Mansour Raad had a big problem. His start-up firm, DiscoverCast, was developing collision-detection software for the airline industry-mistakes in the code could cost lives. But money dried up after a ...

Simple Talk is Red Gate’s journal for SQL Server and .NET developers. (Red Gate make SQL Server and .NET tools, such as SQL Data Compare and various .NET profilers). So anyway, I just published a kind ...

My company is considering a transition to a Test-Driven Development system (N-Unit) for our programmers. We have a team of 10 guys of varying levels of experience. We are developing entirely in .NET ...

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As corporations struggle to complete application development projects on time, within budget and without lots of buggy code, they’re taking a closer look at new development methods, such as extreme ...

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Recognized as the inventor of XP (Extreme Programming) and a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, Kent Beck has been a prominent advocate of agile programming and its use of shorter release cycles in ...

Agile methods, and XP in particular, can be a tough sell, although they don't have to be. Agile disciplines such as XP champion a Whole Team approach in which line-of-business reps participate as team ...

Within the product development labs of an institution like Key Bank, much of the work is half-baked. And that’s the point. Banks and financial services companies like Key are deploying new products ...