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Product Announcements monitoring services to independently validate, from outside USi's network, the delivery and speed of managed services— measuring and reporting application response to end-users. Using GlobalWatch Monitoring, USi clients can continually test and measure the availability and performance of key Web transactions such as customer logins and purchase order fulfillment to confirm that their sites are available and performing 24/7. USi and Webmetrics also will provide users with a consultative analysis of how their applications are operating in relation to defined performance objectives and their top two competitors. Under the E-Commerce Performance Analysis offering, USi customers will receive: • A thirty-day subscription to GlobalWatch Monitoring for Transactions • A custom competitive application performance benchmark • A consultative performance analysis, leveraging company and competitive monitoring data and identified performance trends For additional information, visit www.webmetrics.com. Agile Practice NEW YORK—Exigen Services has announced the launch of a formal agile software development practice. By offering a group dedicated to application development maintenance (ADM) and application outsourcing (AO) leveraging agile techniques, the Exigen Agile Practice will aid enterprise customers who need more than staff augmentation. Within the practice, Exigen Services will offer hybrid and distributed agile services, customer training, performance metrics, and proven quality assurance practices. Exigen Services also will engage the global agile community to help advance these techniques and increase adoption. For additional information, visit www.offshoreagile.com. cover RCP, SWT, and HTML applications as well as Swing. Tests for these toolkits are created without programming, scripts, or code. Specification of flexible, reusable tests can begin before the application is ready and can keep up with frequent iterations—making GUIdancer particularly well suited to test-driven development and agile processes. GUIdancer has a “one-test-fits-all” approach, whereby a single specification can be used to test an application with different data, languages, components, and even implementations with different toolkits. For more information, visit www.bredex.de/en/guidancer/downloads. html. Due to an editor's oversight, Figure 5 is incorrect in the October 2007 feature “Pairwise Testing.” GUIdancer 2.0 GERMANY—Bredex GmbH has announced version 2.0 of GUIdancer. The automated test tool has been extended to To view the updated article, visit www.stickyminds.com/Correction9-10. 44 BETTER SOFTWARE DECEMBER 2007 www.StickyMinds.com http://www.webmetrics.com http://www.bredex.de/en/guidancer/downloads.html http://www.bredex.de/en/guidancer/downloads.html http://www.offshoreagile.com http://www.stickyminds.com/Correction9-10 http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/sqe http://www.StickyMinds.com

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Better Software - December 2007 Contents Mark Your Calendar What's Happening @ StickyMinds.com Technically Speaking Code Craft Test Connection Management Chronicles Man and Machine Let Your Values be Your Guide A Story About User Stories and Test-driven Development Product Announcements The Last Word Ad Index

Better Software - December 2007

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