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ID
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Activity
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Flavor
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Duration
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| 8A |
Pair Draw: A Pairing Simulation
PairDraw is a simulation of pairing designed to help people understand what pair-work feels like and how it compares to solo
work. After accomplishing a task by themselves and in pairs, participants share their reactions, which may be both positive
and negative. The simulation provides a gentle introduction to pairing, which is practiced by people throughout the Project
Community.
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small
This flavor gives participants a good feel for what it's like to do pair-work. Following the... Read more |
30 mins |
| 9A |
Extreme Programming, A Simulation
Extreme Programming (XP) is an iterative, customer-focused, test-driven
process that's changing the way people and organizations develop
software. To understand how XP works, you must experience it. To make
it possible for technical and non-technical folks to rapidly experience
XP, Industrial Logic's founder, Joshua Kerievsky, created a
comprehensive simulation of XP. Since late 2000,... Read more |
5 hour
This is the complete version of the simulation, which provides the best introduction to XP.... Read more |
5 hours |
| 2B |
Test-Driven Development
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a practice for efficiently evolving useful code. While its name implies that it's mostly
about testing, test-driven development is primarily about design: it keeps programmers focused on exactly what they need to
build and helps them avoid over-engineering. Using this technique, programmers write a failing test, write code to pass the
test, refactor the code and... Read more |
interactive
Participants will get their hands dirty by using TDD to extend the demonstration code in our... Read more |
45 mins |
| 2C |
Test-Driven Development
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a practice for efficiently evolving useful code. While its name implies that it's mostly
about testing, test-driven development is primarily about design: it keeps programmers focused on exactly what they need to
build and helps them avoid over-engineering. Using this technique, programmers write a failing test, write code to pass the
test, refactor the code and... Read more |
challenge
In this challenge, participants will be given the task of writing a program to solve a specific... Read more |
90 mins |
| 10A |
Release Planning
There is an art to Release Planning in XP, and this activity is focused on teaching that art.
We supply over 25 story cards for a mock project, and the task is to play the Planning Game
to produce a Release Plan for the mock project. We can also cater to real projects, both in
the workshop and on-site.
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unabridged
Participants play the role of Customers or Programmers, who will negotiate scope, estimate cards... Read more |
1 hour |
| 4A |
Code Smells
Code smells identify common design problems in object-oriented code. This interactive lecture provides a good overview of
code smells defined by Martin Fowler & Kent Beck in their book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code." In addition,
you'll learn about some new smells that have been categorized by Joshua Kerievsky and his colleagues.
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introduction
A workshop coach will lead this technical lecture. |
45 mins |
| 6A |
The Refactoring Challenge
The best way to improve your refactoring skills is to practice cleaning up poorly designed code. And we've got just the thing:
code we custom-designed to reek of over 90% of the code smells identified in the refactoring literature. This poorly designed
code functions correctly, which you can verify by running a full suite of tests against it. Your challenge is to identify
the smells in this code,... Read more |
micro
The micro version of the Refactoring Challenge requires that participants obtain and study our... Read more |
30 mins |
| 7A |
Evolutionary Design
How does nature evolve organisms and what does that have to do with software
development? If you study nature's approach to engineering, you often find that
highly sophisticated organisms evolve from simple beginnings. For example,
during the earliest growth stages, internal organs are basic but functional and will
mature over time.
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challenge
After reviewing a description of a sophisticated software system, participants must decide what... Read more |
30 mins |
| 17A |
Storytest-Driven Development
Storytest-Driven Development involves determining if features of a system work according to a customer's expectations. There
are many ways to implement Storytest-Driven Development, including using XML, Excel or simple languages. A typical challenge
is to empower customers with tools that let them define Storytests (a.k.a. Acceptance Tests) without working with programmers.
Another challenge is ... Read more |
dialogue
The workshop coaches will lead a discussion about Storytest-Driven Development, sharing their... Read more |
1 hour |
| 30A |
Unit Testing Legacy Code
To refactor legacy code, you need good unit tests. To write good unit tests, you need to refactor your legacy code. How do
you get out of such a mess? First, you isolate what it is you would like to unit test and refactor. Next, you use whatever
language is simplest to produce coarse-grained tests for that area of code. Once you've written enough of the coarse-grained
tests, you'll be able to... Read more |
standard
We'll begin by telling some war stories of how we've unit tested legacy code (for example, C++ COM... Read more |
1 hour |
| 15A |
XP Adoption
The workshop coaches engage participants in a dialogue about adopting XP at their workplace.
Questions such as the following will be tackled:
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in-depth
An in-depth dialogue is held with the coach analyzing the current processes in place. |
2 hours |
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