Scrum Developers Resources & References

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Agile Architecture aka Emergent Architecture [TOP]

“You don’t need to start with the Login Page”

Coaching the Agile Architect

Evolutionary Architecture – Neal Ford (a series)

Hexagonal Architecture – more on the ideas of using adapters in front of outside code (GUI, 3rd party libraries etc)

How the Guardian successfully moved domain to www.theguardian.com

James Shore on Continuous Design [PDF warning!]

Pimp my Architecture – Dan North (Presentation)

Principles for the Agile Architect

Simplicity, The Way of the Unusual Architect – Dan North (Presentation)

The Role of the Agile Architect

When Feature Flags Go Wrong

Martin Fowler

Enterprise Architecture Patterns

Feature Toggles

Is Design Dead?

Sample Architecture

Software Design Guide

The Architecture of the Morrison’s OrderPad

TradableQualityHypothesis

Who Needs An Architect? [PDF warning!]

Agile Architecture aka Emergent Architecture Books

Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development - James O. Coplien, Gertrud Bjørnvig [AMAZON]

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Martin Fowler [AMAZON]

Behaviour Driven Development aka Acceptance Test Driven aka Specification By Example [TOP]

A case study for BDD in improving throughput and collaboration

Aslak’s view of BDD

Behaviour Driven Links Page

Canopy – F# frictional webapp testing – goal make UI testing simple

Cucumber anti-patterns (part one)

Cucumber anti-patterns (part two)

Rules vs Examples (BDDX London 2014)

Stories, Rules and Examples – BDDX 2014 London

Three top tips for using Given When Then.

Using Keywords to Support Behavior-Driven Development

Concepts

Acceptance Test Driven – Concepts and Demo (Video)

Acceptance Test Driven Development – Summary with Videos

Acceptance Test Driven Development from the Trenches

ATDD vs BDD vs Specification by Example (many flavours of the same thing)

BDD in a Nutshell

Demo of BDD Style Development – Corey Haines doing a Roman Numerals Kata

Getting Started with ATDD: Overcoming the Biggest Mistakes Right from the Start

Specification By Example Summary on Wikipedia

Tests Need to be Written so They Can Be Read by Normal People – Steve Freement (Video)

The world’s most misunderstood collaboration tool

Tools

An Introduction to BDD Test Automation with Serenity and Cucumber-JVM

BDDify

Concordion supports: Java, .NET and Python (and more)

Cucumber JVM

Fitnesse and Tutorials

FitNesse Tutorials Start

FitNesse.Tutorials.0.CSharp

FitNesse.Tutorials.0.Java

Getting Started with FitNesse – Reference card from DZone (reg required)

Gherkin Salad – another Cucumber like approach for Java

JNario

PHP BDD Framework

Robot Framework – Demo Application

RobotFramework

RobotFramework example with Selenium

RobotFramework has solid Java Integration

Serenity – using BDD for documentation

Spock

Spock Basics

Behaviour Driven Development aka Acceptance Test Driven aka Specification By Example Books

The Cucumber for Java Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers - Seb Rose, Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy [AMAZON]

BDD in Action: Behavior-driven development for the whole software lifecycle - John Ferguson Smart [AMAZON]

ATDD by Example: A Practical Guide to Acceptance Test-Driven Development - Markus Gärtner [AMAZON]

ATDD by Example: A Practical Guide to Acceptance Test-Driven Development - Markus Gärtner

Bugs [TOP]

0 Bugs Policy

Bug Prediction Tool from Google

Bug statistics are a waste of time

Bugs help destroy Companies (aka zero bugs is possible) -Elisabeth Hendrickson

Collaboration [TOP]

An alternative take on the ‘Driver’ and ‘Navigator’ roles in pair programming

Arlo Belshi – On Setting Up A Successful Pairing Environment

Code Reviews Bad – Pair Programming Good

Creating the Motivation to Pair Program

Cross Functional Pair Programming

Evaluating performances of pair designing in industry

Myths of Collective Code Ownership

Pair Programming Chapter from Shore and Warden’s book – Agile Development

Pair Programming Considered Extremely Beneficial

Pair Programming Costs and Benefits

Pair programming improves software quality in industrial companies

Pair Programming Lessons from Improv

PairHero – an Eclipse Pluigin that encourages Pairing

Pairing, A Personal Journey

Pairing, Competence, and Recognition

So what do the Driver and Navigator really do?

