Do We Need Unit Testing?

Published October 28th, 2008 Under Numbers | Leave a Comment

A recent Methods & Tools poll examined how organizations perform unit testing. Is it an informal activity that is done before integration if there is some time left after programming or is it the key element of the development effort? The question was: How is unit testing performed at your location? Read more

How Yahoo! International is Becoming Agile

Published October 16th, 2008 Under News, Personnal, Software Development | 1 Comment

I had the chance to assist to the Geneva stage of the Agile Tour, an itinerary French-speaking agile conference. Alexandre Boutin made a very interesting presentation about the transition to agile by Yahoo International (the non-US operations of Yahoo). Read more

New Conferences Partnerships

Published October 14th, 2008 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

Methods & Tools is proud to have been chosen as media partner by the following software development conferences:

Apache Con 2008, November 3-7 2008, New Orleans, USA

EuroSTAR, November 10-13 2008, The Hague, Netherlands

Devoxx, December 8-12 2008, Antwerp, Belgium

Jazoon’09, June 22-25 2009, Zurich, Switzerland

Linkopedia October 2008

Published October 8th, 2008 Under Links | Leave a Comment

WSO2 is an open source software development community for Web services & SOA projects

Web Page Analyzer is a free web page analysis tool calculates page size, composition, and download time. Gives speed recommendations based on best practices for usability, HCI, and website optimization

We Vouch For… is intended to capture a “network of excellence” in which people vouch for each others’ Agile skills.

Twelve emerging best practices for adding UX work to Agile development

Scalability Worst Practices

10 Useful articles about Database design

Get more interesting links on the software development links directory or the software development articles directory

70 Software Development Jobs Waiting for You

Published October 1st, 2008 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment

The Software Development Jobs platform is a free board for both job seekers and employers focused on software development, testing and project management.  Wether you are a java, .NET, PHP, C++ or mainframe programmer, work in software QA or are a project manager, 70 jobs are waiting for you in the USA, Canada, Belgium, Spain, The Netherlands, India or Switzerland. This board is also an excellent way for recruiters in the software development area to reach an audience of 50′000 web sites visitors.