Burn down charts are used a lot in giving a visual idea of the velocity of team; what has been done, what is yet to be done and an estimation of what we are likely to achieve by the end of the project. However, ...Read More
Month: May 2012
Hack Day Report: Building Custom ExtJS Components for Trading
Hack Day had rolled around once again in the office, and this time our idea was simple but ambitious - could we knock together a tool in 24 hours that would enable developers with no web development experience to create a fully featured ...Read More
Getting started with ClojureScript
ClojureScript is a Clojure to JavaScript compiler which has gained a considerable amount of traction since its release in July of last year. It provides a way for developers to write a web-application in a large subset of Clojure and then compile it ...Read More
Automating your VMware farm with PowerCLI
At Caplin, we have 7 ESX 4.0 data stores, filled to the brim with Linux and Windows VMs. We use these VMs to test and deploy artifacts from many different projects, all under the management of a Thoughtworks GO server. It's vital ...Read More
SCALING AGILE – THE WORLD IS ALL THAT IS THE CASE
THE WORLD IS ALL THAT IS THE CASE There's a flurry of activity when projects kick off, resources have to be marshalled and often teams need to be informed of a good deal of information around the thinking behind the work at ...Read More
Visualizing Option Prices
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Why 100% Code Coverage is not enough
When it comes to software testing and code quality it is not always clear what the Test Coverage is - respectively what areas of the application need more attention regarding testing. Questions like: - Do we have enough tests? - Do the tests cover enough paths ...Read More
Performance Testing (part 2) – Tools, Environments, Observer effects
Continuing from part one, this performance testing blog will concentrate on how to test the System Under Test having already decided what needs to be tested and at what level which was covered in part one. Will you be using third party tools ...Read More