J. B. Rainsberger
Encyclopedia
J. B. Rainsberger is a Canadian
software development consultant and technology writer, best known for his contributions to agile development, for which he was awarded the highest honor from the agile community, the Gordon Pask Award in 2005 (its first year of existence). He is the founder of XPDay North America. He is also well known for his book, JUnit Recipes : Practical Methods for Programmer Testing. He has been an agile practitioner since 2000, and in this time his articles on agile development have been published by leading programmer's magazines including IBM developerWorks and IEEE Software, for the latter of which he edits the regular "Not Just Coding" column.
Joe is well known and well regarded in the Agile Software Development community. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world, and an important contributor to public discussions that further the state of the art.
framework . It was described as "highly recommended" by the ACM Computing Review magazine, and is considered a "standard reference" for JUnit users.
Brad Appleton says in his review at StickyMinds, "'JUnit Recipes' should probably be mandatory reading for anyone using Java, J2EE, and JUnit in the real world." Lasse Koskela says at Java Ranch, "Joe has managed to put out something that I believe will be known as the unofficial JUnit bible for years to come."
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
software development consultant and technology writer, best known for his contributions to agile development, for which he was awarded the highest honor from the agile community, the Gordon Pask Award in 2005 (its first year of existence). He is the founder of XPDay North America. He is also well known for his book, JUnit Recipes : Practical Methods for Programmer Testing. He has been an agile practitioner since 2000, and in this time his articles on agile development have been published by leading programmer's magazines including IBM developerWorks and IEEE Software, for the latter of which he edits the regular "Not Just Coding" column.
Joe is well known and well regarded in the Agile Software Development community. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world, and an important contributor to public discussions that further the state of the art.
Book
JUnit Recipes : Practical Methods for Programmer Testing (2004) ISBN 1-932394-23-0 is (as of 2007) the best selling work on unit testing with the popular JUnitJUnit
JUnit is a unit testing framework for the Java programming language. JUnit has been important in the development of test-driven development, and is one of a family of unit testing frameworks collectively known as xUnit that originated with SUnit....
framework . It was described as "highly recommended" by the ACM Computing Review magazine, and is considered a "standard reference" for JUnit users.
Brad Appleton says in his review at StickyMinds, "'JUnit Recipes' should probably be mandatory reading for anyone using Java, J2EE, and JUnit in the real world." Lasse Koskela says at Java Ranch, "Joe has managed to put out something that I believe will be known as the unofficial JUnit bible for years to come."
Articles
- Use Your Singletons Wisely (IBM developerWorks)
- Persistence Last (Domain-Driven Design)
Patents
Joseph B. Rainsberger was part of a team at IBM Toronto Labs that filed for two software patents in Canada and the US: Granted in the US in 2006. Pending.External links
- JbRainsberger at WardsWiki
- jbrains.ca
- Position Statement at Agile Alliance