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Methods & Tools - June 2015

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=== Sponsor ===

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Testing, Requirements, and Development courses by SQE Training

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*** Quote of the Month ***

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If having fun is what most programmers do, you may begin to understand why managing programmers is so challenging. If you are being paid to have fun, why would you want to be managed? Being managed takes part of the fun out of the work!

Source: Managing the Unmanageable, Mickey W. Mantle & Ron Lichty, Addison-Wesley

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*** News ***

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Software Development Industry News

Sauce Labs Accelerates Automated Testing for Continuous Integration

HP Unveils LeanFT Testing Tool

CA Technologies Agrees to Acquire Rally Software

Agile Software Factory Released to the Open Source Community

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

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=== Sponsor ===

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Software Testing Magazine

Software Testing Magazine presents industry news, articles, blog posts, book reviews, tools, videos and other resources about unit testing, integration testing, functional or acceptance testing, load or performance testing in software development projects.

Visit http://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/

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*** Jobs ***

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Featured Jobs

Senior C# working with WPF SOLID Algorithms within TDD & Agile, Computer Futures , Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Intermediate Java Applications Developer, UPS, Louisville, KY

Web Developers, T-Mobile, Bellevue, WA

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Find more than 315 software developers, project managers and testers jobs worldwide on SoftDevJobs.coms, the free job posting web site dedicated to software development and IT

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*** Linkopedia ***

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Software Development Linkopedia June 2015

Web site: Crisp DNA

Blog: Traits of Exceptional Engineers

Blog: Generic Testing Personas

Blog: Coding is Driving the Car (and More)

Blog: Test Automation: Who Should be Involved?

Article: SPOC: Story POint Cost

Article: Gaining Code Confidence Through Testing

Article: An Introduction to Model-Based Testing and Spec Explorer

Article: Service Point Estimation Model for SOA Based Projects

Tools: Itamae – Lightweight Configuration Management Tool Inspired by Chef

Tools: PhpDependencyAnalysis – PHP Static code analysis

Video: Charting a Course Through Enterprise Architecture

Video: #NoEstimates

Video: Better Selenium Tests with Geb

Video: Agile Essence and Fluency

Video: Essential Skills for Test Automation

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

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*** Featured Conferences ***

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GOTO Amsterdam, June 17-19 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

STARCANADA - Software Testing Conference, June 21-25 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Solid Conference, June 23-25 2015, San Francisco, USA

#AgileCrete, July 16-18 2015, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Android Developer Conference, July 29-31 2015, Boston, USA
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Agile2015, August 3-7, 2015, Washington, D.C., USA

MobileDevHacker, August 18-19 2015, Boston, USA

SharePoint Technology Conference, August 24-27 2015, Boston, USA
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Agile on the Beach, September 3-4 2015, Falmouth, UK

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

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

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

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