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Dependency Injection pattern in APIs
12 November 09 05:44 PM

My colleague and friend Chris Tavares, who is the Dev Lead on Enterprise Library and Unity, published an insightful article in MSDN magazine on the usage of DI in APIs, which I highly recommend. It is based on our recent experience of doing architectural Read More...

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Ethnographies to guide strategy
25 March 09 01:28 AM

Ethnographies are descriptions of people with their habits and points of difference (typically, in their natural settings). They explore the richness, depth, and complexity of some phenomena. These descriptions are based on extended observations, which Read More...

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Tests and Requirements, Requirements and Tests: A Möbius Strip
22 January 08 02:43 PM

Over a year ago, Robert Martin and I wrote a paper on exploring and disambiguating requirements with acceptance tests. In it we formulate the equivalence hypothesis - as formality increases, acceptance tests and requirements become indistinguishable. Read More...

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IEEE Software Special Issue on Test-Driven Development
02 July 07 09:34 PM

The special edition of the IEEE Software Magazine dedicated to Test-Driven Development is out. As TDD is becoming more popular across all sizes and kinds of software engineering projects, Ron Jeffries and I specifically looked for articles reporting on Read More...

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