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Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Michael C. Feathers
The average book on Agile software development describes a fairyland of greenfield projects, with wall-to-wall tests that run after every few edits, and clean & simple source code.
The average software project, in our industry, was written under some aspect of code-and-fix, and without automated unit tests. And we can't just throw this code away; it represents a significant effort debugging and maintaining. It contains many latent requirements decisions. Just as Agile processes are incremental, Agile adoption must be incremental too. No more throwing away code just because it looked at us funny.
Mike begins his book with a very diplomatic definition of "Legacy". I'l skip ahead to the undiplomatic version: Legacy code is code without unit tests.
Before cleaning that code up, and before adding new features and removing bugs, such code must be de-legacified. It needs unit tests.
To add unit tests, you must change the code. To change the code, you need unit tests to show how safe your change was.
The core of the book is a cookbook of recipes to conduct various careful attacks. Each presents a particular problem, and a relatively safe way to migrate the code towards tests.
Code undergoing this migration will begin to experience the benefits of unit tests, and these benefits will incrementally make new tests easier to write. These efforts will make aspects of a legacy codebase easy to change.
It's an unfortunate commentary on the state of our programming industry how much we need this book.
XUnit Test Patterns
Gerard Meszaros
Improves software return on investment by teaching the reader how to refactor test code and reduce or prevent crippling test maintenance.
Refactoring Databases
Scott W. Ambler, Pramod J. Sadalage
Brings agile/object developers and database administrators together to develop a common language for better database design and change.
Cocoa Design Patterns
Erik M. Buck, Donald A. Yacktman
Provides information on Cocoa design patterns along with data models, AppKit views, bindings, and controllers.
Continuous Delivery
Jez Humble, David Farley
The step-by-step guide to going live with new software releases faster - reducing risk and delivering more value sooner! * *Fast, simple, repeatable techniques for deploying working code to production in hours or days, not months! *Crafting custom processes that get developers from idea to value faster than ever. *Best practices for everything from source code control to dependency management and in-production tracing. *Common obstacles to rapid release - and pragmatic solutions. In too many organizations, build, testing, and deployment processes can take six months or more. That's simply far too long for today's businesses. But it doesn't have to be that way. It's possible to deploy working code to production in hours or days after development work is complete - and Go Live presents comprehensive processes and techniques for doing so. Written by two of the world's most experienced software project leaders, this book demonstrates how to dramatically increase speed while reducing risk and improving code quality at the same time. The authors cover all facets of build, testing, and deployment, including: configuration management, source code control, release planning, auditing, compliance, integration, build automation, and more. They introduce a wide range of advanced techniques, including inproduction monitoring and tracing, dependency management, and the effective use of virtualization. For each area, they explain the issues, show how to mitigate the risks, and present best practices. Throughout, Go Live focuses on powerful opportunities for individual improvement, clearly and simply explaining skills and techniques so they can be used every day on real projects. With this book's help, any development organization can move from idea to release faster -- and deliver far more value, far more rapidly.
Continuous Integration
Paul M. Duvall, Steve Matyas, Andrew Glover
Shows how the practice of Continuous Integration (CI) benefits software development by improving quality and reducing risk.
