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    Starbucks in Japan is using Kanban for Quality

    When people think about Kanban, they usually get the impression that Kanban is either an inventory control mechanism or a system to manage an assembly line of workers. This is due to Kanban’s historical roots as part of Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Production System. When I talk about Kanban, especially in reference to using Kanban with software development, I stress the importance of flow; how you pull items through the production system while limiting the work in progress. My favorite thing about Kanban is the Kanban card itself. Kanban gets its name from the card; Kanban translated from the Japanese means “signal card”. According to Lean definitions a Kanban card...
    August 08, 2011 5 min read
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    Considering Attending STARWEST? We have Discount Codes!

    Are you considering attending STARWEST, one of the premiere software testing conferences? We've got a discount code that can help you save a good amount of money off your tickets! If you're interested please contact me via e-mail and I'd be happy to pass the code on -- no strings attached, and no, I won't add you to some mailing list! My e-mail is Jim.Holmes@Telerik.com. About the author Jim Holmes Jim Holmes has around 25 years IT experience. He is co-author of "Windows Developer Power Tools" and Chief Cat Herder of the CodeMash Conference. He's a blogger and evangelist ...
    August 06, 2011 1 min read
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    Vote for Test Studio in ATI's Annual Poll!

    We're proud to have Test Studio included in the Automated Testing Institute's annual Honors poll of top industry-wide tools and resources! The poll breaks out different areas of tooling, presentations, blogs, and other resources, so it's a great poll to read simply to find other areas of testing to investigate. Please take a moment and stop by the poll. Of course we'd appreciate your vote for Test Studio! (And if we don't get your vote, please let me know why. I'd love your feedback via the comments here or direct mail [Jim.Holmes@Telerik.com])
    August 04, 2011 1 min read
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    DDD! Sydney Wrap-up

    After the success of the DDD! Melbourne event last month, Telerik sponsored the DDD! Sydney (#dddsydney on Twitter) this weekend.  The DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! conference is driven by the community, meaning that everyone can submit a topic and the people vote for their favorites.  In DDD! Sydney there were 4 tracks of great content about HTML5, Web, ALM and Other running in parallel. I could not attend all of them, however those I could gave me a plenty of new information and inspiration. Among the highlights were S.O.L.I.D Design Principles in C# by Omar Besiso New Development Workflows by David Burela. The video of his talk in DDD! Melbourne can be seen on his blog. Windows Azure Acid...
    July 04, 2011 2 min read
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    Telerik in numbers

    Telerik has been in business for 9 years. During that time, we have made over 200 releases, with more than 400 service packs. We release internal bits every week and most teams do a daily build. Today, our portfolio consists of 4 Product Groups and over 20 different individual products. Telerik maintains in TFS a code base of more than 10,000,000 lines of code which is covered by over 350,000 unit and integration tests. For key products we have 80-90% test coverage. We test our different products on over 300 virtual machines running on large IBM servers. To guarantee we don’t lose important information we...
    June 30, 2011 2 min read