Software Engineering Radio

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Johannes Link & Lasse Koskela   Recording venue: Skype In this episode Johannes Link interviews Lasse Koskela - the author of "Test-Driven" - about test-driven development (TDD). We cover the basics, the rationale behind it and the challenges you face when doing it in more difficult environments. Links Book: Test-Driven JDave RSpec FitNesse Cucumber Johannes Link Lasse Koskela

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Ola Bini   Recording venue: Skype This is a conversation with Ola Bini on his experimental language Ioke. We cover the idea behind the Ioke experiment as well as important language concepts and the thinking behind them. Links Ola Bini's website Ioke

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Jan Bosch   Recording venue: Practical Product Lines This episode is a conversation with Jan Bosch about product line engineering (PLE). Jan has worked in various roles and industries and academia in the context of product lines. In this episode we look at Jan's view of what is next for product lines: software ecosystems. What is their relationship to PLE and how should PLE change to remain relevant? Links Jan Bosch's book on PLE Wikipedia: Product Family Engineering

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Michael  Guests: Johan Bezem   Recording venue: Our guest Johan Bezem explains the idea behind and the benefits of MISRA. MISRA defines guidelines for C and C++ programming in order to ensure quality. While it got started for embedded automotive development, it is more generally applicable. Links Book: C - A Reference Manual, by Harbison, Steele MISRA MISRA for C MISRA for C++ Code example

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Shane Clifford   Recording venue: Skype This episode is a discussion with Shane Clifford, who is a development manager at Intentional Software. We discuss the idea behind intentional programming, key concepts of the technology as well as example uses and a little bit of history. Links Intentional Software Various Papers and Presentations Good overview video from MS DSL Devcon

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Michael  Guests: Chuck Connell   Recording venue: Skype Michael discusses with his guest Chuck Connell the differences between software engineering and computer science. What makes software engineering so unpredictable, with so few formal results? And how can we advance the field of software engineering without these results? Links Article: "Difference between Software Engineering and Computer Science" Grady Booch's handbook of software architecture Steve McConnell's blog about software development NASA page about formal software methods Chuck Connell's other essays about software engineering

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Michael  Guests:   Recording venue: Michael and Markus discuss what makes a good R&D manager and how to potentially become an R&D manager. You will learn what some of the essential skills are, what the challenges are, and what the 'mission/vision/strategy thing' is actually good for. Links Wikipedia: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Wikipedia: Eisenhower time management Podcast: Manager Tools

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Eberhard Wolff   Recording venue: In this episode we discuss the current state of the spring framework. We talk about core features (dependency injectioin, AOP) but also about the spring universe, i.e. some of the more specific frameworks such as Spring Batch. Links Eberhard Wolff's Blog Spring Framework Docs Spring Framework

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Jim de Rivieres   Recording venue: JAOO 2008 This episode is a discussion with Jim De Rivieres about APIs: How to design good APIs, the role of the documentation/specification in APIs, API evolution and other relevant topics. Links Wikipedia: API Book: The art of the metaobject protocol

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Kevlin Henney and Klaus Marquardt   Recording venue: OOP 2009 This is another episode recorded at OOP 2009, thanks to SIGS Datacom and programme chair Frances Paulisch for making this possible. Here is the abstract from the conference program: Many software systems have fragile architectures that are based on brittle assumptions or rigid architectures that reduce options and make change difficult. On the one hand, an architecture needs to be fit for the present day, suitable for immediate use, and on the other it needs to accommodate the future, absorbing reasonable uncertainty. However, an approach that is overly focused on today's needs and nothing more can create an inflexible architecture. An approach that becomes obsessed with possible future changes creates an overly complex architecture that is unfit for both today's and tomorrow's needs. Both approaches encourage an early descent into legacy for a system. The considerations presented in this talk reflect an approach that is more about thinking in the continuous present tense than just the present or the future tense. This includes principles from lean thinking, practices common in agile processes and techniques for loosely coupled design. Links Wikipedia: Software Architecture Kevlin Henney's Homepage Klaus Marquardt's Homepage Book: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know Mind Map concerning Sustainable Architectures

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Jim Purbrick   Recording venue: JAOO 2008 In the first part of this episode we discuss a couple of basics about SecondLife (scaling, partitioning, etc). The second part specifically looks at how the dev team tackled a number of interesting problems in the context of executing their own LSL scripting language on top of Mono. Links Jim Purbrick's Blog SecondLife Linden Lab LSL Mono

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Gilad Braha   Recording venue: DSL Devcon This episode is a conversation with Gilad Braha about Newspeak, type systems in general and optional/pluggable types in particular. It was recorded during DSL Devcon in the gardens of the Microsoft campus, and thanks to Gilad's "speaking like a book" way of talking it is published completely unedited :-) Links Gilad's website Newspeak website Pluggable Types

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Markus  Guests: Linda Rising   Recording venue: OOP 2009 This episode is once again with Linda Rising, this time on the book she coauthored with Mary Lynn Manns on introducing ideas into organizations. The talk is another one of the SE Radio Live sessions recorded at OOP 2009 - thanks to SIGS Datacom and programme chair Frances Paulisch for making this possible. Links Linda's website Book: Fearless Change

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Arno  Guests: Allan Kelly   Recording venue: Skype In this episode, Allan shares his insights about how learning is a necessary part of software development. He covers the personal as well as the team and the organizational level and offers practical advice. Links Book: Changing Software Development: Learning to Become Agile, Allan Kelly Book: The Living Company, Arie de Geus Book: The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge Book: The Knowing-Doing Gap, Pfeffer & Sutton Paper: How do Committees invent?, Melvin Conwy

Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: Arno  Guests: Jim Melton   Recording venue: Skype In this episode, Arno talks to Jim Melton about the SQL programming language. In addition to covering the concepts and ideas behind SQL, Jim shares stories and insights based on his many years' experience as SQL specification lead. Links Book: SQL for Smarties Book: SQL Performance Tuning