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Software CM: Thirty-Five Years Later Thirty-five years later and where are we in regards to software configuration management? Joe Farah takes us back to the late 1970s and compares the past with the present. If you look at a typical shop today, progress has actually gone backwards. |
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Does Exploratory Testing Randomize Your Agile Test Efforts? Test teams have come to rely on exploratory testing more than ever before to help achieve the required test coverage. While there are clear benefits of adopting exploratory testing in an agile workspace, is it really adding to the randomization that might already exist in the agile environment? |
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Mobile Development's Unique Challenges Solved by Agile Learn how mobile developers are using agile's methodologies to traverse the unique landscape that mobile software presents. Although the Agile Manifesto was written long before smartphones and tablets and other mobile devices were built, agile's methodologies have never been more relevant. |
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How Agile Impacts Healthcare The topic of healthcare is complex and breeds strong opinions on a variety of fronts. The one universal fact all parties agree on is that the state of healthcare IT is terrible. However, agile software methodology, with its focus on flexibility and speed, can change the face of healthcare IT. |
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James Bond Drives 3D Aston Martin For the action scenes in the latest James Bond movie Skyfall, British company Propshop Modelmakers used innovative 3D printing technology from Augsburg-based voxeljet to create the three Aston Martin DB5 models that double for the now priceless original vehicle from the 1960s. |
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Hystrix: Open Source Cloud Resiliency Release from Netflix Chris Haddad takes a close look at Hystrix—an open source library that improves cloud resiliency and fault tolerance by preventing cascading failures, isolating downed services, and rerouting service connections. Hystrix joins a growing list of Netflix sponsored open source cloud projects. |
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Don't Hope for a Happy UX—Build One Yourself Your site's UX is just as important as the product or service you're selling. Too many businesses wait for input once their site is online rather than involving potential clients from the start. Learn how to ensure that users love your site—and that they will return to it. |
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Testing APIs—How to Test SOAP Since APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) first came on the technology scene, the first question testers asked was How do I test them? APIs are closely related to web services—with some differences. Brendan Quinn looks at what's involved when testing APIs and using SOAP for testing them. |
