Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)
From: Patrick May <pjm_at_spe.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:30:06 +0100
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S P Engineering, Inc. | The experts in large scale distributed OO
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:30:06 +0100
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"topmind" <topmind_at_technologist.com> writes:
> To be fair, I think R. Martin tends to focus on industries where
> reliability and testability are more important than being nimble.
That would explain why he wrote "Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices" and, with James Newkirk, "Extreme Programming in Practice" along with numerous articles on agile software development.
Testability is a requirement for being nimble and reliable; the concepts do not conflict.
Sincerely,
Patrick
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Received on Sat Jun 17 2006 - 10:30:06 CEST