Chris Sterling’s Blog

Earlier this year I did a presentation on Executable Specficiations for AgilePalooza conference. There is information about working with legacy code, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems, and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) using automated acceptance testing tools. Also, the presentation lists types of automated acceptance testing tools out there along with actual names of tools and what they are best used for on projects. Hope it is interesting to you.

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AgilePalooza is a one day Agile conference on Friday May 29th at the San Francisco State University downtown campus. There will be two tracks: Learning Agility and Advancing Agility.

“Learning Agility” will be presentation style whereas “Advancing Agility” will use the open space format.

Speakers include David Hussman (DevJam), Chris Sterling (SolutionsIQ), Luke Hohmann (Enthiosys), Lee Henson (VersionOne Services) with special guests Ainsley Nies (open space co-facilitator) and Ian Culling (VersionOne CTO). When not presenting for the “Learning Agility” track speakers will participate in the open space.

Space is limited and the cost is low so please register soon if you would like to attend. For more information or to register please visit www.AgilePalooza.com.

Where?

San Francisco State University Downtown Campus, 835 Market Street, San Francisco. (Powell street BART station in the Westfield Center) - Map/Directions

When?

9am-5pm (check-in and continental breakfast starts at 8am)

Cost?

$69

Register here: www.AgilePalooza.com

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I have uploaded the talk I did at SD West 2009 on Yahoo! Video and here it is:

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I’d like to invite you to join me at …

SD West 2009 Conference & Expo
March 9–13
Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA
http://www.SDExpo.com/

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be teaching the following session at SD West 2009:

“Managing Software Debt: Continuing to Deliver High Value as Systems Age” on Friday, March 13th from 3:30-5:00pm

SD West is where the software development community gathers to learn about the latest business-critical technologies, network with peers, connect with innovative vendors and get inspiration from industry visionaries. The comprehensive conference program covers today’s most important topics including cloud computing, concurrent programming, dynamic languages, agile processes, security, testing and much more.

Super early bird conference discounts of up to $400 expire Friday, January 16. As a speaker, I can also offer you an additional $100 off the VIP Pass. Simply register at http://www.SDExpo.com with the code 9ESPK to get your discount.

Check out all the excellent educational opportunities SD West 2009 has to offer at http://www.SDExpo.com.

I look forward to seeing you in Santa Clara!

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This is a bit off my usual topics on this blog but I am a heavy open source user and this article is something that I hope gets to more enterprise operations, managers and executives. I have been using and deploying production available applications using open source tools, libraries, and platforms for over 12 years now. Open source tools can do almost anything commercial products are able to do and have transformed the software industry in that time span. The list given in the article contains open source projects that I would recommend and have used in the past either directly or indirectly including *nix tools and libraries shown.

I would like to add to this listing with some of the tools I have come to use often:

• Maven 2.x+ (http://maven.apache.org/)
• JBoss (http://www.jboss.org/)
• Rio/Jini/Apache River (http://incubator.apache.org/river/RIVER/index.html)
• Apache Commons (http://commons.apache.org/)
• Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/)
• Apache Web Server (http://httpd.apache.org/)
• Bouncy Castle (http://www.bouncycastle.org/)
• Time and Money (http://timeandmoney.sourceforge.net/)
• Spring Framework (http://www.springframework.org/)
• Hadoop (http://hadoop.apache.org/)
• Ruby on Rails (http://www.rubyonrails.org/)

This is some of the open source that I have and still use on my projects. What are your favorites that were not on the list?

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