A short tutorial on interfaces in Go — The programing language Go, developed by Google, was designed to be easy to understand and learn. However, their interfaces implementation is not always easy to grasp. In this article, I will explain interfaces in Go using a good old Shapes example. Assignment: Create a command-line program to calculate the surface…

A satirical Agile bashing story — Did you hear about the new form of torture they are using in some political prisons? They call it Scrum or Agile and are delighted with its effects. They use these two terms interchangeably (I have no idea what these terms mean or how they relate to each other). First…

Domain-Driven Design vs Demo Driven Development, a case for the “Yes upfront design” approach Modern software development project management styles, such as Scrum, are centered around short development cycles, a.k.a. sprints. Many organizations misinterpret this and take a “no upfront design” and a “get coding from day one” approach. To them, the theory goes that we don’t need to design a software solution. We…

Using domain stories to easily create Spock tests In my previous story, I showed you an example of a Domain Story. What is interesting is that by reading the diagram we can construct a collection of sentences, ordered consecutively, describing what's happening in the domain we are modelling. Remember, this…

Authors: Antonio Banjan, Darko Kantic In our previous story, we explained what Domain Storytelling is and how we use draw.io to record our Domain Stories. In this story, we will demonstrate the use of our icons in a slightly more elaborate example. Should you wish to reuse our icons, at…

Aiding and abetting Domain Storytelling — Authors: Antonio Banjan, Darko Kantic Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is an approach to software development: a set of techniques, principles, and patterns used to aid in the development of complex systems. The term was coined by Eric Evans in his 2004 book: Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software. Collaboration through ubiquitous language