Grafana Labs Acquires k6 to Add Open Source Load Testing Tool
During its online GrafanaCONline 2021 conference today, Grafana Labs revealed it has acquired k6, a provider of an open source load testing tool. Raj Dutt, Grafana Labs CEO, said load testing will complement the observability platform Grafana Labs currently provides based on open source Prometheus software. Most of the output of any load testing processes […]
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 […]
SAST, DAST, SCA: What’s Best For AppSec Testing?
According to the most recent Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, almost 90% of data breaches are driven by financial gain, up from 71% in last year’s report. Most noteworthy, however, is that cloud platforms are particularly at risk, with web application attacks increasing by 43%. As more information is stored within cloud infrastructures, and as […]
Applause Delivers Testing Integration Tool
Applause today made a bi-directional integration capability that simplifies requesting application code tests of, dubbed Applause In-Sprint Testing, generally available. Kristin Simonini, vice president of product for Applause, said application owners will be able to, for example, use a Jira project management application to create a ticket that requests a specific piece of code be […]
Continuous Testing: The Quest for Quality at Speed
The DevOps goal to reduce lead times by accelerating software deliveries presents a serious challenge for assuring the quality of the software that is delivered. As I indicated In my SlideShare post, “The Quest for Quality at Speed,” testing activities span end-to-end software value streams and often account for more than 50% of bottlenecks. The […]
Survey Sees Application Testing Shifting Further Left
PractiTest, a test management platform provider, published a report today that suggests professional application testers have become more adept at working within DevOps workflows. The annual survey of more than 1,000 application testing professionals finds that 80% of all application testing within organizations is being done by test engineers, test leads, testers and automation testers. […]
The Surprising Secret to DevOps ROI
As a result of my many years of DevOps consulting, I have discovered a simple, but not well-understood, secret ingredient that drives ROI for all the Three Ways of DevOps. Measuring and optimizing return on investment (ROI) for DevOps is not well-understood. It is a proven fact that DevOps, when engineered well, delivers tremendous value […]
Mabl Adds Beta of Desktop Continuous Testing Tool
Mabl today announced availability of a beta version of a desktop tool for creating tests that can be applied to browsers and application programming interfaces (APIs) using a low-code tool. Dan Belcher, co-founder of Mabl, said the goal is to make it simpler to streamline testing processes as responsibility for application quality assurance (QA) continues […]
DevSecOps May Be Key to Prevent Data Leaks
Data leakage has become something of a norm in the digital realm, despite the fact that cybersecurity budgets are growing and more engineers are assigned to these very issues. Nowhere does this seem more true than in the realm of health care, where breaches that expose sensitive patient data are, sadly, a fairly common occurrence. […]
Sauce Labs Acquires AutonomIQ to Advance App Testing
Sauce Labs is acquiring AutonomIQ, a provider of a scriptless test automation platform based on machine learning (ML) algorithms. Matt Wyman, chief product officer for Sauce Labs, said the acquisition of AutonomIQ will play a critical role in enabling Sauce Labs to push testing further left toward developers and, ultimately, “citizen testers” that are becoming […]
Continuous Testing: Complementary to Agile and DevOps
Digital transformation brought about by quality software applications and robust hardware platforms helps to create a competitive advantage for enterprises across verticals and geographies. Now it is no longer about choosing between speed or quality of software but to incorporate both when delivering to customers. With Agile and DevOps being embraced by enterprises to stay […]
SAP Aligns With Tricentis on Continuous Testing
Tricentis this week announced an alliance with SAP under which a continuous testing platform that employs machine learning algorithms is being incorporated into the SAP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) portfolio. Jonathan Boswell, director of strategic content for SAP and packaged applications for Tricentis, said via this initiative SAP customers will be able to take advantage […]
Debunking Five Common Automated Testing Myths
There is little argument that automated testing has emerged as an industry best practice. Yet, there remains a wide variety of adoption and maturity in the market. While automated testing is imperative for DevOps maturity and success, I see in my work several popular canards that often stand in the way. Reject these five common […]
Shift-Right Testing: The Emergence of TestOps
The concept of shift-left has been a popular trend in continuous testing practices for a while. We are now beginning to see shift-right practices as an emergent trend in testing. Shift-right entails doing more testing in the immediate pre-release and post-release phases (i.e. testing in production) of the application lifecycle. These include practices such as: release […]
DevOps Chats: Solving Complexity in Continuous Testing, with Sauce Labs
SauceCon 2020 by the good folks at Sauce Labs is just about a month and half away (April 27). As part of our lead-up to the show and our coverage including live broadcasting on Digital Anarchist, we caught up with newly minted Chief Product Officer, Matt Wyman. Matt discusses how continuous testing, automation and DevOps […]
How to Successfully Adopt Mobile DevOps Practices
Mobile DevOps is more than simply adopting a new set of tools and practices. It also comes with the need to adopt a completely different mindset, in the form of a cultural-organizational change. The approach is based on the Agile methodology, but takes its practices further— not only by getting other teams more involved, but […]
DevOps Places Software Testing in the Crosshairs
To keep up with the pace of innovation, testing must play a larger role in the software development life cycle The speed of digital transformation is already staggering, and it’s only going to increase. To put this into some very concrete terms, consider that: There are 7.7 billion people in the world. 5 billion have […]
DevOps Chats: Enterprise Continuous Testing With a Shift-Right Mindset
Test automation and CI/CD are evolving very rapidly to achieve great speed and impactful results by DevOps teams and Agile organizations. Our DevOps Chats guest, Tricentis Chief Product Officer Wolfgang Platz, contributes his experiences to the state of the art with his newly released book, “Enterprise Continuous Testing.” Automating software testing just for the sake […]
Investing in a Mobile Device Testing Lab
It will likely come as no surprise that app downloads are on the rise, with no signs of slowing down. Today’s consumers use apps for everything from ordering food, to shopping for clothes, to managing money and more. In fact, according to a recent report by App Annie, consumers downloaded a total of 194 billion […]
Tricentis to Livestream Accelerate Vienna: Automation @ the Speed of Change
Two days of continuous testing insights will be shared with the global community of software testing professionals, free of charge Vienna, Austria, November 7, 2019 – Tricentis, the cloud’s #1 Continuous Testing platform, today announced that sessions from the Accelerate Vienna keynote stage will be livestreamed for free. [Livestream registration] On November 13-14, the global […]
Optimism Matters and so Does a Sense of Wonder
I’m a terrible video game player. For as much fun as people have with me at the table for Table Top RPGs (TTRPGs), I’m a pain when playing video games. As a guy with a masters in computer science, and years of experience ranging from embedded drivers to enterprise architecture, I see bugs or bad […]
Tricentis Announces Lineup for Accelerate: Automation @ The Speed of Change
Industry experts will gather to share research, strategies, and innovations on Enterprise Automation, RPA, Continuous Testing, DevOps, and scaling open source test automation MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif and VIENNA Austria – October 4, 2019 – Tricentis announced the speaker lineup for Europe’s largest automation conference: Accelerate 2019 Vienna. The event will take place November 13-14 at […]
There’s No Silver Bullet for 5G Deployment
When it comes to 5G, a common mistake is to think there is a silver bullet for successful deployment. Often operators assume there is one magic remedy that if introduced to their network, will see them succeed. For example, automation is a key pillar of the 5G era; end-to-end automation maximizes the efficiencies and responsiveness […]