Methods & Tools – the free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Spring 2013 issue with the following articles:
* Immersive Interviewing – Building Great Agile Software Teams
* Software Testing in Distributed Teams
* The Return of ACID in the Design of NoSQL Databases
* Saga JavaScript Code Coverage Analysis
* Behat: The BDD library for PHP
* LibrePlan Open Source Project Management
* RoboSpock – Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for Android
50 pages of software development knowledge that you can freely download from http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?spring13

Here is our monthly selection of interesting knowledge material on programming, software testing and project management:
Blog: Supporting Fast-Moving Business Requirements Using Approval Branching
Blog: Cynical Agile and Scrum Dictionary
Blog: Real-time QA: staying confident with code
Blog: Ten Things I Hate About Object-Oriented Programming
Article: The Estimation Net
Article: State of Mobile Testing 2013
Article: Functional-Style Programming in C++
Article: Managing Virtual Software Development Projects
Article: Does Scrum Eliminate Project Risk?
Tools: Metrics – a Java library giving you insight into production code
Tools: Lumbar – a modular JavaScript build tool
Video: So You Are Automated… Now Let’s Make it Fast!
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Software architecture is a key factor for the sustainability of software applications. If you are developing software that need to evolve or scale, you will find below some articles published in 2012 and that will provide you with interesting knowledge on various aspects of software architecture like Cloud, SOA, web services, Agile or patterns.

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:
SPTechCon, March 3-6 2013, San Francisco, USA
EclipseCon 2013, March 25-28, 2013, Boston, USA
STARCANADA, April 8–12 2013, Toronto, Canada
Big Data TechCon, April 8-10 2013, Boston, USA
GOTO Zurich, April 8-12, 2013, Zurich, Switzerland
GOTO Zurich for Leaders, April 8-12, 2013, Zurich, Switzerland
JAX, April 22-26 2013, Mainz, Germany
ICSE 2013, May 18-26 2013, San Francisco, USA
Android DevCon Spring, May 28-31 2013, Boston, USA
International PHP …

Here is our monthly selection of interesting knowledge material on programming, software testing and project management:
Blog: A Scrum Product Owner Checklist
Blog: How to create a User Story Map
Blog: Effective Steps to reduce technical debt: An agile approach
Blog: Top 5 TDD Mistakes
Article: Scaling the Sprint Review: The Fair
Article: Case Study of Customer Input For a Successful Product (PDF)
Article: Choose the best PaaS cloud for your needs
Article: SQL Injection through HTTP Headers
Article: Using Commercial Scrum Tools for Free
Tools: TestMob, a distributed Javascript unit test system
Tools: Cmockery, unit tests for C applications
Video: Software …

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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:
Agile India, February 26 – March 4 2013, Bengaluru, India
SPTechCon, March 3-6 2013, San Francisco, USA
EclipseCon 2013, March 25-28, 2013, Boston, USA
STARCANADA, April 8–12 2013, Toronto, Canada
Big Data TechCon, April 8-10 2013, Boston, USA
GOTO Zurich, April 8-12, 2013, Zurich, Switzerland
GOTO Zurich for Leaders, April 8-12, 2013, Zurich, Switzerland
JAX, April 22-26 2013, Mainz, …