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Methods & Tools - April 2017
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Last Articles Published on Methods & Tools Website

Ada: a C Developer's Perspective Learn how the Ada programming language can help solving modern software development challenges like coding for IoT and safety. Ada’s design principles promote speedy development, but with the philosophy that debugging and maintenance need to be considered as part of the development process. Read more...

Nitrate - Open Source Test Case Management System Nitrate is an open source test plan, test run and test case management tool that is written with Python and Django. It was initially created to replace Testopia, a test case management extension for Bugzilla. Nitrate has a lot of great features, such as Bugzilla and JIRA integration, QPID messaging, fast test plan and runs search, powerful access control for each plan, run and case, and XML-RPC APIs. Read more...

*** Quote of the Month ***

The ScrumMaster is one of the most undervalued roles in Scrum and Agile. Most teams that are just starting out don’t see the value of having a full-time ScrumMaster, and they try to combine this position with that of a developer or tester so that the ScrumMaster is “working.” It’s one of the most common misunderstandings of the ScrumMaster’s role, and the majority of novice groups struggle with it.

Source: "The Great ScrumMaster: #ScrumMasterWay", Zuzana Sochova, Addison-Wesley Professional

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*** News ***

Software Development Industry News

Akamai Agrees to Acquire SOASTA

Oracle Brings Oracle Databases and Developer Tools to Docker

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect To Feature BABOK Guide v3 Tools and Techniques

Hackolade Introduces First Data Modeling Tool For Couchbase

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Introduction to DevOps with Chocolate, LEGO and Scrum Game

If one of the first aim of Scrum was to break the silos between business analysis, development and testing, you can consider that improving the cooperation with the operation side of IT as the next frontier in this journey. What is the point to produce potentially shippable software increment in two weeks if your database administrator doesn’t want more than three new releases windows for the production database?