Zitat des Tages von Kent Beck:
I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas.
Extreme programming is an emotional experience.
Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.
There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.
There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.
Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.
We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying.
Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.
A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.
Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music.