Two Years of Pair Programming

Undesirable pair programming behaviours

Collaboration Books

Pair Programming: A book on problem solving -

Continuous Delivery and Deployment [TOP]

Benefits of Continuous Testing

Continuous Delivery and the Perils of Feature Branching

Continuous Delivery Coding Patterns: Latent-to-Live Code & Forward Compatible Interim Versions

Continuous Delivery in a .NET World

Continuous Delivery: The Value Proposition – Jez Humble

Continuous Deployment at Instagram

Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications – Eric Ries

Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps by Eric Ries

How Netflix Deploys Code

What are the technical practices of a Lean Startup?

Example from Real World

Amazon deploys every 11.6 seconds

Etsy’s Story of Continuous Delivery and Deployment

Feature Flags at Flickr

Quantum of Deployment

Quora – deploys up to 50+ times a day

The Software Revolution Behind LinkedIn’s Gushing Profits

Wealthfront deploys up to 50 times a day

Continuous Delivery and Deployment Books

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation - Jez Humble, David Farley [AMAZON]

Continuous Integration and Setting Up Builds [TOP]

It’s Not CI, It’s Just CI Theatre

Keep your code spotless with Gradle

Key Principles for Reducing Continuous Integration Build Time

Why Distributed CI is the Logical Next Step

.NET

MSBuild and Hudson (3 part series) – Part 1

MSBuild and Hudson (3 part series) – Part 2

MSBuild and Hudson (3 part series) – Part 3

MSBuild and Jenkins – Part 1

MSBuild and Jenkins – Part 2

MSBuild Tutorial

Shorter MSBuild Tutorial

Database Change Tools [TOP]

Agile Database Tools and Scripts

CFengine – Open Source Configuration Management System

Database Change Management Best Practices

LiquidBase – Source Control and Refactoring for Databases

Perspectives in Building SOLID Databases

Design Patterns [TOP]

Design Patterns Books

Head First Design Patterns - Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra

Engineering Practices at Well Known Companies [TOP]

Continuous Integration at Google [PDF warning!]

EricGu – MS – getting to Zero bugs

Ford draws on Pivotal to reshape developer culture

Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—And It’s All in One Place

How does Etsy manage development and operations?

What kind of automated testing does Facebook do?

Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a Net

Zero Bugs at Microsoft

Inventory

It’s a matter of values

What Kind of Bug is This?

Approval Tests

Approval Tests with Llewellyn Falco

Using ApprovalTests in .Net 17 Wpf

Living Well with Legacy Code Books

The Mikado Method - Daniel Brolund, Ola Ellnestam [AMAZON]

Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael Feathers [AMAZON]

Mocks [TOP]

Argument about better use of Mocks

Mocks

Pictures showing the different types of Mocks we create

DotNet

Java

Comparison between Mockito and JMockit

JMockit

MockIto

What’s the best mock framework for Java?

Pairing [TOP]

Alternative take on the ‘Driver’ and ‘Navigator’ roles in pair programming

Undesirable pair programming behaviours – The Thrasher and The Divider

What it’s Like to Pair for a Year

Practice Tools [TOP]

Code Kata – One Developer’s Journey

Code Katas (practice problems)

Coding Dojos

Online Coding Dojo for the Team

Scrum By Example: The Team Learn How to Learn

TDD Pracitice Problems site

TDD Randori Session

TDD Randori Workshop

The Coding Dojo Handbook

Refactoring [TOP]

A Guide to Naming Variables

Embracing the Red Bar: Safely Refactoring Tests

I, J, and K Should Die

Refactoring To Patterns Catalog

The Core 6 Refactorings

Workflows of Refactoring

Refactoring Books

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts [AMAZON]

Refactoring to Patterns - Joshua Kerievsky [AMAZON]

Software Craftsmanship [TOP]

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

Software Craftsmanship Books

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests - Steve Freeman [AMAZON]

