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Forecasting software delivery. Engineering's new best friend.

Allstacks

Due dates have long been viewed as toxic – a leftover artifact of the waterfall days of yore. This type of development generated countless horror stories, especially in the software boom of the 1980s. These "Death Marches," as they are often referred to in project management, left their mark on many engineers.

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Software Testing and Agile

Coveros

Take a moment to think about where you were in February of 2001—at the inception of the Agile Manifesto. I was with a privately held software engineering firm focused on helping organizations transform their software testing capabilities. We called it “Test Transformations”. 2011–2020 and Beyond. 2011–2020 and Beyond.

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Reviewing Top Software Development Tools For 2021 – Better & The Best

Xicom

The software industry evolves too fast! According to Coding Sans annual report , the challenges software developers in Dubai and across face were knowledge sharing and capacity. According to Coding Sans annual report , the challenges software developers in Dubai and across face were knowledge sharing and capacity.

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Taking an Extreme Approach to Software

Coveros

“Extreme Programming turns the conventional software process sideways. I was searching for something related to software engineering and stumbled across a paper on Extreme Programming (XP) by Kent Beck. At that time, optimizing your Waterfall software process was all the rage. I remember it like it was yesterday.

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Attending Oracle’s CodeOne? Here Are 15 Sessions Everyone Will Be Talking About

OverOps

He’s going to be talking about code quality in open source projects and identifying problems in the code. Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad? No matter how quickly or slowly code moves through development or how diligent your testing is, some issues will only surface in production when real data is involved.

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After 20 Years…Why is Agile Still Alive?

Coveros

20 years is a lifetime in the software business! How remarkable that the simple set of principles embodied in the Agile Manifesto agreed to by the 17 pioneers in 2001 drove the vast and generally-positive change we’ve seen over these two decades. Happy Birthday Agile. The short version is “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”

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Improving Security by influencing Human Behavior

Xebia

Security is so much more than a software engineering topic. Holistic in the context of security implies that security is never about engineering only, it is about the collaborative implementation of the famous trinity of People, Process and Technology (PPT) [1] , [2] , [3] , [4]. The Sociological Review , 47 (2), 199–227.

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