Introduction Nowadays the topic automated testing is becoming mainstream. Organizations and projects are investing significant effort in creating tests, using tools to automate them and plug them in their delivery chain. Combined with continuous integration tools, automate testing increases the usefulness significantly. I obviously find this trend unavoidable. Sooner or later every software organization will … Continue reading Testing then quality. Really?
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Say Hi! to the new GENIVI Development Platform
On Wednesday February 17th, the GENIVI Alliance released a QEMU image of the GENIVI Demo Platform ivi9 Beta version, together with everything needed (instructions, source code, recepies, etc.) to build GDP-ivi9 with Yocto. A few weeks later, on March 8th, the first release candidate was published.Finally, last April 19th GDP-ivi9 was published targeting QEMU, Renesas Porter … Continue reading Say Hi! to the new GENIVI Development Platform
Virtue of Necessity. Canary, sublime your company.
The past July 16th I participated in the Tenerife LAN Party, in its section Tenerife Innova, invited by the Free Software Office of La Laguna University, included in the track titled (free translation from Spanish) Open Source from the Canary Islands, stories told in First Person.This Free Software Office is well known in Spain for … Continue reading Virtue of Necessity. Canary, sublime your company.
Consumir Software Libre es bueno. Producirlo es mucho mejor.
Las elecciones locales y autonómicas en España han vuelto a poner de moda el Software Libre debido a su inclusión como línea estratégica por parte de algunos partidos políticos.Dejando a un lado el error que, a mi entender, significa politizar el Software Libre, ignorando pasados fracasos, me gustaría centrarme en otro riesgo que percibo, mucho … Continue reading Consumir Software Libre es bueno. Producirlo es mucho mejor.
openSUSE transformation step 2. The user oriented distro.
openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling release that was designed with a clear goal, target and metric. It was developed following a clear picture of where to go. Design it was a painful but unavoidable process that challenged an assumption established in many people mindset back in 2012. Latest/greatest and stability were incompatible. Hence, Factory, the … Continue reading openSUSE transformation step 2. The user oriented distro.
Bitacora: impact mapping
Introduction This is the fourth of a series of articles about Bitacora. Please read the previous ones to get full context: The diary (aka bitácora): towards alignment in distributed environment. Bitacora: environment definition. Bitacora: personas Why Impact Mapping? The steps taken so far are standard for me since long time ago. At this point though, … Continue reading Bitacora: impact mapping
Bitacora: personas
Introduction This is the third of a series of articles about Bitacora. Please read the previous ones to get full context: The diary (aka bitácora): towards alignment in distributed environment. Bitacora: environment definition. The environment description is incomplete without the personas. I like this concept for many reasons but the main one is because I … Continue reading Bitacora: personas
Bitacora: environment definition
Introduction This is the second of a series of articles about Bitacora. Please read the first one to get full context. In order to understand the perfect implementation of a Bitacora we need to go down the road of a product definition. One of the first steps is to define the environment. Bitacora is specially … Continue reading Bitacora: environment definition
The diary (aka bitácora): towards alignment in distributed environments
Article that introduces the concept of project/team/program journal/diary/bitacora
Apply agile methodologies to upstream development environments…. if you can.
IntroductionWhen the Agile Manifesto became popular and based on them, agile methodologies like Scrum, XP or Kanban, upstream development was in its early stages as collaboration ecosystems of companies.Only a few for profit organizations embraced developing upstream back then. Most of them were small and heavily influenced by FLOSS engineers vision. Free software communities were … Continue reading Apply agile methodologies to upstream development environments…. if you can.
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