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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. Culture doesn’t change easily. Too many, possibly.

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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

In many organizations, automated testing lags behind and becomes a bottleneck for successful continuous delivery. Either tests do not provide enough confidence or companies take a very traditional approach, resulting in releases either introducing substantial risks or becoming costly.

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Functional vs non-functional software testing

CircleCI

In the user acceptance phase of software testing, developers provide part or all of the application to end-users or their representatives to model real-world interactions and functionality. Many healthy engineering cultures avoid relying heavily on user acceptance testing due to its unreliability, cost, and time consumption.

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6 Crucial Issues for Legacy.NET App Modernization

Datavail

Below, we’ll discuss 6 of the essential issues and factors that organizations need to consider when refreshing their legacy.NET apps. Legacy applications create pain points because they hold the organization back from innovation in other technologies as well. Establishing an IT culture. Identifying your business priorities.

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Build cloud infrastructure from your CI pipeline with Pulumi

CircleCI

Gone are the days when we managed individual servers dedicated to our organization, comfortable with the knowledge of the unique quirks of our setup. Pulumi is an infrastructure as code platform you can use to help create a cloud engineering culture in your organization.