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It’s a great week for Xbox games from Electronic Arts, with four titles previously available only to Nokia owners now available to everyone and four new Nokia exclusives hitting the Windows Phone Store. Unless otherwise noted, these titles are available for both Windows Phone 7 and 8. Here’s the rundown. All Windows Phone users can now test their driving and parking skills in the spatial-awareness Parking Mania ($2.99). If you love classic board games, you’ve got to try The Game of Life ($2.99). Sneak, scamper, and snack your way on an epic journey in SPY Mouse ($2.99). Or test the limits of your knowledge with Trivial Pursuit ($2.99). Nokia owners get four new exclusive titles this week. Command and fight your way through the 3D third-person shooter Mass Effect: Infiltrator ($6.99), which runs only on Windows Phone 8. Burn rubber and race your friends over Wi-Fi on 14 different tracks in Real Racing 2 ($4.99). Tailor-make your own golfer and then play through world-famous courses in Tiger Woods 12 ($2.99). Or hoop it up with your favorite basketball pros in NBA JAM ($2.99).   Former Nokia Exclusives New Nokia Exclusives Parking Mania Mass Effect: Infiltrator The Game of Life Real Racing 2 SPY Mouse Tiger Woods 12 Trivial Pursuit NBA JAM

Greetings, fellow testers. I recently attended a workshop on Acceptance Test Driven Development, during which the presenter spoke about distilling requirements down using examples. This is a great opportunity for testers and developers to work closely with Product Owners to determine exactly what output is expected from given inputs.

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This video discusses the difference between traditional database deployment and database as a service. It also provides an overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager's capabilities for rapid deployment of database as a service. [Read More]

Recently leaked copies of Windows 8.1, which includes Internet Explorer 11, have suggested that Microsoft will support WebGL shortly, a specification that lets webpages render 3D graphics. The software giant is dropping a big hint towards that support today with a teaser on Vine. After a set of entertaining Vine ads for IE recently, the latest asks "what's next? WebGL?" The hints mean that Microsoft has likely engineered WebGL to fit its security needs. Previously, the software maker has outlined security concerns with the standard, noting in 2011 that its current form was non-endorsable "from a security perspective." The Verge understands that Internet Explorer 11 does indeed include WebGL support, and that it will be delivered as part... Continue reading…

If you have recently migrated to ADF Mobile 11.1.2.4, or have just started ADF Mobile development, you may have seen some issues or puzzling tid-bits for the new version of ADF Mobile. Here are a few key items worth noting: You may have seen a little red icon on the upper left corner of... [Read More]

Please join us for the next Adopt-a-JSR meeting scheduled for Friday, 31 May at 08:00 am PDT (meeting details below). Bruno Souza and Martijn Verburg will be joining to discuss how to expand the Adopt-a-JSR programs into other languages beyond English and Portuguese--French, German, Spanish... New, current and... [Read More]

We’ve had so much going on here at SmartBear that we haven’t had a chance to share with you our latest exciting release. Aligning its launch with the StarEast software testing conference on May 1st in Orlando, WebLoadUI Pro made a buzz around our booth with many new features SmartBear’s free load testing tool doesn’t offer.

Product owner is one of the most important roles in any agile teams. Sometimes this role is also called BPO referring to Business Product Owner. Product owner is one of the three key roles of the agile team (namely Product Owner, Scrum Master & The Team) and is a someone tasked with creating vision for the product and governing what is being released. Here are some of the key roles a product owner typically does in an agile team. Defines the features of the product being developed by conveying or creating the vision and goals Creates and maintains the product backlog Prioritizes the features according business or market values so that they are analyzed, developed and tested according to those priorities Helps the team if any clarifications are required around the features /epics or stories. Is responsible for the profitability of the product. Is responsible for making any adjustment to the features being developed for the priority of the development every iteration as needed. Participates in the various key meetings such as Daily Scrums, Retrospectives, and probably explains the business values to the stakeholders when a Show and Tell meeting is conducted. Makes decision on acceptance or rejection of the work results Represents the customer and engages the customers or interfaces with them as required. Is responsible for communicates the project status to external stakeholders Has authority to terminate the iteration or sprint if a sudden change in direction is required. On the fun side, also take a look at the following two great cartoons about product owner roles. (Disclaimer: The images have been borrowed under fair usage. The original author name(s) appear on the cartoon itself) First one: An the other one: Originally posted 2012-09-16 13:17:01.

In this tutorial I want to demonstrate a really simple HTML/CSS/JS web application building over the YouTube API. This demo will list a number of YouTube channels which you may click and pull out all the latest videos, plus their related metadata such as views and comments.