Agile Scrum and traditional software development ( SDLC ) terms.

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Few days back our boss focused on how to map the traditional software development term with Agile development term as a result I think it will be a good topic to discus and share our thoughts. We Agile practitioner always use some terms such as sprint, product backlog, burn-down chart etc. But people who are not used to Agile can hardly understand these terms where as these things are similar as traditional SDLC terms.

Today I will try to focus some of this Agile terms and try to make a equivalent SDLC terms, so that people can adopt the Agile practice easily.

In this post I will follow Scrum framework for the Agile development. There are some other Agile framework such as AUP,XP,FDD etc.

Agile Development Process:

In the following picture (it’s an Agile development process) we can see some agile terms such as Product backlog, Sprint Backlog, sprint and there are also some other terms like product owner, scrum master, daily scrum meeting, velocity, retrospective etc.

Roles:

Product Owner: Product owner is the client. According to their order the software will develop and they will clarify the requirement for the developers so that developers can develop the exact efficient software for the customer.

Scrum Master: Scrum master plays a similar type of role as project manager. But as the Agile team is self organized so scrum master doesn’t involve deeply in a project as traditional project manager. Scrum master takes initiative on the impediments and managing the process working perfectly so that the goal meets in the desired time frame (sprint).

Teams: In general a team means group of self organized developers who will develop the software.

Projects Terms:

Product backlog: Product backlog is the collection of requirements of a system. This requirements are placed according to the development priority, so that the high priority requirements are develop in the early phases.

Sprint: Sprint is like the time frame of an incremental development process. In a sprint the team fixes what to do in this cycle and deployment. Developers develop a deliverable product in a sprint and deploy it in client end. Once the tasks are fixed for a sprint the developer should not be interrupt with additional requirement and mass requirement change. If it’s necessary, the tasks will add in product backlog with high priority so that they can add in next sprint’s planning.

Sprint backlog: Sprint backlog is the set of high priority tasks taken from the set of product backlog which will develop in the current sprint and deploy in client end.

Scrum meeting: Scrum meeting is a daily short standing meeting where each team member will express what problem(s) s/he has faced last day and what s/he will do today. This meeting is extremely focused.

Retrospective: At the last day the team will discussed what went good what went band and what are the opportunity so that in the next sprint they can take initiative according to the retrospective.

Burndown chart: There are different types of burndown charts. Which represents the development process through graph, so that an Agile team member can get to know what project’s condition in a simple view.

Velocity: An agile team can estimate how much effort they can put in product backlog for one sprint. This velocity is determined from previous sprint’s average data. This velocity can be used to predict the project effort planning and team's productivity .

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LinkButton ,Label inside Repeater - ASP.NET

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Today I will show you how to fire  Link Button's event with argument and initialize a label inside of a repeater. To do that first we have to take LinkButton and a Label control inside the ItemTemplate of the repeater. Then we have to initialize the the Label from OnItemDataBound event of the repeater. In the following code blocks its shown how to perform the job.

Following is my Default.aspx file:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="TestProject._Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        Selected ID:<asp:Label ID="lblSelectedID" runat="server" Text=""></asp:Label>
        <br />
        <asp:Repeater ID="rptContent" runat="server" OnItemDataBound="rptContent_ItemDataBound">
            <ItemTemplate>
                <asp:Label ID="lblName" runat="server">
                </asp:Label>
                <asp:LinkButton ID="lnkShowData" runat="server" OnCommand="LinkButton_Command" CommandArgument='<%# Eval("key") %>'
                    Text="[Show]" CommandName="Show"></asp:LinkButton>
                <br />
            </ItemTemplate>
        </asp:Repeater>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

In the above code I have bind the "key" as CommandArgument in LinkButton which will be initialize form the code behind file.

My code behind is as following:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

namespace TestProject
{
    public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            rptContent.DataSource = this.userInformation();
            rptContent.DataBind();
        }

       // Fire the link button event from inside repeater.
       protected void LinkButton_Command(object sender, CommandEventArgs e)
        {
           lblSelectedID.Text = e.CommandArgument.ToString();
        }

        protected void rptContent_ItemDataBound(object sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
        {
            // find the label control by id
            Label lblDynaLabel = (Label)(e.Item.FindControl("lblName"));


            // bind the data from repeater data source (value from the dictionary)with the label control.
            lblDynaLabel.Text = DataBinder.Eval(e.Item.DataItem,"value").ToString();
        }

        #region Private method

        private Dictionary<int, string> userInformation()
        {
            Dictionary<int, string> userData = new Dictionary<int, string>();

            userData.Add(1, "Max");
            userData.Add(2, "Top");
            userData.Add(3, "Avg");

            return userData;
        }
        #endregion
    }
}

The output will be as bellow:

Selected ID:1
Max [Show]
Top [Show]
Avg [Show]

In the private method section I have created a simple mathod named userInformation, which contains dictionary data collection to bind it with repeater.Hope that above code blocks will help.

Thanks

That's all for the day.
BYE

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Print C# properties in aspx,ascx page from code behind file.

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Today I will show you how to print something in aspx or ascx page from code behind file.In this example I have taken a “Web User Control” named “WebUserControl.ascx”. What I wanted to do was, print a value of a variable in “.ascx” page where the variable has been initialize from “.ascx.cs” better to say code behind file.

To do that we have taken a property in “WebUserControl.ascx.cs” code behind file named “PrintValue” and make it a public property and assign a string value on PageLoad event as bellow :

using System;

public partial class WebUserControl : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
    public string PrintValue { get; set; }
    
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (IsPostBack)
            PrintValue = "Postback";
        else
            PrintValue = "Not postback";
    }
}

Now I have printed the value of the property in my “WebUserControl.ascx” page as bellow.One thing we have to remember that the script tag should be like : <%= %> to print something in it.

<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="WebUserControl.ascx.cs" Inherits="WebUserControl" %>

The page has - <%= PrintValue %>

Now we can use the control in our page to show the state of the page.
Thats all for today.
Bye

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