Making it Big in Software

You can read on the back cover of this book “Here’s all the information you need to jumpstart your software career: the best way to get hired, move up, and blaze your way to the top!” There is certainly more marketing ambition than developer modesty in this statement. This being …

Agile, project management and software testing in Fall issue of Methods & Tools

Methods & Tools – the free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Fall 2010 issue with the following articles: * Distributed Teams and Agile – Managing Global Agile Projects * Decomposition of Projects: How to Design Small Incremental Steps * Source Code Analysis …

Continuous Integration: Continuous Build or Continuous Quality Control?

The last Methods & Tools poll wanted to determine the level of adoption of continuous integration tools  in organizations. We asked the following question: “Do you use a tool for continuous integration (automated build and unit testing)?” I use tools for continuous integration 66% My organization has tools, but my …

Linkopedia September 2010

Blog Why Enterprise Architecture Doesn’t Work Blog: Simplicity: A New Model Blog: Natural selection in IT Site: Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development Article: Test web applications with Selenium RC Article: High-Performing Teams Begin with A Firm Foundation Tool: #TestsEx is a set of extensible extensions Tool: FluorineFx is the …