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Moving from ‘Tester’ to ‘Quality Enabler’

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Speed versus quality. Can you really have one while the other exists? When Agile came on to the scene, it pushed to get development teams to create code as quickly as possible. Then DevOps came on as a practice that helped these Dev teams and the Ops side of the house to interact and collaborate […]

Lack of Continuous Testing Mastery Slows DevOps Progress

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Progress in achieving the maximum benefits to be gained from investing DevOps processes appears to be held in check by a failure to master the art of continuous testing. A new survey of 923 IT and testing professionals published this week by CA Technologies suggests that only 20 percent of the respondents could be classified […]

Continuous Testing: Solving the Biggest DevOps Bottleneck

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It’s time to start implementing the practices of Continuous Testing Earlier this year, Computing Magazine conducted a fascinating study around the adoption and benefits of DevOps in its DevOps Review 2017 publication. The findings that stood out most fascinating to me where around quality assurance and testing. In this survey, the question was asked, “Where […]

Continuous Testing vs. Test Automation: 3 Key Differences

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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 […]

Avoid Crashes: 5 Best Practices for Load Testing

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Demanding customer expectations and the rapid distribution of information across social media have made website and applications crashes an off-limits path for today’s companies and organizations. Crashes resulting from traffic spikes cause immediate and long-term loss of sales, as well as tarnishing the brand name. When servers or websites go down during highly anticipated events […]

DevOps is a Lifeline to Connected Mainframe ROI

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A new IDC white paper sponsored by IBM and CA Technologies reveals the adoption of DevOps is a hallmark of those organizations that are actively modernizing and integrating legacy systems such as a mainframe to support digital transformation. Early adopters are blazing a path for faster innovation and greater ROI. DevOps Delivers Mainframe Modernization and […]

Test Driven Development, Continuous Test and Code Quality

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We’ve gotten a lot of good out of agile development methodologies. I’m never a “One True Way” kind of person, but agile has a ton of benefits that development needed (and Ops increasingly needs). Extending that to the Dev side of DevOps is painless, since much of agile is wrapped in DevOps clothes these days. […]

CD 101 Podcast: The What, How and Future of Continuous Delivery

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Now that we’ve arrived at Episode 4 of our CD 101 Podcast, let’s address some basic concepts—like the what and how of it all and the future. Wait … perhaps we could—or should—have touched on these key topics earlier. Or not. At least not the future part? Anyway … While this (mostly) backwards-looking orientation may […]