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Methods & Tools - April 2015


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*** Quote of the Month ***


Code that doesn't have tests rots. It rots because we don't feel confident to touch it, we're afraid to break the "working" parts. Code rotting means that it doesn't improve, staying the way we first wrote it. I'll be the first to admit that whenever I write code, it comes in its most ugly form. It may not look ugly immediately after I wrote it, but if I wait a couple of days (or a couple of hours), I know I will find many ways to improve it. Without tests I can rely either on the automatic capabilities of refactoring tools, or pure guts (read: stupidity).

Source: Everyday Unit Testing, Gil Zilberfeld, https://leanpub.com/everydayunittesting


*** News ***


Software Development Industry News

Docker Secures $95M in New Funding

Mendix and Pivotal Partner on Cloud Foundry

Percona Swallows Tokutek

Rapise 3.0 Released

Get all software development industry news and search for tools on SoftDevTools.com


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*** Jobs ***


Featured Jobs

Android Developer (Java) (OpenGL), ARC IT Recruitment, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK

Senior Software Engineer, NetApp, Sunnyvale, CA

Software Developer (Ruby on Rail), DG Business Solutions Inc, Burbank, CA


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*** Books ***


Agile Reflections

In his book Agile Reflections, Robert Galen has aggregated multiple articles that he wrote about transitioning to Agile for the online publication PM Times. The book is based on his experience as in Agile coach helping companies in different phases of their transition to Agile software development.

Read the complete review of Agile Reflections on ScrumExpert.com.

Agile Reflections – Musings toward becoming “Seriously Agile” in Software Development, Robert Galen, https://leanpub.com/Agile_Reflections


*** Linkopedia ***


Software Development Linkopedia April 2015

Blog: The Power of Not Knowing

Blog: Why You Should Avoid a Canonical Data Model

Blog: Managing Global Teams: Lessons learned

Blog: The Sprint Burndown is dead, long live Confidence Smileys

Blog: How to Write a Job Post for Software Development Positions

Blog: Why Self-Organizing is So Hard

Article: Order Your Product Backlog

Article: Programming with SOLID Principles

Article: Considerations for Best Practices with Selenium

Tools: unit.js is an open source assertion library for Javascript

Tools: Concrete is a simple continuous integration server written with NodeJS and CoffeeScript

Video: Developing Developers

Video: Back to the Future with Java 8

Video: Better Than TDD: More TDD

Video: Retrospectives Are Boring, Are They?

Video: eXtreme Programming at Unruly

Find more interesting links on the software development tools web site, the software development articles web site or the software development videos web site.


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STAREAST - Software Testing Conference, May 3-8 2015, Orlando, FL, USA

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GeeCon, May 13-15 2015, Krakow, Poland

Romanian Testing Conference, May 14-15 2015, Cluj Napoca, Romania

At The Frontend, May 27 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark

Security Conf, May 28 2015, Stockholm Sweden

I T.A.K.E. Unconference, May 28-29 2015, Bucharest, Romania

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Top Conf Bucharest, June 8-10 2015, Bucharest, Romania

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Agile on the Beach, September 3-4 2015, Falmouth, UK

Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October 12-14, Portland, USA
Call for Abstracts until May 1, 2015

Bosnia Agile Day 2015, October 17, Sarajevo, Bosnia

TopConf Tallinn, November 18-19 2015, Tallinn, Estonia

XP Days Benelux, December 3-4 2015, Mechelen, Belgium

TopConf Linz, February 2-3 2016, Linz, Austria


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