http://ericlefevre.net/wordpress Java & Agile Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:38:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. There is no doubt that BDD helps write tests with a more functional focus. ... http://ericlefevre.net/wordpress/2008/06/28/behavior-driven-development-vs-test-driven-requirements/ 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. As it is, RichNesse comes with a number of buttons that helps with ... http://ericlefevre.net/wordpress/2008/06/27/richnesse-a-wysiwyg-editor-for-fitnesse/ 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 me? http://ericlefevre.net/wordpress/2008/06/26/citcon-melbourne-is-tomorrow/ Cobertura and Maven: There are TWO important things to do. Then, we'll see about integrating Cobertura and Hudson. First, set Cobertura as one of the reports in pom.xml: <reporting> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId> ... http://ericlefevre.net/wordpress/2008/06/21/cobertura-with-maven-and-hudson/ 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 you let yourself known before the end of June. Sun has ... http://ericlefevre.net/wordpress/2008/06/17/contribute-to-hudson/ 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 into it, and there is now no doubt that it is ... http://ericlefevre.net/wordpress/2008/06/09/scrum-and-xp-from-the-trenches/ 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 can you do if you want to help? visit the wiki page ... http://ericlefevre.net/wordpress/2008/06/07/about-the-french-translation-in-hudson/ 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. Let's assume here that all your stories are dimensioned using story points. I personally like using "story ... http://ericlefevre.net/wordpress/2008/06/05/what-size-for-the-features-in-an-iteration/ A journalist from Journal Du Net interviewed me a couple of weeks ago on the tools and (agile) practices we use at Valtech. All the ideas are there, but I wished the journalist had not literally transcribed my talk. You might also want to check out this version, automatically ... http://ericlefevre.net/wordpress/2008/06/04/interview-on-journal-du-net/ 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 on Hudson full-time. I'm jealous ;-) Congratulations, Kohsuke! You deserve it. http://ericlefevre.net/wordpress/2008/06/02/hudson-creator-now-dedicated-full-time/