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Sharpening the Tools
Dan North advices on how to advance from beginner to expert: practice the basics, learn from others, understand trends, share knowledge, maintain the toolbox, learn how to learn, and re-do everything.
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Fighting Layout Bugs
Michael Tamm offers solutions for automatic testing of a web application’s presentation layer through HTML and CSS validation and by detecting layout bugs using JavaScript and image processing.
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Modeling Concurrency with Actors in Java - Lessons Learned from Erjang
Kresten Krab Thorup discusses functional and interactive concurrency, the message-based paradigm vs. OOP, a new way of doing programming based on concurrency, state encapsulation, and cheap processes.
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Mobile Testing Challenge: Why Mobile Apps Need Real-World Testing Coverage and How Crowdsourcing Can Help
Doron Reuveni presents how to use crowdsourcing for testing mobile applications, the specific characteristics of the In-the-Wild testing accompanied by a live demo, and some real-world success stories
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A Discussion of Basic vs. Applied Research in the Software Domain and the Creation of Erlang
Bjarne Däcker recounts the story of CSLab at Ericsson, the birthplace or Erlang, how it started, some of the projects leading to Erlang, and its eventual success inside Ericsson as Erlang/OTP.
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Test-Driven Development of Asynchronous Systems
Nat Pryce exemplifies how he dealt with flickering, false positives, slow, and messy tests appearing in asynchronous testing when trying to perform end-to-end testing.
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Using RESTful Web Services and Cloud Computing for Next-Generation Mobile Applications
Jason H Christensen presents the evolution of mobile devices, how to integrate mobile systems with the cloud and use RESTful services, what is a basic mobile architecture and how it can be implemented
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Panel: Modular Java
Alex Blewitt, Kevin Seal and Alex Buckley answer Java modularity-related questions: when is modularity needed, how to address it, and what are the improvements in OSGi-based development.
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Whither the Smartphone? Future Directions in Smartphones and Mobile Development
Adam Blum discusses the current trends in mobile development and smartphones, trying to predict what will happen in this area over the next 5 years so a developer would know what to expect.
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Cogs in the Machine: Testing Code Embedded in an Impenetrable Framework
Roy Osherove discusses the difficulties met when trying to test code embedded in a framework (cog), presenting several solutions to create unit tests for cogs, using Silverlight code as example.
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Reformulating the Product Delivery Process
Israel Gat, Erik Huddleston and Stephen Chin present how Inovis realized a higher product throughput by using three unconventional Kanban practices and a Lean Release Management tool called APROPOS.
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Making the Business Case
We know solving DevOps problems improves your business operations but how do you do you explain that to your CEO or CFO? How do you get the executives to buy in and invest in DevOps solutions?