See larger image Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change (Agile Software Development Series) (Hardcover) By (author) Chris Sterling List Price: $49.99 USD New From: $24.54 In Stock Used from: $19.61 In Stock I am quite happy about the book that took much of my time over the past couple years has finally come out. Thank [...]
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Automated Promotion through Server Environments
To get towards continuous deployment, or even continuous validated builds, a team must take care of their automated build, test, analyze, deploy scripts. I always recommend that you have 2 scripts: deploy rollback And that these scripts are used many times per iteration to reduce the risk of surprises when deploying to downstream server environments, [...]
Using Sonar Metrics to Assess Promotion of Builds to Downstream Environments
For those of you that don’t already know about Sonar you are missing an important tool in your quality assessment arsenal. Sonar is an open source tool that is a foundational platform to manage your software’s quality. The image below shows one of the main dashboard views that teams can use to get insights into [...]
SeaSPIN Lightning Talk from Last Night
Thanks to Jeremy Lightsmith, the lightning talk I did last night at SeaSPIN on Portfolio Management and Software Debt was caught on video. The talk went over 5 ills that you might see in software projects that can affect strategic planning and some ways that can help identify the ills more quickly for planning purposes. [...]
Extreme Feedback from My Tools – Part 1: Maven 2 Configuration
For many years now, it has been a goal of mine to get feedback as early as possible when developing software. Past blog entries here and here have discussed how we can approach increased feedback. A tweet from Jason Gorman mentioned his list of tools that provide continuous feedback on his code and design: “Emma, [...]
HOWTO: Maven + StoryTestIQ + Selenium RC
StoryTestIQ is an automated acceptance testing tool, which was originally a mashup of 2 existing open source projects, Selenium and FitNesse. StoryTestIQ is many times shortened to STIQ (pronounced “stick”) so it rolls off the tongue more easily. STIQ takes the idea of testing inside the browser a la Selenium and enables editing, tagging, and [...]
Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC) Coming Up
It has been a while since I have blogged. I apologize and have plenty of good excuses (if there are such things) about why (book, traveling, family time, etc…). I am now back and will be blogging on a more frequent basis in the next few months. My first blog entry back is about the [...]
