Five quick points about unit tests that will reduce your defect rates.
Always stop to add that simple unit test. You will be amazed how often this discovers a bug or unexplored corner case.
Never develop from a main method, find a way to turn it into a test. Main driven development is horrible, they are not [...]
As you achieve more experience with the scrum process, you come to realise that there is very little if anything you can afford to leave out. If your conducting scrum and considering leaving out a practice, its worth considering what is to be gained and lost. So continuing with the scrum and agile theme this year I plan review some of the scrum practices highlighting the benefits and some of the errors that are made. The first of these focuses on the Sprint Review and within that in particular the Software Demo.
I went along to the London Scrum User Group Monday evening. We decided to put together 15 tips for scrum that every team should try. Its was an optimistically large number of tips given that the meeting is held in a pub. Even so, we did produce 6 very good tips. Read on to see what we came up with.
