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Applying Reactive Programming to Existing Applications
Ben Christensen discusses the mental shift from imperative to declarative programming, working with blocking IO such as JDBC and RPC, service composition, debugging and unit testing.
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Five Techniques to Improve How You Debug Servers
Tal Weiss explores five crucial Java techniques for distributed debugging and some of the pitfalls that make bug resolution much harder, and can even lead to downtime.
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In the Toolbox - Live!
Chris Oldwood takes a look at a variety of both command-line and GUI tools - build automation, testing and support - that have proved to be useful to the speaker time-and-time again.
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Why BDD Can Save Agile
Matt Wynne presents unwanted patterns one can recognize from his own team, and provides insight on how to fix them.
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Patterns of Automation
Jeff Morgan shares lessons learned helping organization adopt test automation, along with techniques for keeping the automation code simple, clean and maintainable.
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Alembic: Automatic Locality Extraction via Migration
The authors introduce Alembic, a new static analysis tool that frees programmers from having to manually move computation to exploit locality in PGAS programs.
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Release Testing Is Risk Management Theatre
Steve Smith discusses why Release Testing is an anti-pattern, and offers an alternative risk reduction strategy.
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Programming with GUTs
Kevlin Henney advises on writing Good Unit Tests (GUTs) by treating testing as a form of communication with multiple levels and forms of feedback.
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Statistical Debugging for Real-World Performance Problems
The authors show how statistical debugging can be used for diagnosing performance problems, lowing the overhead of run-time performance diagnosis without extending the diagnosis latency.
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Exploratory Testing
Tony Bruce introduces Exploratory Testing, what are its benefits, how to get value from it and some misconceptions.
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Behaviour Driven Development with Cucumber, Groovy and Grails
Marco Vermeulen discusses doing Behaviour Driven Development with Cucumber, Groovy and Grails.
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Treat Your Code as a Crime Scene
Adam Tornhill teaches how to predict bugs, detect architectural decay and find the code that is most expensive to maintain, how to evaluate knowledge drain in a codebase, and much more.