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Devops Fools, Tools and other Smart Things

Topics
Devops,
Tools

Patrick Debois discusses the role of tools in creating a new devops culture that needs to be build inside organizations around the idea of craftsmanship.

News about Tools

Sparx Systems Has Released Enterprise Architect 9.2

Topics
Model Driven Engineering,
Modeling,
Tools

Sparx Systems, an Austrian based vendor of UML tools, has recently published version 9.2 of Enterprise Architect. The new version adds features like enhanced simulation capability and support for describing ontologies.

Cloud Wars – U.S. Army Using Agile Platform For Cloud Migration

Topics
Agile,
Tools,
Platforms,
Cloud Computing

According to CGN (Government Computer News) the U.S. Army’s Architecture Services Division within the Software Engineering Center (SEC) has deployed a platform for the quick development and migration of applications to the private cloud. The engineers are using OutSystems’ Agile Platform for this purpose.

Articles about Tools

New Book: Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio

Topics
Agile,
Book Review,
Tools

“Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio – from Concept to Continuous Feedback” is a new book that provides a deep-dive into the Visual Studio-TFS features, that can help Agile teams manage their application lifecycle better. It is written by Sam Guckenheimer (Product Owner, Visual Studio Strategy at Microsoft) and Neno Loje (Independent ALM Consultant and TFS specialist).

Virtual Panel: Specification by Example, Executable Specifications, Scenarios and Feature Injection

Topics
Unit Testing,
Community,
Communication,
Software Testing,
Tools,
Process,
Collaboration,
Specifications

In the last couple of years terms like Specification by Example, Executable Specifications and Feature Injection have showed up quite frequently in the community, often in relation to Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) or tools like Cucumber or SpecFlow. InfoQ have talked to some of the leading experts in this domain about what these practices are and how they relate to BDD.

Presentations about Tools

Spring Tooling Update, New & Noteworthy

Topics
Java,
Tools

Andy Clement and Martin Lippert discuss the latest developments in Spring Tool Suite related to Java 7, Spring 3.1, Groovy, Grails, Gradle, and Cloud Foundry.

Making the Mobile Web Native with PhoneGap

Topics
Mobile,
iOS,
Tools

Keith Donald and Roy Clarkson present PhoneGap and demo developing cross-platform mobile applications for iOS and Android.

Interviews about Tools

Whats Happening with the AAFTT and Entaggle

Topics
Agile,
Agile Techniques,
Tools,
Community

Elisabeth talks about the current state of functional testing tools and the work being done by the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools program and how it is influencing the direction of tools development in the testing space. She also describes the new community-based site for giving and getting professional recognition- Entaggle.

Mik Kersten on the Role of Tasktop and Mylyn in Agile Development

Topics
Agile in the Enterprise,
Agile Education,
Software Craftsmanship,
Project Management,
Agile,
Java,
.NET,
Tools,
IDE

Mik Kersten discusses the role of Mylyn and Tasktop in Agile development and how these tools return control to developers. Also: how Mylyn streamlines development in Eclipse.