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Methods & Tools - January 2016

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*** Quote of the Month ***

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Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don’t improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often.

What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don’t buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don’t test more; develop better.

Source: Steve McConnell, Code Complete Microsoft Press

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*** News ***

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Software Development Industry News

NodeSource Unveils N|Solid v1.2

SonarSource and Compuware Partner on COBOL Code Quality

Gradle Raises $4.2M Financing

Get all software development industry news and search for tools on SoftDevTools.com

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TimeShiftX – Travel in Time, Test with Ease

TimeShiftX lets you time travel your software stack into the future or past for time shift testing of all date and time sensitive functionality and code such as year-end, daylight savings, leap year, billing, policies, etc. Employ instant time travel inside Active Directory & Kerberos without code changes, manual work, or server isolation.

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*** Books ***

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97 Things Every Programmer Should Know – Extended

Based on the original concept of “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” developed by Kevin Henley, Shirish Padalkar presents in this book 68 essays about software development that were part of the original project, but were not selected to be included in the original O'Reilly book.

Read the complete review of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know – Extended.

Reference: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know – Extended, Shirish Padalkar, Leanpub

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*** Linkopedia ***

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Software Development Linkopedia January 2016

Blog: Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Blog: Size Matters: Big vs. Small Product Owner

Blog: Flat Will Kill You, Eventually: Why Every Company Needs Structure

Blog: Mature Developers

Article: Calming Your Brain During Conflict

Article: Using a Kaizen Board to Boost Your Retrospectives

Article: How UX Professionals Collaborate on Deliverables

Article: Managing Technical Stories and Bugs

Article: Software Architecture: The What and Why

Tools: Enzyme is an open source JavaScript testing utility for React

Tools: Jerkar is a complete open source build system that uses pure Java to describe builds

Video: Group Problem-Solving Techniques

Video: Behavior-Driven Development for Java with Cucumber

Video: Ethnography in Software Design

Video: Applying a Software Testing Mindset to Software Development

Video: Thinking Fast & Slow in Software Development

Find more interesting links on the software development tools web site, the software development articles web site or the software development videos web site.

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*** Featured Partner Conferences ***

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Voxxed Days Berlin, January 28-29 2016, Berlin, Germany

Voxxed Days Vienna, January 29 - March 1 2016, Vienna, Austria

TopConf Linz, February 2-3 2016, Linz, Austria

Scaling Agile for the Enterprise, February 4 2016, Brussels, Belgium

DevOps Summit Brussels: DevOps for Business Value, February 4 2016, Brussels, Belgium

Testing Showcase North, February 11 2016, Manchester, UK

DevOps Showcase North, February 11 2016, Manchester, UK

DeveloperWeek 2016, February 12-18, San Francisco, USA

Embedded Meets Agile, February 16-18 2016, Munich, Germany

SPTechCon, February 21-24 2016, Austin, USA
Receive a $200 discount off either the 4-day or 3-day pass by inserting the code SHAREPOINT

Agile Methods Finance & Public Sector, February 25 2016, London, UK

Selenium Camp, February 26-27 2016, Kiev, Ukraine

QCon London, March 7-11, 2016, London, UK

Lean and Agile ME Summit, March 19 2016, Dubai, UAE

ACE!, April 14-15 2016, Krakow, Poland

Mobile and IoT Dev + Test, April 17–22, 2016, San Diego, USA

ProgSCon London, April 22 2016, London, UK

STAREAST - Software Testing Conference, May 1-6 2016, Orlando, FL, USA

GeeCon, May 11-13 2016, Krakow, Poland

Big Apple Scrum Day, May 16 2016, New York, USA
Call for Speakers until February 28 2016

I T.A.K.E. Unconference, May 19-20 2016, Bucharest, Romania

Agile Development, Better Software & DevOps Conferences, June 5-10 2016, Las Vegas, USA

QCon NewYork, June 13-17 2016, New York, USA
Call for Speakers until April 12 2016

Devoxx Poland, 22 - 25 June 2016, Krakow, Poland

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