essence of agile is to not wr...
Summary We are start up and we provide software development services. We develop windows, web, services and mobile applications. We were aware of agile and we are scrum certified developers . We do user story based estimation and task planning. No issues. Issue We are approached by many small customers. Customers says very high level...
I have been interested in agile methods of late and have found a lot of prescriptions and minute descriptions of a lot of practices. Still, I remember my best projects as run-to-completion spikes followed by some debugging and minimal testing before going live. I have been asking myself, did Flickr use agile methods? Does Facebook pract...
Hi, This is not really a technical programming question, but has more to do with best practices and programming / project management processes. Here's some background information: I'm a consultant with an agile (scrum) software development company that specializes in the Java, J2EE, Flex technology stack. Here it is generally perceiv...
I am looking for a Kanban solution that I can host on my own server. Windows or *nux, it doesn't matter. Just would like something that I could host on my server and get a nice user experience. I saw this question that has a lot of good resources, but only Digibord is down-loadable and web based. I haven't tried it out yet, but figur...
What is the preferred way to treat tiny interface tweaks such as "make the menu colour lighter when you hover over it" when using stories. My first though was to treat it as a bug; stick it on an index card and add it to the bugs file for scheduling into an up-coming iteration. I just wondered if anyone else had any alternatives that t...
I'm going to give a two hour workshop on a programming topic (NHibernate). It will be a small group, of around five people. The attendees will all have their own laptops. What would be the best way to structure the workshop so that the attendees get an insight into the topic and preferrably don't fall asleep? ...
I've worked on several projects lately that have promoted the idea of shared code ownership. At times, this seemed to speed up code-improvement and enhancement. Other times, it seemed to become a ground of ego-jousting with changes being made to support individuals coding styles, favored technologies, or simply a demonstration of power...
We have recently adopted the specification patterns for validating domain objects and now want to introduce unit testing of our domain objects to improve code quality. One problem I have found is how best to unit test the validate functionality shown in the example below. The specification hits the database so I want to be able to mock...