Real-World Solutions for Developing High-Quality PHP Frameworks and Applications
Sebastian Bergmann, Stefan Priebsch
Using real case studies from well-known companies and their PHP experts, the book presents the planning, execution, and automation of tests for the different layers and tiers of a Web software architecture, the measuring of software quality by means of software metrics, as well as establishing successful development processes and methods such as continuous integration, all in real-world scenarios. Different opinions are offered on how problems are solved to give the readers not "one single truth" but provide different approaches to problems and views on issues. There are three types of case study chapters: Enterprise Case Studies (How does company X implement their QA process?)Digg, OXID eSales, studiVZ, swoodoo Open Source Project Case Studies (How does project Y implement their QA process?) Typo3, eZ Components, Symfony, Zend Framework Case Studies that explain the implementation of a certain process or usage of a tool: Unit Testing Bad Practices, Performance Testing, Testing Database Interaction, Continuous Integration with phpUnderControl Experts presenting the case studies include: Brian Shire, Facebook's lead for PHP Internals and a developer for the Alternative PHP Cache Michel Lively, Jr. Lead PHP Developer for Selling Source, LLC. Robert Lemke and Kaarsten Dambekalns, core developers of TYPO3 and FLOW3 Fabien Potencier, CEO of Sensio and lead developer of Symfony Matthew Weir O'Phinney, Project Lead for the Zend Framework
Secure Coding in C and C++
Robert C. Seacord
A code companion developers will turn to again and again as they seek to protect their systems from attackers.
Slack
Tom DeMarco
Argues that the "lean and mean" corporate model of workaholism and downsizing is proving counterproductive, explaining how companies can implement downtime, promote flexibility, and foster creativity as part of realizing increased revenues. Reprint.
Jenkins
John Smart
Readers will learn how to automate their build, integration, release, and deployment processes with Jenkins, the popular Java-based open source tool that has revolutionized the way teams think about continuous integration (CI).
Expert .NET Delivery Using NAnt and CruiseControl.NET
Marc Holmes
At first glance, building and deploying applications seem simple enough. But in fact, difficult releases without any confidence or processes backing them are very common. Integration and management of a new deployment can be laborious and fraught with risk. So as team size and volume of projects grow, management becomes more difficult and risk more pronounced. This book is a guide to the implementation of good processes in a .NET environment. Author Marc Holmes focuses on actual implementation, and details patterns and anti-patterns to watch out for. He also provides a practical and in-depth look at NAnt and CruiseControl.NET, and solutions to common problem scenarios. For additional insights, visit the author’s blog, Marc: My Words.
Pragmatic Project Automation
Mike Clark
Forget wizards, you need a slave--someone to do your repetitive, tedious and boring tasks, without complaint and without pay, so you'll have more time to design and write exciting code. Indeed, that's what computers are for. You can enlist your own computer to automate all of your project's repetitive tasks, ranging from individual builds and running unit tests through to full product release, customer deployment, and monitoring the system.Many teams try to do these tasks by hand. That's usually a really bad idea: people just aren't as good at repetitive tasks as machines. You run the risk of doing it differently the one time it matters, on one machine but not another, or doing it just plain wrong. But the computer can do these tasks for you the same way, time after time, without bothering you. You can transform these labor-intensive, boring and potentially risky chores into automatic, background processes that just work.In this eagerly anticipated book, you'll find a variety of popular, open-source tools to help automate your project. With this book, you will learn: How to make your build processes accurate, reliable, fast, and easy. How to build complex systems at the touch of a button. How to build, test, and release software automatically, with no human intervention. Technologies and tools available for automation: which to use and when. Tricks and tips from the masters (do you know how to have your cell phone tell you that your build just failed?) You'll find easy-to-implement recipes to automate your Java project, using the same popular style as the rest of our Jolt Productivity Award-winning Starter Kit books. Armed with plenty of examples and concrete, pragmatic advice, you'll find it's easy to get started and reap the benefits of modern software development. You can begin to enjoy pragmatic, automatic, unattended software production that's reliable and accurate every time.
Continuous Integration in .NET
Marcin Kawalerowicz, Craig Berntson
Provides information on the best practices of continuous integration using Microsoft .NET, covering such topics as testing and building automation, analyzing the code, and generating documentation.
Crystal Clear
Alistair Cockburn
Introducing Crystal Clear, a new agile method proven to increase worker productivity while helping organizations deliver better software.
How Google Tests Software
James A. Whittaker, Jason Arbon, Jeff Carollo
Describes the techniques Google uses to test their software, and offers similiar techniques for analyzing risk and planning tests, allowing an Internet company to become more productive.