Borland has announced Borland Silk 2009, a solution designed to support the testing needs of both Agile and traditional development teams. It claims to simplify testing activities, increasing the speed of test execution and integrating with a customer’s existing test tools and frameworks to provide a consolidated view of quality across the software delivery lifecycle.

Dr. Dobbs is carrying a Q&A with Dietmar Strasser, director of quality assurance at Borland. He talks of how Agile development meets software testing in the form of “Agile Testing”. He also shares his views on how Agile testing is different from conventional software testing.

In this article Prerana Patil gives us a rapid overview of the core ideas of Agile Software Development. The article talks of the features of agile, when to adopt it and when not to. It then goes on to describe the agile process and the steps involved in adopting agile in an organization. An easy to understand tutorial that focusses on the key ideas and points in agile adoption without getting into any of the fluff associated.

The session at the Java meet this month looks at one of the most common software development questions encountered in recent times – How to use Agile methodology and techniques on large enterprise application projects? Prerana Patil from Oracle Financial Services (formerly i-flex solutions limited) speaks about “Agile Development for Java Enterprise Applications.”

Paulo Caroli speaks about Continous Integration followed by a Question & Answer session on the topic as well as Agile Software Development. Session presented at the IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology 2007 held in Oct 2007 in Pune, India.

Traditionally, different modules are developed by different teams/developers and these are integrated
at late state of project. Continuous Integration takes a different approach. Continuous integration describes the software engineering practice of immediately committing every change, no matter how small, to a revision control system.

Titus Brown is a well known name in the Python community. Apart from his work in Python, he is also a speaker on Agile development. In a recent interview with PythonThreads.com, he shared his thoughts on agile and test driven development.