Category Archives: agile

Infoq contributions

Posted on 12 Mar 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

A few months ago I started to contribute to the brazilian version of the InfoQ website. My contributions consist basically of translations of some of the articles published in the english version. If you are interested, I created a page … Continue reading →

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Software Quality and Agile

Posted on 9 Jan 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Often when we talk about agile software development, we mention how important quality is. In this post, I’ll run quickly through some thoughts and practices on how agile tries to guarantee this so-called higher quality. When I first started using … Continue reading →

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Getting the data out of the tests

Posted on 23 Oct 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Hello everybody! A few days ago, while I was searching for ways to improve the tests in our projects, I found an interesting article with some ideas. The main concept was to make the tests behavior, data and actual implementation … Continue reading →

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Extreme Programming Explained

Posted on 22 Sep 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

A while ago, I read the book Extreme Programming Explained – Embrace Change (2nd Edition), from Kent Beck. You can find it at amazon.com. In this post I’ll talk a little bit about this book. In this book, Kent Beck … Continue reading →

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Pair Programming

Posted on 7 Sep 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

This is the way it works: every time anyone in the team needs to develop something, whatever it is, she does it in pairs. This means that two developers sit together and work to solve the same problem. Having done … Continue reading →

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Value is everything

Posted on 28 Aug 2008 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Hello! My name is Paulo Renato, and I’ll be the writer of this blog =) To get this started, I want to talk about value. There are several other subjects to talk about in the topics that this blog intend … Continue reading →

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