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Agile Software development – the new trend in the market

Generally speaking, Agile development works together with relatively few, very briefly defined specifications in the form of user stories. Agile’s requirements usually are in the form of user stories, which by definition are very brief and comparatively few in the number in keeping with Agile’s focus on just the work to be done in the near term. User story acceptance QA tests also tend to be restricted to the small user story, which is closest in scope or objective to integration software tests. Agile tends not to devote much attention to software develop. Instead Agile usually limits its attention to the individual small pieces of code implementing particular features, often without necessarily addressing the designhow those features fit together with each other and with other components. Consequently, typical agile software development often lacks system QA and testing. Not surprisingly, such lack of develop can cause agile development upstream difficulties when the ...

Chidambaram, Montek dismiss reports of rift over 'Aadhar'

MAMALLAPURAM/THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Union home minister P Chidambaram and Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Monday rejected reports that they were locked in a turf war over the ambitious UIDAI project to give every Indian resident a unique ID number Aadhar. Chidambaram also said the government was mulling incorporating Aadhar numbers in the future resident identity cards of the National Population Register(NPR), which falls under the home ministry. Ahluwalia said it would not matter if there is a "small overlap" between UIDAI's Aadhar project and NPR. UIDAI, headed by Nandan Nilekani, is under Planning Commission's ambit. "There were some media reports about conflict between the home ministry and the UIDAI, but they are not true," Chidambaram said launching the distribution of smart cards under NPR for coastal villages in Tamil Nadu at Pattipulum village, near Mamallapuram, about 80 km from Chennai. Chidambaram said Aadhar was a ...