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Methods & Tools - Text Edition - January 2010
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*** News ***
* Review of 2009 for Software Development: Many Acquisitions and a Funeral
Last year has certainly been busy for the software development tools industry. We have seen many companies merging together and also the funeral of one of the oldest brand in the software development industry. Read more
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* Functional Testing Responsibility Poll
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*** Linkopedia ***
Linkopedia January 2010
Blog Post: High quality in application development without unit testing
Blog Post: The Problem with User Stories
Blog Post: Getting Real: the business, design, programming, and marketing philosophies of 37signals
Blog Post: A complete blog engine using Django in 60 minutes
Blog Post: UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil
Article: Love and Marriage: CMMI and Agile Need Each Other
Article: Speaking the Java language without an accent
Tool: GMetrics provides metrics for Groovy source code
Tool: Google's framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms
Video: Is Microsoft Going Agile? Insights from Scott Guthrie
Video: Achieving Web Test Automation with a Mixed-Skill
Video: Event Driven Architecture
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*** Books ***
Agile Project Management
The fact that this book is already at his second edition after a first publication in 2004 says something about its value. In one of his definition of Agile, Jim Highsmith says, "Agility is the ability to balance flexibility and stability". I will say that his book balances nicely high level thinking and a pragmatic approach. The book provides a framework for running agile projects and gives also insight in some more neglected related topics like managing projects portfolios or measuring the success of Agile projects. Read More
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*** Conferences ***
SharePoint Technology Conference, February 10-12 2010, San Francisco, USA
Scrum Getting Started, February 22-23, Stuttgart, Germany
CepConf - Complex Event Processing (CEP), February 23-24 2010, Munich, Germany
Enterprise Software Development Conference, March 1-3 2010, San Mateo, USA
CSM & Scrum in Depth Training with Ken Schwaber, March 3-4, Stuttgart, Germany
TheServerSide Java Symposium, March 17-19 2010, Las Vegas, USA
Turku Agile Day, March 17-18 2010, Turku, Finland
Spring In Finance eXchange, March 18 2010, London, UK
REConf 2010, March 15-18 2010, Munich, Germany
XP Day Suisse Edition Francophone, March 29 2010, Geneva, Switzerland
SharePoint Summit 2010, April 12-14 2010, Montreal - Quebec, Canada
ACCU Conference 2010, April 14-17 2010, Oxford, UK
Flex on Java eXchange, April 15 2010, London, UK
Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010, April 21-23 2010, Atlanta, USA
Cloud & Grid eXchange, April 22-23 2010, London, UK
STAREAST - Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference, April 25-30 2010, Orlando, USA
Iqnite Germany, April 27-30 2010, Düsseldorf, Germany
Scrum Day, May 4-5 2010, Munich, Germany
TeamConf 2010, May 4-6 2010, Munich, Germany
Certified Scrum Master with Jeff Sutherland , May 6-7 2010, Munich, Germany
SPA Conference, May 16-19 2010, London, UK
Iqnite Ireland, May 20 2010, Dublin, Ireland
Jazoon, June 1-3 2010, Zurich, Switzerland
Iqnite Geneva, June 15 2010, Geneva, Switzerland
Agile 2010 Conference, August 9-13 2010, Nashville, USA
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* Methods & Tools Article Pipeline
In future issues, you will find articles on:
* Five Symptoms of Mechanical Agile
* Using Wat-iN to leverage common elements in Web Testing
* Make your code more testable
* Model Based Testing
* Continuous Testing
* Keyword Driven Testing
* Large Software Product Lines
* Core Protocols
* Five Steps to Kanban
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