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How Pragmatic Personas Help You Understand Your End-User Knowing who will use your software is important to the software development process. Having the end-user in mind helps you develop features that fit the user's needs. And, figuring out your end-user, as Jeff Patton reveals, is indeed easy. In this column, Jeff details stereotypes to avoid, questions to ask, and how to implement this pragmatic persona in your development process. |
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Performing a Simple Process Health Checkup Does your software development process need tuning? How can you tell if it isn't running as well as it could be? In this week's column, Jeff Patton offers a diagnosis checklist for your team to help assess the vital statistics of your current development process. |
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Independent Testers? Or Independent Thinkers? In this article, Lisa Crispin recalls a time when testers alone were solely responsible for software quality, and compares that to more modern thinking where collaboration between developers and testers is king. Software quality is everyone's job, sometimes it takes independence to get there. |
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More Free Security Tools Times are tough, but people who want to break your software aren't relaxing and neither should you. In this column, Bryan Sullivan takes a look at some free security tools that can help you to protect your software without breaking the bank. |
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Continuous Integration and Testing Lisa Crispin explains in this article how CI has become an absolute necessity for any software development team in this day and age. For those who have yet to fully embrace CI, this article gives you some great reasons you should, along with some helpful resources to get you started. |
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Reusability vs. Usability: Where to Draw the Line? Arbitrary reuse of code components could deteriorate overall usability. In this column, Linda Hayes explains the good and bad qualities of reusability and five factors one should keep in mind when managing reusability to get the most of it. |
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A Word with the Wise: Assessment First with David Dang David Dang, a senior practice manager for Questcon Technologies, explains why you need think about the tool you select. According to Dang, the assessment of the project and its goals should always come first in test automation projects, otherwise, you risk maintainability issues down the road. |
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Alpha Project Status Design and implement a new call-tracking system. |
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Multitasking Is Evil Multitasking is often seen as a desirable skill—you can buy books or pay to attend courses that will teach you how to do it—but it is a surprisingly debilitating idea. |
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A ''D'' in Programming, Part 1 In certain company, the topic of favorite programming languages can elicit the same response as other taboo subjects, such as religion and politics. But, Chuck's going out on a limb to discuss his new favorite language, D, and some of its best features, such as its being strongly typed and compiling to native code, yet it is garbage collected. |
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