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Developing Quality Software: Differentiating Factors

The level of software quality attainable is a reflection of an organizational business decision. There are many factors that influence this decision, including development, build and testing environments effectiveness, resources and their associated skillset, integrity, motivations and experience levels, commercial agreements, and adopted processes and productivity tools.

Cynthia Freeney
on Mar 02, 2017
Architecture & Design

Agile Sailors - A Journey from a Monolithic Approach to Microservices

Over the last couple of years eSailors IT solutions has implemented big technological and organisational changes: from functional silos to cross-functional teams, from a work flow that looked like an assembly line to dynamic loops, from a monolithic platform to microservices, from hierarchical command-and-control to leadership as a team sport. This article provides a summary of their journey.

Hans Gruber Michael Gruczel Sigi Kaltenecker
on Nov 11, 2016
Architecture & Design

Continuous Delivery Coding Patterns: Latent-to-Live Code & Forward Compatible Interim Versions

This article describes two novel practices for continuous delivery: Latent-to-live code pattern and Forward compatible interim versions. You can use these practices to simultaneously increase speed and reliability of software development and reduce risks. These practices are built on top of two other essential continuous delivery practices: trunk-based-development and feature toggles.

Luca Minudel
on Sep 02, 2016
Culture & Methods

Q&A with Diomidis Spinellis on Effective Debugging

The book Effective Debugging by Diomidis Spinellis describes 66 different approaches for effective debugging of applications and systems. It provides methods, strategies, techniques, and tools for finding and removing faults, and gives examples for using them in different settings.

Ben Linders
on Aug 24, 2016
Culture & Methods

Now or Never: the Ultimate Strategy for Handling Defects

How do you handle a long list of defects in your project? You don't. If it is not worth fixing a defect right now, it’s not likely that we will find the time to do it later. Also, it becomes more and more difficult over time to correct the defect, so it is cheaper to solve it now. Kirill Klimov explains why you should solve defects right away, or state that you will not solve them.

Kirill Klimov
on May 02, 2016
Culture & Methods

0 Bugs Policy

Gal Zellermayer describes the 0 bugs policy, a process for handling bugs that is based upon 1 rule: whenever you encounter a new bug, you should either fix that bug, or close it as "won't fix" and don't think about it again.

Gal Zellermayer
on Apr 05, 2016
Culture & Methods

Understanding Quality and Reliability

One of the most overlooked but important areas of software development is quality. It often is not considered or even discussed during the early planning stages of all development projects, but it’s almost always the ultimate criteria for when a product is ready to ship or deploy. This article will explore how to measure quality and minimize the factors that negatively impact software reliability.

C. Taylor Putnam-Majarian Doug Putnam
on Mar 23, 2016
Culture & Methods

The Way to No-Hotfix Deployment

Hot-fix redeployment is a waste of time and effort at best, and often a source of further regression, Adam discusses some ready-to-use techniques that helped he and his team reduce the frequency of hot-fix deployments to almost zero.

Adam Pahlevi
on Mar 11, 2016
Culture & Methods

Agile Approaches in Test Planning

At Agile Testing Days 2015, Eddy Bruin and Ray Oei explained how to satisfy the needs of stakeholders who ask for test cases, test plans, and other comprehensive test artifacts without writing large test plans. An interview about test plans in agile, how to make stakeholders aware that they can influence quality, and which agile practices they recommend for testing.

Ben Linders
on Feb 21, 2016
DevOps

Faster, Smarter DevOps

Moving your release cadence from months to weeks is not just about learning Agile practices and getting some automation tools. It involves people, tooling and a transition plan. Derek Weeks discusses some of the benefits and approaches to getting there.

Derek Weeks
on Feb 18, 2016
Culture & Methods

Q&A on The Agile Mind-Set

Gil Broza explores agile values, beliefs and principles, and explains how they can be used to drive agile adoption in his book The Agile Mind-set. The book provides ideas, examples, and anecdotes that organizations can use to make a shift to agile.

Ben Linders
on Nov 15, 2015
Culture & Methods

Toward Agile Architecture: Insights from 15 Years of ATAM Data

The authors have concluded after analyzing 15 years of Architecture Trade-Off Analysis Method (ATAM) data across 31 projects that modifiability, performance, availability, interoperability, and deployability are key quality attributes for Agile practitioners.

Rick Kazman Ian Gorton Stephany Bellomo
on Oct 17, 2015