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.

Experts Debate SOA, RIA, Agile, Quality, Open Source, Work Cultures & IT Education…

Project managers & architects from Cognizant, Infosys, i-flex & Persistent talk about trends in software development. They discuss the changing nature of enterprise applications as well as the impact of RIA and SOA. They share their thoughts on Agile, project execution models, project irritants and also give their take on the quality of software education. Read the full discussion to gain meaningful insights into the Software Development scenario today.

XP and Agile techniques not only have an impact on the way you develop software but also on the way the software is tested. While there are some who are excited about XP notions of 100% Test automation, there are others who feel that such an approach does not work in the real world.

Jonathan Kohl talks at length about the good and bad of the XP and Agile notions of software testing. Jonathan is a well known writer on software testing issues and has worked extensively as a tester on conventional software projects as well as scrum and extreme programming (XP) teams. He also shares his views on Ruby and the Ruby based Watir testing tool.

Jonathan is a well known writer on software testing issues. He has worked extensively as a tester on conventional software projects as well as scrum and extreme programming (XP) teams. In this interview he shares his learning and experiences. He also talks at length about the good and bad of the new XP notions of testing, pair testing and the Ruby based Watir testing tool that he has contributed to.

Usually, software testing follows a traditional waterfall development process approach. But with SCRUM software testing can be more effective using an iterative lifecycle, feedback loops approach. Scrum is nothing but a process, which is based on iterative, incremental practices to manage software development.