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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

When you think of software testing, what comes up first? For many developers, unit tests and integration tests are often top of mind. Both software testing methods are vital to writing and maintaining a high-quality production codebase. What is functional testing? Integration testing.

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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

If we were to take it one step further, where test automation is not only a tool to validate what we have made, but rather a way to write self-testing code , we find practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). As Dave Farley and Arjan Molenaar wrote: “TDD is not about writing unit tests”.

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6 Crucial Issues for Legacy.NET App Modernization

Datavail

In addition to modernizing your.NET applications and development methodologies, you might also take this chance to renovate the underlying database, or fix chronic pain points such as data quality issues. This could include changes to the database’s software, architecture, data schema, or security practices. Establishing an IT culture.

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Build cloud infrastructure from your CI pipeline with Pulumi

CircleCI

Modern software systems are complex, with services distributed across data centers, in many zones, all around the world. Cloud engineering brings the cloud closer to application development, applying engineering practices and principles to infrastructure and innovating and collaborating faster across the entire team.