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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

Test automation is one of the practices that helps teams gain confidence earlier in the development process. It reduces the cost of testing and supports keeping long-term, high-development velocities. This results in a steadily-growing set of tests becoming part of the development cycle. Lower-level testing.

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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. Integration testing. User acceptance testing. Security testing.

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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. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway.

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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. Establishing an IT culture. Consider establishing internal coding standards that will make testing and long-term maintenance easier.

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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. PDF) Here’s a summary of the titles and skills, with changes marked: Associate Software Engineer Associate Software Engineers are just starting their software development careers.

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Build cloud infrastructure from your CI pipeline with Pulumi

CircleCI

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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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. They also love test-driven development, pairing, continuous integration, and evolutionary design. They tend to be passionate, senior developers. This is a big cultural shift!