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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

I’ve been quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve joined OpenSesame as Vice President of Engineering. It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. It tends to snap back.

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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.