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*** Linkopedia ***

Linkopedia February 2010

Blog Post: Mocking Mocking and Testing Outcomes

Blog Post: Testing in the Data Center (Manufacturing No More)

Blog Post: Why Model Driven Software Development isn't fast enough and how to fix it

Report Post: Incorporating Security Quality Requirements Engineering in Life-Cycle Models

Article: Using Agile Techniques to Pay Back Technical Debt

Article: Compare JavaScript Frameworks

Article: Looking Ahead to ASP.NET 4.0

Tool: BOUML - Open source UML and code generation

Tool: StatSVN charts software evolution analyzing of Subversion repositories

Video: Exploratory Testing: How to Test Software

Video: Distributed Agile Development

Video: Use a Continuous Integration Server with Hudson

Video: Extreme JavaScript Performance

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*** Conferences ***

Enterprise Software Development Conference, March 1-3 2010, San Mateo, USA

CSM & Scrum in Depth ­ Training with Ken Schwaber, March 3-4, Stuttgart, Germany

TheServerSide Java Symposium, March 17-19 2010, Las Vegas, USA

Turku Agile Day, March 17-18 2010, Turku, Finland

Spring In Finance eXchange, March 18 2010, London, UK

REConf 2010, March 15-18 2010, Munich, Germany

XP Day Suisse Edition Francophone, March 29 2010, Geneva, Switzerland

Agile Central Europe, April 8-9 2010, Krakow, Poland

SharePoint Summit 2010, April 12-14 2010, Montreal - Quebec, Canada

ACCU Conference 2010, April 14-17 2010, Oxford, UK

Flex on Java eXchange, April 15 2010, London, UK

Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010, April 21-23 2010, Atlanta, USA

Cloud & Grid eXchange, April 22-23 2010, London, UK

STAREAST - Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference, April 25-30 2010, Orlando, USA

Mini XP Day, April 26 2010, Kapellerput, The Netherlands

Mobile Marketing & Branding Seminar, April 27 2010, Zurich, Switzerland
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DevDay for iPhone Geneva, April 28 2010, Geneva, Switzerland

Iqnite Germany, April 27-30 2010, Düsseldorf, Germany

Scrum Day, May 4-5 2010, Munich, Germany

TeamConf 2010, May 4-6 2010, Munich, Germany

Certified Scrum Master with Jeff Sutherland , May 6-7 2010, Munich, Germany

SPA Conference, May 16-19 2010, London, UK

Iqnite Ireland, May 20 2010, Dublin, Ireland

Jazoon, June 1-3 2010, Zurich, Switzerland

Iqnite Geneva, June 15 2010, Geneva, Switzerland

Agile 2010 Conference, August 9-13 2010, Nashville, USA

Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October 18-20 2010, Portland, USA

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Methods & Tools Article Pipeline

In future issues, you will find articles on:
* Five Symptoms of Mechanical Agile
* Using Wat-iN to leverage common elements in Web Testing
* Make your code more testable
* Model Based Testing
* Continuous Testing
* Keyword Driven Testing
* Large Software Product Lines
* Core Protocols
* Hudson Continuous Integration Tool
* Five Steps to Kanban

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