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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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*** Numbers ***

* Functional Testing Responsibility Poll

The current M&T poll is asking: Who does functional testing at your location? Go to our web site to participate and to see intermediate results.

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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

Article: DSL Evolution

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

Get more details on this book or buy it on amazon.com

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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