I have just published a review of the book “Practical Unit Testing with TestNG and Mockito” written by Tomek Kaczanowski. For a full disclosure, Tomek has written an article about TestNG in the last issue of Methods & Tools and will contribute another article on Mockito in our upcoming Summer issue that will be published in June.

I spent one day last week at the Excellence in Software Engineering (ESE) Conference in Zurich. This conference is aimed at professionals involved in decisions regarding software development processes, methods and technologies. The 2012 edition proposed three tracks: Agile and Lean, Cloud Computing and Mobile Applications. Presentations were in German or in English. Here is a brief summary of the sessions I attended.

Here is a list of software development related conferences and events that will take place in the coming weeks and that have media partnerships with the Methods & Tools software development magazine:

The last Methods & Tools poll asked the following question: “Does your project use a software tool to plan, estimate and track project activities?” The good news is that most of the participants use a tool to manage their software development projects as only 19,5% operate without software.

Here is our monthly selection of interesting knowledge material on programming, software testing and project management:
Blogs: Thoughts on Infrastructure, Technical Debt, and Automated Test Framework
Blogs: Let’s Test prequel with Ilari Henrik Aegerter
Blogs: What is Capability?
Blogs: Sources of Variance
Articles: Acceptance Testing for Node.js
Articles: Metrics in Distributed Product Development
Articles: Can Support and Maintenance Become Agile?
Articles: Business Analysis and Software Requirements Certifications
Articles: Java for Robotics
Tools: FluentLenium, a framework that helps you writing Selenium tests
Tools: Selendion allows non-programmers to develop acceptance criteria/tests
Videos: Context-Based Agile
Videos: Software Architecture: Engineering or Bullshit?
Videos: Stop Mocking, Start Testing
Videos: A …

Who are software developers working for? This can be considered as a simple question and you might start with some simple answers like “for company X” if you are an employee or “for myself” if you are freelance. If you work as a consultant or an outsourcer, you could also name your customer, the people that pay you or your company to develop their software. It is however less obvious that you will think of your “internal” customers and say that as a software developer you are working for the …

Here is a list of software development related conferences and events that will take place in the coming weeks and that have media partnerships with the Methods & Tools software development magazine:
STAREAST Software Testing Analysis and Review Conference, April 15-20 2012, Orlando, USA
Scandinavian Developer Conference, 16-17 April, Gothenburg, Sweden
ESE Conference, April 24-25 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
Future Insights Live, April 30 – May 4 2012, Las Vegas, USA
Android DevCon III, May 14-17 2012, San Francisco, USA
Gartner PPM and IT Governance Summit, 21-23 May 2012, National Harbor, USA …