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Methods & Tools - October 2014

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*** News ***

Software Development Industry News

Progress Software Announces Intent to Acquire Telerik

Google Buys Firebase for the Google Cloud Platform Team

Jenkins Continuous Integration Tool Celebrates 10th Anniversary

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*** Numbers ***

Project Management Tools

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*** Jobs ***

Featured Jobs

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Pearson, Centennial, CO

Head of e-commerce Product Management, Zappos.com, Las Vegas, NV

Senior Java/JEE Software Developer/Architect, Apollo Solutions Ltd, München, Germany

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Find more than 400 developers, project managers and software testers jobs worldwide on SoftDevJobs.coms, the free job posting web site dedicated to software development and IT

*** Books ***

Quality Code

There are many books about software testing, but I will put Quality Code in the best that I have read. It presents a philosophy about software testing that has been mine in my software developer life: the programmer is the main person responsible for the quality of its code.

Read the complete review of Quality Code

Reference: Quality Code - Software Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns, Stephen Vance, Addison-Wesley, 218 pages, ISBN 978-0321832986

Get more reviews on this book or buy it on amazon.com
Get more reviews on this book or buy it on amazon.co.uk

*** Linkopedia ***

Software Development Linkopedia October 2014

Blog: Practical Guide to Code Clones (Part 1)

Blog: Practical Guide to Code Clones (Part 2)

Blog: Selecting Backlog Items By Cost of Delay

Blog: WIP and Priorities – how to get fast and focused!

Blog: 44 engineering management lessons

Article: Do and Don't of Agile Retrospectives

Article: Organizational Culture Considerations with Agile

Article: Is UX Investment Worth It?

Article: Are Prejudices Stopping your Agile Efforts?

Article: Open Source Android Testing Tools

Tools: phpspec is a php toolset to drive emergent design by specification.

Tools: AndroidJUnit4 is an open source framework to run JUnit4 tests on Android devices

Video: Strategic Code Reuse

Video: 7 Ineffective Java Coding Habits

Video: SQL, the Underestimated Big Data Technology

Video: Toyota Kata

Video: Old Code, New Tests

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

*** Featured Conferences ***

Big Data TechCon, October 27-29 2014, San Francisco
Use code BIGDATA for a $200 conference discount

Future of Web Apps, October 27-29, Boston, MA, USA

Ultimate Developer Event, October 30, Boston, MA, USA

W-JAX 2014, November 3-7 2014, Munich, Germany

Business Technology Days 2014, November 3-6, Munich, Germany

QCon San Francisco, November 3-7 2014, San Francisco, USA
Exclusive $50 Method & Tools discount with promo code "softdevconf50"

Better Software & Agile Development Conference East, November 9-14 2014, Orlando, USA

QCon London, March 2-6, 2015, London, UK

SEI SATURN Software Architecture Conference, April 27-30 2015, Baltimore, USA
The Call for Submissions is open, accepting proposals 1/16/2015.

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*** Quote of the Month ***

Minimalism also applies in software. The less code you write, the less you have to maintain. The less you maintain, the less you have to understand. The less you have to understand, the less chance of making a mistake. Less code leads to fewer bugs.

Source: Quality Code: Software Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns, Stephen Vance, Addison-Wesley

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