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Methods & Tools - Text Edition - September 2012
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Software Development Linkopedia September 2012
Blog: Unit Testing Views in Spring MVC
Blog: Requirements Elicitation
Blog: Coaching a Scrum Master on a Struggling Team
Blog: Why Size?
Article: A Scrum Master Is Not a Project Manager by Another Name
Article: 37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady
Article: Mobile Application Testing on a Shoestring
Article: Why You Should Not Estimate in Hours or Days
Article: Big Data Lambda Architecture
Tools: Test’em ‘Scripts – a test runner that makes Javascript unit testing fun
Tools: Contracts for Java – annotate your Java code with contracts
Video: Managing Exploratory Software Testing
Video: Replacing Requirements with Hypotheses
Video: State of Kanbanland
Video: Crafting Wicked Domain Models
Video: Maven versus Gradle
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I don’t believe that any amount of testing can turn a bad idea or an ill-advised product into a success. I do believe that the wrong approach to testing can kill the chances of a good product or company or, at the very least, slow down its growth and open the door for the competition.
Reference: How Google Tests Software, James Whittaker, Jason Arbon, Jeff Carollo, Addison-Wesley
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Methods & Tools Article Pipeline
In our future quarterly PDF issues, you will find articles on:
* Getting Testing Done in the Sprint
* Embedded Testing with eFitness
* Mobile testing performance
* Test-Driven Test Code Development
* Mikado Method
* Facilitating meetings
* Distributed testing teams
* Flyway
* PESTT
* Findbugs
* Open Twebst
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