This highly practical 4-day Agile Development workshop, authored by well-known expert Kevlin Henney introduces a comprehensice set of Agile development techniques, relevant to the Java developer. Learn modelling notation, use case techniques, testing practices and refactorings as part of an interactive workshop project, following the first three RUP phases in structure, with TDD forming the backbone of the construction phase. You will also learn how to frame requirements and high-level designs and thent ake these through to code and tests.

Overview

• Managing change
• Agility
• Informal and continuous design
• The role of testing versus debugging
• Iterative and incremental development
• RUP and RUP-based processes
• XP
• Scrum
• The role of UML
• The inception, elaboration, construction and transition phases

Inception

• System scope and requirements
• Context diagrams
• Actors
• Use cases and use case diagrams
• Identifying use case goals
• Common use case and diagramming pitfalls
• Capturing the information model of the problem domain with class diagrams

Elaboration

• Defining use cases in more detail
• Activity diagrams
• Interaction diagrams
• Sequence diagram pitfalls
• Using class diagrams to capture high-level design ideas and discussions
• Using state-machine diagrams to explore object lifecycles
• Outlining a loosely coupled baseline architecture with package and component diagrams
• The role of prototyping
• Planning iterations and estimating against the package model
• Use cases and the Product Backlog

Construction

• Iteration planning and the sprint backlog
• Test-driven development
• Overview of JUnit
• Unit-testing techniques
• Coding guidelines
• Dependency management patterns
• Continuous integration
• Sufficient design
• Common refactorings
• Executing four iterations
• Expanding use cases into more detailed scenarios
• Handling new requirements