Methods & Tools – the free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Spring 2012 issue with the following articles:
* The Most Popular Collaborative Models
* Automated Testing of ASP.NET MVC Applications
* The Risk-Driven Model of Software Architecture
* MVP Foundations for Your GWT Application
* TestNG – Software Testing for Java
* SBT Scala Build Tool
* CUBRID – Open Source RDBMS Highly Optimized for the Web
* Guaraná – Enterprise Application DSL and SDK
60 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?spring12

After “Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing” published in 2009, Gojko Adzic continues to develop the Specification by Example concept. Specification by Example is a set of process patterns that facilitate change in software products to ensure the right product is delivered effectively. In this book, he presents the results of a research that covered 30 teams implementing 50 projects. After discussing the key process patterns, the book proposes six case studies that explain how organizations changed their specification process according to their context and …

“In the last decade, the software development community has strived to build software the “right” way, focusing on technical practices and ideas to ensure high-quality results. But building the product right and building the right product are two different things. We need to do both in order to succeed.

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Blog: Performance Testing Basic’s – What is Throughput?
Blog: The Chaos Addiction
Article: 5 Common Mistakes We Make Writing User Stories
Article: Use Selenium Grid to enhance testing of web applications
Article: Dancing with Pigs
Article: Platforms in the Cloud
Tool: FunkLoad- Functional and Load Web Testing
Tool: Chrysalis- XML Refactoring
Video: What is Enough Design for Agile?
Video: Writing Reliable Selenium Tests
Video: Web Architecture versus Enterprise IT

Video: Writing Maintainable Code
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Blog: A simulation to show the importance of backlog prioritization
Blog: Measuring Code
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Article: Are You a Whole Team?
Article: Agile Project Dashboards
Article: Power and Influence Charting: The Google Way
Tool: Reqline Requirement Management Tool
Tool: ckwnc – creating UML sequence diagrams online
Video: How to Decrease the Pain in Building Distributed Systems
Video: Kanban for Government Projects
Video: Introduction to Graph Databases
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