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2017 State of Testing Report
The State of Testing 2017 report provides insights into the adoption of test techniques, practices, and test automation, and the challenges that testers are facing. This is fourth time that this survey has been done. InfoQ held an interview with the organizers of the State of Testing survey.
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Product Development in Distributed Teams
This article focuses on how to do product development in distributed teams. It shares some virtues and practices which help to minimize challenges and develop the right product. It covers tools to help overcome challenges due to distribution and foster good behaviours. It explains how to perform various product oriented activities like user research, story mapping, planning and refinements.
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Enhance Your Testing Skills with Mindset Tools
Quite a lot of testers often miss out on the mindset necessary for the testing and delivery of quality products. Sometimes it seems that quality consciousness is missing. This article is about how I discovered a way to grow my test mindset, and how my discovery has been useful in enhancing my testing skills.
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Roundtable: The Role of Enterprise Architecture in a Cloudy World
Do enterprise architects still matter? Has a cloud-native development model—not to mention a DevOps and SRE approaches to operations—fundamentally changed how we think about enterprise architecture? In this roundtable, we talk to four experienced architects to find the answer.
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Seven Operators to Get Started with RxJS
If you're just getting started with Reactive JavaScript and RxJS, the list of available operators can be overwhelming. If you're just getting started, which ones do you actually need? In this article, Vinvent Tunru introduces seven operators along with examples that will help you get a feel for when each of these operators could come in handy.
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Building Pipelines for Heterogeneous Execution Environments for Big Data Processing
The Pipeline61 framework supports the building of data pipelines involving heterogeneous execution environments. It reuses the existing code of the deployed jobs in different environments and provides version control and dependency management that deals with typical software engineering issues. A real-world case study shows its effectiveness.
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A Comprehensive Look at F# 4.1
Semantic versioning can be misleading. While F# 4.1 is backwards compatible with F# 4.0, it is by no means a minor release. With both Microsoft and the larger community contributing, several more features were introduced since the F# 4.1 preview in the areas of performance, interoperability, and convenience.
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Using Structured Conversations to Discover Your MVP
In an increasingly more complex world, finding the smallest possible chunk to deliver to get feedback is essential. This is the idea behind the term MVP. This article describes a model where business and technology together explore the product needs along seven product dimensions, which is a great way of finding small slices of work to develop.
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Introducing Reladomo - Enterprise Open Source Java ORM, Batteries Included!
Goldman Sachs is widely known as a leader in investment banking, but they are very much a leading technology firm as well. Reladomo is the primary Java ORM used at GS, and it is now open source. In this article GS Technology Fellow, Mohammad Rezaei, takes us on a deep dive into Reladomo.
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Predictable Agile Delivery: The Executive Challenge
As agile grows-out of its years of self-obsession and teenage petulance into a post-agile state, ‘Predictable Agile Delivery’ feels like a realistic goal that advantages both the business sponsor and their development stakeholders. This article shares some ‘good, bad and ugly’ examples of practices that often work and some that always fail at improving large organizations.
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Book Q&A on Product Mastery
The best product owners are insatiably curious about their customers; they observe them in action, interview them, and collaborate with them and bring them into the development process, said Geoff Watts. In his new book Product Mastery he explores what he calls “the difference between good and great product ownership”.
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There's No AI (Artificial Intelligence) without IA (Information Architecture)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly hyped by everyone, from well-funded startups to well-known software brands. In this article the author describes the need for high-quality, structured data before AI technologies can be of use to organizations and their customers.