Dave Laribee

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• Mapping BDD

  In my last post I offered a concise snapshot of how I'm practicing Behavior-Driven Development. Based on feedback, it was probably a little too concise and meta to provide any kind of valuable takeaways or discussion points, so I'm going to unpack... Posted Mar 11 2008, 10:41 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 24 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, BDD, collective ownership, opinion, TDD

• A Brief Statement on BDD

  Scott Bellware posed a question on the newly formed BDD list asking people's background. The list is concerned with Behavior-Driven Development but seems to have a heavy bias toward the .NET developer. This bias seems to bend the conversation towards... Posted Mar 09 2008, 10:20 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .net, BDD, python, Rails, Ruby

• The Oversimplified Specification Anti-pattern

  I was running through a group talk I do at the recent Philly CodeCamp (which was a huge success by the way, special thanks to Brian Donahue for doing the heavy lifting in organizing an ALT.NET track) and we were ping pong pairing on the well known bank... Posted Jan 14 2008, 09:54 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, BDD, simplicity, TDD

• Approaching BDD

  I'm preparing a chunk of code for open source release in January. Among many other things it has a persistence layer wrapper with a "provider" for NHibernate, yet another validation framework, and a few goodies for building smart clients... Posted Dec 17 2007, 05:38 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 20 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, BDD, Featured, open source, TDD, xeva release series

• Stories and Aspects

  Today we had our iteration planning meeting. It was a long one as we're trying to sharpen our user story technique and are switching estimation methodologies from hours to "story points" or "NUTs" (back to them). We managed to... Posted Oct 02 2007, 10:31 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, aspects, BDD, requirements, Scrum, stories, user stories, XP

• Ubiquitrons

  Ubiquitrons are an elementary particle in the physics of software development. Much like gravitrons or neutrinos they are everywhere. The air, your office, and your brain are constantly penetrated by hundreds if not thousands of ubiquitrons each and every... Posted Sep 26 2007, 03:03 PM by Dave Laribee with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: BDD, DDD, Language, Ubiquitous Language