Posts tagged Agile
Automated SOAP testing with maven and the SoapUI plugin
Currently there are few tools that can support testing SOAP interfaces. Both Jmeter and SoapUI are suited for testing soap interfaces. SoapUI is explicitly created for testing SOAP interfaces and Jmeter has a SOAP support since version 2.3.x. I have worked with both tools and I prefer SoapUI. It has an intuitive user interface and is flexible. (Please also have a look at the blog of Jeroen)
You can run SoapUI stand alone but I prefer to integrate these kinds of tools with an automated process. Below you will find instructions for running SoapUI as a part of a maven build. This makes it possible to run your automated SOAP tests in Maven with a build process like Hudson. Combined with automatic deployment it is possible to support an agile software development process that supports frequent delivery of versions and continuous testing.
Maven supports SoapUI with the Maven SoapUI plugin. (more…)
Agile software development, the principles. Principle 5: Build projects around motivated individuals.
Principle 5: Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
This is the fifth of 12 posts about the principles of agile software development. Purpose is to go back to the start of the agile manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html) and discuss the implementation of the 12 principles in real life software engineering. Goals of agility are to go deliver software of higher quality, faster, with a higher acceptance to end-users and able to follow the changing business requirements to strive for competitive advantage. The question is: is this going to work in practice or is this only based on a nice marketing and sales story.
Principle 5: Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done. Motivation is such an obvious item in agile development that this is often overseen. Motivation has to be both in the field of the expertise of the developer and the developer must be motivated in applying agile methods. (more…)
Agile software development, the principles. Principle 4: Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
This is the fourth of 12 posts about the principles of agile software development. Purpose is to go back to the start of the agile manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html) and discuss the implementation of the 12 principles in real life software engineering. Goals of agility are to go deliver software of higher quality, faster, with a higher acceptance to end-users and able to follow the changing business requirements to strive for competitive advantage.
The question is: is this going to work in practice or is this only based on a nice marketing and sales story.
Principle 4: Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
Strange, shouldn’t this be common practice? In my daily work I meet lots of developers that have never had any contact with business people. The only notice of the business they get is the constant feed of PowerPoint presentations. When they are lucky the presentations contain hard to understand schemas, “roadmaps” and high level (or extremely detailed) business requirements.
This 4th principle tries to overcome the communication and cultural differences between ICT and business. It recognizes that there More >
Agile software development, the principles. Principle 3: Deliver working software frequently
This is the third of 12 posts about the principles of agile software development. Purpose is to go back to the start of the agile manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html) and discuss the implementation of the 12 principles in real life software engineering. Goals of agility are to go deliver software of higher quality, faster, with a higher acceptance to end-users and able to follow the changing business requirements to strive for competitive advantage.
The question is: is this going to work in practice or is this only based on a nice marketing and sales story.
Principle 3: Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
Old school linear development methods rely upon the assumption that an extensive specifications and design phase upfront will resolve all uncertainties and specify of all possible functionality in depth. After the design phase the development team retreat to their software factory to deliver the desired software in one big bang (in many cases many months or even more than a year later).
The result of this linear approach is a system; of witch the customer thought More >
Agile software development, the principles. Principle 2: Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage.
This is the second of 12 posts about the principles of agile software development. Purpose is to go back to the start of the agile manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html) and discuss the implementation of the 12 principles in real life software engineering. Goals of agility are to go deliver software of higher quality, faster, with a higher acceptance to end-users and able to follow the changing business requirements to strive for competitive advantage.
The question is: is this going to work in practice or is this only based on a nice marketing and sales story.
Principle 2: Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.
This is one of the marketing / sales pitfalls of agile software development. What sales executive like to tell the customer is “Our agile process is designed in such a manner that we can incorporate changes during the whole development phase, even in the end”. This is nice customer expectation management (understatement). What the customer understands form this promise is that this project is able to incorporate all changes in requirements even up to a few More >
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