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To develop one or several apps, is in itself is not particularly difficult today. Assuming that there are reasonable objectives from a business perspective, as well as goals from a communicative and user experience perspective, apps are a good way to reach and engage users. However, the question you soon will find yourself asking is: – How [...]

In his April 5th post, “Brands Give Facebook F-Commerce an F”, Brian Solis, a principal analyst at Altimeter Group, skilfully summarises the recent hype crash around F-Commerce, in light of recent failures by leading brands such as GAP to take advantage of the new channel. He also accurately attests that F-Commerce is not dying – [...]

A few months ago an article was published in Computer Weekly where corporate IT Lawyer Alistair Maughan, argues the case that Agile will not work in Government projects.  I didn’t see this article when it was first published, but it was brought to my attention when a colleague noticed that one of the comments arguing [...]

Our team is currently working with a client on a medium sized, medium complexity Java application which has quite low test coverage. We are introducing characterisation tests to snapshot functionality. These will give us the confidence to r…

This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant Sachin Kanadia. I was playing around attempting to implement course grained MVVM in WPF. I used the Prism Application Block to achieve the most part. I came up with a few resulting base classes that formed the crux of the application I was deving at the time. [...]

Quality has always been a “hot” subject in software engineering, and several good development practices used in Agile development, unit testing for example, have been created to improve the quality of the softwares developed. Programme Managers, Project Managers and Assurance Quality Managers haven’t just been looking for techniques to improve quality, they’ve also been looking [...]

On a previous post I was discussing, among other things, how code often doesn’t represent the business properly. The code “satisfies” the business requirements but doesn’t express them very well. The main reason for that is because we, developers, like…

In the last few years, I’ve noticed that the majority of the projects that I’ve participated roughly followed the same design. Speaking to colleagues and friends, the great majority said that they were also following the same design. It’s what I call…

Often I see Unit Tests with the test methods that have the same name as the method under test prefixed with the word “test” e.g. testSubmitApplication. This provides no extra information on which “flow” of the mothod is being tested. Other test method names provide a bit more information by suffixing the nature of the [...]