Agile Tool Hacking:
Taking Your Agile Development
Tools To The Next Level
Craig Smith Dr Paul King
Suncorp ASERT

Overview
Welcome
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According to the
Compact Oxford
Dictionary:
Tool (noun)
1. a device or
implement used to
carry out a
particular function.
2. a thing used to help
perform a job.
3. a person used by
another.
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Agile Manifesto on Tools…

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Refridgerators vs Radiators

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Refridgerators vs Radiators

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XP Practices over Tooling

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Scrum Practices over Tooling

Concept  Initiate  Deliver  Deploy
Storycards & iteration management
Collaboration
Development environments
Development tools
Testing
Continuous integration
Deployment
Monitoring
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Tools Usage Timeline

Tools
Hacking
Think
Simple!
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Tools
Hacking
Great
Team
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Storycards & iteration
management
Storycards:
 Promise for a conversation
 INVEST
 Defect tracking
Iteration / Release / Project
tracking:
 Prioritised backlog
 Iteration story wall
 Burn-up & burn down charts
 Metrics / Velocity
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 Estimation
http://www.ugleah.com/img/2009/burndown_chart.gif

Stories
&
Iterations
The
Manual
Way
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Example Storycards &
iteration management tools
Open Source / Free:
 XPlanner: http://www.xplanner.org
 Agilefant: http://www.agilefant.org
 IceScrum: http://www.icescrum.org
 Agilo: http://www.agile42.com/cms/pages/agilo/
Commercial:
 Jira + GreenHopper
http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/
http://www.atlassian.com/greenhopper/
 Mingle: http://studios.thoughtworks.com/
mingle-agile-project-management
 VersionOne: http://www.versionone.com/
 Rally: http://www.rallydev.com

Iteration Tool Maturity
Beginner Intermediate Advanced
Start with a Introduce tool if: Connect tools eg.
manual story wall Team members / IDE, VCS
(index cards, markers stakeholders remote
& stickies) Reporting requirements Extend tool with
Easier stats / BVC 0wn / community /
Keep manual BVC’s commercial plugins
& burn charts Keep a manual wall
of relevant level Electronic estimation
Breakdown stories & & planning
estimates (INVEST) Manual planning poker

Agilo

Mingle

Jira + GreenHopper

Hacking Jira: know the features

Hacking tool integration

Hacking planning poker

Collaboration
Team:
 Daily Scrum / Standup
 Retrospective
 Kickoff / Demo / Showcase
 Collective team ownership
 Pair Programming
Output:
 Project Documentation
 Email / telephone / IM
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Collaboration
The Manual
Way

Example Collaboration Tools
Open Source / Free:
 MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org
 Open Atrium: http://openatrium.com/
 Google Docs: http://docs.google.com
 Skype: http://www.skype.com
 Eclipse Communications Framework
(D0cShare): http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/
Commercial:
 Confluence: http://www.atlassian.com/
software/confluence/
 SharePoint / Office Communicator:
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com
 PBWorks: http://pbworks.com

Collaboration Tool Maturity
Beginner Intermediate Advanced
Basic agile / XP / Scrum: Combined kickoff / Connect tools eg.
Daily scrum / standup, retrospective for iteration management,
retrospective, small projects build tools
kickoff / demo /
showcase Advanced XP Extend tool with
techniques: pair
programming, team 0wn / community /
Basic wiki / shared
document environment ownership commercial plugins
Digital camera / Intranet / CMS Distributed
whiteboard capability collaboration
Wiki gardening

Confluence

SharePoint

Eclipse DocShare

IntelliJ Code Consultant

Hacking Wiki + Iteration Mgmt

Hacking Distributed Retros

Hacking Intranets (Atrium)

