I hadn’t realized the Head First series now has a book on software development. Curious, I took a glance at the table of contents. Topics include:
- TDD
- User Stories
- Burn Down Charts
- Continuous Integration
- Test Coverage
Agile and XP practices are starting to be assumed. Maybe Ambler and others are right that Agile has really crossed the chasm. Just a year or so ago I bemoaned the lack of unit testing examples in Head First Java 2nd Edition where they went with the lame old main() method to demonstrate code. Now we have whole chapters devoted to TDD.
If you can’t honestly put unit testing or continuous integration on your resume you might want to stop sitting on the sidelines and get up to speed.