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Pro Agile .NET Development with SCRUM

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Pro Agile .NET Development with SCRUM guides you through a real-world ASP.NET project and shows how agile methodology is put into practice. There is plenty of literature on the theory behind agile methodologies, but no book on the market takes the concepts of agile practices and applies these in a practical manner to an end-to-end ASP.NET project, especially the estimating, requirements and management aspects of a project. Pro Agile .NET Development with SCRUM takes you through the initial stages of a projectgathering requirements and setting up an environmentthrough to the development and deployment stages using an agile iterative namely, Scrum. What you'll learn Gain practical knowledge on employing the Scrum project methodology using a real-world ASP.NET project See how extreme programming features in real world .NET projects Experience best practice-infused open-source frameworks that can be used to form the foundations of agile projects such as S#arp and NCommons Learn best-practice tools for user interface and user acceptance testing, such as Selenium and Fitnesse Discover details on how to capture requirements and drive development using user stories Learn how to estimate and plan agile projects and work with business stakeholders through a practical example Uncover tips for developing using the outside-in, TDD and BDD methodologies Gain information on tracking the progress of a project through burn down charts, iterations and retrospectives Who this book is forExperienced .NET developers who are looking to see how the Scrum agile project methodology and extreme programming features are employed in a real-world .NET application. Table of Contents The Art of Agile Development Managing Agile Projects with SCRUM Extreme Programming Sprint 0: Generating the Product Backlog Sprint 1: Starting a Game Sprint 2: Playing a Basic Game Sprint 3: Changing the Game Sprint 4: The Release Code Review What's Ahead for You and Scrum?Appendix TDD Primer with NUnit Appendix BDD Primer with SpecFlow Appendix Mocking with Moq Appendix Managing a Product Backlog with Pivotal Tracker Appendix Web Testing with WaitiN Appendix Source Control with SVN Appendix Continuous Integration wih Cruise Control .NET

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First published January 1, 2011

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September 16, 2014
The book is fantastically covering the topic of what is Agile Development for the typical .NET developer, and how to adapt suck technique in your daily development life.

I do appreciate the effort of Jerrel Blankenship of featuring many concepts of testing like TDD, BDD and WatiN, talking about integration and source control using SVN! Which is very good open source alternatives!

Yet I would give that amazing book another fifth star, if there is another chapter covering how I deal with Agility (SCRUM) in my project using Microsoft TFS, which is more natural in most .NET development projects :)

Merged review:

The book is fantastically covering the topic of what is Agile Development for the typical .NET developer, and how to adapt suck technique in your daily development life.

I do appreciate the effort of Jerrel Blankenship of featuring many concepts of testing like TDD, BDD and WatiN, talking about integration and source control using SVN! Which is very good open source alternatives!

Yet I would give that amazing book another fifth star, if there is another chapter covering how I deal with Agility (SCRUM) in my project using Microsoft TFS, which is more natural in most .NET development projects :)
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March 16, 2014
I'm half way through and it seems to be a reasonably good description of Agile Development processes, but some very frustrating errors. Advice on getting NUnit to run in STA mode is wrong. Use the [RequiresSTA] attribute (from NUnit 2.5 onwards).
Chapter 5 uses MSpec which it says is described in Appendix B. Appendix B describes SpecFlow, a different tool.
The main text (and code) uses Rhino Mocks (a mocking tool), while the Appendix provides instruction on Moq, a different mocking tool. So there is no introduction to the the tools that are actually used.

These errors have cost me quite some time and if I hit any more delays, I will probably give up on the remainder.
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August 12, 2012
It did not teach me all about Scrum or XP but it did provide me with the information to understand the relationships between Scrum and XP. Also made me realize the existence of BDD and its importance. Nice to read for developers who already work with Scrum.
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