Development
Environments
Developers:
 Pragmatic programmers
 Continuous improvement
 Efficient / repeatable
Outcomes:
 Co-location
 Productive hardware
 Consistent environments
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 Scripted machine builds
 Environment testing
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Development
Environments
The Manual
Way
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Example Environment Tools
Open Source / Free:
 VirtualBox: http://www.virtualbox.org
 NSIS: http://nsis.sourceforge.net
 Linux distributions (various)
http://www.linux.org
http://distrowatch.com
Commercial:
 VMWare: http://www.vmware.com
 Cloud computing options
http://code.google.com/appengine/
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
http://github.com

Environment Tool Maturity
Beginner Intermediate Advanced
Instructions for Automated builds for Automated build for
application environments developer machines
building environments
manually / consistently
Automated environment Testers, team members
tests on demand using similar environment
Plan for pragmatic
programmer techniques
Required hardware / Consider cloud
software computing opportunities
Manual tests for
checking environments
Physical environment Zero cubicles, pairing
renovations stations, breakout /
Co-located team team area

VMWare

Google App Engine

Physical Environment

Hacking Dev. Machine Builds

Hacking Corporate SOE

Development Tools
Developers:
 Craftsmanship / clean code
 Quality non-negotiable
Tool Types:
 Integrated Development
Environment (IDE)
 Database SQL clients
 Version control
 Web Service / SOAP tools
 File & operating system tools
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 Metrics
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Development
Environments
The Manual
Way
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Example Development Tools
Open Source / Free:
IDE’s (multiple language support)
 Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org
 NetBeans: http://www.netbeans.org
 SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
 RadRails: http://www.aptana.com/rails
 Visual Studio Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/express/
Database Clients
 DBVisualizer: http://www.dbvis.com/
 SQuirreL: http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net
Web Service / SOAP Tools
 soapUI: http://www.soapui.org

Example Development Tools
Open Source / Free:
Version Control Systems
 Subversion: http://subversion.tigris.org
 Git: http://git-scm.com
 Bazaar: http://bazaar-vcs.org
 Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com
File & operating system tools
 PowerShell: http://www.microsoft.com/
windowsserver2003/technologies/
management/powershell/default.mspx fish:
http://fishshell.org
 Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com
 Miscellaneous OS tools

Example Development Tools
Open Source / Free:
Metrics
 Checkstyle: http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net
 StyleCop: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/
sourceanalysis
 FindBugs: http://findbugs.sourceforge.net
 PMD: http://pmd.sourceforge.net
 Cobertura: http://cobertura.sourceforge.net
 JDepend:
http://clarkware.com/software/JDepend.html
 Panopticode: http://www.panopticode.org
 CodeCity: http://www.inf.unisi.ch/phd/wettel/
codecity.html

Example Development Tools
Commercial:
IDE’s (multiple language support)
 IntelliJ IDEA / RubyMine / ReSharper:
http://www.jetbrains.com/
 Visual Studio:
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio
Web Service / SOAP Tools
 Oxygen: http://www.oxygenxml.com/
Metrics
 Clover: http://www.atlassian.com/software/
clover
 Simian: http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au
Profilers
 YourKit: http://www.yourkit.com

Development Tool Maturity
Beginner Intermediate Advanced
Usage of IDE with team Mastery of IDE Mastery of advanced
agreed setup keystrokes / features / IDE features / plugin
plugins development
Awareness / use of Usage of advanced
basic tools / metrics Team commitment to
react to metrics output metrics tools & features
Use of version control Usage of distributed
Usage of advanced
version control features version control
Team understanding of
quality Advanced clean code /
Quality non-negotiable /
software craftsman
clean code

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IntelliJ

Clover

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Code City

Hacking IDE Plugins

Hacking RYO IDE Plugins

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Hacking VCS: FishEye/SVNStat

