While everyone wants to focus on building a new app, the fact is there are many, many apps already out there. They need to be maintained, updated and modernized. How do you upgrade these legacy apps to new infrastructure, frameworks, languages and more? App modernization is a thing. In this DevOps Chat we speak with […]
Selecting the Right Service Virtualization Tool
Once you have established that implementing service virtualization (SV) as a means to remove the bottlenecks formed by critical yet hard-to-access dependencies in your test environments is the way to go forward, one important decision to make is which SV tools to use for the process. Most major testing solution vendors (including CA, Micro Focus, […]
CA Technologies Positions Automic at the DevOps Core
After acquiring Automic earlier this year, CA Technologies suddenly found itself with an embarrassment of IT automation riches. Now the company is moving forward by further integrating the Automic IT automation platform with the rest of the portfolio of tools and services that it says are required to construct a software factory. Ron Gidron, technology […]
Continuous Testing: Shift Left and Find the Right Balance
You may have heard the term “continuous testing,” but are struggling to understand what it is and how to achieve it. Project teams need to improve their ability to test and perform test automation when needed, not just when possible. Service virtualization allows teams to test earlier and more often in the life cycle, or […]
Service virtualization – The hows and the whys.
Close your eyes and take a deep breath. You are on an island, smelling the iodine coming from the sea, the sun is gently caressing your cheeks and you are sipping on a cocktail in the middle of the afternoon. Your phone is off, in a place you forgot and you do not have direct […]
Service Virtualization – Window into “Advanced” DevOps
The new style of IT is pushing DevOps teams to reinvent software building, validation and delivering processes with an aim to shrink development cycle time and reducing defects in production. But in constrained testing environments, DevOps teams face a range of challenges in following the continuous integration and delivery approach for large multi-tier applications. Because […]
IBM Webcast Nov 12: Use Discovery to accelerate testing and virtualization
Many of today’s business applications offer a multitude of services (APIs) across many different technologies. These same applications also reach out into a web of already-existing services in order to retrieve and update information necessary to successfully deliver the end to end business processes. In many cases, these applications are being built by multiple development […]
Building Security and Compliance into the SDLC
As the concept of DevOps has become more popular in recent years, there are some common themes that always seem to come up in discussions about it. For example, how often do we talk about ways to speed up the software development life cycle (SDLC) in order to bring innovative applications to market faster and […]
A Winning DevOps Approach for Established Enterprises: Pace-layered
Does your bank offer the ability to deposit a check by taking its picture with your smartphone? When that feature debuted a few years back, I remember thinking it was interesting and convenient enough that if my bank didn’t offer it soon, I’d be willing to switch to one that did. I bring this example […]