Author Archives: Eric Lefevre-Ardant

About Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Independent technical consultant.

Make clear to every team members that they are all in charge of all tasks

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Just from this morning, on the Lean Development mailing list. Mary Poppendieck: The problem with roles – ANY roles – is that they tend to become a laundry list of stuff a person is expected to do, instead of a … Continue reading →

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Planet Valtech France, a blog aggregator, is there

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I am proud to announce the availability of Planet Valtech, our syndication page for blogs written by my fellow consultants. This site aggregates mostly blogs from consultants at Valtech France. However, I have also added Dave Nicolette‘s (from Valtech US), … Continue reading →

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Oracle-BEA integration: not out of trouble yet

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I am looking the latest version of Weblogic as a replacement for our aging Weblogic 8.1.4 installation. I first downloaded Weblogic Server 10.3 Technology Preview, anticipating that we would take a while before actually deploying it, and that BEA who … Continue reading →

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Behavior-Driven Development vs. Test-Driven Requirements

Posted on June 28, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

These days, I have had the opportunity to think more about Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) with tools such as JBehave, RSpec, TestDox, and Test-Driven Requirements (TDR) with tools such as Fit, FitNesse, GreenPepper, Concordion. Here are my conclusions.

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RichNesse, a WYSIWYG editor for FitNesse

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

After a pointer by Jérôme Piétri, a colleague of mine at Valtech, I have had a look at RichNesse, a WYSIWYG interface for editing pages under Fitnesse. It is based on FCKEditor. All in all, I am impressed.

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CITCON Melbourne is tomorrow!

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

The Conference on Continuous Integration & Testing, Asia edition, is tomorrow! I wish I could be there, but the plane ticket is unhelpfully expensive :-( Well, I’ll have to make up by going to CITCON Amsterdam in October! Who’s joining … Continue reading →

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Cobertura with Maven and Hudson

Posted on June 21, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Cobertura and Maven: There are TWO important things to do. Then, we’ll see about integrating Cobertura and Hudson.

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Contribute to Hudson!

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Readers to this blog know that I take every opportunity to talk about Hudson, one of the very best Continuous Integration tools. Well, I have another very good reason: you can contribute to it and make money, at least if … Continue reading →

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Scrum and XP From the Trenches

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I have originally had a look at Scrum and XP From the Trenches around 2 years ago, I think. It seemed to be good, but too long, so I barely scrape the surface. Recently, I have had a longer look … Continue reading →

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About the French translation in Hudson

Posted on June 7, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

The French translation of Hudson is a contribution I have made to the project. The work is complete for the core part of Hudson, and I consider it stable, though many bits are not internationalized, hence appear in English. What … Continue reading →

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What size for the features in an iteration?

Posted on June 5, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I first wrote the title of this post in the form “how small should the stories be?”, leading to the apparently obvious answer: “as small as possible”. It is in fact slightly more complex.

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Interview on Journal du Net

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

A journalist from Journal Du Net interviewed me a couple of weeks ago on the tools and (agile) practices we use at Valtech.

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Hudson creator now dedicated full-time

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

That’s what you get when you spend several days polishing a post. Unlike what I suggested in my previous post from today, Sun does seem to take action regarding Hudson. Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Hudson creator, has just been promoted to working … Continue reading →

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CruiseControl is still the bigger player; Hudson is growing

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I thought it’d be interesting to look at some download statistics for Hudson and CruiseControl, probably the 2 OpenSource CI tools with the most mindshare currently. Want to know more about CruiseControl, Hudson, and other CI tools? Meet the creators, … Continue reading →

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Toyota Way, Lean Software Development… and Buddhism

Posted on May 25, 2008 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

In preparation to our holiday trip in Indonesia planned for August, I’ve taken to read stories and legends about Hinduism and Buddhism (though a Muslim country for 90% of the population, Indonesia is the host of Borobudur, the largest Buddhist … Continue reading →

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