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Methods & Tools - Text Edition - January 2011
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Load or Performance Testing Tools Poll
Our last poll wanted to determine the level of adoption of load testing tools in organizations. We asked the following question: "Do you use a tool for load or performance testing?" A majority of the companies from the participants have load testing tools, but there are still many developers that don't use them. Read the complete analysis of our load testing tools usage survey
Requirements Poll
Our current poll: Which format is used to express requirements in your organization? Go to our web site to participate and to see intermediate results.
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Software Linkopedia January 2011
Blog: Definition of Done: A Reference
Blog: Developers, let the testers assist with the technical debt
Web Site: Refactoring Manifesto
Article: Automated web testing with Selenium
Article: Five Ajax best practices
Tool: Selenium Toolkit for .NET
Tool: BigTuna- Continuous Integration Server
Video: Battle of NoSQL Stars: Amazon’s SDB vs Mongoid vs CouchDB vs RavenDB
Video: Android Application Development – A 9,000 Foot Overview
Video: Mocks Suck (and what to do about it)
Video: Enterprise Scale Scrum Sprint Planning
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*** Books ***
Adaptive Project Framework by Robert Wysocki
This a different item in the category of project management books: its goal is to present an open framework and not a prescriptive model. As the author says, many project managers prefer to apply an existing recipe for their project. If you are ready to step out of your comfort zone, this book contains many ingredients that will allow you to create your own recipe for to manage software development projects.
Read the complete review of Adaptive Project Framework by Robert Wysocki
Reference: “Adaptive Project Framework, Managing Complexity in the Face of Uncertainty”, Robert K. Wysocki, Addison-Wesley, 355 pages, ISBN 978-0-321-52561-1
Get more details on this book or buy it on amazon.com
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*** Conferences ***
SharePoint Summit, January 31 - February 2 2011, Toronto, Canada
SPTechCon, San Francisco, February 7-9 2011, San Francisco, USA
Scandinavian Agile Conference 2011, March 3 2011, Espoo, Finland
Android DevCon, March 7-9 2011, San Francisco, USA
TheServerSide Java Symposium, March 16-18 2011, Las Vegas, USA
EclipseCon, March 21-24 2011, Santa Clara, USA
iPhone/iPad DevCon, April 4-6 2011, Boston, USA
ACCU Conference, April 13-16 2011, Oxford, UK
SPTechCon, June 1-3 2011, Boston, USA
iqnite 2011 Suisse, June 16 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
Agile 2011, August 7-13 2011, Salt Lake City, USAFind more software development conferences
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Methods & Tools is looking for open source tools articles
Methods & Tools has introduced this year a tool section in its PDF issues. I am therefore looking for short (3-4 pages, screenshots included) presentations articles of open source software development tools (JUnit for instance). If you are commiter to an open source project or working with such a tool and willing to present it to the readers of Methods & Tools, do not hesitate to contact me.
Methods & Tools Article Pipeline
In future issues, you will find articles on:
* Automated Acceptance Tests and Requirements Traceability
* Complexity Theory for Software Developers
* Agile Risk Management
* Persona Driven Development
* Function Point Estimation Models Comparison
* The Art of Mocking
* Use of Quality and Capability Models and Standards
* Solid Configuration Management
* Ant Tool
* Maven Tool
* Tellurium Tool
* GiveWenZen Tool
* Apache CXF Tool
* Selenium Tool
* RSpec Tool
* FEST Tool
* Cruise Control.net Tool
* Liquibase Tool
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