https://www.developerfusion.com/t/agile/books/view/video/ 2012-01-21T16:39:00.00Z http://www.developerfusion.com/book/136854/experiences-of-test-automation-case-studies-of-software-test-automation/ 2012-01-21T16:39:00.00Z

Software test automation has moved beyond a luxury to become a necessity. Applications and systems have grown ever larger and more complex, and manual testing simply cannot keep up. As technology changes, and more organizations move into agile development, testing must adapt—and quickly. Test automation is essential, but poor automation is wasteful—how do you know where your efforts will take you?

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/124502/agile-alm/ 2011-08-18T19:21:00.00Z

SummaryAgile ALM is a guide for Java developers who want to integrate flexible agile practices and lightweight tooling along all phases of the software development process. The book introduces a new vision for managing change in requirements and process more efficiently and flexibly. It synthesizes technical and functional elements to provide a comprehensive approach to software development. About the TechnologyAgile Application Lifecycle Management (Agile ALM)

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/124062/agile-analytics-a-valuedriven-approach-to-business-intelligence-and-data-warehousing-agile-software-development-serie/ 2011-08-12T16:41:00.00Z

Using Agile methods, you can bring far greater innovation, value, and quality to any data warehousing (DW), business intelligence (BI), or analytics project. However, conventional Agile methods must be carefully adapted to address the unique characteristics of DW/BI projects. In Agile Analytics, Agile pioneer Ken Collier shows how to do just that.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/94236/agile-web-development-with-rails/ 2011-02-01T13:50:00.00Z

Ruby on Rails helps you produce high-quality, beautiful-looking web applications quickly. You concentrate on creating the application, and Rails takes care of the details.Tens of thousands of developers have used this award-winning book to learn Rails. It's a broad, far-reaching tutorial and reference that's recommended by the Rails core team. If you're new to Rails, you'll get step-by-step guidance.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/90173/documenting-software-architectures-views-and-beyond-2nd-edition/ 2010-10-18T00:00:00.00Z

“This new edition is brighter, shinier, more complete, more pragmatic, more focused than the previous one, and I wouldn’t have thought it possible to improve on the original. As the field of software architecture has grown over these past decades, there is much more to be said, much more that we know, and much more that we can reflect upon of what’s worked and what hasn’t—and the authors here do all that, and more.”—From the Foreword by Grady Booch, IBM Fellow

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/94612/agile-project-management-with-scrum-microsoft-professional/ 2011-02-08T19:57:00.00Z

Apply the principles of Scrum, one of the most popular agile programming methods, to software project management—and focus your team on delivering real business value. Author Ken Schwaber, a leader in the agile process movement and a co-creator of Scrum, brings his vast expertise to helping you guide the product and software development process more effectively and efficiently.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/93292/oracle-soa-suite-11g-handbook-osborne-oracle-press-series/ 2011-01-31T15:46:00.00Z

Master Oracle SOA Suite 11gDesign and implement an agile service-oriented enterprise computing infrastructure using the detailed information in this Oracle Press guide. Written by an Oracle ACE director, Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook uses a hands-on case study to illustrate each programming, management, and governance concept. Get expert techniques for modeling and implementing complex business processes and deploying and securing Web services, while maximizing decoupling and code reuse.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/85462/agile-web-application-development-with-yii-11-and-php5/ 2010-08-11T00:00:00.00Z

Fast-track your Web application development by harnessing the power of the Yii PHP frameworkOverview of Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5 *A step-by-step guide to creating a modern, sophisticated web application using an incremental and iterative approach to software development *Build a real-world, user-based, database-driven project task management application using the Yii development framework

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/93283/unix-and-linux-system-administration-handbook-4th-edition/ 2011-01-31T15:26:00.00Z

“As an author, editor, and publisher, I never paid much attention to the competition–except in a few cases. This is one of those cases. The UNIX System Administration Handbook is one of the few books we ever measured ourselves against.”–From the Foreword by Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media“This book is fun and functional as a desktop reference. If you use UNIX and Linux systems, you need this book in your short-reach library.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/76496/junit-in-action/ 2010-04-28T00:00:00.00Z

When JUnit was first introduced a decade ago by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma, the Agile movement was in its infancy, "Test Driven Development" was unknown, and unit testing was just starting to move into the typical developer's vocabulary. Today, most developers acknowledge the benefits of unit testing and rely on the increasingly sophisticated tools now available. The recently released JUnit 4.

James Crowley