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Pallet - DevOps for the JVM
Antoni Batchelli introduces Pallet, a devops platform for the JVM for provisioning and configuring servers, configuring clustered services, deploying and managing software, servers and services.
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Cloud-Powered Continuous Integration and Deployment
Jinesh Varia discusses automating continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous optimization in the context of using cloud computing services.
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Automatic Performance Programming?
Markus Püschel proposes to solve scientific calculation performance problems with code generation tools, introducing Spiral, an automatic performance programming framework for linear transforms.
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Testing, Testing, iOS
Heath Borders introduces several testing tools for iOS - OCUnit, Google Toolbox for Mac (GTM), GHUnit, UISpec, UIAutomation, OCMock – making some recommendations on which is better.
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Automating (almost) Everything Using Git, Gerrit, Hudson and Mylyn
Ryan Slobojan discusses how to perform issue tracking, code review, commits and builds in an automated manner by integrating Git, Gerrit, Hudson and Mylyn.
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Evolving Continuous Delivery
Chris Read describes a situation where they had to gradually reorganize a development process standardizing the build and deployment scripts, adding CI, automating everything, staging the binaries.
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Test First Development v.Next with Pex and Moles
David Starr demoes Pex –a parameterized white box unit test tool- and Moles –an isolation framework-, two .NET tools useful for test-first development.
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Why Program by Hand in Five Days what You Can Spend Five Years of Your Life Automating?
Terence Parr discusses using automation tools including DSLs to automate the software creation process as much as possible in order to increase output, effectiveness, correctness and velocity.
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Testing for the Unexpected
Ulf Wiger discusses the importance of automated testing along with some lessons learned at Ericsson, including using randomized and extensive testing, aiming to achieve system robustness.
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Remediation Patterns - How to Achieve Low Risk Releases
Jez Humble presents remediation patterns based on prevention, low risk release through automate provisioning and deployment plus dev/test/ops collaboration, and incremental delivery.
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Savara - Formally Verifying SOA Designs Against Requirements
Steve Ross-Talbot presents Savara, comprising a set of tools enabling enterprise architects to validate various artifacts against other artifacts based on the “Testable Architecture” methodology.
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The Case for Evolvable Software
Stephanie Forrest believes in the possibility to create evolvable software through automated bug repair, optimizing or improving code and creating new combinations of existing functionality.