For many years SOAP was the predominant technology in the enterprise world used for exposing data and application functionality as webservices. Even when better (and simpler) technologies like REST became available during the last 10 years, their adoption was slow. In my opinion the lack of proper API tooling was the main reason for that. Nowadays the situation has changed since adequate tools and workflows are ready available. I want to share with you some of the great things I recently learned.

I work as a freelancer in technical testing, so software quality is something very dear to me. Agile software development tremendously helps with that. But discussions of Agile software development often drift towards development methodologies like Scrum vs. Kanban. I think this discussion is healthy but sometimes misses the point since there is already existing prove that both work but have strength and weaknesses, too. To me Agile has a much more fundamental impact on software projects. In this post I want to discuss two topics that I experienced in the past as key Agile pillars especially for avoiding the Big-Bang software development mode.