Testing Tools
Testers:
 Automate
 Continuous feedback
 Bridge communication gaps
Tool types:
 Test specification generation
 Test execution / record / log
 Test user interfaces
 Performance test
 Test / incident management
 Reporting
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Testing
The Manual
Way
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Example Testing Tools
Open Source / Free:
Test Specification – xUnit Tools
 JUnit: http://www.junit.org
 Nunit: http://www.nunit.org
Test Specification Tools – Expressive/BDD
 Spock: http://code.google.com/p/spock/
 FitNesse: http://fitnesse.org
 Concordion: http://www.concordion.org
 Cucumber: http://cukes.info
 easyb: http://www.easyb.org
Test Specification Tools – Mocking
 NMock: http://www.nmock.org
 EasyMock: http://easymock.org

Example Testing Tools
Open Source / Free:
Test Execution / Record / Log / UI
 Selenium: http://seleniumhq.org
 Watir: http://wtr.rubyforge.org
 Tellurium: http://kenai.com/projects/tellurium
 WebTest: http://webtest.canoo.com
Performance Test
 JMeter: http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/
 Grinder: http://grinder.sourceforge.net/
Test Management
 Radi: http://radi-testdir.sourceforge.net
 RTH: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rth/

Example Testing Tools
Commercial:
Test Execution / Record / Log / UI
 Twist: http://studios.thoughtworks.com/
twist-agile-test-automation
 GreenPepper:
http://www.greenpeppersoftware.com/en/
 Squish: http://www.froglogic.com
Integrated
 HP Quality Center / QTP / LoadRunner:
https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/
display/main/hpms_home.jsp
?zn=bto&cp=1_4011_100__
 SpiraTest: http://www.inflectra.com/SpiraTest/

Testing Tool Maturity
Beginner Intermediate Advanced
Automated developer Test driven 100% test coverage
unit tests development (unit / acceptance /
functional)
Some automated BDD / mock testing
acceptance / functional Developer / tester
tests Automated regression pair programming
tests – new / legacy
Developers / testers Automated performance
working together plus All tests run in CI build testing with functional
combined definition of (unit / acceptance / test reuse
done functional)
Risk based testing
Usage of GUI test Usage of expressive /
robots DSL testing
Based on Elements of Enterprise CI
http://www.anthillpro.com/html/resources/elements_of_ci_A4.pdf

Quality Center

Selenium

NUnit

Hacking JMeter

Hacking Performance Tests

Hacking Expressive Tests

Continuous Integration
Advantages:
 Early warning
 Consistent test / integrate
 Centrepiece for quality
Practices:
 Version control / automated
build / automated test
 Commit early & often
 Fast feedback
 Visible / audible results
 Artefacts
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Continuous
Integration
The Manual
Way
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Example Continuous
Integration Tools
Open Source / Free:
Continuous Integration Servers
 Hudson: https://hudson.dev.java.net
 Cruise Control:
http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net
Build Tools
 Ant: http://ant.apache.org
 Nant: http://nant.sourceforge.net
 Maven: http://maven.apache.org
 Gradle: http://www.gradle.org

Example Continuous
Integration Tools
Open Source / Free :
Dependency / Repositories
 Nexus: http://nexus.sonatype.org
 Archiva: http://archiva.apache.org
 Ivy: http://ant.apache.org/ivy
Commercial:
 Bamboo:
http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo/
 Cruise: http://studios.thoughtworks.com/
cruise-continuous-integration
 TeamCity: http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity

Continuous Integration Maturity
Beginner Intermediate Advanced
Implementation of Implementation of Usage of build clusters /
core build steps continuous integration slaves / VM snapshots
server to auto-run build
Frequent check-in to Dependency management
version control system Dedicated build & internal repository
machine
Adequate hardware
to run build Advanced / refactored / High frequency check-in
multiple builds to version control
Team commitment to system
fixing broken builds Broken build alerts &
team procedures Builds for environment /
project impediments

Hudson

Hudson Plugins

Nexus

Hacking CI Data Migration

Hacking Hudson / Scoreboard

Hudson Swarms Plugin Growth
> java -jar swarm-client-
jar-with-dependencies.jar
Continuous Integration Game Plugin
Jira Plugin
Amazon EC2 Plugin
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Hacking Hudson Plugins

