Category Archives: process

Sadek is at QCon

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

My colleague Sadek Drobi is currently attending the QCon conference in London. Check out his blog, starting from March 14th.

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Maven Surefire 2.3 released with support for JUnit 4

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Surefire 2.3 for Maven has been released March 1st. No big announcements, just a post on the maven mailing list. Still, it is a big deal for me, as I can at last run my JUnit 4 tests with Maven.

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Gienah: inject Spring dependencies in your JUnit 4 tests

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I wanted a way of using my test with dependencies coming from my Spring definition.

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YAGNI — You’re Aren’t Gonna Need It

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

A couple of weeks ago, I started working on the objects that needed to be mapped onto the database. As I didn’t know what to do with each of them, I tried to keep things simple by mapping a foreign … Continue reading →

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CITCON Dallas/Fort Worth April 27-28

Posted on March 1, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Paul Julius and Jeffrey Fredricks have announced CITCON D/FW 2007. It is the third in a series where CITCON London 2006 was number 2. Considering how enjoyable CITCON London was, it is totally worth going to CITCON D/FW if you’re … Continue reading →

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p6spy, dbUnit and maven

Posted on February 23, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

p6spy is a JDBC proxy that will log the SQL statements passed to a database. It is a relatively old project (last release is from 2003 but I only heard about it today, as I was looking for a way … Continue reading →

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Test Driven Design and Data Access Layer

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I am currently writing the Data Access Layer of a Java project using Hibernate and I want to apply TDD on my work. The part that is concerned with the database is the mapping of objects on the database schema, … Continue reading →

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Configuring Cobertura in Maven 2

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

After many spurious error messages, I finally managed to make it work. Be warned that the information on the official Cobertura Maven plugin page, the informations are not exactly correct. Below, you’ll find in bold the fixes. The “Basic Cobertura … Continue reading →

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Successful internal OpenSpace meeting yesterday

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Yesterday, I hosted an OpenSpace conference in the Valtech office in Paris. The theme was ‘pet projects that we want to work on (though we already work fulltime)’. I was a bit apprehensive, as my previous experience had been in … Continue reading →

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Visit by Jean Tabaka

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

This week, Jean Tabaka from Rally Dev came to teach Scrum to my colleagues from Valtech. In the evening, she gave a talk on her book, Collaboration Explained. I have been very impressed by Jean’s easy-going personality. As most people … Continue reading →

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Estimate your ‘Agile’ worth

Posted on January 31, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

The nice guys at VersionOne have put together a simple / simplistic rating system for Agile organizations. Let’s be clear: this is not, and cannot be, an effective way of measuring your agility. There is no such thing as a … Continue reading →

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Serena — what the…?!

Posted on January 31, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Yesterday, we’ve had a presentation made by Serena (ex-Merant, ex-Intersolv), editor of such gems as Dimensions, PVCS and TeamTrack. I have not had much exposure to Serena’s tools, but I’ve worked for a company that used PVCS. It was incredible … Continue reading →

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The Art of the Possible? Yes, but only for yesterday’s tasks

Posted on January 31, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

It is often say of Scrum that it is the Art of the Possible. In fact, Ken Schwaber even calls it a fundamental principle of Scrum. Today, Ron Jeffries reminds us on the ScrumDevelopment mailing list that it is too … Continue reading →

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Use Multiple Sprint Backlogs

Posted on January 26, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

How many Sprint Backlogs do you have? We have one for the entire project, and I must admit that there is no good reason for that. As it appears, the general recommendation is to have one per team. Benefits: each … Continue reading →

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Make decisions at the last responsible moment

Posted on January 22, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

In Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers, Mary & Tom Poppendieck mention “Make decisions at the last responsible moment” as one of the 7 rules. I’m happy to report applying it in my current project. Two … Continue reading →

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