Sometime back now they added the support for TestListener which solves this issue.

Unitils – TestListerer API

I don’t work with conventional databases much now, but was intrigued to see this post explaining how to extend unitils and use TestListeners to test ldap.  Neat eh!

Extending Unitils to test LDap.

                          

Special Faults Investigation engineers

                          

The thing that interests me is peoples response to innovation.  It takes time for people to work out how to use new systems like this.  The more flexible it is the longer it takes people to blend a culture around it.  Wave does remind me somewhat of having my first phone that could send a text, and only having one other friend with a similar phone and the will to use it.  Lets hope google get the bugs and interface ironed out soon though as I think its going to be a fun way to colaborate.

                          

I used Spring STS for a few months before starting at Lab49, and found it to be a good distribution over the standard Eclipse build. It has lots of extra productivity features for Spring based development some of which are not available by downloading Spring plugins and adding them to a normal distribution.
The things I like best are:

• The edit, navigation and search systems now support the spring annotations. So now you can navigate and search for beans declared via annotations.
• Ability to include new XML domains in the spring configuration from a popup list.
• The enhanced XML editing support now has inline error checking.
• This XML editor also supports completion and checking of class and bean names.
• Roo shell looks interesting too.

Roo and Roo Shell
The Roo system looks great. Its a system to generate and support a JEE system. The roo shell can be used to configure JEE components. You can have a basic website up in seconds. Like Groovy and Grails you get spring standards built in, and your not dependent on the Roo system once your finished.

I am going to take a proper look at it at some point.

                          

Its a very useful group in which you can accelerate learning scrum techniques. The people who turn up are mainly scrum masters, but you get some developers, project owners and people who have not done scrum before.  There are quite a few who are hugely knowledgeable and have seen many different scrum projects for a variety of clients.  Food and drink is supplied by a sponsor.  The last event was sponsored by Rally Software and their representative took part in the event like any other attendee.  There was no Rally sales pitch, very low key!

The format for the evening goes like this.

1. An informal stand-up is initiated and people write questions on cards that they want help with or answers to.  The cards are stuck to a board.
2. Everyone is allocated two votes that they can spend on a topic that interests them.  You can vote for your own question.  Only one vote per question.
3. The top questions are chosen for debate.  Then people break into smaller groups to discuss the questions they are interested in.  The debates are friendly and focus on drawing out the issues from the questions and providing advice on how scrum and agile techniques can be applied.
4. The groups gather in the large forum again, and feedback to the whole what they have learnt.
5. Repeat at step 3 with new questions until either the questions run out, or the evening ends.

Over the course of the evening I joined two discussions.  The problems were genuine issues taken from peoples own projects.  One was an issue that boiled down to a product owner getting too involved, stepping into the scrum manager space and making architectural and development decisions.  The other was a project which was under a lot of pressure to respond to urgent issues mid iteration, that were not part of the original iteration planning.

So, genuine issues and good constructive debate ensued. If anyone is working in a scrum project and has some areas they want to improve come along.  If your sitting there in a perfect scrum project then you probably have much to offer.  I certainly found it useful.  See you at the next one.

                          

The spring integration project embodies principles found in the Spring Framework and Enterprise Integration Patterns (Hohpe and Woolf, 2003). The book and project are worth a look for anyone working in that space.

• Spring Integration Project
• Spring Integration in Action, Manning Early Access Program