Tag: testing
Keep Developers Happy and Velocity High
In today's economy, the companies that prevail are those that can accelerate software delivery and increase developer productivity. Yet, as applications become more complex and codebases grow, companies are forced to implement ...
SMEs Can Benefit from DevOps, Too
The DevOps approach has several clear-cut benefits with the value centered in several key business areas: improved market agility, increased quality and revised culture of cooperation and effectiveness in staff operations. By ...
QA/Testing and DevOps: Partners, Not Adversaries
Software testing and QA is sometimes given low priority during development. The idea of treating software testers as adversaries by the developers seems old-fashioned and is short-sighted. It’s hard to believe that ...
Keys to Improving Enterprise DevOps Practices
As enterprises move to adopt DevOps practices, there is a desire to measure where teams are on their journey. This sometimes leads to the development of maturity models used to assess teams’ ...
10 Rules for Writing Automated Tests
Over the recent months many of our customers asked for our guidance and building their test suites properly. Performance, ease of management and scalability were key priorities for them. We decided to ...
Using Application Deltas in Deployments
Developers have been versioning their source files since the early days of Unix. Anyone else remember SCCS? Back in those days, storage was at a premium: Disks were small and very expensive ...
Move the Needle in DevOps with Continuous Testing
Shift-left testing, risk based testing, early testing and technical debt reduction are all predicted to be some of the most sought-after trends in product development life cycle. All of these can be ...
The Role of QA in the DevOps World
The need for faster time to market and superior quality is getting intense in the software development process. Software trends for 2017 suggest that DevOps will grow as a trend and become ...
Moving from ‘Tester’ to ‘Quality Enabler’
Speed versus quality. Can you really have one while the other exists? When Agile came on to the scene, it pushed to get development teams to create code as quickly as possible ...
Avoiding Application Integration Fails
Trying to integrate applications on your own can eat your project alive. A seemingly simple project may look harmless when you start, but in the end do-it-yourself software delivery tool integrations can ...
Patrick McClory on Building Successful DevOps Organizations
Patrick McClory has been writing code, managing DevOps and designing scalable application infrastructures for more than 10 years. Most recently, as COO and CTO of DualSpark, he served as an expert Amazon ...
Continuous Testing: Solving the Biggest DevOps Bottleneck
It’s time to start implementing the practices of Continuous Testing Earlier this year, Computing Magazine conducted a fascinating study around the adoption and benefits of DevOps in its DevOps Review 2017 publication ...

