Course Resources 810:188 Agile Software Development Fall Semester 2004

[ General | XP | Testing | Refactoring | Pair Programming | Project Planning | Agile Miscellany ]
[ Pragmatic Programming | Anecdotes | Software Miscellany ]

This page will host links to other resources, especially web sites, for our course. I'll add to it as we consider more topics. Feel free to send any links you recommend!

Agile Software Development

• Agile Alliance
• Agile Software Manifesto
• RoleModel Software, a company that does all-XP

Extreme Programming

• xprogramming.com
• the XP roadmap at the WikiWikiWeb

• XP and the Scientific Method
• "Extreme" Ain't the Problem -- with the name

Testing

• JUnit
• My local JUnit distribution

• the WikiWikiWeb catalog of testing frameworks
• the xprogramming.com catalog of testing frameworks

• The Test-First Stoplight

• Ten Reasons to Do Test-Driven Development
• A Dozen Ways to Get the Testing Bug in the New Year

• TestDriven.com
• On Testing Private Methods

Refactoring

• The Refactoring Home Page
• a good step-by-step example of refactoring
• refactoring thumbnails
• Joshua Kerievsky's Refactoring to Patterns book
• an article on upgrading legacy VB code to VB.net by refactoring

• I, Cringely,'s tounge-in-cheek article Refactoring Refactoring, with a healthy dose of skepticism about changing code only for the sake of changing code

Pair Programming

• pairprogramming.com

Project Planning

• Thrown Estimates

Agile Miscellany

• The Agile Hand-off of a Project
• Debugging is Weeding
• Game for Learning about Rapid Feedback
• JB Rainsberger's Agile Articles
• Misconceptions about XP

• The Crystal Family of Agile Methodologies

Pragmatic Programming

• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Source Code Control

Anecdotes

• So you'd like to... Work at Amazon
• Dilbert on XP
• Sabre, an Agile Success Story

Software Miscellany

• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
• The Prime Project Failure Factor
• Managing Software Engineers
• Advice for Software Development Managers