Bonnie John has teamed up with Len Bass to bring usability to the architecture design table as a “first-class citizen” on par with other quality attributes like performance, security, and modifiability; she presents their research, proposed solution, and empirical results supporting the efficacy of that solution. January 26, 2007 lecture …
Have you heard the story of the poor code monkey? The one who had to prove to his boss that his web app actually worked? Are you the poor code monkey? See how Selenium on Rails can make it easier to take the pain out of view testing by writing …
Being able to make plans with different horizons and level of detail is crucial to synchronizing the activities that’s part of putting together product releases. Be it marketing campaigns, training, or resource planning. This presentation discusses how organizations doing agile development can create plans that look at both the near …
Systems based on messaging are increasingly being recognized for better handling of unpredictable changes and for scaling further than traditional tightly-coupled applications. Apache ActiveMQ is an open source message broker that that support the Java Messages Service, provides client access from many different languages and offers many advanced features necessary …
Embedded domain specific languages (DSLs) has the advantage that many language features come for free from the host language in which it is embedded because it shares the same execution environment. But sometimes the DSL needs is to be executed in a different environment. In this talk we will show …
A funny video about the “before” and “after” project planning activity with planning poker.