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Methods & Tools - Text Edition - April 2012
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Software Linkopedia April 2012
Web site: Agile Adoption Test
Blog: Splitting user stories: the hamburger method
Blogs: Thoughts on Infrastructure, Technical Debt, and Automated Test Framework
Blogs: Let’s Test prequel with Ilari Henrik Aegerter
Blogs: What is Capability?
Blogs: Sources of Variance
Articles: Acceptance Testing for Node.js
Articles: Metrics in Distributed Product Development
Articles: Can Support and Maintenance Become Agile?
Articles: Business Analysis and Software Requirements Certifications
Articles: Java for Robotics
Tools: FluentLenium, a framework that helps you writing Selenium tests
Tools: Selendion allows non-programmers to develop acceptance criteria/tests
Videos: Context-Based Agile
Videos: Software Architecture: Engineering or Bullshit?
Videos: Stop Mocking, Start Testing
Videos: A Lean Approach to Portfolio Management
Videos: Visual Project Management
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*** Quote of the Month ***
Instead of blindly accepting software requirements as a solution to an unknown problem, successful teams derive scope from goals. They begin with a customer’s business goal. Then they collaborate to define the scope that will achieve that goal.
Reference: "Specification by Example – How successful teams deliver the right software", Gojko Adzic, Manning, 249 pages, IBSN 978-1617290084
*** Conferences ***
ESE Conference, April 24-25 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
Future Insights Live, April 30 - May 4 2012, Las Vegas, USA
Android DevCon III, May 14-17 2012, San Francisco, USA
Gartner PPM and IT Governance Summit, 21-23 May 2012, National Harbor, USA
GOTO Amsterdam, May 24-26 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Agile Development Conference West, June 10–15 2012, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Better Software Conference West, June 10–15 2012, Las Vegas, NV, USA
JAZOON'12, June 26-28 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
Scrum Days 2012, July 5-6 2012, Walldorf, Germany
SPTechCon, July 22-25 2012, Boston, USA
Agile 2012, August 13-17 2012, Dallas, Texas
The Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC), October 8-10 2012, Portland, USA
WPDevCon October 22-24 2012, San Francisco, USA
Topconf Tallinn, November 1-2 2012, Tallinn, Estonia
Android DevCon IV, December 4-7 2012, San Francisco, USA
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Methods & Tools Article Pipeline
In our future quarterly PDF issues, you will find articles on:
* Evaluation of Open Source Components
* Acceptance Testing in Scrum
* DSDM Methods
* Mikado Method
* Robotium
* Mockito
* Jmeter Plugin
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