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Making good use of assertion messages in tests (en)

Have you ever struggle with coming up with useful assertion messages in your tests? Well, I have; until not so long ago.

I remember when I started using JUnit. It was summer 2000, and I became addicted to writing tests first. I was already writing aut…

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Les gagnants du déjeuner avec Ken Schwaber sont… (en)

Suite au concours Un déjeuner avec Ken Schwaber, nous sommes heureux d’annoncer les 5 personnes qui participeront à ce déjeuner. – Anthony Dahane – Christine Lambert – Bilal Nasar – Steffan Surdek – Alfonso Marin Nous tenons à remercier tous les gens qui ont prit le temps de nous écrire …

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Want to have breakfast with Ken Schwaber? Un déjeuner avec Ken Schwaber? (en)

Pyxis is offering 5 passes to attend our private conference breakfast with Ken Schwaber. It will be held on July 14th from 7:30 to 9:30 am in downtown Montréal. You want to be part of it? Tell us why we should choose YOU by posting a comment. How will this experience enlighten …

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Atlassian Plugin of the month: Talia for JIRA (en)

Talia is delighted to have been chosen as the plugin of the month for JIRA. Dialoog, a subsidiary Pyxis Technologies, has just released Talia for JIRA, the first enterprise-class chat robot that assists project managers with time tracking and issue updates. The product is not just an Instant Messaging interface to your …

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Conférence sur les test automatisés avec Android le 3 juin (en)

Philippe Breault parlera de tests automatisés avec Android au Groupe “Montréal Android Programmers User Group” Thème de la conférence : Vous développez une application pour votre android, mais êtes-vous convaincu que tout fonctionne encore maintenant que vous avez ajouté cette nouvelle fonctionnalité ? Fonctionne-t-elle encore sur tous les OS ? …

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Why DCI is the right architecture for right now (en)

InfoQ runs a very interesting video of Jim Coplien about Data-Context Interaction.

“Uncle bob completly misses the point by assuming that professionalism is about doing TDD”.

“Dynamic languages got popular for the wrong reasons

“people get religious about details that don’t matter, and very very few people are talking about the big picture”

“scrum is all about common sense, […]

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Product vision and Strategic Design (en)

When I coach Scrum teams, I usually spend a significant amount of time working with the Product Owner to teach her how to create an effective product vision, one that will act as a guiding light for the Scrum team and stakeholders.

I don’t want …

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Pyxis Technologies a gagné un MercadOr dans la catégorie « pratiques novatrices en ressources humaines » ! (en)

Jeudi soir, nous avons été récompensés pour nos pratiques innovantes en ressources humaines par Laval Technopole. C’est la reconnaissance de pratiques différentes, de notre groupe de ‘coaches internes’ à la mise en place d’une coopérative de travailleurs actionnaire, en passant par une organisation du travail souple et basée sur la …

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Imposterizing checked exceptions (en)

I have been frustrated many times by some of Java’s checked exceptions. I’m sure you can recall some of your own experiences where you wished a CheckedException was a RuntimeException instead.

Let me share a useful exception idiom that I&#…

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Another favorable Blog from Microsoft (en)

Another blog from Microsoft (Aaron Bjork) about Urban Turtle . Thank you!

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