Harness Employs ML to Streamline DevOps Workflows
At the online {Unscripted} 2021 conference, Harness today announced an update to its namesake DevOps platform that includes support for feature flags that expose new capabilities to a select number of users for testing purposes along with the ability to prioritize the running of those tests based on the likelihood an application is likely to […]
How Shifting Testing Left Can Boost DevOps Velocity
DevOps is all about balance: How can speed and quality be balanced to best meet the demands of customers who want exceptional digital experiences as fast as possible? DevOps looks to meet these expectations head-on by helping to deliver a faster cadence of new builds to customers while keeping quality high. What’s more, quality should […]
Low-Code Automated Software Testing Drives DevOps
The DevOps world has quietly turned its focus to solving an essential challenge: enabling software teams to innovate quickly while meeting high customer expectations for quality. In other words, to build useful things faster with fewer mistakes. This tension has been growing for years, but 2020 added the challenges of remote work and accelerated digital […]
Pilot Testing DevOps in a Pandemic
Savvy organizations are using the pandemic to drive innovation by pilot testing DevOps. As health experts brace for an exponential rise in COVID-19 cases across the nation and vaccine distribution ramps up, many states and cities are still implementing significant measures to reduce the virus’s spread. As shutdowns impact cities coast to coast, organizations are […]
Enterprise Software Development Will Break the Speed Limit in 2021
For some, 2020 was the year for software development speed … but not for everyone. Startups and SMEs climbed on board the CI/CD, shift-left and agile development train en masse – and reaped the benefits of faster iterations and tighter release schedules. But the “big kids” got left behind. Core enterprise applications – the legacy […]
How to Overcome Web Test Automation Challenges
Web test automation is transforming software development for the better. Automation empowers test teams to easily prepare test data, execute complex test cases across multiple platforms rapidly and accurately, and catch defects early on in the development cycle. Modern-day test automation solutions benefit organizations in multiple ways; when used correctly, such solutions can boost a […]
How DevOps Can Help Speed Go to Market
With continuous evolution of IT systems, speed and flexibility have become of paramount importance for businesses. This requirement has caused a massive shift in the IT delivery system. Now, building and releasing a better product in the market is not enough for businesses to stay ahead of the competition. Organizations need an agile approach to […]
TCoE as a Way to Level Up Test Automation
A testing center of excellence (TCoE) can help you leverage automated testing efforts. The “World Quality Report 2018-19” claims that test automation is almost a heal-all concept in QA and one of the most booming trends for the near future. Still, the general percentage of automated testing in overall test efforts is quite modest. Apart […]
Continuous Testing: What exactly is it?
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, “Continuous Testing,” by our friends at Parasoft. The aptly named DevOps practice of Continuous Testing synchronizes Testing/QA with Dev and Ops processes optimized to achieve business and development goals. A few years ago when Agile was all the rage, lightning-fast Dev sprints left the […]