SmartBear Software - Webinar - Is Agile Code Review an Oxymoron

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Is Agile Code Review anOxymoron?


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Guest Host & Moderator:Esther Schindler

Esther Schindler is the editorial director of

Software Quality Connection. She has been

writing about technology subjects since 1992,

and has focused on software developmenttopics for the last several years. You've read

plenty of her articles, as her byline has appeared

in CIO.com, ITWorld.com, Software Test &

Performance, SD Times, Informit.com,

ComputerWorld and DevSource.com. She is also

a well-known chocoholic.

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Guest Expert Speaker:

Jack Ganssle

A popular speaker, Jack is the Technical Editor

of Embedded Systems Programming

magazine as well as author of the magazine's

monthly column "Breakpoints". He has

published over 600 articles on different

aspects of embedded development, as well

as six books on the subject. On-line, he

writes the weekly Embedded Pulse column

on embedded.com and is editor of TheEmbedded Muse, a free bi-weekly email

newsletter.

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Jacks Perspective on Agile and Code Review

Code reviews are essential for producing quality,

maintainable, software. Some of the agile methods

embrace reviews; others seem to discount them. As

a passionate advocate of reviews, I feel any method

- agile or otherwise - that doesn't demand reviews

should be abandoned or modified.


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Jared Richardson

Jared Richardson has authored and coauthored

a number of books, including the best selling

Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software

Projects and Career 2.0: Take Control of Your

Life. Hes a regular at software conferences anda thought leader in the Agile space. Jared works

full-time as an internal coach at defense

contractor Logos Technologies. Hes made a

career out of helping teams find, and fix, their

process blind spots. He lives in Morrisville, North

Carolina with his wife and children where herecently, quite by accident, became a backyard

chicken farmer.

Find Jared on the web at AgileArtisans.com
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Pair programming was a staple of XP, but it never worked

that well for me. I also saw little value in large groups

reviewing a single developers code. I settled on the peercode review as the best solution. When a developer

finishes a feature (or fixing a bug), and before checking

in their code, they would go find a co-worker who wasn't

"deep" in another issue, and review the work.

Jareds Perspective on Agile and Code Review


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Dave Rooney

A veteran Agile Coach in Ottawa, ON, Canada with

over 20 years industry experience, Dave is a

Co-founder/Consultant with Westboro Systems.

Hes been involved with Agile Software

Development since 2000, helping private and

public sector organizations from pre-funding

startups to the Fortune 15 improve their software

delivery process. He is an active writer, speaker

and advocate of agile methods in Canada.

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Daves Perspective on Agile and Code Review

"I come to Agile from the Extreme Programming

world, so my perspective is quite simple: at least

two pairs of eyes must see every line of production

code before it's committed to source control. There

are, however, a multitude of ways to accomplish

that goal!"


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Whats different about code

reviews when youre doingagile?



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Do different types of software

require different inspectionstrategies?



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Agile approaches: TDD vs. XP

vs. FDD vs. SCRUM (and isTDD a stand-alone practice or

part of XP)?



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Whats the worst example of

code review that youve seenor heard about?



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Things I learned the hard way.



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Questions?



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