Here is our monthly selection of knowledge on programming, software testing and project management. This month you will find some interesting information and opinions about commitment & estimation, better software testing, the dark side of metrics, scrum retrospectives, databases and Agile adoption.
Blog: Against Estimate-Commitment
Blog: Write Better Tests in 5 Steps
Blog: Story Point Comparison Retrospectives
Blog: Metrics Mislead!
Article: Common Database Deployment Blockers and Continuous Delivery Headaches
Article: Gathering Requirements Through User Stories and the Five W’s Technique
Article: NoSQL for Mere Mortals: Designing for Document Databases
Article: Scrum & Kanban with MantisBT
Tools: DaSpec is an automation framework for Executable Specifications in Markdown
Tools: SonarLint for Visual Studio is a Visual Studio 2015 extension that provides on-the-fly feedback to developers on new bugs and quality issues injected into C# code
Video: Unselfish Unit Testing
Video: Bring Sanity to Agility
Video: Designing for 100 million Developers
Video: Levelling Up Your Automated Tests
Video: Doing the Little Things Well
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