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- Earn ICAgile Certification in Agile Programming (ICP-PRG)
- Earn credits toward the Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) certification
- More than a dozen hands-on exercises using popular Agile tools
- After-course instructor coaching benefit
You Will Learn How To
- Apply test-driven techniques for developing working code
- Refactor code to exploit SOLID design principles and pattern technology
- Use mocking libraries to isolate components for efficient testing
- Remove dependencies between components with Dependency Injection Frameworks
- Drive version control systems using an Agile branching and merging policy
Important Course Information
Requirements
- Prior to attending this course, attendees should have attended:
- Course 918, Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP, or
- Course 1813, Certified ScrumMaster®
- Experience in programming, preferably in a modern (object based or object oriented) programming language
- A broad understanding of the software development lifecycle
- Prior to attending this course, attendees should have attended:
Recommended Experience
- This is a course not just for programmers, but for testers (particularly automation testers), and software designers that then implement their designs.
Software
- For in-class examples we use the Microsoft toolkit: the C# programming language with Visual Studio, Microsoft's Team Foundation Server for tracking agile workflow, and the Git version control system for versioning and teaching branching and merging strategies.
Course Preparation
- Students will be emailed a short document to review before class. Understanding the content of this pre-course reading is required before class, so more in-class time can be devoted to the role of the programmer.
Certification & Exam Information
- ICAgile: To obtain the ICAgile certification, students will need to pass the Learning Tree exam. Learning Tree customer service will process your registration with ICAgile once the exam has been passed. Please allow 10 business days.
- View the ICAgile Certification & Training Roadmap ›
- Scrum Alliance: This course qualifies for the 3-day technical portion of the Certified Scrum Developer. A Scrum Alliance Approved trainer leads this course. In-person, on-time attendance, and full participation, is expected. While emergencies are understandable, being fully present for the full two days is a Scrum Alliance requirement. After you pass the Learning Tree end-of-course exam, our customer service team will register you with the Scrum Alliance for your credits. Learn more about Scrum Alliance’s Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) certification: CSD - Certified Scrum Developer Training ›
- This course can help you earn ICAgile certification. Click to view our options for ICAgile Certification Training ›
Course Outline
- Agile Software Development Introduction
- Defining the developer role in an agile process
- Identifying software development roles and activities
- Supporting the requirements engineering process
- Decomposing and estimating requirements
- Using test automation to drive development
- Applying SOLID design principles
- Exploiting design patterns
- Integrating systems
- Branching and merging version controlled code
- Managing defects efficiently
- Supporting Agile Projects
Gathering software requirements
- Eliciting requirements from users
- Adopting Agile values and principles
- Identifying user stories from stakeholder requirements
Planning Agile Projects
- Prioritizing and estimating work
- Dividing features into tasks
- Estimating stories and tasks
Tracking Team Progress
- Tracking progress with burn down charts
- Calculating velocity and adjusting to change
- Monitoring work in progress with task boards
- Test-Driven Development
Defining test levels
- Acceptance, system, integration and unit testing
- Employing both automated and manual testing
- Specifying boundary conditions
- Driving development through constant testing
Ensuring software meets requirements with user acceptance testing
- Scripting user acceptance tests
- Specifying acceptance criteria
- Determining conditions of satisfaction
- Automating the user story acceptance tests with Gherkin
Minimizing bugs through automated programmer unit testing
- Utilizing tools for automated unit testing
- Writing unit test code
- Isolating classes for testing
- Programming mock objects
- Refactoring for improved design
- Improving Code Quality
Applying SOLID design principles
- Ensuring classes have a single responsibility
- Maintaining extensibility through the open-closed principle
- Using inheritance correctly
- Inverting dependencies to obtain the correct interfaces
- Injecting dependencies using injection frameworks
Short-circuiting design with patterns
- Understanding the role of design patterns
- Applying well-known patterns: Strategy and observer
- Scaling Development
Protecting code with version control
- Locking versus multiple checkout version control systems
- Single store versus distributed version control
- Employing GIT for distributed multiple checkout control
- Pushing and pulling changes from central repositories
Applying multi-team agile versioning policy
- Branching and merging code developed by multiple teams
- Choosing agile branching and merging strategies
- Continuous Improvement of Development
Monitoring development
- Knowing what to track in development
- Identifying common agile development pitfalls
Participating in retrospectives
- The developer’s role in agile process improvement
- Continuous improvement through learning
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$1795
Government
$1795
Private Team Training
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Training Hours
Standard Course Hours: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
*Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
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