Agile Programming Professional Training and Certification

Agile Programming Course Outline

• Agile Software Development Introduction

  • Defining the developer role in an agile process
  • Identifying software development roles and activities
  • Supporting the requirements engineering process
  • Decomposing and estimating requirements
  • Using test automation to drive development
  • Applying SOLID design principles
  • Exploiting design patterns
  • Integrating systems
  • Branching and merging version controlled code
  • Managing defects efficiently

• Supporting Agile Projects

  Gathering software requirements

  • Eliciting requirements from users
  • Adopting Agile values and principles
  • Identifying user stories from stakeholder requirements

  Planning Agile Projects

  • Prioritising and estimating work
  • Dividing features into tasks
  • Estimating stories and tasks

  Tracking Team Progress

  • Tracking progress with burn down charts
  • Calculating velocity and adjusting to change
  • Monitoring work in progress with task boards

• Test-Driven Development

  Defining test levels

  • Acceptance, system, integration and unit testing
  • Employing both automated and manual testing
  • Specifying boundary conditions
  • Driving development through constant testing

  Ensuring software meets requirements with user acceptance testing

  • Scripting user acceptance tests
  • Specifying acceptance criteria
  • Determining conditions of satisfaction
  • Automating the user story acceptance tests with Gherkin

  Minimising bugs through automated programmer unit testing

  • Utilising tools for automated unit testing
  • Writing unit test code
  • Isolating classes for testing
  • Programming mock objects
  • Refactoring for improved design

• Improving Code Quality

  Applying SOLID design principles

  • Ensuring classes have a single responsibility
  • Maintaining extensibility through the open-closed principle
  • Using inheritance correctly
  • Inverting dependencies to obtain the correct interfaces
  • Injecting dependencies using injection frameworks

  Short-circuiting design with patterns

  • Understanding the role of design patterns
  • Applying well-known patterns: Strategy and observer

• Scaling Development

  Protecting code with version control

  • Locking versus multiple checkout version control systems
  • Single store versus distributed version control
  • Employing GIT for distributed multiple checkout control
  • Pushing and pulling changes from central repositories

  Applying multi-team agile versioning policy

  • Branching and merging code developed by multiple teams
  • Choosing agile branching and merging strategies

• Continuous Improvement of Development

  Monitoring development

  • Knowing what to track in development
  • Identifying common agile development pitfalls

  Participating in retrospectives

  • The developer’s role in agile process improvement
  • Continuous improvement through learning