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Methods & Tools - May 2016

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=== Sponsor ===

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Comparing Requirements-Based Testing Approaches, A White Paper by Richard Bender

In this paper, SQE Training instructor Richard Bender defines what requirements-based testing is and the comparison criteria used to determine which approach is the most effective and most efficient. Each of the approaches are then measured against the criteria. Bender has more than forty-five years experience in the industry, focusing on quality assurance and testing and is a recognized authority on cause-effect modeling and test generation.

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*** Quote of the Month ***

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In other words, estimating is the key to unlocking the ability to commit. The ability to commit to near-term deliverables is the key to building a reliable, agile enterprise. So, there are good business reason why we need to take a harder look at this funny agile estimating thing.

Source: Agile Software Requirements, Dean Leffingwell, Addison-Wesley

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*** News ***

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Software Development Industry News

Alliance between Gradle and JetBrains

CircleCI Raises $18 Million

Rogue Wave Releases Zend Server 9 for PHP 7

Jenkins 2.0 Provides Native Pipeline Support

MemSQL Raises $36m in Series C Round

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

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=== Sponsor ===

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TimeShiftX – Travel in Time, Test with Ease

TimeShiftX lets you time travel your software stack into the future or past for time shift testing of all date and time sensitive functionality and code such as year-end, daylight savings, leap year, billing, policies, etc. Employ instant time travel inside Active Directory & Kerberos without code changes, manual work, or server isolation.

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*** Books ***

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Keeping Software Soft

Why should we keep software soft? Because software should be easy to change. This is how this book from Jason Roberts starts. In the first page, he writes "If you want to make developing software a happier, more enjoyable, and more productive experience this book is for you. Keeping Software Soft provides practical guidance on how to keep software as soft as we can. You can read from beginning to end or just jump in at any point and use as a reference guide."

Read the review and quotes from Keeping Software Soft.

Reference: Keeping Software Soft – A Practical Guide for Developers, Testers, and Managers, Jason Roberts, Leanpub

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*** Linkopedia ***

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Software Development Linkopedia May 2016

Blog: Exploding SoftwareEngineering Myths

Blog: Single Feature Forecast Spreadsheet

Blog: Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice

Blog: Move Fast and Fix Things

Article: Negotiating a Raise: Best Practices for Software Engineers

Article: Story Points Explained: The What, Why, and How

Article: Eight Anti-Patterns for Optimization Projects

Article: Five Rules for a Minimum Viable Product Strategy

Article: Planning for Mobile Testing Challenges

Tools: generjee is a free online tool to create comprehensive data-oriented Java EE applications without any coding.

Tools: Mimick aims to be a simple of use and powerful open source mocking and stubbing library for C and C++.

Video: Is Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) evil?

Video: JavaScript Testing and Code Analysis at Facebook

Video: Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

Video: Lean Business Analysis and UX

Video: Mobile End-to-End Testing at Scale

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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*** Partner Software Development Conferences ***

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GOTO Chicago, May 23-26 2016, Chicago, USA

AgileEurope Conference, May 30 - June 2 2016, Gdansk, Poland

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Agile in a Bag, June 10 2016, London, UK

Belgium Testing Days, June 13-16 2016, Brussels, Belgium

QCon NewYork, June 13-17 2016, New York, USA
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Devoxx Poland, June 22-25 2016, Krakow, Poland

SharePoint Technology Conference, June 27-30 2016, Boston, USA
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Wearables TechCon, July 18-20 2016, Santa Clara, USA
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Agile on the Beach, September 1-2 2016, Falmouth, UK

Play4Agile North America, September 9-11 2016, Cornwall, Canada

SEETEST, September 15-16 2016, Bucharest, Romania
Call for Speakers open until June 1.

Agile Greece Summit, September 16 2016, Athens, Greece

Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October 17-19, 2016, Portland, USA

Voxxed Days, October 21 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece

TopConf Tallinn, November 16-19 2016, Tallinn, Estonia

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