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 ones in a year?” In large organizations, due to many factors, the turnaround time for a single successful release is quite extensive; but […]
Functional Testing for IoT
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 is an important evolution. It allows the establishment of best practices, better integration into standard software development, and thus more robust applications, sometimes […]
From QA to Continuous Testing
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 implemented according to best practices. That is not to say however that continuous testing is precisely the same as traditional QA testing or […]
DevOps – It’s all about continuous testing !
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 QA and test teams who may envision the demise of product quality, reduced test resources and even their very livelihood. I understand the […]
Crowdsourced Software Testing
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 cloud services and mobile devices, regular company IT development teams are finding their testing capabilities more and more limiting. They are faced with […]
You Asked for Quality, You Got Alienated QA
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 repercussions of service disruptions caused by software flaws warrants interest even at the executive level: “Nobody’s madder than me about the fact that […]
The Dark Side of Infrastructure as Code
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 promote consistent, predictable and repeatable results during the application deployment process. One of the ways in which infrastructure is treated as code is […]
BlazeMeter Adds New Relic Insights to Drive Testing
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 simplify testing, reducing the time to test while running many tests per day. Customers use BlazeMeter as a self-serve and on-demand service. “All […]
Testing in the Agile Age
The Agile Age For a business to survive or, dare I say, thrive in the “Agile Age”, it must adopt agile methodologies. The term agile may ring some bells with those of you from the product lifecycle field. But when I say agile, I’m not referring to product lifecycle terms like Scrum or Kanban. I’m talking about agility […]
Change your thinking about Change Management
Change Management, let’s face it, it’s usually a checklist item and a CYA tool. But in the world of DevOps where change is part of the culture and processes. Change Management needs to be more than a cost center, and really a way to improve what you are doing. And there is no excuse not […]