With applications performance monitoring established as one of the fundamental cornerstones of today’s DevOps methodologies, it’s easy to overlook the reality that effective instrumentation of such tools remains extremely difficult. Specifically, the biggest challenge remains creating performance metrics that address both IT and larger business initiatives. There’s no question that APM is one of the […]
Impacts of DevOps on Testing
I always come across a standard question from testers in any DevOps related presentation. “Will DevOps remove the need for Testers?” A simple answer is “No”. DevOps is not going to replace Testing as a discipline. Firms implementing DevOps have a vision for better product quality workable by brilliant Testing. DevOps is an enabler for the following. […]
The Wonder Pill for Mobile Application Success
Dr. James Brown stunned the British Science Festival by announcing a wonder pill that could reduce your weight, lower the risk of high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, depression, and anxiety. With everyone in attendance eagerly awaiting what it was, he plainly exclaimed that the “wonder pill” was daily exercise. The most effective solution was the […]
SaaS: Building Tools for the DevOps-Minded
DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing are no longer just methodologies and development strategies — they’re all a part of a growing economy within the tech industry. Great Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies such as Chef, Docker and New Relic have done an amazing job of spotting the trends early and building their tools and […]
Testing Will Never Be Automated
“Come to think of it, no one speaks of automated programming or manual programming. There is programming, and there is lots of other stuff done by tools. Once a tool is created to do that stuff, it is never called programming again.” – James Bach and Michael Bolton, “Testing and Checking Refined That’s one of […]
BlazeMeter harnesses open source to deliver continuous testing for DevOps
DevOps is all about efficiency and automation—streamlining development and deployment. In order to deliver quality code quickly a culture of continuity is required—including continuous testing. BlazeMeter provides organizations with a platform for continuous performance testing in a DevOps environment. BlazeMeter claims to be a more affordable—and in some ways more powerful—performance testing platform than HP […]
5 Ways To Speed Up Mobile App Testing
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 the race. It’s a valuable lesson about the power of smarts over sheer speed. But all due respect to the methodical approach, the […]
Automated Security Testing in a Continuous Delivery Pipeline
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 the erroneous belief that security testing is solely the domain of leather-jacket-wearing security experts. Security testing does not need special treatment We’ve made […]
Continuous Testing – Accelerated !
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 failing early and often is a DevOps goal. There are multiple reasons for this, but it should be evident that faster tests reduce […]
Isn’t Continuous Testing a Longevity Test Anti-pattern?
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 narrow context of testing specific software components quickly (in cycles measured in minutes or hours) but may be “bad” if the system that […]