Essential Skills for the Agile Developer

A Guide to Better Programming and Design

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This book answers the question many developers have after taking some initial Agile/Scrum training – “OK, how do I write code now that we are building our software in iterations?” This book provides over a dozen proven practices that help developers improve their coding practices and make their code more easily changeable and maintainable in Agile projects. Please read the preface to better understand how to read this book.

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Chapters In Progress for "Essential Skills for the Agile Developer" Preface The Core Trim Tabs 1 Programming by Intention 2 Separate Use From Construction 3 Define Tests Up-Front 4 Shalloway’s Law 5 Encapsulate That! 6 Avoid Premature Hierarchies General Attitudes 7 Avoid Over and Under Design 8 Keep The System In A Running State 9 Continuous Integration Design Issues 10 Commonality Variability Analysis 11 Refactor To The Open Closed 12 Needs Vs Capabilities in Interfaces 13 When and How to Use Inheritance Appendix. Basics A-1 Introduction to the UML A-2 Code Qualities A-3 The Role of QA in Lean-Agile Software Development

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