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Waterfall vs. Agile vs. iterative development explained
Componentized software architectures gave way to new forms of software development. Learn when to implement simple iterative development versus wholesale changes with Agile.
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- How to hold Three Amigos meetings in Agile development
Three Amigos is an Agile development strategy to keep projects on track with specifications, timeline expectations and more. Here's how to host the meetings, and who should join in.
- How to implement Scrum the right way
Not sure where to start with Scrum? Check out a book that covers Scrum implementation from pre-development work through retrospectives, and details the frameworks to scale Scrum.
- How and why to do parallel testing
Parallel testing can be a boon to test coverage and test execution times. But while the practice is quite adoptable, testers still need a well-thought-out implementation strategy.
Definitions
- Agile retrospective
An Agile retrospective is a meeting that’s held at the end of an iteration in Agile development.
- Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) is a scalable Agile software delivery framework.
- static testing
Static testing is a software testing method that involves the examination of a program, along with any associated documents, but does not require the program to be executed.
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Software development methodologies
Agile software development refers to software development methodologies that follow the Agile Manifesto valuing: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools, working software over comprehensive documentation, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, responding to change over following a plan.
Popular agile methodologies include Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP). Agile methodologies use short iterations for development and emphasize collaboration and cross-functional teams with members from the business, development, and test.
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- Agile retrospective
An Agile retrospective is a meeting that’s held at the end of an iteration in Agile development.
- Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) is a scalable Agile software delivery framework.
- Scrum Master
A Scrum Master is a facilitator for an Agile development team.
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- Waterfall vs. Agile vs. iterative development explained
- How to hold Three Amigos meetings in Agile development
- How to implement Scrum the right way
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Back to TopSoftware design and development
Software development fundamentals include the basics for understanding the various phases and processes of the software development lifecycle. It's important for those in software development to understand terminology, the various models and methodologies, tools, and the various phases of a lifecycle. Software development fundamentals would include understanding the basis of requirements management, software architecture, test engineering, quality engineering, configuration management and measurement and analysis.
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- static testing
Static testing is a software testing method that involves the examination of a program, along with any associated documents, but does not require the program to be executed.
- native app
A native application is a software program that is developed for use on a particular platform or device.
- embedded system
An embedded system is a combination of computer hardware and software designed for a specific function or functions within a larger system.
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- How static and dynamic code analysis boost app security
- Essential mobile app development tools and programming languages
- Learn how to perform TDD with a simple example
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- Code refactoring and management
- Integrated development environments and dev tools
- Low code and citizen development
- Model-, behavior- and test-driven development
- UI and UX design
SDLC
Application lifecycle management (ALM) fundamentals cover best practices in the software industry for all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Regardless of SDLC methodology used, whether traditional waterfall, agile, or a combined approach, a project's success or failure can be dependent on the team's familiarity with ALM fundamentals and adherence to software development processes such as requirements, design, development, test, release, and maintenance. Knowing ALM fundamentals will provide the necessary skills to ensure a high quality software development project.
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- user story
A user story is a tool used in Agile development to capture a description of a software feature from an end-user perspective.
- Docker
Docker is an open source software platform to create, deploy and manage virtualized application containers on a common operating system (OS), with an ecosystem of allied tools.
- use case
A use case is a methodology used in system analysis to identify, clarify, and organize system requirements.
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- Functional vs. nonfunctional requirements in software engineering
- Application performance monitoring tools and metrics quiz
- Oracle moves OpenJDK to Git and GitHub
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- CICD in software development
- Software documentation
- Software performance management
- Software requirements
- Version control
Dev teams and skills
Part of software project management requires staffing the project with personnel that have the right skills for successful completion of an application. Organizational decisions regarding hiring, appropriately staffing and training project teams for high-performance must be made to ensure a team's success. Dynamics in communication styles, work locations, cultures and time zones all need to be considered as a team is getting staffed. Employee skills and training needs are factors in determining project resource allocation and staff professional development.
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- build server
A build server is a machine on which a software project can be continuously built from changes that are committed to the repository.
- data center outsourcing (DCO)
DCO (data center outsourcing) is the practice of outsourcing the day-to-day provisioning and management of computing and storage resources and environments to a third party provider.
- multitasking (in humans)
Multitasking, in a human context, is the practice of doing multiple things simultaneously, such as editing a document or responding to email while attending a teleconference. The concept of multitasking began in a computing context.
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- 3 dramatic ways to increase developer productivity
- Why development team membership should change regularly
- Agile FAQ: Get started with these Agile basics
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- Outsourcing software development and testing
- Software developer skills and training
- Software testing skills and career advice
Test types
There's no shortage of ways to test software. Quality assurance engineers can rely on functional, performance, exploratory and many other software test types, many of which run without human intervention. In this section, we provide tips, features, guides and more to explain these different kinds of tests, and how to use them.
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- static testing
Static testing is a software testing method that involves the examination of a program, along with any associated documents, but does not require the program to be executed.
- static analysis (static code analysis)
Static analysis, also called static code analysis, is a method of computer program debugging that is done by examining the code without executing the program.
- software requirements specification (SRS)
A software requirements specification (SRS) is a comprehensive description of the intended purpose and environment for software under development. The SRS fully describes what the software will do and how it will be expected to perform... (Continued)
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- Regression testing vs. UAT: Goals and techniques
- Software accessibility testing: Standards, strategy and tools
- Developers must consider low-code app security
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- Exploratory testing
- Functional testing
- Non-functional testing
- Penetration testing
- Regression testing
- User acceptance testing
Testing tools and techniques
Software quality management (SQM) refers to the processes used to manage quality in software applications. Software quality management would include defining standards, regulations and processes that would verify work products delivered through the software development lifecycle (SDLC.) Software quality management would also work towards incorporating a knowledge base of best practices, selecting tools to manage the various aspects of quality, monitoring status and verifying and evaluating current methods, procedures and tools with the aim of continuous improvement.
Recent Definitions
- static testing
Static testing is a software testing method that involves the examination of a program, along with any associated documents, but does not require the program to be executed.
- continuous delivery (CD)
Continuous delivery (CD) is an approach for software delivery in which development teams produce and test code in short but continual cycles, usually with high degrees of automation.
- use case diagram (UML use case diagram)
A use case diagram is a way to summarize details of a system and the users within that system.
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- How and why to do parallel testing
- How to put CI, CT and CD together in a DevOps pipeline
- Regression testing vs. UAT: Goals and techniques
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- AI in software testing
- Automated and autonomous testing
- Continuous testing
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- Software test design and planning
- Testing APIs, microservices and distributed systems