I’m chairing next week’s Ark Group conference on SOA (Achieving Interoperability in Systems Architecture) at the Vibe Hotel in North Sydney, Australia. You can download the conference brochure here. My ThoughtWorks colleague Halvard Skogsrud and I are presenting the workshop entitled “Bearing the standards of interoperability”.
Browsing Posts published in September, 2007
Recently, Les Hatton wrote a compelling article entitled The Chimera of Software Quality. (Les Hatton, “The Chimera of Software Quality,” Computer, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 104, 102-103, Aug., 2007) A section of the article headed The cost of poor quality points out the economic impact of poor software quality, and the almost belligerently ignorant [...]
Most of my ThoughtWorks colleagues love tests. We love writing tests and watching them fail, and we love writing the code that then makes them pass. We love tests so much that most of the time taken in building the software is in the running of the tests to make sure we haven’t done something [...]
