The very first set of technical practices involved in a DevOps journey are certainly the ones related to Continuous Integration or CI. But having a CI server, such as Jenkins, is not sufficient to master Continuous Integration and reach the benefits. Read on why.
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A presentation given to Agile Tour Montreal 2015 about how you can attain better Agility by applying software development practices helping to correct typical issues with Agile methodologies.
Read More...I will be in Montreal tomorrow, at the Agile Tour Montreal 2015 event, giving a presentation on how to be even more agile, by applying good software engineering practices. I hope to see you there! And if you cannot make it, I will post my presentation material soon after.
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That’s a question you won’t hear from most software developers who do not know where to start when thinking about doing software test automation! To put you in context, I’m currently a continuous improvement initiatives leader in a large non-software company (doing a lot of software). I faced a lot of resistance in adopting practices and processes to improve our software quality. Automated testing is by far the most difficult practice I had to put in place, even in my own team; Now imagine when you have to convince 1000+ developers you don’t even work with directly! This article is about the most important reason why tests do not get written.
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