Deployment Tools
Advantages:
 Repeatable from development
to Production
 No “fight night” surprises
Practices:
 Automated deployment script
 Environment management
 Environment tokens
 Automated & manual steps
 Smoke test / confirmation
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Deployment
The Manual
Way
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Example Deployment Tools
Open Source / Free:
 Roll your own (scripts / build / CI server)
 Cargo: http://cargo.codehaus.org
 Capistrano: http://www.capify.org
 SmartFrog: http://www.smartfrog.org
Commercial:
 Tableaux: http://www.incanica.com
 IBM Rational Suite:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/
 BMC BladeLogic: http://www.bmc.com/
products/offering/bmc-bladelogic-application-
release-manager.html

Deployment Tool Maturity
Beginner Intermediate Advanced
Documented manual Fully scripted Usage of deployment
deployment & rollback deployment & rollback tool (roll your own /
process / checklist where applicable open source /
commercial)
Documented manual Roll your own basic
smoke tests deployment to test Repeatable deployment
environments using to all environments
Automated helper CI server (tokenized)
scripts
Repeatable build for Automated production
“go-live” processes deployment (push
button or automatic)
Based on Elements of Enterprise CI
http://www.anthillpro.com/html/resources/elements_of_ci_A4.pdf

Tableaux

Tableaux Tokens

Tableaux Deployment

#/bin/bash
SCRIPT_DIR=`dirname $0`
. $SCRIPT_DIR/setup.sh
HOST=$1
PORT=$2
ACTION=$3
URLS=("gi/underwriting/ncd/calculator?brand=wally"
"gi/underwriting/ncd/service/ws/GiNcdService?wsdl")
[ "${ACTION}" == "Test Installation" ] && {
echo "Running test of the installation";
TMPFILE=/tmp/wgetresult.$$
for i in "${URLS[@]}"; do
echo wget --no-proxy http://${HOST}:${PORT}/${i} >$TMPFILE 2>&1
wget --no-proxy http://${HOST}:${PORT}/${i} >$TMPFILE 2>&1
RESULT=`grep '200 OK' $TMPFILE`
echo RESULT is [ $RESULT ]
if [ -z "$RESULT" ] ; then
echo "ERROR: NCD ${i} did not start"
exit 1
else
echo "SUCCESS: NCD ${i} started OK"
fi
rm $TMPFILE
done;
exit 0;
}
Hacking Manual Scripts

[...]
<configuration>
<container>
> mvn cargo:deploy
<containerId>tomcat5x</containerId>
<type>remote</type>
</container>
<configuration>
<type>runtime</type>
<properties>
<cargo.remote.username>username</cargo.remote.username>
<cargo.remote.password>password</cargo.remote.password>
</properties>
</configuration>
<deployer>
<type>remote</type>
<deployables>
<deployable>
<groupId>war group id</groupId>
<artifactId>war artifact id</artifactId>
<type>war</type>
<properties>
<context>optional root context</context>
</properties>
<pingURL>opt. url to ping to know deployed</pingURL>
<pingTimeout>opt. timeout (default 20000ms)</pingTimeout>
</deployable>
[...]
Hacking RYO Cargo

Cucumber Feature
Feature: Deployment
In order to use the latest version of testApp
A support officer should be able to
Check that testApp.war has been deployed to the remote machine
Scenario: User deploys
Given app testApp
When I deploy
Then the testApp.war file should be deployed to remote
Cucumber / Capistrano Step Definition
[...]
When /^I deploy$/ do
Dir.chdir(@app_dir) do
system "cap deploy:setup"
system "cap deploy"
end
end
Then /^ the testApp.war file should be deployed
to remote$/ do
[...]
Hacking Deployment Tests

