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Software Testing and Agile

Coveros

February 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Agile Manifesto. 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.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

Data due diligence Generative AI especially has particular implications for data security, Mann says. The same issues were revealed when Microsoft launched Delve, and before that when the FAST integration brought powerful search to SharePoint in 2010. But it was.

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Bliki: ConwaysLaw

Martin Fowler

Pretty much all the practitioners I favor in Software Architecture are deeply suspicious of any kind of general law in the field. Good software architecture is very context-specific, analyzing trade-offs that resolve differently across a wide range of environments. We often see how inattention to the law can twist system architectures.

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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

In the software development field, we always hear famous names like Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, George H. That is why today I decided to write about amazing successful, talented and influential women in software development. 20 influential women in software development. . 20 influential women in software development. .

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Ensuring Benefits from Software Development: How the Benefit Owner Role and Agile Methodologies Work Together

Gorilla Logic

When combined with Agile frameworks, the Benefit Owner role can help development teams ensure they deliver value for the organization by establishing long-term accountability for creating, managing, and tracking how benefits are achieved over time. In software development, the Benefit Owner is accountable for realizing a specific benefit.

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. We produce high-quality code in small, verifiable steps. At best, mistakes lead to code that won’t compile. TDD isn’t perfect, of course.

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Agile Bonuses – The Damage They Do

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

The same might apply in other areas too, but I know this to be true in the context of software development in particular, because of my experience and study. In software development, individual performance bonuses are often geared to something like personal velocity if you’re a developer, or number of defects found if you’re a tester.

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