I’m going to speak about code quality (see my short version of the presentation) at the conference BASTA!

BASTA! is mainly focused on .NET technology and gives you the opportunity to see and speak with a wide range of technology experts.

If you have any feedback of what you are missing in my short presentation, please write a comment here or on the post with the presentation. The short version takes about 30 minutes and my speak at BASTA! is scheduled for 1 hour and 15 minutes.  I will mainly show real life examples of the theory shown in the short version. But if you want to here something specific, ask for it

I’ll probably will publish the long version on this blog, too – for all of you not joining the conference.

So long…

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This is a small summarization what the differences are between the different variations creating mocks with mockito.

Null values (default)

Per default, after creating a mock, every method will return null. Just create your mock with:

Sample sample = Mockito.mock(ISample.class);

I think, this is very useful and straight forward. (And based by mockito developers idea, to create very fast a mock for testing). Sometimes it is very difficult to determine an error which was produced through such a null value. For this case it is very practicable to tell mockito, returning SmartNullValues.

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I’m glad to announce that I’ll speak at the Lean Agile and Scrum Conference in Zurich on September 7th 2010 about Agile Architecture: From User Stories to Architecture (in german).

There will be great speakers present like Mary Poppendieck and Henrik Kniberg!

Join the conference at http://www.leanagilescrum.ch/veranstaltungen.

Looking forward to see you there…

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These are the slides and comments of a presentation I held for bbv Software services AG.

The presentation is about how we get quality into our code.

Buzzwords: Fokus, frequent measurements, strong team, clean code, pair programming, test driven development, acceptance tests, continuous integration, collective code ownership, team learning.

Urs Enzler
Senior Software Architect
bbv Software Services AG

urs.enzler _at_ bbv.ch  (replace _at_ with @)
www.bbv.ch

Copyright © 2010 bbv Software Services AG

How to get quality into source code – that’s the question I’ll try to answer in this document.

You’ll see what we do at bbv Software Services to get code that is built with inherent quality and why it is important to think about quality throughout the whole development process.

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Keeping up with my goal to read a book every month (if they are reasonably thin), I just finished User Stories Applied – For Agile Software Developmen by Mike Cohn.

Check out our Books page for my short review.

The next book on my list is Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn.

Happy reading!

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This is the slide deck of a presentation I gave for bbv Software Services AG at two events in 2009 along with some comments .

If you are interested in seeing this presentation live (either in German or English) then please contact me.

In an agile project, the architecture has to evolve together with the requirements and the code. In this presentation, I’ll show you our agile architecture lifecycle.

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Once again, a new book joins the books I’ve read on my shelf: Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley.

Take a look at the books page for my short review.

Happy reading!

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Updated: Something went wrong with the code snippets. Now it’s okay.

Today, we”l have a look at nested views in my series on agile UI development in .NET using an extended MVVM pattern (table of contents).

There are two kinds of nested views:

• contextually nested views and
• hierarchically nested views (master-detail scenarios)

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In my series on agile UI development in .NET, we have seen quite a lot so far (table of contents). But up to now, we never made a call to the model (business logic, services and so on). This is the topic of this post: Model Commands.

A Model Command encapsulates a single action hat is execute against the model. This can be a query to request data, an action that modifies data, communication with a completely different part of the system or anything else your application has to do on the model.

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Next in my series (table of contents) on agile UI development in .NET is the presenter. The presenter is responsible to drive the UI workflow. This means that the presenter is the control center to react to:

• events from the model. For example that data has changed.
• events from embedded presenters
• calls from parent presenter
• calls from UI commands

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