Agile Data Techniques

by Scott W. Ambler

As firms are adopting agile software development methodologies, they're discovering that they must also apply these agile techniques to their data-oriented development activities. By using an agile approach -- one that is iterative, incremental, and highly collaborative -- the data schema can evolve in step with the changing requirements and object schema. Join us next month, and you'll learn how an agile DBA made major improvements to the database build process at AOL UK. You'll learn how to introduce integrated automated testing to database development, thereby improving software reliability, reducing defect rates, and producing clean code that works. Don't miss this timely edition of Cutter IT Journal.