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Testing is defined differently and it depends on the needs of the company and the main objectives of the project. If we consider the definitions of testing over time, we can see that the concept has developed and undergone some changes in several stages.

ConcurentDictionary has one specific feature: in some cases it may not behave exactly as you'd expect. Here is a small example. Let's say we need to do some small caching so that the results of an expensive calculation be taken from the cache if they are there, and be added to the cache in a transparent manner if someone made a mistake.

I’ve often been asked this question by Team Leads (TLs) who already work in IT. How can these Team Leads become project managers? This article isn’t about people in Tech Lead positions, which, in my view, is no different from the Team Lead in terms of growth towards the PM position. Thus, the TL abbreviation can be read both as a Team Lead and as a Tech Lead.

In the first part of our article we looked at some of the common misconceptions regarding the transition from a TL to a PM. In part 2 we will talk about the challenges people face when making this transition.

As a result of our efforts our Requirements Lifecycle Management course has been certified by IIBA as meeting the standards of the latest version of the Body of Knowledge of Business Analysis v. 3.0.

Because Java and Luxoft always go well together on the 25th of June we once again welcomed the members of Bucharest Java User Group for their monthly meeting. The presenter for this event was Ionut Balosin, Technical Leader at Luxoft and the subject of the presentation was the Evolution of Garbage Collection in HotSpot Virtual Machine. How to choose, tune and profile them.

Even if it may seem so, keeping a correct configuration on all your systems is not a trivial task. And, more than that, it is also a very important one. Regardless of their role - development environments, regression test beds, production servers etc. - it is vital that every machine is configured correctly for producing reliable results or serving adequate content.

Performance is an important criterion each software application should meet and each architect should have in mind when designing and putting in place non-functional requirements. Sometimes it becomes really hard to tune and improve a mature and complex application especially because the performance might be influenced by a lot of factors.

The Facilitating Chartering Activities webinar is part of our ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Team Facilitation series.

During this webinar we will explore team performance model and protection cycle.