Our Current Tools, Frameworks, Practices 2007

websphere, acceptence testing, jsf, automated builds, code reviews, test driven development, software development

I’m not sure anyone else will find this of much use, but the following is a list of tools, frameworks and libraries we use currently:

Java Frameworks

• JSF 1.0
• MyFaces
• AJAX Anywhere
• Spring
• Hibernate
• iBATIS
• JUnit
• EasyMock
• Log4J
• JODA Time
• Struts (Though just for one 3rd party app and some older applications)

Tools

• RAD 6.0 (We’re a Websphere shop these days)
• IntelliJ IDEA ( Was the editor of choice before Websphere, still used occasionally)
• Hudson (our current continuous build tool)
• Confluence
• HSQLDB (for in memory testing)
• Crucible
• Clover
• Fisheye
• CVS
• Tomcat
• WAS 6.0
• Websphere Portal 5.1
• Websphere Process Server
• Ant
• Maven 2 (Used for one or two projects at this point)
• Checkstyle
• PMD
• FindBugs
• Fitnesse

Practices

• Scrum (30 day Sprints)
• Test Driven Development (We’re still working on this, most unit tests are still written after the code.)
• Lightweight Code Reviews
• Domain Driven Design (Really just getting started here.)
• Continuous Integration
• AOP (But just a little bit with Spring 2.0)
• Use Cases
• Automated Acceptance Tests (Again, just getting started here.)

Ed Gibbs @ April 8, 2007