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Lean-Thinking provides a framework from which to improve virtually any organization's software development process. While not a panacea, Lean provides clarity on what to look at and how to solve the problems that are often beyond other methods. For software development organizations, Lean provides several principles that provide guidance to Agile methods, particiularly Scrum. Lean will assist those organizations which have either had problems adopting Agile methods or those who have been successful at the team level and are now attempting to scale it to the Enterprise. See Alan Shalloway's blog Is Scrum Failing Us? for some examples of the challenges Lean can give guidance to.This Free on-line training is true training, including lectures, readings, exercises and question & answer periods. The intent of this training is:
- Provide the equivalent of a one-day Lean Software Development Overview course
- Promote Lean Software Development to many in the industry
- To improve the ability of participants to explain to their associates why Lean Software Development is useful
- Provide insights on how to scale Agile/Scrum to the enterprise
Session 1: Introduction to Lean Software DevelopmentSession 2: Five Reasons for AgilitySession 3: Lean as a Guide for Agile MethodsSession 4: QA's role in Lean Agile Software DevelopmentSession 5: How Business Analysts can help their teamsSession 6: Lean Anti-Patterns
I've read recent reports of the Obama campaign receiving donations from dubious names and foreign locales and it got me wondering: How is this possible?
I run a small Internet business and when I process credit cards I'm required to make sure the name on the card exactly matches the name of the customer making the purchase. Also, the purchaser's address must match that of the cardholders. If these don't match, then the payment isn't approved. Period. So how is it possible that the Obama campaign could receive donations from fictional people and places? Well, I decided to do a little experiment. I went to the Obama campaign website and entered the following:
Name: John Galt
Address: 1957 Ayn Rand Lane
City: Galts Gulch
State: CO
Zip: 99999
Then I checked the box next to $15 and entered my actual credit card number and expiration date (it didn't ask for the 3-didgit code on the back of the card) and it took me to the next page and... "Your donation has been processed. Thank you for your generous gift."
This simply should not, and could not, happen in any business or any campaign that is honestly trying to vet it's donors. Also, I don't see how this could possibly happen without the collusion of the credit card companies. They simply wouldn't allow any business to process, potentially, hundreds of millions in credit card transactions where the name on the card doesn't match the purchasers name.
In short, with the system set up as it is by the Obama camp, an individual could donate unlimited amounts of money by simply making up fake names and addresses. And Obama is doing his best to facilitate this fraud. This is truly scandalous.
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"That night was another restless one. Actually, it was the worst one of my life to that point. I knew I had better get some rest if I was to have any hope of managing the day that was coming for me the following morning. What kind of day you ask? Let’s review. Tomorrow I would need to secretly explore the Blue Goose site gathering intelligence information, lead my brother and sister and four other children in play, and rescue my dog Snowball—a pretty tall order for a twelve year old; I think anyone would have to agree! In Stranded, the first book in the all new series The Dragon Ship Series, written by Shawn Sheldon, follow a boy and his brother and sister on their unusual Christmas vacation. Their backyard adventure leads to both frightening and exciting encounters with intelligent dragons, Bigfoot, and ‘pet’ robots. A mystery begins to unravel as they discover that the common link involves an amazing space ship, hazardous waste, and even their own family history. Will they be smart enough and brave enough to meet the challenges they discover?Congrats, Shawn! Bring your copy to the third floor, and he'll autograph it for you!
Brian: I ignore the ATs that aren't implemented yet so they don't show up as broken tests. (I mean ignore from a JUnit ignore point of view, not just ignoring by choosing not to look at their failures!) Once I start working on something, I unignore the tests.
The restriction on checking in code on broken tests goes for programmer tests, not customer tests. Customer tests go from ignored, to failing, to passing, and shouldn't ever regress.
Ryan: I'd add that with some testing frameworks (TestNG comes to mind) you can flag tests to ignore programatically (@Ignore if I remember correctly). These will not be run so they will not fail the build. You could have two suites of tests (all and all but ignored tests) for the frameworks that don't support this.
Brian: That idea is what I was talking about. In junit 3, you'd have to comment the test out or something, since it doesn't have a way to ignore tests. In Junit4, Nunit, Xunit.net, TestNg, you just mark the test as ignored.
In visual studio architect edition, team suite, or tester edition, you can use test lists to separate ignored ATs from those that should pass.
"No. And it's really annoying. I believe they have some js in the page that looks for IE 6 or 7 and Firefox browsers and anything else gets the standard view."
"yes and no. I am using Chrome, but the Ajax version doesn't work. I am using it anyway, because I have run into issues with the Ajax version in Firefox."
"Last time I looked there were some issues with it and both google and zimbra were looking into it."
"I have been using Chrome for a while, and it always uses the standard version no matter what version you pick. I'm guessing here, but suspect that Zimbra doesn't recognize the browser so it doesn't understand whether or not it has AJAX support, so it launches the safest (standard) version no matter what you choose.
Another thing to note here is that Zimbra Standard has some things that don't work properly (and there are AI's already in ACE about them). For one thing you can't download e-mail attachments (it produces an invalid URL in the download link). For another, if you create a public calendar entry (i.e. "Out of Office") via Chrome, nobody else can see it but you. There are probably other limitations, but those are the only ones I've seen so far. Other than that Chrome & Zimbra seem to work together okay - albeit limited by what the HTML version can do."
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You are a java programmer. Do you read from databases? Perhaps you write to files? If you aren't careful, you might be creating memory leaks and inadvertently leaving database connections open. Java is notorious for making simple things like file i/o complicated. Consider the try-catch block inside the finally block, which is necessary because the close() method throws an IOException; what is an application programmer supposed to do if the operating system won't allow him to close an open file? Witness the following code:
If an exception occurs while reading the file's contents on line 2, your program will skip over line 3 where the file is closed, as the exception interrupts normal execution flow and propagates up the stack, leaving the file ambiguously open. Fortunately, you can invoke this simple solution. Behold:1 myFile.open();
2 contents = myFile.readContents();
3 myFile.close();
When execution leaves the try block (line 3), code inside the finally block (line 5) is executed under any circumstance. Therefore, in the above solution, if an exception occurs while reading the file's contents on line 3, the file will still be closed on line 5 before the exception propagates up the stack.1 File file = new
File("/shared/home/richard.green/.bashrc");
2 BufferedReader reader = null;
try {
reader = new BufferedReader( new FileReader(file) );
String line = reader.readLine();
// Deal with line
}
catch (IOException e){
// Deal with exception ...
}
finally {
try {
reader.close();
} catch (IOException e) { /* ignored */ }
}
Frameworks like Commons IO from the Apache group ( http://commons/apache.org/io) take much of the pain out of dealing with Java I/O. Commons IO provides variety of utility classes which safely implement common I/O operations without dealing with the ugly Java Reader/Stream/Exception semantics.
Resource leaks due to exceptions are a problem in more-or-less every programming language. Each language has its own idioms for dealing with them. C++ coders wrap resources in their own classes and use the language's constructor-destructor semantics to allocate and de-allocate the resource. In Ruby, you use the IO::open method with a block; this automatically closes the resource when the block ends. Familiarize yourself with these idioms as part of learning a new language.
Selenium Grid transparently distribute [sic] your tests on multiple machines so that you can run your tests in parallel, cutting down the time required for running in-browser test suites. This will dramatically speeds up end-to-end web testing, giving you quick and accurate feedback you can rely on to improve your web application.We've been using Grid for one of our customers and within the next few weeks will be setting up a hub for use in other projects. See Cornel, Dave M. or me for more details.
