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Methods & Tools - Text Edition - December 2011

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Software Linkopedia December 2011

Web Site: Selenium Tutorial

Blog: Please help Jenkins pay the project expense

Blog: Create the Place Where You Long to Belong

Article: The End of Projects: Moving Toward Evidence-Based Software Investment

Article: NoSQL Databases and Node.js

Article: Unit Testing in Java: A Sleeping Snail

Article: Develop applications using a collaborative, user-centric model

Article: But We Have These Distributed Folks

Tool: The Dart language

Tool: Glimpse – Debug your .NET server

Podcast: Distributed Scrum

Video: Functional Software Testing Tool Selection

Video: Scaled Agile Framework

Video: Java and NoSQL in the Real World

Video: How We Do Language Design at Microsoft

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*** Books ***

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This is a very good practice-oriented book that I would recommend to every person involved in software development projects, either on the developer or the customer side. Its biggest strength is the continuous referral to actual situations experienced by the surveyed project teams. I don’t think that you can read more than two or three pages without getting some of this material. The result is a very good balance between concept discussion and practical experience.

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*** Conferences ***

SCALE, January 20-22 2012, Los Angeles, USA

EclipseCon 2012 North America, March 26-29 2012, Reston, USA

Agile ALM Connect, March 26-29 2012, Reston, USA

ESE Conference, April 24-25 2012, Zurich, Switzerland

Gartner PPM and IT Governance Summit, 21-23 May 2012, National Harbor, USA

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*** Our News ***

Methods & Tools is looking for open source tools articles

Methods & Tools has introduced this year a tool section in its PDF issues. I am therefore looking for short (3-4 pages, screenshots included) presentations articles of open source software development tools like JUnit. If you are commiter to an open source project or working with such a tool and willing to present it to the readers of Methods & Tools, do not hesitate to contact me.

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Methods & Tools Article Pipeline

In our future quarterly PDF issues, you will find articles on:
* Psychology of UX - Part 2
* Make Your Culture Work with Agile and Kanban
* How Software Architecture Learn
* Scrum Burndown Charts
* UML Best Practices
* The Most Popular Collaborative Models for Requirements
* MVP Foundations for Your GWT Application
* Just Enough Architecture: The Risk-Driven Model
* Testing ASP.NET
* Evaluation of Open Source Components
* Acceptance Testing in Scrum
* CUBRID Tool
* Scala Build Tool
* Cucumber Tool
* Chili Tool
* Scrum-IT Tool
* Sureassert Tool
* Guarana Tool