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At Redgate, we're fascinated by software development and how to do it smarter, better and more intelligently. How do we reduce the burden of legacy code and technical debt, for example? How do we use test-driven development to make the code as robust as possible. How do we apply UX principles and skills to make the complicated software we develop intuitive to use?

Alastair Smith

2 February 2015

Alastair Smith

2 February 2015

Desire Lines in software architecture: what can we learn from landscape architecture?

Before Christmas I was talking with Simon about an architectural approach we’d taken on a recent project. The aim of the project is to replace an existing WinForms user interface with a shiny new HTML and JavaScript version. Part of this involves making HTTP requests back to the “engine” of… Read more

Agile development

desire lines

minimum viable product

Revathi Nathaniel

19 January 2015

Revathi Nathaniel

19 January 2015

User research- it’s better as a team sport

User research is a team sport as many user research teams – particularly those working in agile development teams, such as the GDS User research team – have discovered. This discovery is perhaps due to the growing realisation that user research in the agile software development cycle has the greatest… Read more

ChengVoon Tong

12 January 2015

ChengVoon Tong

12 January 2015

Top 3 tips for software testing a mature product

Developers and testers generally don’t like to work on a mature product with a legacy code base, especially when the majority of the team has no previous knowledge of either. Having said that, while building and testing a mature product can prove a lot more challenging than tackling a greenfield one, my… Read more

exploratory testing

Graham Helliwell

18 December 2014

Graham Helliwell

18 December 2014

What’s in a (strong) name?

Package managers are brilliant. The obvious win is the convenience of versioning your dependencies without having to commit binaries to Git. Lots of people use package managers for third party dependencies, but I’m going to talk about using them for components within an organisation. This is where package managers fulfil their… Read more

10 December 2014

10 December 2014

JavaScript unit tests

The amount of JavaScript code being used at Redgate is increasing quite rapidly. We are writing more web based products and also opting to use web technologies like CEF for our desktop products, so it is inevitable that a lot of our code is going to be written in JavaScript,… Read more

13 October 2014

13 October 2014

The unexpected consequences of compiling user feedback at collection

I’ve run plenty of face-to-face usability sessions, but since joining Redgate I’ve found myself having to run remote sessions. I’ve discovered a great technique and in doing so I have also stumbled upon some unexpected consequences of using it. Redgate has a vast user base, and it turns out that… Read more

1 October 2014

1 October 2014

Visualizing team work: physical taskboards vs virtual taskboards

I’m a project manager, so unsurprisingly I can find myself in animated conversations with other project managers regarding how best to manage the work that our team members are doing. We all have our favourite techniques and methods, but the process generally starts with making the work each member of… Read more

27 August 2014

27 August 2014

Providing help documentation for PowerShell cmdlets

We’ve been working on a new product that involves writing Windows PowerShell cmdlets (pronounced “commandlets”) for our customers to use and, to make their lives easy, we want to provide rich built-in help documentation. There’s no easy way to do this out of the box, so I’ve written a tool… Read more

13 August 2014

13 August 2014

UX katas – heuristic evaluation

The “extended” UX team sharpening their swords… At Redgate, our software engineers run regular “code katas”, workshops where developers practise their coding skills on simple problems, then discuss the experience afterwards as a learning exercise. So, a while ago, I thought it might be a good idea to use the… Read more

21 July 2014

21 July 2014

Five steps to an effective sprint retrospective

In a typical agile software development process, sprint retrospectives are meetings run at the end a development iteration. In those sessions the team looks back on what they have done and how they have done it, and decides what they can do to improve. More succinctly, the team inspect and… Read more

agile software development

retrospectives

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Posts categorized in Software development

Desire Lines in software architecture: what can we learn from landscape architecture?

User research- it’s better as a team sport

Top 3 tips for software testing a mature product

What’s in a (strong) name?

JavaScript unit tests

The unexpected consequences of compiling user feedback at collection

Visualizing team work: physical taskboards vs virtual taskboards

Providing help documentation for PowerShell cmdlets

UX katas – heuristic evaluation

Five steps to an effective sprint retrospective

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