Quoted: It never rains but it pours! Get some background on the long and winding road to Java modularity, then compare the two specification requests vying for inclusion in Java 7: JSR 291: Dynamic Component Support for Java SE and JSR 277: (Sun's) Java Module System.

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Quoted: The Mingle team is absolutely crazy about testing and automation. Outside of testing installer integrity and production data migrations, we've totally replaced the manual regression test phase of the release cycle with a massive suite of automated acceptance tests. I'm mostly going to write about how the Mingle team has overcome some of the difficulties teams encounter when working with large acceptance suites, but, before I do that, I want to talk about our attitude towards testing. Why? Because without the right approach to testing, automation is pretty much useless.

Quoted: In this presentation, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock presents some practical lessons she has learned from doing architectural reviews. Many times projects are not delivered in time, or have quality problems or have an incomplete set of features due to architectural flaws. The reviews are meant to highlight existing risks and strengths of the architecture, and to reveal issues initially neglected.