Development teams new to Scrum are introduced to a number of mandatory aspects that come with the framework. One of these is the Daily Scrum, or often referred to as the Daily Standup (meeting) or Standup in short. The purpose of this meeting is to synchronize the status of the development team and to do this in a short and focused manner. In this post I’d like to discuss an anti-pattern I see observing and being part of Daily Scrum meetings and how to overcome it.
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I’ve been coding in Ruby on Rails for the past couple of months. It was a fun and sometimes tough journey (and still is sometimes) learning a new language and platform. My main background is Java, but last year I was fed up with that. It was too hard to do simple stuff. I reckoned that there should be an easier way. Plus, learning a new language broadens your vision and it helped me to improve my programming skills. This blog post is the first of a series (probably, if there’s enough interest) towards implementing a Rails application. I’d like to give you a heads up of what I discovered head first.
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A short while back I started to work with Ruby on Rails. Incredible fun and inspiring. One of the (many) things I like is the distinction Rails creates of the different levels of test scopes. It has separate folders to store unit, functional, integration and performance tests.
Now in Java – and using the Maven default folder layout – you get one folder for storing your production code (src/main/java) and one for your test code (src/test/java). That got me to thinking to apply Rails’ way to structure your Java test suite. After a while it can be tricky to organize to test code, so I wanted to give it a shot with Java.
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