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Methods & Tools - September 2015


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*** Quote of the Month ***


Competencies versus Roles: We’ve seen a positive move toward emphasizing competencies in a team rather than roles or titles. As teams make that change, we see fewer “It’s not my job” excuses and more "How can I help?" conversations. Team members will continue to have core competencies in some areas more than others, but they may not identify as strongly with a particular role. For example, saying, "I am a tester" really means, "I perform mainly testing activities because that is my primary passion and strength. I can provide leadership and guidance to others, and I may also help in other areas.".

Source: "More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team", Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin, Addison-Wesley.


*** News ***


Software Development Industry News

XebiaLabs Releases XL Deploy 5.1

Sauce Labs Expands Mobile Test Automation Cloud with Real Devices

JetBrains Switches to Subscription Model

Embarcadero Launches RAD Studio 10

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


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DevOps: The Missing Pieces - A Webinar on Continuous Testing & Monitoring

According to a December 2014 IDC Survey, the average cost of DevOps failures are more than $500k with a 25% application development waste. Download this webinar to see common challenges DevOps teams face and learn how to address gaps in your tools and workflows.

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*** Linkopedia ***


Software Development Linkopedia September 2015

Web site: Week-end Testing

Blog: Why Self-Organizing is So Hard

Blog: Qualities of Quality

Blog: Managing Development – 5 Things I Learned

Blog: Practical Advice for New Software Engineers

Article: DevOps: A Software Architect Perspective of Overall Architecture

Article: Practical Postmortems at Etsy

Article: Scrum Maturity Assessment

Article: Jenkins Continuous Integration

Tools: Bazel is Google’s own open source build tool

Tools: Quixote is an open source library for unit testing CSS

Video: Transforming the Software Development Industry

Video: The Essential Skill of a Good Product Owner

Video: Web Performance Testing at YouTube

Video: Perfectly Executing the Wrong Plan

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


*** Featured Conferences ***


Agile Greece Summit, September 18 2015, Athens, Greece

STARWEST - Software Testing Conference, September 27 - October 2 2015, Anaheim, CA, USA
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Top Conf Bucharest, September 28-29 2015, Bucharest, Romania

AgileByExample, September 28-30 2015, Warsaw, Poland

PM Camp Barcelona, October 2-3 2015, Barcelona, Spain

Manage Agile, October 5-8 2015, Berlin, Germany

Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October 12-14, Portland, USA

JAX London, October 12-14, London, UK
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Bosnia Agile Day 2015, October 17, Sarajevo, Bosnia

Agile Tour London, October 23, London, UK

XP Days Ukraine, October 22-23, Kyiv, Ukraine

International PHP Conference, October 25-29, Berlin, Germany
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Big Data TechCon, November 2-4 2015, Chicago, USA

Agile Development Conference, Better Software Conference & DevOps Conference East, November 8-13, 2015, Orlando, USA
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TopConf Tallinn, November 18-19 2015, Tallinn, Estonia

XP Days Benelux, December 3-4 2015, Mechelen, Belgium

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

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


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