The U.S. defense industry is the inventor of numerous software processes and even a programming language. This series discusses the challenges to using agile in the U.S. defense industry and some ways agile has made a difference. 

Agile is a term used to describe approaches to software development emphasizing incremental delivery, team collaboration, continual planning, and continual learning. The term “Agile” was coined in 2001 in the Agile Manifesto. The manifesto set out to establish principles to guide a better approach to software development. The manifesto set out to establish principles to guide a better approach to software development. At its core, the manifesto declares 4 value statements representing the foundation of the agile movement.

 var words = text.Split(new[] { ' ' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
return words.Length;
 

[TestMethod]
public void TestInvalidChars()
{
    const string data = "To be . ! < > ( ) ! ! , ; : ' ? + -";
    Assert.AreEqual(2, data.WordsCount());
}

 var words = text.Split(
    new[] { ' ', ',', ';', '.', '!', '"', '(', ')', '?', ':', '\'', '«' , '»', '+', '-' },
    StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
return words.Length;

[TestMethod]
public void TestSimpleHtmlSpacesWithNewLine()
{
    const string data = "<b>this is&nbsp;a&nbsp;&nbsp;test.</b>\n\r<b>this is&nbsp;a&nbsp;&nbsp;test.</b>";
    Assert.AreEqual(8, data.WordsCount());
}

using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
 
namespace ReadingTime
{
    public static class CalculateWordsCount
    {
        private static readonly Regex _matchAllTags =
            new Regex(@"<(.|\n)*?>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled);
 
        public static int WordsCount(this string text)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(text))
            {
                return 0;
            }
 
            text = text.cleanTags().Trim();
            text = text.Replace("\t", " ");
            text = text.Replace("\n", " ");
            text = text.Replace("\r", " ");
 
            var words = text.Split(
                new[] { ' ', ',', ';', '.', '!', '"', '(', ')', '?', ':', '\'', '«' , '»', '+', '-' },
                StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
            return words.Length;
        }
 
        private static string cleanTags(this string data)
        {
            return data.Replace("\n", "\n ").removeHtmlTags();
        }
 
        private static string removeHtmlTags(this string text)
        {
            return string.IsNullOrEmpty(text) ?
                        string.Empty :
                        _matchAllTags.Replace(text, " ").Replace("&nbsp;", " ");
        }
    }
}

using System;
 
namespace ReadingTime
{
    public static class CalculateReadingTime
    {
        public static string MinReadTime(this string text, int wordsPerMinute = 180)
        {
            var wordsCount = text.WordsCount();
            var minutes = wordsCount / wordsPerMinute;
            return minutes == 0 ? "کمتر از یک دقیقه" : TimeSpan.FromMinutes(minutes).toReadableString();
        }
 
        private static string toReadableString(this TimeSpan span)
        {
            var formatted = string.Format("{0}{1}{2}{3}",
                span.Duration().Days > 0 ? string.Format("{0:0} روز و ", span.Days) : string.Empty,
                span.Duration().Hours > 0 ? string.Format("{0:0} ساعت و ", span.Hours) : string.Empty,
                span.Duration().Minutes > 0 ? string.Format("{0:0} دقیقه و ", span.Minutes) : string.Empty,
                span.Duration().Seconds > 0 ? string.Format("{0:0} ثانیه", span.Seconds) : string.Empty);
 
            if (formatted.EndsWith("و "))
            {
                formatted = formatted.Substring(0, formatted.Length - 2);
            }
 
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(formatted))
            {
                formatted = "0 ثانیه";
            }
            return formatted.Trim();
        }
    }
}