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Methods & Tools - Text Edition - March 2010
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*** News ***
* The Times They Are a-Changin’ ? Maybe Not
I will rather say that history repeats itself. By the way, this is a quote from Hegel and Marx added that first time was tragedy, and the second time farce. Yet this post is not about a Bob Dylan against Marx debate, but about a thought that came when, after following a conference presenting some of the IBM Rational products, I discovered the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration initiative. OSLC defined itself as “a community effort to help software delivery teams by making it easier to use lifecycle tools in combination. Read more
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*** Numbers ***
Functional Testing Responsibility Poll
The past M&T poll asked: Who does functional testing at your location? The results are that developers are not involved in functional testing in close to 50% of the cases. Trying to find the causes of this situation, I asked for explanations in various testing and agile groups on LinkedIn. Read more
UML Usage Poll
The current M&T poll is asking: What is the usage of UML modeling techniques at your location? Go to our web site to participate and to see intermediate results.
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*** Linkopedia ***
Linkopedia March 2010
Web site: Software Engineering Method and Theory
Blog Post: Are tools necessary for acceptance testing, or are they just evil?
Blog Post: New Agile Guidance and CMMI Guidance
Blog Post: 7 truths about Agile and Scrum that people don’t want to hear
Article: Designing Efficient SQL: A Visual Approach
Article: Are you using a toolset in your code review?
Tool: S.P.L.O.T. - Software Product Line Online Tools
Tool: RichNesse - Fitnesse WYSIWIG Editor
Tool: Review Board - Web-based code review tool
Video: Learn About Continuous Integration With Hudson
Video: A Guided Tour of a Whiteboard Culture
Video: Microsoft Visual C# IDE Tips and Tricks
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*** Books ***
Leading Lean Software Development – Results are not the Point
What fascinates me the most in the Lean software development approach is the quality of the people that support it. The Poppendieck are not an exception to this rule. Their book achieves the seemingly contradictory goals of being very insightful but still easy and captivating to read. It might be however easier to have the right flow when you are a Lean adept ;o) Read More
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*** Conferences ***
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
DevDay for iPhone, April 26 2010, London UK
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
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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
Progressive .NET Tutorials, May 12-14 2010, London, UK
SPA Conference, May 16-19 2010, London, UK
Iqnite Ireland, May 20 2010, Dublin, Ireland
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Spring In Finance eXchange, May 21 2010, London, UK
Jazoon, June 1-3 2010, Zurich, Switzerland
Better Software Conference, June 6-11 2010, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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Agile Development Practices West Conference, June 6-11 2010, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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Iqnite Geneva, June 15 2010, Geneva, Switzerland
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Flex on Java eXchange, June 18 2010, London, UK
Agile 2010 Conference, August 9-13 2010, Nashville, USA
Iqnite Nordic, September 29-30 2010, Stockholm, Sweden
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Iqnite UK, October 4 2010, London, UK
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Agile Business Conference 2010, October 5-6 2010, London, UK - Call for Session
Iqnite Austria, October 13 2010, Vienna, Austria
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Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October 18-20 2010, Portland, USA
Iqnite Australia, October 26-27 2010, Sidney, Australia
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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
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* Keyword Driven Testing
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