Fall 2011 issue of Methods & Tools

Methods & Tools – the free magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Fall 2011 issue with the following articles that focuses mainly on user interface and project management practices:
* Dialogue Sheets for Scrum Retrospectives – Helping Scrum Improvement
* Using Models and Standards – Tools for Software Processes
* The Psychology of UX – Understand your Users
* HTML5 for Rich Web Enterprise Applications – What Does HTML5 Brings to the Web?
* Gradle – a revolutionary Groovy based build tool
* Saros – an Eclipse plug-in for Distributed Programming
* StarUML – an Open Source UML tool

JUnit Tutorial

This brief tutorial shows how to use the JUnit open source unit testing framework for Java. By using JUnit, you can assert that methods in your Java code work as designed, without the need to set up the complete application. To apply the JUnit principle for testing in specific domains such as XML or databases, special extensions exist.

Visit http://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/videos/junit-tutorial/

Java Software Engineer Trading Systems, Boston, MA

Keys to this Position
1. Technical: Hands on coding with Java, JMS and Spring in a FIX environment. Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol is a messaging standard developed specifically for the real-time electronic exchange of securities transactions. FIX is a public-domain specification owned and maintained by FIX Protocol, Ltd.
2. The role is 50% development and 50% maintenance, support and improvement of the FIX environment.
2. Domain: The candidate must have some knowledge of Trading Systems and FIX Protocol.
4. Selling points: Company is a leader in the buy side community for FIX. This individual will interface with Wall Street and gain a lot of Industry exposure.

To get more informations and to apply visit
http://www.softdevjobs.com/job/java-software-engineer-trading-systems-new-york-city-ny-erwellbos-45ea83c1d6/

Project Management Open Source Tools

This directory proposes a list of open source software for all project management activities : planning, estimating, tracking, You will find also resources on project management in the same web site.


Visit http://www.opensourceprojectmanagement.org/

Software Testing and Quality in the Summer 2011 issue of Methods & Tools

Methods & Tools - the free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers - has just published its Summer 2011 issue with the following articles:
* Continuous Delivery Using Build Pipelines With Jenkins and Ant
* Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Software Measurement
* The Art of Mocking
* Restructure101 for Java  - Refactor Your Software Architecture
* Maven - Java Build Management
* Automated WebTesting with Selenium RC
* Liquibase - Open Source Dababase Version Control
55 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?summer11

Agile, Project Management and Software Testing in Spring 2011 Issue of Methods & Tools

Methods & Tools – the free magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Spring 2011 PDF issue with the following articles:
* Automated Acceptance Tests and Requirements Traceability
* Managing Schedule Flaws using Agile Methods
* User-Centric Design and the Power of Personas
* Complexity Theory for Software Developers
* Build Patterns to Boost your Continuous Integration
* GivWenZen – Behavior Driven Development for FitNesse
* Celoxis – Web Based Project Management
* Tellurium Automated Testing Framework
* Apache CXF
* RSpec Best Practices
* Maven Plugins
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Software Testing Dojos in Winter issue of Methods & Tools

Methods & Tools – the free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Winter 2010 issue with the following articles:
* Non-Functional Requirements: Do User Stories Really Help?
* Software Testing Dojos
* Process improvement, The Agile Way!
* Tool: Apache ServiceMix
* Tool: Apache Camel
* Tool: ArgoUML – Open Source Unified Modeling Language

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