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Methods & Tools - Text Edition - May 2010

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*** Numbers ***

Unified Modeling Language (UML) Still Widely Used

The Agile approach prefers face to face communication between developers and user. User stories could be specified in simpler artifacts like index cards rather than put larger requirements documents. Some people are even stating that there should be no other documentation than working code, the only artifact that is always updated in a software development project. I was therefore a little bit surprised that despites the popularity of Agile on software development web sites and its increasing large survey adoption numbers, the usage of UML in the organizations has not decreased. Read More

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Continuous Usage Poll

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*** Linkopedia ***

Linkopedia May 2010

Blog: How to make Scrum fail

Blog: New Programming Jargon

Blog: The 9 Capabilities of Communicators

Article: Test Driven Development using Flash Builder 4 and FlexUnit

Article: Common Product Owner Traps

Article: The Busy Developer's Guide to SQL Server Modeling

Tool: Instant Django is a portable Django development environment for Windows

Tool: theSCRUM is a free solution for teams using Scrum

Tool: Tattletale gets you an overview of your project or a product

Video: Continuous Integration and the “Cup of Coffee” Test

Video: Using FireBug to Debug JavaScript

Video: Selenium + FitNesse – A QA Multiplier Effect

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*** Books ***

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

Object orientation (OO) is not a trendy concept these days, but it hasn't certainly lost it values. The purpose of this book is to integrate the development of object oriented software with the test-driven development (TDD) approach, more specifically with the Java language. Read More

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The Economics of Iterative Software Development

When you start reading this book, you will quickly understand that the authors are affiliated with IBM. This is nothing wrong per se, but this seems to influence too much the vision that the book proposes, ignoring approaches proposed by others. Read More

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*** Conferences ***

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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Domain Driven Design (DDD) exchange, June 11 2010, London, UK

Iqnite Geneva, June 15 2010, Geneva, Switzerland
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Flex on Java eXchange, June 18 2010, London, UK

ShareConf, June 22-24 2010, Munich, Germany

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

iPhone/iPad DevCon, September 27-29 2010, San Diego, 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

Iqnite Austria, October 13 2010, Vienna, Austria
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Lean Enterprise Software and Systems, October 17-20 2010, Helsinki, Finland

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

SPTechCon, October 20-22 2010, Boston, USA

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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 (JUnit for instance). 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 future issues, you will find articles on:
* Continuous Testing
* Keyword Driven Testing
* Large Software Product Lines
* Core Protocols
* Distributed Agile
* Requirements Management
* Five Steps to Kanban
* Source Code Analysis
* Decomposition of Projects
* Creating Type Specific Data Libraries to Drive Test Automation
* Hudson Continuous Integration Tool
* Fitnesse Tool
* XText Tool
* Ant Tool