“…Whether you're new to the field or an experienced practitioner, you'll come away with fresh insights each and every time. Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. …”

“…But the meaty part of the book is its collected unit testing wisdom from people who've been there, done that on production systems for at least 15 years: veteran author and developer Jeff Langr, building on the wisdom of Pragmatic Programmers Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas. You'll learn: How to craft your unit tests to minimize your effort in maintaining them. …”

“…A-list Programmers Reveal How to Develop Breakout Skills Find out what it takes to push your programming chops to the next level and design killer software by getting inside the minds of today's rock star programmers: • Rod Johnson, Inventor of the Spring Framework • Adrian Colyer, Pioneer of Aspect Oriented Programming Tools, Project Lead of AspectJ • Java Posse--Tor Norbye, Joe Nuxoll, Carl Quinn, and Dick Wall • Chris Wilson, Lead Architect of Microsoft Internet Explorer • Nikhil Kothari, Architect of ASP.NET AJAX • Hani Suleiman, Author of "The Bile Blog" • James Gosling, Father of Java • Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Creator of the Hudson Continuous Integration Tool • Herb Schildt, The World's Bestselling Programming Author • Floyd Marinescu, Co-founder of ServerSide.com; Founder and Lead Editor of InfoQ.com • Andy Hunt, Co-founder of the Pragmatic Programmers • Dave Thomas, Object Oriented Software Pioneer • Max Levchin, Co-founder and Former CTO of PayPal • Libor Michalek, Co-founder of Slide.com • Weird Al Yankovic, The Programmer's Rock Star…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Network Function Virtualization -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword by Dave Ward -- Foreword by Chris Wright -- Preface -- Assumptions -- What Is in This Book? …”

“…This is an important piece in the agile development puzzle.” --Dave Thomas, coauthor of The Pragmatic Programmer “Ward and Rick do a great job in eschewing the typical, overly complicated technology trap by presenting a simple, user-oriented, and very usable technology that holds fast to the agile principles needed for success in this new millennium.” …”

“…Armed with the ‘what’ and the ‘why,’ we can now all set out to confidently work on the ‘how’: how to run our projects better, and how to get agile techniques adopted in our organizations.” — Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmers LLC “This book is dynamite! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dimitrios - Dionysios Koutsouris -- Outcomes of a feasibility trial using an innovative mobile health programme to assist in insulin dose adjustment -- Anish Menon, Farhad Fatehi, Hang Ding, Dominique Bird, Mohan Karunanithi, Leonard Gray, Anthony Russell -- Investigation of wearable health tracker version updates -- Sandra I Woolley, Tim Collins, James Mitchell, David Fredericks -- Telehealth dashboard: leverage reporting functionality to increase awareness of high-acuity emergency department patients across an enterprise practice -- Heather A Heaton, Christopher S Russi, Ryan J Monroe, Kristine M Thompson, Karen A Koch -- Study Protocol -- International feasibility trial on the use of an interactive mobile health platform for cardiac rehabilitation: protocol of the Diversity 1 study -- Manuel Cruz Gonzalez-Garcia, Farhad Fatehi, Martijn Scherrenberg, Robin Henriksson, Adrian Maciejewski, Jorge Salamanca Viloria, Paul Cummins, Ines Frederix, Antonio Manuel Rojas Gonzalez, Lukasz Koltowski, Nico Bruining, Thomas Mooe, Paul Dendale, Mohan Karunanithi, Marlien Varnfield -- Combined effect of pill refilling and self-medication reminder system on patients' adherence to tuberculosis treatment during continuation phase in Northwest Ethiopia: a study protocol for randomised controlled trial -- Kassahun Dessie Gashu, Kassahun Alemu Gelaye, Richard Lester, Binyam Tilahun…”