Agile, Architecture, DDD and CQRS

The slides from our AANUG talk on “Agile, Architecture, DDD and CQRS” is available here

As always, feel free to leave comments 🙂

I’m a .NET shop vs. I’m a Java shop parody

Saying that you’re a .NET shop, a Java shop or some other programming platform shop is just as ridiculous as if a software tester is saying that he is just a BDD man. Hopefully he is much more than that and has a more balanced approach to software testing, so he can select that test approach that makes the most sense for the problem at hand. Wouldn’t you be worried if you went to your car repair shop and were told that they’re only a piston shop?

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Can code generated from UML diagrams be useful?

Generating code from UML can be very useful, although the usefulness of the result depends on what type of UML diagrams you use.

We’ve been part of several large projects where we used UML class diagrams to model the domain model, according to the DDD principles. Domain models (being OO persistable class models or Web service model) focus on structural patterns, i.e. how the different constructs (like entities, values objects, aggregate, etc.) relate to each other. For structural models we prefer UML class diagrams as we feel the convey information in a much better way than pure textual DSLs.
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