Having gathered initial feedback from the v0.99 release, v0.99b is now available, with the following minor improvements: Iterations can be deleted.  In v0.99, this feature just linked to the Story Delete, and wasn't implemented Date fields now have pop-up calendars Installer now supports choice of whether to run/not run tests following ...

Whilst I've not had time to do all the documentation I was planning to over Christmas, I have got round to bundling up the installer and updating www.XPStoryStudio.com. So, available for download now (from the aforementioned URL), is v0.99 of XP StoryStudio - the freely distributable XP planning tool created by myself and Dave Fellows, with ...

One of the things that's irked me for quite some time is how, even in a mature TDD environment, the tests that are written never seem to make it past the integration server.  Yet vast amounts of time gets spent tracing and fixing the differences between environments that cause glitches in execution.  The time it takes to spot these errors

I wrote a bit of a monologue in an e-mail to some of the developers at work the other day about documenting code.  I've never been a great fan of huge swathes of inline comments splitting up what's only 4 or 5 lines of self-explanatory code, so when the mantra of ''code should be self documenting'' came along, I didn't really have much of a ...