Test is Dead !!!!

A refreshing way to present a very important point :  Test is Dead

Some moments from the video :

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Experiences with Binary and DNA abstractions

Since over a year now, I have been working on an Innovation product on SharePoint 2010 (read more…) and I would like to share some my experiences, architecting and developing it. Below I have tried to group my experiences into technical and non-technical headings and also shared some of the interesting resources that I went through.

• Business Context
• Understanding the business problem.  (Business Drives)
• Why SharePoint?
• Defining Common Goals.
• Understanding your Customer’s Customer.
• Architecture & Design
• SharePoint Artifacts  (SharePoint 2010 Architectures Overview)
• Storing data in Lists vs. SQL Tables (SharePoint Large List Performance: SPMetal vs. SPQuery)
• SharePoint Foundation vs. Standard vs. Enterprise specific Features
• Site Definitions/ Site Templates / Master Pages / Page Layouts …
• Adventures with Variations
• SharePoint 2010 Cache (read more…)
• Search
• Loose coupling  (Dependency Inversion Principle)
• Avoiding “Pattern Pathology”
• Performance
• Tips & Tricks while using Entity Framework (EF Deep Dive)
• Embracing JavaScript via jQuery (Douglas Crockford, John Resig, Paul Irish)
• Versioning and Upgrades
• Data Import
• Unit & Integration Tests (Unit Testing Best Practices, using MSDTC for Integration Tests)
• Team Lead
• Communication is the ‘key’
• Vertical vs. Horizontal slicing (Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams)
• It is hard to Unlearn
• Process
• Adopting Team Foundation Server
• Sprint Planning
• User Stories / Tasks / Bugs
• Daily Standups
• Daily Builds

In the next few posts I would try to expand some of these headings and talk about them in more details…

Excellent Whitepaper on : ‘Tools of Agility’

Recently I came across this brief but excellent whitepaper written by Kent Back on Tools of Agility.

I found these two diagrams from the whitepaper very interesting as they clearly explain,
- how the process flow differs in agile practise
- how the different tools are interwoven and support the agile practice


Waterfall



Agile



Tools to support Agility

Learning is Inevitable ! ! !