Probably you already hear Agile process at least one time in your software development life. Yes, this word becomes very popular nowadays. Google ‘Agile’ return many search results, you can see many successful case studies of Agile also the failures too. Many blames to Agile such as ‘no documentation at all’, ’suitable for small projects [...]
Caching is quite important to boost the application performance. There are many cache libraries in Java world, both commercial and open source. You should choose the existing library instead creating your own library. I see some guys in my previous companies develop their own cache, and it is not good for their project. Instead of [...]
Continuous integration is one of good development practices that we apply in many projects before. We try to integrate the code of every body as soon as possible (usually developers check in whenever they finish their small tasks and within a day), make the automation test (unit test and integration test) and we have a [...]
We have been applying Scrum practices for months. At first, we only adopt some Scrum practices in our works but recently we apply Scrum process totally in our works. One of the most important practices impact to us much is stand-up meeting.
I am a supporter of XP process with unit test, TDD etc practices without pair programming. I learned the XP practices for several years ago, reading many articles with statistical data about the benefits of pair programming. I used to believe the pair programming is the good way to improve code quality, share knowledge and [...]
To inspire my two previous posts are ‘MVC pattern: Controller is too big’ and ‘Template projects in software development’., the current post is written base on my deeper thinking how to create the re-usable artifacts in a software company. More ideas are completed after my study on Software Product Line and Software Factories. I will [...]
Change means that people omit their habits (routine behaviors) and they set up a new habit. All know that it is not easy for anyone to change their habit, the reason comes from their mind and their capacity (‘does it need to change?’ or ‘can we change it successfully?’ etc). However, one all agree that [...]
Nowadays, there are many processes as RUP, Scrum, FDD, XP etc. Each process has its strong and weak points and it advices that users should custom some parts while using, the custom depends on the specific circumstance of project. In any software company, we have the software development process. They can build process by themselves [...]
