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Continuous Integration And Version Control for Databases
After asserting that one must, as a rule, always version their database work, Scott Allen detailed an approach to making the best of versioning databases. Allen presented a comprehensive, practical approach to creating a baseline, using change scripts to manage schematic revisions, controlling programmatic database objects, and handling branching and merging.
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Review Board - Online Code Review Tool
Recently there has been a resurgence in interest in code reviews. InfoQ looks at Review Board, an open source application that helps facilitate the code review process, that has been gathering momentum in the open source community.
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IntelliJ IDEA's Dependency Structure Matrix Tool Visualizes Architecture
JetBrains includes a Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) tool in its recently released version 7. DSM tools generate a representation of a codebase's dependencies in an appealing martix visualization. This article looks at how DSM can improve project structure and how IDEA's DSM tool compares with alternatives.
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Tasktop: Bringing Mylyn's Task-Focused Interface to Everyone
Tasktop Technologies, the company which created Eclipse Mylyn and leads its development, released Tasktop version 1.0 today. InfoQ interviewed Tasktop CEO Mik Kersten to learn more about this release and how it brings Mylyn's task-focused interface to a much larger audience.
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VersionOne Announces New UI and Embedded Forecasting in Release 8
VersionOne recently announced Release 8 of their agile project management and team organization tool suite. This new release features an all-new user interface, introduction of a release forecasting toolset, and additional plug-n-play integrations for some popular open source tools.
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Sandcastle: Generate .NET API Documentation
Sandcastle is a Microsoft tool used to create MSDN like API documentation by reflecting over the source code assemblies and adding the XML comments included in the code. A new version of Sandcastle has just been released on CodePlex.
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Measure Teams, Not Individuals
Michael Dubakov recently expressed warning against the measurement of individual velocity and individual estimate accuracy. His view: measurement of these metrics not only provides no more useful information than is already available with their team-level equivalents, but may also have a tendency to encourage teams into behaviors that reduce effectiveness.
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Debate: Is Maven the right tool for builds?
Recently, there has been a lot of debate around the usefulness Maven, which is a Java-based build and dependency management tool being used in many projects. InfoQ took a closer look at this debate to understand what issues are being encountered, and what has resulted from the debate.
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Can Tools Reduce the Effort Involved in Test Driven Development?
With the presence of high quality test generation tools like Agitar One and Parasoft's JTest, some are questioning the need to write tests manually. 'Uncle' Bob Martin weighted in, exploring the weakness of the idea.
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Target Process 2.7: Agile Project Management tool for Distributed Teams
Target Process 2.7 has been released. Target Process is an Agile Process Management tool that automates many of the tasks associated with an agile project. Notable features in recent iterations include visual iteration planning, program level release planning, individual velocity reports, and more.
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Agile Kanban: Visual Tracking Beyond the Team Room
In the beginning Agile was largely a developer-driven initiative, sometimes improving development processes only to find the real bottlenecks lay outside developer control. In his latest InfoQ article, Kenji Hiranabe analyses Lean manufacturing's "Kanban" visual tracking tool, how it differs from the Agile taskboard, and how it helps identify more far-reaching improvements.
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JBoss Rolls Out Developer Studio 1.0 and Tools 2.0
JBoss recently released new versions of their JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Tools products.
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MarkMail Takes Mailing List Archives to the Next Level
Late last year MarkLogic rolled out MarkMail, a free service for searching mailing list archives based on their MarkLogic XML content server. Currently MarkMail supports Apache.org, Mozilla.org, PHP and MySQL lists. InfoQ sat down with Jason Hunter of MarkLogic to find out more details on site and where it is heading in the future.
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JSF Testing Tools
Unit testing JSF applications has been considered difficult because of the constraints of testing JSF components outside the container. But this trend is changing with JSFUnit and other JSF test frameworks like Shale Test and JSF Extensions that support white-box testing approach to unit test both client and server components of the web application.
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Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework
The .NET Compact Framework is used for smaller devices such as smart phones and handheld computers as well as the XBox 360. The recently released 3.5 version now includes a host of debugging tools known collectively Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5.