Exploring Extreme Programming
The Book of Card Games, Peter Arnold, Barnes and Noble, 1988. This compendium describes many (~150) card games, always explaining the rules and occasionally delving into strategy. There are a few solitaire games; the majority are for multiple players. There Continue reading Review – The Book of Card Games
JUnit is a tool for unit testing; Fit is a tool for system testing. Continue reading Tools – Especially JUnit and Fit
Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide, Dave Astels. Prentice Hall PTR, 2003. This book is a natural complement to Kent Beck’s Test-Driven Development: By Example. Where Kent’s is focused on the background and theory, Dave’s book focuses on tools, GUI testing, and Continue reading Review – Test-Driven Development (Astels)
The Consultant’s Calling: Bringing who you are to what you do, Geoffrey E. Bellman, Jossey-Bass, 1990. This is a laid-back book, about meaning, not a how-to on the mechanics of business. Bellman uses an approach that encourages consultants to understand Continue reading Review – The Consultant’s Calling
Paper Prototyping, by Carolyn Snyder. Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. The “Scandinavian design” tradition in human-computer interaction says that people should be involved in creating the systems they will have to use. Electronic tools for rapid screen design may provide a high-fidelity Continue reading Review – Paper Prototyping
Domain-Driven Design, by Eric Evans. Addison Wesley, 2004. Evans has developed a pattern language that focuses on how thinking about our domain needs to be of primary importance in developing software. This understanding should show up consistently in how customers Continue reading Review – Domain-Driven Design
“Amazing” is a maze generation program from the book BASIC Computer Games, by David Ahl. (The maze program was created by Jack Hauber). The code is used with permission of David Ahl, www.SwapMeetDave.com. Alan Hensel mentioned using this program as inspiration for Continue reading Refactoring Challenge – The Amazing Maze
OOPSLA ’03 Trip report. Continue reading OOPSLA ’03 Trip Report
Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions: A Catalogue of Modern Software Engineering Paradigms, Peter DeGrace and Leslie Hulet Stahl, Prentice-Hall, 1990. This book is a critique of the waterfall model, and a description of a number of alternative models. It has an Continue reading Review – Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions
Los programadores extremos escriben pruebas antes de escribir el código de producción correspondiente. En “La programación de Probar Primero”, se empieza con una pequeña prueba, luego se escribe únicamente el código necesario para pasarla, y se continúa con la siguiente prueba hasta que el código quede terminado. Continue reading El Semáforo de Probar Primero (The Test-First Stoplight, in Spanish)