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Methods & Tools - April 2015

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*** Quote of the Month ***

Code that doesn't have tests rots. It rots because we don't feel confident to touch it, we're afraid to break the "working" parts. Code rotting means that it doesn't improve, staying the way we first wrote it. I'll be the first to admit that whenever I write code, it comes in its most ugly form. It may not look ugly immediately after I wrote it, but if I wait a couple of days (or a couple of hours), I know I will find many ways to improve it. Without tests I can rely either on the automatic capabilities of refactoring tools, or pure guts (read: stupidity).

Source: Everyday Unit Testing, Gil Zilberfeld, https://leanpub.com/everydayunittesting

*** News ***

Software Development Industry News

Docker Secures $95M in New Funding

Mendix and Pivotal Partner on Cloud Foundry

Percona Swallows Tokutek

Rapise 3.0 Released

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Agile Reflections

In his book Agile Reflections, Robert Galen has aggregated multiple articles that he wrote about transitioning to Agile for the online publication PM Times. The book is based on his experience as in Agile coach helping companies in different phases of their transition to Agile software development.