Why Failing Tests Make Refactoring Safe
One of the primary problems with testing, TDD, and Unit Tests is a lack of understanding. Like all practices, we have to know why what we are doing is good before we can reap the full benefits.
The Retrospective: A Key to Self-Organization
Self-organization has been one of the driving factors of the success of our team in the past few months, and I believe one of the most important aspects of our behaviour is our sprint retrospectives. But what does self-organization mean, and how do retrospectives empower it?
XmlBeanUtils 1.0.1 Release – Legacy parser support
For those who read my blog, I released an open-source project a couple of days ago for working with XML using DynaBeans from BeanUtils. Today, while working with XML directly, I discovered that some older XML parsers, such as older versions of the Xerces parser, do not actually support all of the methods of Node … Read more
XmlBeanUtils – Working with XML Easily
Edit:A new version was released, see here for notes. My team and I were working the recently on a “Converter” utility whose job it is to take in a String and output one of our domain objects. The String contains a chunk of XML conforming to a provided Schema, and in all honestly the mappings … Read more
