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Methods & Tools - February 2017


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Last Articles Published on Methods & Tools Website

Agile Transformation Failure - Understanding Management Debt In many cases, Agile transformations seem to be doomed to failure before they begin. This article looks at one of the key causes of why Agile transformations fail in many organizations.

CasperJS - Automated Testing of Web Applications with JavaScript CasperJS is an open source browser navigation scripting and testing tool written in JavaScript for PhantomJS and SlimerJS. With CasperJS, you can build full navigation scenarios using high-level functions and a straight forward interface to accomplish all sizes of tasks, like running full featured tests without the overhead of a full browser.

doctest - Light Open Source C++ Testing Framework for Unit Tests doctest is a fully open source light and feature-rich C++98 / C++11 single-header testing framework for unit tests and TDD.


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One of the most important expectations to set early on is about involvement in the process. Many project stakeholders accustomed to traditional-style development view their role in a software development project as akin to dropping a car off for service: You tell someone what you need done and come back at appointed time to pick up the finished work. Stakeholders, especially anyone in a product owner role, will need to understand that this is not the right way to build software-intensive products.

Source: Succeeding with Agile, Mike Cohn, Addison-Wesley


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Software Development Industry News

New Release of Percona Server for MongoDB

Jenkins Pipeline Makes it Easier to Manage Software Delivery Pipelines

CNCF Purchases RethinkDB Source Code and Contributes it to The Linux Foundation

Veracode Greenlight Lets Software Developers Spot Security Defects in Seconds

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There might exist some lonely standalone software developers that create software without any other person involved, but my guess is that there are not many of them. Communication is an essential skill in software development, testing and project management… and life. As feedback is a key communication tool, I was therefore very interested when I stumble on this book about feedback written by an Agile coach.

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Reference: Make Them Grow by Giving Feedback People Apply, Michal Nowostawski, CreateSpace, ISBN-13: 978-1539744153


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Text: How to be a Better Leader In 4 Badly Drawn Charts

Text: Rethinking Component Teams for Flow

Text: The State of UX Agile Development

Text: Code That Doesn't Exist Is The Code You Don't Need To Debug

Text: Six Recipes for Software Managers

Text: A guide to handling incidents, downtime and outages

Text: Reasons Why Scrum Can Fail

Text: Banking App: Use Mobile Testing to Make It Perfect

Video: Automating Code Coverage Analysis

Video: Back to the Heart of Agile

Video: A Developer Guide to the UX Galaxy

Video: A Pragmatic Introduction to Lean Principles

Video: Leveling Up Automated Tests

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Tools: Rukovoditel is open source project management software

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