At its Agile 2019 conference, CollabNet VersionOne announced it plans to extend the capabilities of its software delivery and management platforms later this month as part of an effort to provide organizations with more visibility into how changing software development project schedules impact the business. Company CEO Flint Brenton said updates to the VersionOne value […]
Software Compliance Teams Can Learn a Lot from DevSecOps
Many argue that application security should be the responsibility of a security team. However, while security professionals can contribute, developers are usually the only ones with the technical ability to fix software security vulnerabilities. The same goes for software compliance. When it comes down to it, only developers are equipped to build applications in compliance […]
Fail Fast: How Shifting Security Left Speeds Development
How DevSecOps can help organizations increase security, move faster and save money With developers under constant pressure to create more software in less time, the last thing you need is for your code to fail at the end of the development lifecycle. No developer wants to create inoperable or insecure code. We know that most […]
DevOps Chat: Crowdsourced Continuous Testing with Rainforest’s Derek Choy
Scaling your testing is the scourge of many software teams. While test automation and continuous testing have made great strides, it still is difficult to automate every QA test. Also, engineering resources who can script these tests are difficult to find. Enter Rainforest. Rainforest has a unique crowdsourcing solution to continuous testing. It combines crowdsourcing […]
Testing’s Role in Delivering Digital Transformation
“We have a quality philosophy now…but it took the rise of the middle child to make it happen.” Ann Lewis, ExxonMobil Ann Lewis’ metaphor of testers being the “middle child” between software development and IT operations was present throughout Accelerate 2017, Tricentis’ annual user conference. Nearly every head in the room nodded as Lewis described […]
Next-Generation DevOps: Self-Learning Systems
The massive enterprise movement toward all things “digital” has accelerated the adoption of DevOps in all kinds of projects, but particularly in digital transformation initiatives. Apart from the productivity benefits gained by automating software development and rollout, the increased agility has helped move DevOps adoption to gain critical mass in a relatively short time. However, […]
In DevOps, Quality is a Team Effort
Technology is changing every industry; we can all agree on this foundational premise. If you disagree, I believe the rest of this post is going to do nothing for you, so feel free to stop reading now. If you do agree, then you know that apps, the internet of things (IoT) and APIs are table […]
DevOps: State of the Art in 2017, and Why CDOs Should Care
Nine years after the term “DevOps” was coined, the following two questions seem still open: What does it stand exactly for? and How do we make all this technology work together? From the perspective of the industrialization of work labor also in the software industry, the answer to the first question appears very clear to […]
How to Fail at Test Automation
Let me start by admitting that I am not a test automation expert. I have done some work with test automation and have supervised teams who practiced it, but when it comes to the intricacies of it, I have to call a friend. It is from such friends that I have learned why so many […]