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Methods & Tools - Text Edition - January 2013
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*** News ***
Methods & Tools 20th Anniversary
The first issue of Methods & Tools was printed in January 1993 as a 16 pages newsletter. This small publication had the goal to spread knowledge about software development methods and tools with a global perspective. Today Methods & Tools still has the same objective and wants to thanks all the authors from the five continents that shared their knowledge in our pages in the past 20 years. Read more about Methods & Tools 20th Anniversary
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*** Linkopedia ***
Software Development Linkopedia December 2012
Web site: Practical API Design
Web site: Impact Mapping
Web site: Source Code Analysis Tools
Web site: Coding the Architecture
Blog: Transitioning from time estimation to relative estimation
Blog: Test Driven Retrospectives
Article: Your Client Isn’t Your Product Owner
Article: The Transaction Manifesto: A Direction for NoSQL Database Technology
Article: Java Secure Random Number Generation
Article: The Business Analyst Role in Agile Software Development
Tools: CMocka, a unit testing framework for C
Tools: Saga, a code coverage tool for JavaScript
Video: Intelligent Mistakes in Test Automation
Video: People: Your Most Agile Ingredient
Video: Effective Programming Patterns
Video: Thinking in Functional Style using F# and C#
Video: Ten Web Performance Tuning Tricks in 60 Minutes
Find more interesting links on the software development directory, the software development tools web site, the software development articles web site, the software development blogs or the software development videos web site.
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*** Books ***
Impact Mapping
This approach put back in front the most important questions to ask when you start a project: "Why are we doing this?" This is a book that you should not only buy for yourself, but that you can offer to you CIO and every senior manager sponsoring IT projects.
Read the complete review of Impact Mapping
Reference: “Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects “, Gojko Adzic, Provoking Thoughts Ltd, 67 pages, IBSN 978-0-9556836-4-0
Get more details on this book or buy it on amazon.com
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*** Quote of the Month ***
Automation code, including scripts, is software and, like all software, can have bugs and therefore must be tested. Reviews, even inspection, of automation testware can help find problems and bugs in the testware itself and can help to ensure that the automated tests are fit for purpose.
Source: Experiences of Test Automation, Dorothy Graham and Mark Fewster editors, Addison-Wesley
*** Conferences ***
Agile India, February 26 - March 4 2013, Bengaluru, India
SPTechCon, March 3-6 2013, San Francisco, USA
EclipseCon 2013, March 25-28, 2013, Boston, USA
STARCANADA, April 8–12 2013, Toronto, Canada
Big Data TechCon, April 8-10 2013, Boston, USA
GOTO Zurich, April 8-12, 2013, Zurich, Switzerland
GOTO Zurich for Leaders, April 8-12, 2013, Zurich, Switzerland
JAX, April 22-26 2013, Mainz, Germany
ICSE 2013, May 18-26 2013, San Francisco, USA
Android DevCon Spring, May 28-31 2013, Boston, USA
International PHP Conference, June 2-5 2013, Berlin, Germany
webinale, June 3-5 2013, Berlin, Germany
Scrum Day, June 11-12 2013, Berlin, Germany
GOTO Amsterdam, June 18-20 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
SPTechCon, August 11-14 2013, Boston, USA
Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October 14-16 2013, Portland, USA
Android DevCon West, November 12-15 2013, San Francisco
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*** Our News ***
Methods & Tools Article Pipeline
In our future quarterly PDF issues, you will find articles on:
* Mobile Apps Performance Testing
* Distributed Software Testing Teams
* Scrum and Risk Management
* Hiring Agile Software Developers
* NOSQL Databases
* Software Craftmanship
* NINJA-IDE
* Saga
* Behat
* Codeception
* RoboSpock
* git-TFS
* Portofino
* Concordion+
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