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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 |
| 1A |
Unit Testing Tool
Learn the basics of a unit testing tool, including how to write and organize tests, which assert methods may be called, exception
handling within tests, test naming conventions and ways to use the unit testing tool in an integrated development environment
(IDE).
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introduction
All technical participants will take part in this activity in pairs. |
30 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 |
| 2A |
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 |
demonstration
A thorough demonstration of TDD will be performed by the workshop coaches, with comments and... 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 |
| 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 |
| 5A |
Refactoring War
What's the fastest way to learn Martin Fowler's classic catalog of 74 foundational refactorings? It's called "Refactoring
War," an educational game we invented to help groups rapidly learn a large number of refactorings. The game is played in teams
and involves viewing refactoring cards, comparing the usefulness of the cards and deciding on which card is most useful. The
team with the most... Read more |
standard
A workshop coach will lead this activity. |
90 mins |
| 6D |
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 |
large
The large version of our Refactoring Challenge gives participants ample time to discover many of... Read more |
6 hours |
| 11B |
Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration is an XP practice in which developers continuously integrate their work using a shared repository.
This activity introduces the concepts and specific steps required to implement this practice, using version control tools.
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large
This flavor adds more time for our Continuous Integration challenge. |
20 mins |
| 13A |
Iteration
After a suitable project has been chosen, participants play XP's Planning Game to produce an
iteration plan. This involves formulating the team's velocity, identifying tasks to complete for
each story, estimating tasks, negotiating task scope, signing up for tasks and creating the iteration
poster. During the iteration, programmers, customers and coaches will all have a chance to work... Read more |
6-hour
This version, which is recommended for teams who have never completed a technical XP iteration,... Read more |
6 hours |
| 13A |
Iteration
After a suitable project has been chosen, participants play XP's Planning Game to produce an
iteration plan. This involves formulating the team's velocity, identifying tasks to complete for
each story, estimating tasks, negotiating task scope, signing up for tasks and creating the iteration
poster. During the iteration, programmers, customers and coaches will all have a chance to work... Read more |
6-hour
This version, which is recommended for teams who have never completed a technical XP iteration,... Read more |
6 hours |
| 14B |
XP War
XP War is a fast-paced educational game resembling the old card game War.
The game helps teams learn about: typical problems and solutions on XP projects,
the importance of those problems and solutions, and which problems and solutions are more important
than others. XP War is played with either all of the solution cards or problem cards from Industrial Logic's deck of
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table
Using physical decks of Industrial Logic's Extreme Programming Playing Cards, 4 groups sit around a ... Read more |
90 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 |
| 7B |
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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coding
In a fishbowl, the workshop coaches and participants will begin the implementation of the embryonic ... Read more |
45 mins |
| 34C |
Refactoring to Patterns
Patterns are undeniably useful design aids and a cornerstone of object-oriented programming. Yet with the emergence of agile
methodologies like Extreme Programming, our motivation for using patterns has changed. Today, we use patterns when they can
help us reduce or remove duplication, simplify the complex, or make our code better at communicating its intent. In other
words, we refactor to... Read more |
challenge
In this flavor, programmers have a chance to try their hand at refactoring programs to use patterns.... Read more |
3 hours |
| 16A |
Mock Objects
When writing test and production code, it's useful to know when to introduce Mock Objects. This activity will help you understand
what Mock Objects are, how they function at runtime, common implementation variations and usage patterns.
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simulation
The best way we know how to introduce people to Mock Objects is to have them experience a... Read more |
25 mins |
| 16C |
Mock Objects
When writing test and production code, it's useful to know when to introduce Mock Objects. This activity will help you understand
what Mock Objects are, how they function at runtime, common implementation variations and usage patterns.
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challenge
To fully understand mock objects, you need to get your hands dirty. In this challenge, you'll be... Read more |
90 mins |
| 17B |
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 |
demonstration
We'll demonstrate FIT (http://fit.c2.com), Ward Cunningham's excellent open-source testing tool... Read more |
20 mins |
| 17C |
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 |
challenge
Participants will be given the challenge of writing FIT tests for a sample program, using the... Read more |
75 mins |
| 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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