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Variant Management Starts with Design Joe Farah describes how to not overload your branching with variants so as to permit your customers to dynamically modify the behavior of a software product. Variant management is a CM issue, but it has to be dealt with in the product design first. |
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Your Tools Are Not Your Tests Testing tools are a mixed blessing. The downside is that testing tools tend to constrain test thinking to the kind of testing they perform. Rick Scott makes the case that testers should fit the tools to the testing—not the other way around. |
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There’s More to User Experience Than Pretty Pixels User experience (UX) is not solely about layout, colour themes, and pretty pixels. User experience is about making your product work well for your users. UX designers attempt to narrow the gap between what people expect your product to do and what it actually does. |
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Is Your Software CM a Burden on Developers? Is your software configuration management process placing a burden on developers? Joe Farah lists some handy tips to ensure that CM benefits not only the business bottom line but also the developers and every role on the project team. |
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Bug Management: Don't Confuse the Tools with the Strategy It's important to have good tools, including bug trackers, but do we overrate the significance of the bug tracker and overlook where it actually sits in the larger picture of defect management? Tools should be just one part of your bug-management strategy. |
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Siri: Novelty or Helpful “Friend?” Could Siri potentially be a valuable tool for CM professionals or is it just a novelty item? Joe Townsend explores the pros and cons of Apple's voice recognition helper. |
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Telerik Releases New Version of Kendo UI Complete Telerik, an application tool company, announced a new version of its Kendo UI Complete tool, which now supports tablet UIs and contains server-side wrappers for ASP.NET MVC. |
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JP Morgan Chase Is Going Agile JP Morgan Chase is going agile! It only took a hundred years or so. |
