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Clarify Business Value in Sprint Zero scrumexpert.com
When you explain the iterative/incremental nature of Agile, most...
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We Can't Do Agile Here Because... blog.martinig.ch
There are many reasons why people think they can’t do Agile in a...
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The Misguided Software Development Manager tvprojectmanagement.com
Almost every developer has worked for a bad manager. A good manager...
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Improving Cucumber Tests Performance softwaretestingmagazine.com
Software tests never run fast enough. To improve this performance,...
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Agile Requirements and Architecture, Software Testing in Spring 2012 Issue
Methods & Tools has just published its Spring 2012 issue with the following articles:
* The Most Popular Collaborative Models
* ...
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DSDM Agile Project Framework for Scrum White Paper
The DSDM Agile Project Framework is an abstraction of DSDM Atern designed to complement other Agile approaches in an environment where a ...
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https://sites.google.com/site/markussprunck/blog-1/howtotransformtheresultsfromfindbugscheckstyleandpmdintoasinglehtmlreportwithxslt20andjava sites.google.com
How to transform the results from Findbugs, Checkstyle and PMD into a single HTML Report with XSLT 2.0 and Java? ---- For some tasks pure Java is not my first choice. This is especially true for the manipulation of XML files. The following sample creates a single HTML report out of the three XML result files from Findbugs, Checkstyle and PMD. For this task a combination of Java and XSLT is easier
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This article lists software testing and software quality assurance certifications currently available from different professional ...
Software Testing Certifications softwaretestingmagazine.com
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Book Review: Practical Unit Testing with TestNG and Mockito
According to the author, this book is aimed at developers who want to produce high-quality, maintainable unit tests. It is intended ...
Practical Unit Testing with TestNG and Mockito softwaredevelopmentbooks.com
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Reuse: from rainbow to raincoat.
Reuse of development assets is arguably a key factor software engineering. Yet, despite its wide ranged potential benefits, reuse ...
The Cases for Reuse caminao.wordpress.com
Objective Reuse of development artifacts can come by design or as an afterthought. While in the latter case artifacts may have been originally devised for specific contexts and purposes, in the fo...
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Many project tracking taskboards look like they were imposed on the team. They are monochromatic, small and rarely providing too much ...
Visual Project Management projectmanagementplanet.com
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Employers, customers and colleagues (project managers, software testers, maintainers) should be included in the answer.
Who Are Software Developers Working For? blog.martinig.ch
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This article presents collaborative software specifications models to define requirements in agile software development projects.
Popular Collaborative Software Specifications Models methodsandtools.com
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JDeodorant is an Eclipse plug-in that identifies design problems in software, known as bad smells, and resolves them by applying ...
Java Class Refactoring with JDeodorant java-tv.com
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At a time where the Agile approach is often limited to the practice of Scrum, it is good to see a book dedicated to the programming side ...
Essential Skills for the Agile Developer softwaredevelopmentbooks.com
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Complexity is often the most neglected non-functional requirements in software development, even if it seems to be the most important ...
The Complexity of Complexity softdevtube.com
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Steve Ballmer Presents Microsoft Cloud Strategy
Steve Ballmer made a presentation in Switzerland this week and I had the chance to be selected as an attendee for his conference. Its ...
Microsoft Cloud Strategy with Steve Ballmer cloudcomputingdevelopment.net
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Short cycles provide us with a wealth of benefits in terms of fast feedback, minimal design in process and increased flow. Plan driven ...
Hating Sprints, Loving Iterations scrumexpert.com
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This article introduces a model of culture that is simple to understand and apply. The model will be used to show that Agile, Kanban and ...
Making Your Culture Work with Agile, Kanban & Software Craftsmanship methodsandtools.com
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ChiliProject: an Open Source Project Management Tool
ChiliProject is a modular web-based project management tool. It offers flexible issue tracking and project planning, time tracking, ...
ChiliProject - Open Source Project Management methodsandtools.com
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Book Review: Specification by Example
Specification by Example is a set of process patterns that facilitate change in software products to ensure the right product is ...
Specification by Example softwaredevelopmentbooks.com
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This video explains the basic differences between different flavors of functional software testing tools. It proposes a selection ...
Functional Software Testing Tool Selection softwaretestingmagazine.com
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This short presentation explains why software metrics are not the panacea that we thought they might be 20 years ago. This is why moving ...
The Dark Side of Metrics scrumexpert.com
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In the context of Java unit testing, a sleeping snail is a test that’s sluggish and takes (relatively speaking) forever to run because ...
Unit Testing in Java: A Sleeping Snail softwaretestingmagazine.com
