A Timeline by definition is an iterative document - it is incrementally built minute by minute with no known completion point. However the historical entries on the time line might be elaborate also. This is a rough draft... please comment with new (better - more important, more accurate) events. Or point me to better resources - other historical time lines etc. Thanks!
1202 Fibonacci introduces Arabic numerals (0-9 and place value) to the West via book “Liber Abaci” (Book of Abacus or Calculation). The Zero is born!
1950s Demining teaches in Japan
1960s NASA’s Project mercury uses test-first development and micro-increments
1971 The Psychology of Computer Publishing by Gerald Weinberg - largely ignored
1980s Japanese car companies expand into Europe & Americas
1986 New New Product Development by Takeuchi & Nonaka
1987 Peopleware by deMarco & Lister
1988 Iterative delivery described by Tom Gilb in Principles of Software Engineering Management
Software Patterns
Pair Programming - organizational patterns described by James Coplien
1990 The Machine that Changed the World by Womack & Jones
1990s Object-oriented Programming
1990s Schwaber uses early Scrum at Advanced Development Methods
1990s Sutherland uses early Scrum at Easel Corporation
1995 DSDM consortium publishes version 1.
1995 Scrum Methodology paper by Sutherland & Schwaber
1990s Internet
1990s Dot-Com Boom
1996 Lean Thinking by Womack & Jones
1996 Journey of the Software Professional: The Sociology of Software Development
By Hohmann
1996 Beck creates XP at Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System (C3)
1997 Feature-Driven Development (FDD) by Jeff De Luca
1998 Extreme Programming by Kent Beck on c2.com wiki
1999 Java Modeling in Color with UML by Peter Coad - Ch 6 describes FDD.
1999, Extreme Programming Explained by Beck
1990s Crystal Clear by Alistair Cockburn
1999 The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Hunt & Thomas
2000 Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems by Highsmith
2001 Agile Manifesto Signed - Feb in Snowbird Utah http://agilemanifesto.org/history.html
2001 Agile-Testing Yahoo! Group started
2001 Agile Software Development with Scrum by Schwaber & Beedle
2003 Lean Software Development by Poppendieck
2004 Watir released
2004 Agile Project management with Scrum by Schwaber
2005 Fit for Developing Software by Mugridge & Cunningham
2006 BDD article by Dan North in Better Software Magazine
2006 RSpec released
2006 Selenium released
2007 Kanban introduced
2008 Cucumber released
2008 Robot Framework open sourced
2008 Slim update to Fitnesse
2009 The RSpec Book by Chelimsky & Astels
2009 Software Craftsmanship Conference
Sources:
Elisabeth Hendrickson, Quality Tree Software, Inc.
Agile, Testing, and Quality: Looking Back, Moving Forward. Oct 28, 2009
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