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(Image Source: Wikipedia / Creative Commons / Author: VersionOne, Inc) Agile has been a hot topic in the industry. Many companies are converting their work teams into agile – some others, especially the big enterprises with decades of experience in waterfall model are choosing to be hybrid, experimenting stuffs. Google is a hundred percent agile company. In this article I have collected over hundred agile terms worth knowing if you are planning to shift to the Agile paradigm. This is just a list, you can Google the terms to find their meanings (although I plan to have another article sometimes later explaining these terms.) I have worked on the Waterfall Model for over five years now as a software engineer in Java/J2EE platform, and I have been recently assigned to work on an agile team. This is the first time I will have a real experience of working in an agile environment. I have taken few agile workshops and agile training in the past, I hope those will be helpful. So here goes the comprehensive list of agile terms. I plan to add more as I discover these terminologies. Keep coming back. 3 Amigos (Analyst, Tester and Developer) Acceptance Criteria Acceptance Test Driven Development ATDD Acceptance Testing Agile Agile Development Life Cycle Management Agile Manifesto Anti-Pattern Backlog Backlog Item Behaviour Driven Development BDD Burndown Business Value Add Chicken  Collocation Configuration Management Continous Integration Cross-Functional Team Cycle Time Daily Scrum Design Pattern Done Emergence Empiricism Enterprise Agile Epic Estimation Extreme Programming XP Feature Driven Development FDD Fibonacci Sequence Estimation Flow How Impediment Impediment Backlog Inspectig and Adapting INVEST model Iteration Just In Time Kaizen Kanban Key Agile Principles Lean Muda Multi-state Continuous Integration Nine-Box Interview Technique Non Value Add One Piece Flow Pair Programming Pairing Parallel Development Pig Planning Planning Poker Process Product Backlog Product Backlog Item Product Owner Pull Push Release Burn down Chart Release Plan Release Process Retrospective Roman Vote SCM Tools Scrum Scrum Master Scrum Meetings Scrum Roles Self Organization Software Change Configuration Management Software Configuration Management Software Development Software Development Process Source Code Control Source Code Management Spike Sprint Sprint Burn down Sprint Goal Sprint Planning Sprint Review Sprint Task Stakeholder Stand-Up Story Story Point Task Task Board Task List Team Team Member Test Driven Development TDD Theory of Constraints Throughput Thumb Vote Timeboxing U-Shaped Cells Unit Testing User Stories VOC – Voice of the customer Value Stream Value Stream Mapping Velocity Vision Statement WIP – Work In Progress Waste What Whole Teams Work Cells XP – Extreme Programming XP Practices Originally posted 2012-01-21 14:23:32.

Here's how this guy explained the concept of REST to his wife.

When building and updating native mobile apps, testing them can be a pain as this may require including an SDK or recompiling the app. Appium is an open source framework which helps automating mobile app testing from any language and any test framework, with full access to back-end APIs and DBs from test code. It works for both iOS + Android apps and tests can be written with Java, Objective-C, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, C#, Clojure, or Perl. The framework is Mac OS X only and requires Nodejs to run.Advertisements:ioDeck, a self-hosted and awesome PHP form generator. Professional XHTML Admin Template ($15 Discount With The Code: WRD.) SSLmatic – Cheap SSL Certificates (from $19.99/year)

The Outercurve Foundation has provided a summary (with links to presentations) of its recent open source software conference keynotes. Some of the speakers included Jono Bacon, Scott Guthrie, Ross Gardler, Donnie Berkholz and Kohsuke Kawaguchi. They spoke on topics ranging from Windows installation packages to community management, identifying destructive developers who ruin communities, project governance, patterns and practices that successful growing open source projects demonstrate, and how to wrestle with project growth and success.

Let’s face it, JavaScript hasn’t always had the best reputation among developers, and since the foundation of CoffeeScript back in 2009 this little language has taken the world of JavaScript developers by storm; mainly because it overcomes what some may say is the worst aspect of JavaScript: the syntax of its code.

New release of world-beating issue tracker focuses on faster, user-friendly interface.

I’ve been a professional programmer now for over a decade, and during this time I’ve met a LOT of excellent programmers. Most of them are partially autodidactic and learned the business side of programming in school. But non of these guru’s/experts use their skills to teach the next generations.

First what was kind of shocking for me was the fact to deal with ShrinkWrap at the end. Ok you can go with Arquillian without ShrinkWrap but it is not natural at all for me.

Java EE 6 introduced the @DataSourceDefinition annotation and data-source element for usage in deployment descriptors such as web.xml. But how do you easily change the settings of such a data source for different stages?

Eric Feminella explains how to use the method chaining pattern to both simplify your API and make it more fluent.