Fall 2008 Issue of Methods & Tools

Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers, testers and project managers.  Fall 2008 issue’s content: * Controlling Project Risk by Design * How to Choose Candidates for Large Agile Companies * Outsourcing Software Testing * Managing Scrum Meetings 35 pages of software development knowledge that you can …

Open Source Software Turned Industrial but Perceived Quality Don’t Change

Open source development tools like MySQL, Eclipse, PHP or JBoss are now adopted by many software development organizations. Our last poll examined how the quality of open source tools is perceived against their commercial competitors. We conducted a similar poll twice in the past and it is interesting to compare …

Aspect-Oriented Modeling – what it is and what it’s good for

In software engineering, aspects are concerns that cut across multiple modules. They can lead to the common problems of concern tangling and scattering: concern tangling is where software concerns are not represented independently of each other; concern scattering is where a software concern is represented in multiple remote places in …