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Methods & Tools - October 2018
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Performance Testing and Agile With the advent of DevOps, there is an increasing trend of projects trying to adopt Agile model for their delivery. This article aims at performing a critical analysis of Agile performance testing and tries to answer the question: How Agile performance testing can fit into the current software delivery world? Read more...

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*** Quote of the Month ***

Most of the complaints you hear about monolithic architecture can be traced directly to poor and/or accidental design. if you leverage similar design practices to create a distributed system, no amount of observability will save you.

Source: Matt Stine on Twitter, https://twitter.com/mstine/status/1051478758190997506

*** Books ***

Lean Inception

One of the trends associated with the Agile approach is the shift from “building the software right” to “building the right software”. This translates in putting more emphasis on collaborative product definition activities and quicker feedback. The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is an approach that tries to elicit quick customer feedback while providing him with a working product. In his book Lean Inception, Paulo Caroli proposes a workshop-based recipe to build the MVP canvas.

Read the review and quotes from Lean Inception.

Reference: Lean Inception – How to Align People and Build the Right Product, Paulo Caroli, http://leanpub.com/tothepoint

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*** Software Development Linkopedia ***

Web site: The Agile Bullshit Generator

Text: Software Entropy Explained: Causes, Effects, and Remedies

Text: The Stages of Teamwork Complexity

Text: Unit testing private methods

Text: Feature Creep Isn’t the Real Problem

Text: Antimatter Evo

Text: What to Expect From Agile

Text: Aligning Projects with Business Goals

Text: How to Detect Agile Bullshit

Video: Agile Psychology of Teams & Individuals

Video: Mutation Testing: Making Mutants Work for You

Video: Programming with Objects and Functions and More

Video: Software Architecture: Technical, Business, and Social Influences

Video: Death by User Stories

Video: Architecture of Testing Frameworks

Tools: Capella is an open source solution for Model-Based Systems Engineering. Capella provides methodological guidance, intuitive model editing, and viewing capabilities for systems, software and hardware architects. It is based on Arcadia, a system engineering method based on the use of models, with a focus on the collaborative definition, evaluation and exploitation of its architecture.

Tools: Wildfire is a free extension for Chrome and Firefox that allows you to record your actions on the pages you visit, then replay those actions using a simulator. When actions are recorded or simulated, it produces a log which can be reviewed. You can then use the Workflow Editor to manipulate the behavior of the simulation.