Essential Skills for Agile Development - Test-Driven Development - Refactoring - High Cohesion - Low Coupling

You can download a book for free, called Essentials Skills for Agile Development.  I haven't downloaded it yet as I am still reading Refactoring to Patterns, but it is on my list.

The book appears to be a overview of test-driven development, refactoring, iterative development, and creating applications supporting high cohesion and low coupling.

The book is divided into the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1. Removing duplicate code
  • Chapter 2. Turning comments into code
  • Chapter 3. Removing code smells
  • Chapter 4. Keeping code fit
  • Chapter 5. Take care to inherit
  • Chapter 6. Handling inappropriate references
  • Chapter 7. Separate database, user interface and domain logic
  • Chapter 8. Managing software projects with user stories
  • Chapter 9. OO design with CRC cards
  • Chapter 10. Acceptance test
  • Chapter 11. How to acceptance test a user interface
  • Chapter 12. Unit test
  • Chapter 13. Test driven development
  • Chapter 14. Team development with CVS
  • Chapter 15. Essential skills for communications
  • Chapter 16. Pair programming

The book sounds promising, so I would download it and check it out.  If you want more of a textbook to help you with a lot of these concepts, I can't recommend Applying UML and Patterns by Craig Larman enough.

posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 7:33 PM

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