Source Control Branch Strategies and Their Side Effects [TOP]

Branch by Abstraction for dealing with the few complexities that crop up with working off of Trunk

Branching by an abstraction in the trunk instead of branching via Source Control

Feature Branching in Source Control and Merge Hell

Long Running Branches Considered Harmful

Scaling Trunk Based Development

Trunk Based Development a summary

Example from Real World

Google’s vs Facebook’s Trunk Based Development

Trunk Based Development for Microsoft Office

Specification by Example - Tools [TOP]

Agile Test Tools – Spreadsheet

Cucumber

FitNesse

SpecFlow

Static Analysis Tools [TOP]

.NET FxCop

C/C++

Codekvast – Finds truly dead code in Java and other JVM languages

Error Prone

Findbugs – Hueristic Analysis of Java

JsHint

JsLint

NDepend

PMD supports: Java, JavaScript, PLSQL, Apache Velocity, XML, XSL

Technical Debt [TOP]

Jon Kern (Agile Manifesto Signatory) – Got Technical Debt?

Scrum By Example: Stop Digging New Holes

Sonar – a tool for gaining a first order understanding of code quality vs mess

Technical Debt – A Summary – Martin Fowler

Technical Debt for Managers

Technical Debt Initiative

Technical Debt: Adding Math to the Metaphor

Technical Wealth with Declan Wheelan

The Agile Alliance Debt Analysis Model

The Human Cost of Tech Debt

Technical Debt Books

Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change - Chris Sterling [AMAZON]

Test Driven Development [TOP]

A Visual Approach to Test-Driven Agile

Destroy all Software

How TDD Can Work

James Shore Let’s Play TDD – 200 webcasts of doing TDD on a real application

Keith Braithwaite – Measuring the effects of TDD

Keith Braithwaite – TDD as if you meant it

Micheal Feathers “The Deep Synergy Between Testability and Good Design”

Styles of Naming tests

TDD vs BDD

Tell Don’t Ask

Test Driving Unity a 3D game development tool with too much cohesion

Test-Driven Development as Pragmatic Deliberate Practice

The payback of pairing with TDD

The ROI of Test-Driven Development

We’re in this for the Money

Tutorials

Esko Luontola – Tutorial Test Driven Tetris

Testing [TOP]

Agile Alliance Functional Test Tools

Agile Testing — The Agile Test Automation Pyramid

BugsZero @ Agile Open Northwest 2016

Buildbot and Intermittent Tests

Chaos Engineering Upgraded

Common Mistakes in Test Automation

Design for Testability

Exploratory Testing Using Personas

Functional Testing Tools List (Spreadsheet)

GUI Automation Patterns

How Agile Has Changed Test Management

How Netflix is Improving its fault tolerance

How we break things at Twitter: failure testing

It’s Ok to Have a Test Column on Your Board

Just Say No to More End-to-End Tests

Layers of Test Automation

Lisa Crispin’s summary of effective test automation [PDF warning!]

Managing Successful Test Automation

Page Object Pattern for Testing GUI applications (not just webapps)

Page Objects Refactored – SOLID steps to the Screenplay/Journey Pattern

Principles of Chaos Engineering

Robot Framework – The Unsung Hero Of Test Automation

Testing is a Team Problem

Using MindMaps to help testing process

White, a tool to automate the testing of Win32 apps

Testing Books

More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team - Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin [AMAZON]

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams - Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory [AMAZON]

Unit Testing [TOP]

Code from Practical Unit Testing with JUnit and Mockito

Database UnitTesting Framework for SQL Server

Improving On assertEquals with JUnit and Hamcrest

Infinitest

JUnit’s Built-in Hamcrest Core Matcher Support

Matchers

Practical Unit Testing

Real world mutation testing

Test Driven Databases

Unit Testing Books

Practical Unit Testing with JUnit and Mockito - Tomek Kaczanowski [AMAZON]

Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit - Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas [AMAZON]

Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit - Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas [AMAZON]

xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code - Gerard Meszaros [AMAZON]

The Art of Unit Testing: with Examples in .NET - Roy Osherove [AMAZON]

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