What’s in the toolbox of a successful software craftsman?

This was the theme of a presentation delivered by the Web 21C SDK team recently at the XPDay 2007 conference, held in London on 19 and 20 November.

The Developer Community session looked at some of the tools currently in use by the team to support and facilitate agile development work. Fabrizio Cannizzo, Gabriela Marcionetti, Nathan Fisher and Paul Moser spoke about their experience with configuring and making effective use of free or open source tools – such as Eclipse IDE, Danube ScrumWorks Basic, Cruise Control and Selenium to achieve high project status visibility, immediate feedback and complete automation of development tasks.

The team also produced a poster with a map representing the toolbox currently used for the development of Web21C SDK. Attendees were invited to update the poster to include their own preferred tools.

The experiment was a great success and it was an opportunity for the team to engage in discussion and exchange experiences with other fellow agile developers.

The SDK team was delighted with the way the session went and received positive feedback from conference chairs, Angela Martin and Ivan Moore and the audience.

They also received an award for presenting the “Best Newcomers Session at XPDay 2007”.

Angela Martin said: “One of the reasons we selected your team’s presentation for a special mention this year, was that it received very good feedback. But listening to the conversations during the breaks and afterwards, it was one of the presentations people were talking about most and had remembered. So well done!”