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How Low-Code Platforms are Addressing the Shortage of Skilled Developers As the demand for software development accelerates, businesses are facing a critical shortage of skilled developers. This talent gap can prevent project success due to delays and compromised quality. Low-code platforms have emerged as a powerful solution, enabling organizations to effectively bridge the skills gap. By empowering non-technical users, or "citizen developers," to create applications with minimal coding knowledge, low-code platforms democratize development and accelerate project timelines. |
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Agile Technical Practices—If Only You Knew Them! Santos, Consolaro, and Di Gioia's Agile Technical Practices offers a deep dive into core agile practices like pair programming and test-driven development. It's a valuable resource for developers seeking to improve code quality and maintainability. While focused on a limited set, exploring other agile techniques can further enhance development practices. As the article points out, skilled developers are crucial for organizations aiming to deliver value effectively. |
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Agile Roadblocks: Overcoming Obstacles to Embrace Change While Agile development embraces flexibility, it does face some hurdles. Users may cling to the familiar, oversimplified software lacks user control, and remote meetings might hinder collaboration. User feedback may be vague, and new software lacks an initial user base. Solutions inculde user voting, prioritizing user needs, and leveraging feedback from related software. |
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Streamlined and Up-to-Date: How Agile Documentation Benefits Your Users Agile documentation keeps software instructions current with frequent updates. It focuses on user needs by providing clear explanations, new feature breakdowns, and migration guides. Easy navigation, search, and collaboration tools ensure users can find what they need quickly. |
Better Software Magazine Articles
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Supporting Continuous Testing with Automation Create tests that can be used in a continuous testing environment, build the right number of tests, and don’t fall victim to the mistaken belief that everything can be automated. |
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All Customers Are Not Created Equal Software developers may not think they have much to do with customers, but it is wise to consider the customer in all you do, from collecting requirements to design and implementation. |
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DevOps and the Culture of Code Migrating an organization to continuous integration requires adoption new processes, tools, and automation. DevOps relies on dramatic culture change to encourage total transparency and collaboration among all project stakeholders. |
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5 Ways to Pair Developers with Testers Some agile practices stress the importance of pairing team members together to achieve better team performance. Try these five suggestions for pairing key resources. |
Interviews
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Whole Team Quality: A Conversation with Melissa Benua
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Melissa Benua, director of engineering at mParticle, chats with TechWell community manager Owen Gotimer about the importance of whole team quality, how to get started using the test pyramid, and how developers can start writing testable code. |
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Giving Control Back to Software Developers: An Interview with Mike Faulise
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In this interview, Michael Faulise, the founder and managing partner at tap|QA, explains how the move toward DevOps and away from release management is giving control back to developers, then details why major companies often need partners to leverage CI, CD, and other modern techniques. |
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How to Adapt to the New Age of Testing and Development: An Interview with Melissa Benua
Podcast
In this interview, Melissa Benua, a senior technical lead at mParticle and senior backend software engineer at PlayFab, explains how the speed of development and testing has changed, as well as how to adapt to the new era of software. |
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How Ideas and Assumptions Impact Applications: An Interview with TJ Usiyan
Podcast
In this interview, TJ Usiyan, an instructor with Iron Yard, talks about whether development and testing teams need to be on the same page. He also explains how subjectivity influences our systems and applications and why teams overlook subjectivity. |
Conference Presentations
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Continuous Delivery Dojo: From Doing Agile to Being Agile
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State Farm adopted an innovative approach to a common problem many organizations face with agile transformation: How do you influence, nurture, and support a whole scale culture of agility? How do you move from doing agile to being agile? |
Lisa Maurer
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Conquering BDD: How One Team Is Making It Work
Slideshow
Behavior-driven development has been a buzzworthy term in the testing and development community for several years. At first glance, the elements of BDD seem simple: testing scenarios, living documentation, automation, and reports. |
Christine Fisher
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Making the Marriage of Product and Engineering Thrive
Slideshow
y now you have probably heard that there should be a healthy tension between the product and engineering teams. The key word there is "healthy"—when this relationship is unhealthy, silos tend to form, ideas may be thrown over the wall, and a lack of ownership can develop. |
Vidya Dinamani
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Leveraging Kubernetes as a Tester
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Kubernetes is one of the fastest growing open source projects in history, and it's taking the DevOps world by storm. With so many resources being poured into this technology, it would be nice if there were some benefits for testing. |
Glenn Buckholz
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