State of Agile survey for 2011 tells a familiar story
by Simon Baker, 3 February 2012 | Agile Adoption, The Agile Blogosphere
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One particular chart in the State of Agile survey for 2011 tells a familiar story. Have a look.
First up, C - Unit Testing at 70%. That’s reassuring. And unit testing is and should be distinct from L - Test-Driven Development. Test-driven development is about the design of code, not testing. Good. But what specifically is agile about unit testing? The reference to unit testing is ambiguous.
Moving on, G - Continuous Integration at 54%. Oof!
H - Automated Builds at 53%. Oof!
J - Coding Standards. Are people still worried about coding standards? Haven’t we moved on to expressive code that tells us what it’s doing and why it’s doing it?
K - Refactoring at 48%. Yikes!
And back to L - Test-driven development at 38%. Holy shit! In this day and age?
P - Pair-programming at 30%. Ah yes - that’s because everything would cost twice as much, right? Because creating software is just data entry. Or is it more about ego and fear?
Q - Collective Code ownership at 28%. Yeah baby! That piece of code belongs to me so hands off! You mean that piece of code stinking out our codebase?
R - Automated...read more
