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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway. It tends to snap back. This makes room for a lot more skills.

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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

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Establishing an IT culture. Modernizing legacy applications is the perfect opportunity to reform your broader IT and engineering culture as well. Consider establishing internal coding standards that will make testing and long-term maintenance easier. Conclusion.

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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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Build cloud infrastructure from your CI pipeline with Pulumi

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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. Pulumi is an infrastructure as code platform you can use to help create a cloud engineering culture in your organization.

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. We rolled it out in July, so now’s a good time to share what we’ve learned so far. Here’s the latest version of the ladder. The new ladder focuses on teamwork, peer leadership, and maintainable code.