J. B. Rainsberger

J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger is a Canadian software development consultant and technology writer, best known for his contributions to agile development, for which he was awarded the highest honor from the agile community, the Gordon Pask Award in 2005 (its first year of existence). He is the founder of [http://www.xpday.info/ XPDay North America] . He is also well known for his book, "JUnit Recipes : Practical Methods for Programmer Testing". He has been an agile practitioner since 2000, and in this time his articles on agile development have been published by leading programmer's magazines including IBM developerWorks and IEEE Software, for the latter of which he edits the regular "Not Just Coding" column. [cite web
url=http://www.agile2007.org/agile2007/index.php?page=sub/&id=414
title=XP 2000-2007: My Greatest Misses
publisher=Agile Alliance] cite web
url=http://www.computer.org/portal/site/software/menuitem.538c87f5131e26244955a4108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=software_level1&path=software/content&file=edboard.xml&xsl=article.xsl&
title=Our Experts
publisher=IEEE Software]

Joe is well known and well regarded in the Agile Software Development community. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world, and an important contributor to public discussions that further the state of the art.

Book

"JUnit Recipes : Practical Methods for Programmer Testing" (2004) ISBN 1-932394-23-0 is (as of 2007) the best selling work on unit testing with the popular JUnit framework Fact|date=July 2007. It was described as "highly recommended" by the ACM Computing Review magazine, [cite web
url=http://www.reviews.com/review/Review_review.cfm?review_id=131414&listname=search
title=JUnit recipes: practical methods for programmer testing (book review)
publisher=ACM Computing Review] and is considered a "standard reference" for JUnit users.Brad Appleton says in his review at StickyMinds [cite web| url=http://www.stickyminds.com/books.asp?Function=edetail&ObjectType=BOOK&ObjectId=767&tth=DYN&tt=siteemail&iDyn=4| title=Sticky Minds Book Guide] , "'JUnit Recipes' should probably be mandatory reading for anyone using Java, J2EE, and JUnit in the real world." Lasse Koskela says at Java Ranch [cite web| url=http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=49&t=000556| title=JavaRanch Big Moose Saloon] , "Joe has managed to put out something that I believe will be known as the unofficial JUnit bible for years to come."

Articles

* [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/co-single.html Use Your Singletons Wisely] (IBM developerWorks)
* [http://domaindrivendesign.org/practitioner_reports/rainsberger_jb_2003_10.html Persistence Last] (Domain-Driven Design)

Patents

Joseph B. Rainsberger was part of a team at IBM Toronto Labs that filed for two software patents in Canada and the US:
* Granted in the US in 2006.
* Pending.

References

External links

* [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JbRainsberger JbRainsberger] at WardsWiki
* [http://www.jbrains.ca jbrains.ca]
* [http://www.agilealliance.org/show/1859 Position Statement at Agile Alliance]