A bit sunburnt after day on boat in rockingham

listening to some podcasts from Stephen Fry and Ricky Gervais

Use cases are still going strong

Just read this article from Alistair Cockburn.  I appreciate his focus on requirements gathering.


Alistair.Cockburn.us | Why I still use use cases

Using RUP As A Scaling Framework For Scrum

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Mockito

No, it's not a new coffee blend.

Some Thoughtworks people gave a talk today about various Mock frameworks, this was after taking a look at our existing codebase - there is a lot of mocking going on (perhaps too much in some areas) and the mock framework of choice is Easymock.

Easymock would have to be (was?) the best framework, well that's until Mockito was introduced. To cut to the chase, it is much easier when it comes to dealing with expectations. Instead of the Easymock style of expect-run-verify, there is a mockito style of run-did stuff happen?

Take a read.

Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns

Looks like a good book for developers and analysts. I'll look at getting this for sure.

Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns: "I wrote a book with Jesper Kiehn and Christian Vibe Scheller on Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns. We believe the approach described in this book is is going to revolutionize the way the software business applications are developed. This book describes the REA (resources, events, agents) model, which specifies the fundamental laws of the business domain. Knowing these laws radically enhances the application designers’ potential to configure business solutions without omissions, and ensures consistency of software applications from the business perspective. This book shows how to apply REA in business software applications, and presents more than 20 structural and behavioral patterns that use the REA as a common backbone."