managing software debt
Engineering Blog: Push it!
At Yelp, we push new code live every day. Pushing daily allows us to quickly prototype new features and squash bugs in a proactive manner. Because we aim to deploy new code so often, we're always looking for ways to make the process efficient and painless.
Forrester on Managing Technical Debt « The Agile Executive
Forrester Research analysts Dave West and Tom Grant just published their report on Agile 2010 . Here is the section in their report on managing technical debt: Managing technical debt Dave: The Agile community has faced a lot of hard questions about how a methodology that breaks development into short iterations can maintain a long-term view on issues like maintainability. Does Agile unintentionally increase the risk of technical debt?
In this paper, we propose an agile approach, for the migration of legacy software which combines a user story-based iterative process with automated acceptance testing. The proposed approach, named Storytest-Driven Migration (STDM), requires that acceptance tests are written both on the legacy and target versions of a software system. Because of their relevance, the quality of automated acceptance tests is assured through software inspections. As a proof of concept, we conducted a first migration project of a web application towards both a web application framework and a mobile platform. <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
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Merciless Refactoring
Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly. This article is a quick overview of Continuous Integration summarizing the technique and its current usage. I vividly remember one of my first sightings of a large software project. I was taking a summer internship at a large English electronics company.
Continuous Integration
Refactoring to Patterns
Advance Praise “For refactoring to be valuable it must be going somewhere, not just an abstract intellectual exercise. Patterns document program structures with known good properties. Put the two together and you have Refactoring to Patterns .spock - Project Hosting on Google Code
Spock is a testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications. What makes it stand out from the crowd is its beautiful and highly expressive specification language. Thanks to its JUnit runner, Spock is compatible with most IDEs, build tools, and continuous integration servers. Spock is inspired from JUnit , RSpec , jMock , Mockito , Groovy , Scala , Vulcans , and other fascinating life forms. class HelloSpock extends spock . lang .
Continuous Integration with Hudson - the book
Jenkins: The Definitive Guide Continuous Integration, or CI, is a cornerstone of modern software development best practices. Jenkins, an Open Source Continuous Integration tool, is by far the most popular Continuous Integration tool on the market, and for good reason! It's intuitive user interface and powerful features make setting up a Continuous Integration service a real breeze.