Monitoring Tools
Advantages:
 Visible status of assets
 Pro-active maintenance
Practices:
 Environment monitoring
 Process confirmation
 Fault monitoring
 Configuration monitoring
 Security monitoring
 Accounting monitoring
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 Log monitoring
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Monitoring
The Manual
Way
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Example Monitoring Tools
Open Source / Free:
 Roll your own (scripts / CI server)
 Cacti: http://www.cacti.net
 Zabbix: http://www.zabbix.com
 Nagios: http://www.nagios.org
 Monit: http://mmonit.com/monit/
Commercial:
 Splunk: http://www.splunk.com
 IBM Tivoli: http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli
 Hyperic: http://www.hyperic.com
 NetIQ: http://www.netiq.com

Monitoring Tool Maturity
Beginner Intermediate Advanced
Base level / centralised Roll your own basic Usage of monitoring
monitoring on critical monitoring for tools at all levels
components processes / logs / including application
(eg. hardware, operating environments at level
system, web server, application level
database) Monitoring alert process
Refactored logs
Useful logs (logging (central location, Visual display of
levels, log rolling, known redundant details monitoring tool / status
support procedures) fixed / removed)
Monitoring of advanced
Ad-hoc usage of tools / Ad-hoc usage of tools / items (eg. configuration,
procedures for procedures for accounting)
reactive support proactive support

Tivoli

Cacti

Splunk

Hacking RYO Visual Monitoring

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2009-07-14 17:10:02,841 [INFO ,com.thoughtworks.command.Command] BEGIN COMMAND
au.com.suncorp.ldocs.command.DocumentGenerationServiceCommand
2009-07-14 17:10:02,856 [INFO ,com.thoughtworks.dgs.server.dbaccess.DatabaseQueryManager] [START] FETCH EFFECTIVE TEMPLATE
2009-07-14 17:10:02,856 [INFO ,com.thoughtworks.dgs.server.dbaccess.DatabaseQueryManager] [START] FETCH TEMPLATE VERSION
2009-07-14 17:10:03,544 [INFO ,com.thoughtworks.dgs.server.dbaccess.DatabaseQueryManager] [END] FETCH TEMPLATE VERSION
2009-07-14 17:10:03,544 [INFO ,com.thoughtworks.dgs.server.dbaccess.DatabaseQueryManager] [END] FETCH EFFECTIVE TEMPLATE
2009-07-14 17:10:03,544 [INFO ,com.thoughtworks.dgs.server.dbaccess.DatabaseQueryManager] [START] DEEPEN THE QUERY
Hacking Log Files

Wrap Up:
Plan your
tools &
approach
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Wrap Up:
Manual
first
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Wrap Up:
Refactor
processes
& tools
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Wrap Up:
Learn from
retrospectives
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Wrap Up:
Eliminate
waste
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Wrap Up: Tools Maturity
Beginner Intermediate Advanced
Collaboration Storycards & Deployment
iteration
Development tools management Monitoring
Testing Development
environments
Continuous
integration

Wrap Up:
Think
like
Macgyver
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Wrap Up:
Act like
an A-
Team
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Want More Information?
Craig Smith
http://www.suncorp.com.au
http://www.agileacademy.com.au
craig.smith@suncorp.com.au
@smithcdau
Dr. Paul King
http://www.asert.com.au
paulk@asert.com.au
@paulk_asert
Download this presentation at:
http://www.agile2009.org/node/2840
http://www.slideshare.net/smithcdau

Acknowledgments
Suncorp is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest
diversified financial services providers, supplying banking,
insurance and wealth management products to around 7
million customers through well-established and recognised
brands such as AAMI, Australian Pensioners Insurance
Agency, Shannons, Vero, Asteron and Tyndall, as well as
Suncorp and GIO. Today, Suncorp is Australia's fifth
largest bank and second largest domestic general
insurance group, with over 16,000 staff. Suncorp has
representation in 450 offices, branches and agencies
throughout Australia and New Zealand.
ASERT is one of Australia’s leading suppliers of
development services, mentoring and training in Agile,
Web Services, Web Applications, Java, Groovy and Grails.