Month: March 2012

Recently we had a discussion about testing all possible combinations within a FX Trade Ticket. To give a context, a trade ticket consists of several parameters like: Trade Type (SPOT, FORWARD, SWAP, TIMEOPTION)Currency Pair (BASE, ...Read More

Situations where team members lack visibility on what is on the backlog and the product owner comes to the planning meeting with a number of stories to be worked on should always be avoided. Scrum rules say that this decision has ...Read More

The first thing to know about the book Practical Clojure, is that unlike its title might initially suggest, it is not a book trying to describe how to use Clojure practically. That ...Read More

As you may recall the first part of this blog was addressing the challenges facing automated testers and companies. The second part provided an overview to the solution. Finally, in this blog we are presenting a couple of examples to demonstrate ...Read More

Model View View Model diagram In Caplin we have found the solution to all of these problems mentioned Part I. Caplin Trader software architecture has been developed ...Read More

This was announced nearly 3 months old now, somehow it passed me by, but Microsoft are going to start automatically updating Internet Explorer to the latest version. This is really big news. People running Windows XP will ...Read More

While a scrum team should only consist of three components, there must be someone on the team that does the analysis work. It is good to have someone who understands the domain that ...Read More

Over on Coding the Markets there is an interesting discussion around Bret Victor and his treatise on UI design 'Magic Ink' from (2006) where he uncovers the evils of interaction design Here is my contribution ...Read More

After a recent scrum training course, I saw how simple and yet powerful the scrum rules are. As Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland noted in the scrum team guidelines, scrum teams have to be self-organizing and cross-functional. A ...Read More