EclipseCon 2006 - Long Talk
"Eclipse Applied: Delivery Customer Satisfaction "
Author/Speaker: John Cunningham & Brett Hackleman
Location: EclipseCon 2006 - Santa Clara, CA
For decades, reliable delivery of quality software that satisfies customers has been the exception rather than the rule. However, a minority element of the software development community has successfully found ways to execute time after time. The essence of their success is evolving in the area of agile software development methods, which are more about project discipline than development process. This talk explains how cross functional, high performance teams can leverage the power of the Eclipse tooling to reliably deliver quality software and create satisfied customers. Elevation of Test Driven Development to a first order requirements capture conversation engages customers and analysts in conversations that lead directly to executable use cases, which serve as automated acceptance tests. By nailing down these boundary conditions early in the development timeline, the engineers are free to aggressively explore potential solutions. With the addition of tools like the Framework for Integrated Tests (Fit) and Fitnesse, users and analysts apply tooling that enables them to continue defining additional edge tests for acceptance in an accessible manner. Eclipse provides support for this approach with seemless Junit integration, the FitRunner plugin, and the incremental Java development environment. Can we extend Eclipse to provide even more integral support for this development approach? What might that look like? All this activity results in teams delivering less code - which is a good thing. Less code means fewer opportunities for bugs, better performance, easier maintenance, cleaner designs, and less burning of the midnight oil."
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