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The Return of the Cucumber

agile, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. I mentioned last week that the RubyMine post was replacing what I had meant to write about. Well, this week we finally get to it… It’s been about ten weeks since I wrote about Cucumber […]

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Cucumber Rocks - But it's not a replacement for unit tests

agile, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. I admit that cucumber is awesome. It apparently was the big thing at Rails Conf this year. I love that my BA can write the requirements, I can throw them into a feature file, and […]

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10 Keys to Successful SW Dev: #10 Tools & Infrastructure

medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. After last month’s post on the five deadly sins of software development, I thought it would be good to write about how you can overcome those sins (present in every project) to successfully develop software. […]

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The Five Deadly Sins of Software Development

medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. There’s a list of deadly sins out there for just about anything related to information technology. Some have seven items, some have five, some even have nine. I haven’t seen one with 21 deadly sins […]

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Writing Agile Requirements

agile, Human Factors & UX, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. The beginning of a project generates a lot of great ideas. But until a structure or cohesion is applied to these ideas, they end up being a loose collection of separate ideas with no direction. […]

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Using Cucumber for Acceptance Testing

agile, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. A consistent nuisance problem when testing Rails applications is the “unit test gap”. This happens when the model test passes and the controller test passes, but the application as a whole fails because there’s a […]

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Agile Development for PMs: Why Agile Testing Rocks?

agile, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. All software has bugs. I don’t care if you’re Apple, Microsoft, IBM, or a smaller, leaner ISV. Your software has bugs in it. Once you accept this fact, that into each software product a little […]

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Are We Engineering Software or People?

medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. I had a nice little vacation this past week in Los Cabos. It’s always sunny, 80 and it never rains. Very nice. My wife and I had another installment of our long-running discussion called “Computer […]

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Agile Software Development and the Lazy Client Trap

medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Agile Software development is all about the feedback loop. Do a little bit of something, get a little bit of feedback, change what you are doing if the feedback tells you so. There are all […]

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