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The Future of QA at Atlassian
Mark Hrynczak, Cloud QA Manager for Atlassian, gave a talk on this year’s company summit in which he shared his vision of how a high valuable QA team should perform. High value for a QA team is defined as being, in the first place, totally aligned with the company strategic goals ,thus contributing to solve the most important problems that an organization might face at a specific moment.
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Workplace of the Future: How Technology Affects Employee Experience
Jacob Morgan, a keynote speaker, best-selling author and the co-founder of The Future of Work Community, a global innovation council of the world’s most forward thinking organizations exploring the new world of work, gave a webinar together with Konica Minolta to discuss the workplace of the future and how technology affects the employee experiences.
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Kyle McMeekin on Real World Testing Challenges
At the recent Agile 2016 conference, InfoQ spoke to Kyle McMeekin about the real world challenges around software testing in agile development, the push to have more test automation and how exploratory testing is different from and more effective than scripted manual testing.
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QConSF 2016 Early Look: Top 6 Talks & Networking Opportunities Abound
QConSF 2016 Early Look: facts about the conference, best talks, networking dinners and much more.
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GitLab Survey Highlights Some Trends among Developers
GitLab has released the outcomes of a survey they conducted among software professionals from 362 startups from July 6 through July 27. Main highlights are developers' preference for using latest tools and more collaboration; security is high-priority, but 81 percent admitted to releasing software before it’s ready.
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Microsoft Teams Can Be Extended via Tabs, Bots and Connectors
Microsoft has announced Teams, a group collaboration workspace based on chats and integrated with Office 365. Developers have the opportunity to extend Teams with Tabs, Bots and Connectors.
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Esther Derby's Six Rules for Change
Esther Derby identifies six rules to use when change needs to happen, so that the people involved are honored, and the complexity of the change is acknowledged. Creating an environment based on empathy, knowledge of the past, and a willingness to experiment, makes change less stressful.
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How to Deal with Cognitive Biases That Hinder Collaboration
People are hardwired to instantly decide who we trust, but also to work collaboratively in small groups. Cognitive biases can get in the way of collaboration, but when you understand how these biases work and what agile practices can do to help, you are more likely to build better interpersonal relationships and create successful products.
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Major Windows Vulnerability Disclosed by Google before Patch Available
A major, currently exploited vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows kernel has recently been disclosed by Google’s Threat Analysis Group, before Microsoft made public a patch or any mitigation advice. Microsoft has stated a fully tested patch will be available in a week.
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NodeJS v7 Upgrades to V8 5.4
The Node.js Foundation has released Node.js v7, including the updated V8 5.4.
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Microservices and Stream Processing Architecture at Zalando Using Apache Flink
Javier Lopez and Mihail Vieru spoke at Reactive Summit 2016 Conference about cloud-based data integration and distribution platform used for stream processing in business intelligence use cases. Their solution is based on technologies such as Flink, Kafka and Elasticsearch.
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Serverless Frameworks at Serverlessconf London 2016
The emergent theme for the second day of Serverlessconf London 2016 was the availability and functionality of management frameworks to address the operational issues highlighted on day one. The Node.js based Serverless Framework featured in at least three talks, and there was also coverage of Zappa, a more opinionated Python based framework.
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Honeycomb - A Tool for Debugging Complex Systems
Honeycomb is a tool for observing and correlating events in distributed systems. It provides a different approach from existing tools like Zipkin in that it moves away from the single-request-tracing model to a more free-form model of collecting and querying data across layers and dimensions.
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Next.js Offers Simple Universal JavaScript Framework Based on React
Next.js is a universal JavaScript framework based on React. It has a simple setup and uses extensions to the React component model to provide server-based component rendering with the ability to continue rendering on the client.
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Racket 6.7 Brings Android App Support, Improved REPL, and More
PLT Design has announced a new version of Racket; its Scheme-like general purpose, multi-paradigm programming language Racket 6.7 introduces support for building graphical applications on Android, improvements to the REPL and to the package manager, and extended Typed Racked.