Reality Loop

September 21, 2010
Acceptance- vs. Integration-Tests

One of the funny things as a consultant in the IT industry is, that you see that everybody is fighting with the same questions and problems. One of those discussions I encounter everywhere is: How many representations of an entity are needed to ge...
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September 20, 2010
An alle Kunden von Cablecom Schweiz: Finger weg vom neuen HD Mediabox Recorder!

Usually I don't blog about non-IT related topics. But I just could not keep quiet about my disappointment with the HD mediabox recorder from Cablecom Switzerland...Kurzfassung: Die Cablecom HD Mediabox Recorder ist ein immenser Rückschritt im Verg...
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September 12, 2010
Quotes of the Week: Business Assumptions

The reason why business people use the word 'risk' is because they don't want to use the word 'fear'.- Dan North, Keynote Oredev Corporate Ping-Pong [...] it is driven by the wrong believe that working in batches and specialized silos makes us m...
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September 10, 2010
BDD – Catching On, Moving On?

Lately there seems to be more and more discussion about how to do effective BDD. Examples:Imperative vs. Declarative Scenarios (Ben Mabey)The Truth about BDD (Uncle Bob)You're Cuking It Wrong (Elabs blog)You’re almost cuking it… (Antony Marcano)R...
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September 07, 2010
Presentation Patterns: MVC vs. MVP (once again)

Presentation Patterns are one of my classical examples how unsophisticated we still are in our industry. MVC, MVP, PresentationModel, M-V-VM... everybody is supposedly using them but everybody has another concept how those patterns are realized. ...
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