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Government’s Federal Source Code Policy Mandates 20 Percent Open Source In an attempt to reduce duplicating government IT and software resources, the US federal government recently announced the “Federal Source Code” policy, which requires new custom-developed source code used by federal agencies to be made available for sharing and reuse government-wide. |
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Before Jumping into Software Testing Tools, Get Your Code Straight Software testing tools can be incredibly helpful, but only if you're implementing them from a good starting place. If your code is a mess, a tool won't fix that; you'll end up simply adding layers on top of the mess. Matt Heusser explains how your team would be better off learning elements of code as craft. |
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The Internet of Things Has Changed the Definition of Good Software As the Internet of Things takes hold and more common appliances are run by software, people will be increasingly reliant on programmers’ ability to write good code. But how do we define “good code” or “good software”—and how do we get there? Stefano Rizzo explains eight requirements he thinks are essential. |
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Testers, Tech It Up! Become More Technically Competent As our world becomes more complex, the demand for technical testing expertise is going up. While there will always be a need for domain specialists, we also need just as many technical testing roles—particularly with programming skills. Mike Sowers has some ideas on developing additional technical expertise. |
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How DevOps Is Making Testers Evolve As the streamlined DevOps movement catches on, more and more companies are abandoning “traditional testers” and getting software developers to test. Testers are not becoming obsolete—but it means testers have to evolve and start ensuring that quality is baked in. Adam Auerbach details how they need to change. |
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Debunking the “Conspiracy” around Learning to Code When people want to learn to code, they often turn to a learn-to-code site. These sites show a list of buzzwords and a solution, assuming the reader will follow right along—except the typical reader can’t. It's as if there’s a conspiracy trying to make writing code look hard. Fear not—there isn't. |
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Learning to Love the Source Even though we at SQE/TechWell pride ourselves on giving developers, testers, and other software professionals valuable resources for their industry, not all of us have a technical background. Here, a marketing employee describes her first brush with coding and how she came to respect programming. |
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MIT Proposes to Simplify Web Programming with Ur/Web Tag this as an upcoming technology development to watch. A researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new open source programming language called Ur/Web that proposes to “take the grunt work out of Web development,” as well as make web applications more secure. |
