Machine Learning and ITSM: Helping Help Desks
The field of machine learning is a hot topic. We know that this type of artificial intelligence (AI) provides computers with the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. For people like me who need it in simpler terms, machine learning deals with systems that can learn from past data and experience to improve performance […]
Adding Accountability with ‘You Build It, You Run It’
Let’s see if this scenario resonates with anyone: Your department, organization, company, etc. is beginning to embrace DevOps practices, which is, of course, an amazing step in the right direction! One of those key practices is the “You Build It, You Run It” (YBI/YRI) mantra that helps facilitate a higher level of quality and accountability. […]
13 Best Practices of Successful Software Testing Projects
Thorough testing is vital for quality assurance, and best practices in software testing can yield high-end software at the end. The current post is giving fine clues regarding the prevailing best practices in software testing projects. Recent cyberattacks have proved that security has paramount importance for any software life cycle. The best QA and testing […]
Continuous Everyone: Engaging People Across the Deployment Pipeline
We have continuous integration and we have continuous deployment, but what’s continuous across all of what we do is people. Even when tasks are automated, someone wrote the automation. So, Jayne Groll evangelizes about “continuous everyone.” Jayne is the CEO of the DevOps Institute and the author of “Agile Service Management Guide.” She talked about […]
Culture Change: Where It Matters in DevOps
Lori and I were in Russia in the late ’90s. It was an interesting dichotomy of life in a changing country. While we were there, the government devalued the ruble—just cut three zeros off the end of everything—to bring it into historical line with other world currencies. It was odd, because there was a mass […]
Continuous Testing vs. Test Automation: 3 Key Differences
Testers have been wrestling with test automation for years, yet most teams are not satisfied with their current level of test automation or the overhead required to maintain it. Additionally, the past few years have brought a sea change in the way that applications are architected, developed and consumed—increasing both the complexity of testing and […]
Spurring the DevOps Adoption Journey
Every few years, the IT canvas is splashed with a new initiative that sparks enthusiasm among businesses and technologists alike. DevOps is one such philosophy gaining significant momentum in today’s digital transformation landscape. At the same time, the concept remains misunderstood and adoption is slow. DevOps embodies Development plus Operations within software development. Traditionally, these […]
SauceCon Speaker Profile: Shivani Sharma, Slack
Just Say No to Flaky Tests: Releasing Code with Confidence Shivani Sharma doesn’t like anything flaky—unless it’s baked goods. Shivani is senior engineering manager at Slack, working on test automation for Slack’s iOS, Android and web applications. An avid baker, Shivani thinks flakiness should stay in the kitchen. Although “flaky” is a common adjective describing […]
Improving DevOps Success with Well-Defined Metrics
Collaboration within diverse project teams is often more difficult to achieve when there is no clearly visible aim, the planning is haphazard and the information shared is inadequate. However, these are crucial hurdles to overcome in any organization—and more so in product companies with globally distributed teams working on different parts of the product pipeline. […]
SauceCon Profile: Greg Sypolt, Gannett
Using Design Patterns to Improve Automated Testing Test automation architect Greg Sypolt of Gannett | USA Today Network fell into a testing career by accident. As an on-call software engineer who spent many late nights early in his career discovering that many bugs were caused by a lack of test coverage, he developed a passion […]
Measuring What Matters in Evaluating Software Performance
When developing and deploying a new feature or application, performance (speed, reliability) must be closely analyzed. After all, there’s no benefit to delivering a product if it doesn’t work well or users are forced to stare at a spinning wheel. To get a true view of performance, many organizations rely on metrics—a smart move since […]
Infographic: DevOps Strategies for Mobile App Development
Is DevOps a part of your mobile app development strategy? Are your teams working at their most efficient to keep up with the demands of an increasingly mobile-first society? Here are five tips and tricks to help you simplify and improve your app development process, courtesy of Microsoft Mobile Center. contributor
DevOps: Trust, Obligations and Promises
Mark Burgess (@markburgess_osl) is a theoretical physicist, but in his keynote at the 2016 All Day DevOps conference, he talked more about economics and human interactives than physics. What does either have to do as the keynote for a conference on DevOps? Well, for a little more background, Mark Burgess is also the founder and […]
SauceCon Speaker Profile: Jeremy Stone, Code.org
“Moving Fast and Changing the World”— Jeremy Stone and Code.org’s mission to transform CS education and America’s STEM workforce As quickly as the world is changing, how can we use this momentum and proactively contribute to this change? We need to start with the basics and focus on education. Jeremy Stone, CTO of Code.org, is […]
SauceCon Speaker Profile: Mike Millgate, Optum
Automation architect Mike Millgate wants to work himself out of a job. Of course, he doesn’t want to make himself obsolete. He simply wants to automate testing so that QA teams can free their time to do other strategic exercises, such as exploratory testing and focus on security. Mike knows what he’s talking about. At […]
I Can’t Go to That DevOps Conference
Last year, I was able to attend 18 DevOps conferences. I saw some awesome presentations, met incredible people and expanded my knowledge of the latest practices at each conference. While my role as the DevOps Advocate for Sonatype enables me to get out to all of these conferences, not everyone has the time, the budget, […]
SauceCon Speaker Profile: Angie Jones, LexisNexis
Automated tests are an important part of continuous integration, but if they’re not reliable, they can cause more problems than they solve. This problem is not new to Angie Jones, who works as a consultant automation engineer advising scrum teams on automation strategies and developing automation frameworks for countless software products. Jones currently works for […]
SauceCon Speaker Profile: Adam Carmi, CTO of Applitools
Carmi to present a live coding session on testing responsive sites Testing responsive sites and applications can be quite a challenge for development teams. We are fortunate to have Adam Carmi, CTO of Applitools, presenting a session at SauceCon on “Advanced Test Automation Techniques for Responsive Apps and Sites.” During Adam’s presentation, the audience will […]
Is Site Reliability Engineering the True ‘Ops’ in DevOps?
I recently had the privilege of attending the SRECon conference in San Francisco. It’s in its third year and 650 attendees gathered to learn and share their experiences, insights and site reliability engineering (SRE) practices. Most SRECon attendees either identified as SREs or were there to learn more about this new role and approach. While […]
DevOps: The Innovation Power Couple
If “Dev” and “Ops” are the power couple of tech, “DevOps” is the holy matrimony that takes innovation from trainwreck to fast and repeatable. At most businesses, however, Dev and Ops still sleep in separate rooms and agree only on their mutual contempt. Dev (Development) and Ops (IT Operations) usually are divorced or ready to […]
How Cognitive Bias and ‘HumanOps’ Affect Dev Teams
Does your team take into account how the human element can affect development practices? It’s often overlooked, but critical to consider. Jason Hand of VictorOps, devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s Top DevOps Evangelist for 2016, writes and speaks on this particular topic often. In fact, he will be delivering a keynote titled, “Cognitive Bias and Its Impact on Continuous […]
9 Lessons Learned: Getting Value Stream Insights in Only 2 Days
Gene Kim, Jez Humble and other experts say that understanding and improving your value stream is really what it takes to bring your software delivery organization to the next level. While almost every IT organization has this goal, actually knowing how to make it happen can be paralyzing, because it seems like such a daunting […]
From Artisanal to Factory: The IT Pendulum is Swinging Back
Splunk Vice President of IT Markets and Chief Technology Advocate Andi Mann sees DevOps moving from an artisanal approach to an IT factory. This represents a reversal: Historically, developers operated in a factory-like environment, passing chunks of work down the line, but that caused problems because “different managers owned different sections of the production line.” […]