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Methods & Tools - June 2017
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Project Deadlines are Elastic by Value There is nothing wrong with deadlines but deadlines should come from business need, not effort estimates which are magically transformed into deadlines. When deadlines are business driven they come from the need to capture value and the value which gets captured varies over time. Read more...

Improve Software Testing with Containers With the advent of the era of the container technology, Docker and Rocket are the representatives of the excellent container engines available from the open source community. This article presents how container technology improves different software testing tasks (application test, middle layer test, kernel test, hardware driver test, compiling test) and its benefits. Read more...


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*** Quote of the Month ***


Avoid using defect tracking systems during the iteration. Fix bugs discovered in the work underway for the iteration immediately. If it takes a lot of work, create a task in the Spring backlog. However, there is usually no need to log this bug in the defect tracking system. Logging it would only create another work queue and more delay – a waste.

On the other hand, defects found outside the iteration – by an “undone” unit or the final users – are normally tracked in a defect-tracking system.

Try zero tolerance on open defects. Why do people insist on creating defects? They spend effort to insert a defect, then they need to search for it, prioritize it, and finally fix it. Not creating the bug in the first place would be a lot less work.

We do believe it is possible to write bug-free code. We do not believe it is easy or common. Still, focus on preventing defects.

Source: Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development – Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, Addison Wesley


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Software Development Industry News

BMC Control-M Workbench Enables a Jobs-as-Code for Application Developers

Sparx Systems Launches Enterprise Architect Pro Cloud Server

Inflectra Rapise 5.1 Brings Scriptless Test Automation for Everyone

MariaDB TX 2.0 Released

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*** Software Development Linkopedia ***


Web site: Product Owner Assessment

Text: Why Deadlines Need to Drop Dead

Text: A Tale of Two Software Engineers and Commitment

Text: If Your Team Agrees on Everything, Working Together Is Pointless

Text: Getting Started with SpecFlow in 10 Minutes

Text: Technical Dependency Challenges in Large-Scale Agile Software Development (pdf)

Text: Unit Testing: Fakes, Mocks and Stubs

Text: Your Retrospectives Need Better Data

Text: How To Survive as a QA in a Software Development Team

Video: Legacy Code Transformation

Video: Web Protocols for Java Developers

Video: Microservices Minus the Hype

Video: Seven Unmentioned Challenges of Scrum

Video: Moving from Manual to Automated Testing

Tools: test-recorder records integration tests for web applications

Tools: Bluepill is a reliable iOS testing tool that runs UI tests using multiple simulators on a single machine

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