We’re all familiar with the story of the tortoise and the hare, where a plodding tortoise wins a race against a speedy hare because the over-confident hare takes a nap midway through ...

Automated unit, integration and acceptance tests are essential quality controls in running a reliable continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline. Too often, security tests are left out of this process because of ...

Except for cases where test duration is the point of the test, as indicated in my prior blog "Isn’t Continuous Testing a Longevity Test Anti-pattern?”, faster continuous testing cycles are preferred because ...

Accordingly to Jim Coplien: "an anti-pattern is something that looks like a good idea, but which backfires badly when applied. “ In DevOps context, continuous testing is an attractive solution for the ...

A remark by a colleague while waiting for the coffee machine to complete its cycle started my train of thought. "Should we have multiple minor releases or just do a few major ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming a bit more than a fun three letter acronym. And while internet connected devices have been around for a while, turning it into a practice ...

My prior blog “DevOps - It’s All About Continuous Testing” posits that QA testers don’t need to fear DevOps because continuous testing QA is a central part of DevOps infrastructures that are ...

I loved reading Steve Wilson’s blog post “Don’t Fear Testing Team. DevOps is Here!” https://staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud/blogs/dont-fear-testing-team-devops-is-here/  The idea that DevOps  somehow reduces the need for testing  certainly puts fear in the hearts of ...

As a developer or technical architect, there is no better feeling than taking pride in giving a quality product or service result to your customers.  Now, with computer trends going rapidly towards ...

The role of Quality Assurance (QA) is creating a bit of a buzz these days, because even as teams and budgets are shrinking, the demand for better quality is increasing. The chilling ...

We spend a lot of time extolling the virtues of infrastructure as code. All of it is true. Treating infrastructure as code can add great value in terms of its ability to ...

BlazeMeter  a performance / load testing as a self-service platform for mobile apps, websites, and APIs lets developers test mobile and API backend performance and view KPIs in a dashboard. BlazeMeter tools ...