Agile Oracle Application Express

Agile Oracle Application Express shows how skilled, motivated, and self-organizing developers can realize extraordinary commercial benefits from Oracle Application Express. The secret is to couple Application Express with an agile software development approach. This book leads the way.

Oracle Application Express is well-suited to agile processes, with its support for rapid prototyping and team development. Application Express supports a gamut of enabling technologies such as SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and more that enable you to deliver any type of web application to meet your development needs. Agile Oracle Application Express helps you take the feature set of Application Express and marry it with the processes of agile development to iteratively design, create, and deliver quality applications on time and within budget.

What you’ll learn

• Discover how Application Express features compliment agile development
• Apply principles of agile software development to Application Express projects
• Deliver working code to your clients quickly
• Meet cost, schedule, and quality targets
• Increase productivity through team-based techniques
• Create the right amount and size of governance for any Application Express project

Who this book is for

Agile Oracle Application Express is a must-read for highly skilled and highly motivated Application Express (APEX) developers who are comfortable taking responsibility within a self-organizing team environment. These APEX developers want to raise themselves to a higher level of organizational maturity that will position them to improve on APEX’s already highly productive software development platform.

Table of Contents

1. Agile Software Development
2. Agile and APEX
3. Core APEX vs. Enhanced APEX
4. Supporting Technologies
5. Project Management
6. Team Development
7. Rules and Guidelines
8. Documentation
9. Quality Assurance
10. Summary