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Ideas for Eliciting Examples and Specifications In the past few weeks, I’ve been looking for ways to apply the techniques of pull conversations to getting specifications from our customers. Pull conversation techniques advise us to let go of our own assumptions and judgments and to try to put ourselves into our stakeholders’ world. |
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There's No Such Thing as Multitasking Software professionals are multitaskers. Some are better at multitasking than others, but everyone does it because, after all, what choice do you have if you want to get everything done? |
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FDA Looking to Regulate Medical Apps With the growing popularity of mobile medical apps, some of which are designed for critical health-monitoring tasks, the Food and Drug Administration is considering some form of regulation. |
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The Independent Double-check When someone gives us a piece of code to test, they are telling us, "This code works correctly." If we accept this assertion without verifying it, we have failed as testers. While it seems unlikely that we would ever let such an assertion go unchallenged, it is easier than one might think. |
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China Spends $160 Million to Fight Software Piracy In order to combat the use of pirated software by government employees, China has recently spent $160 million on licensed software for government offices scattered around the country. |
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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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Easing Test Automation with the Page Object Pattern Many testers feel they are spending more time than they'd like like to refactor and maintain GUI tests. Applying the page object pattern, you can create UI tests that are less brittle and cost less to maintain. |
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GitHub Scores $100 Million Venture Capital Investment GitHub, an online source code repository, scored a $100 million investment, brought to you by Menlo Park’s esteemed venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz. |
