As software eats the world, business leaders need to understand better how software gets made, and the people who make it. An excellent guide is Kent Beck, one of the parents of the Agile software ...

My company is considering a transition to a Test-Driven Development system (N-Unit) for our programmers. We have a team of 10 guys of varying levels of experience. We are developing entirely in .NET ...

The original Agile Manifesto conveys its philosophical underpinnings: In an interview with ComputerWorld magazine, Kent Beck, inventor of Extreme Programming and a strong proponent of agile ...

Everyone complains about bugs in their software. Some can be tolerated, but many go beyond annoying and cause productivity losses. If it’s bad being the user of buggy software, think what it must be ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with ...

In the software industry, in which I have worked for the past 25 years, we often use the adage, "What's old is new again." Today's messaging tools like Slack and Teams, for example, owe a lot to the ...

It has been nearly 10 years since programming dignitaries released “The Manifesto for Agile Software Development,” which promoted processes that accommodate changing requirements, collaboration with ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Historically, agencies have sometimes ...

Agile software development processes, in which software is built in short iterations rather than mapped out fully in advance, have joined the mainstream of development approaches, according to a ...