Tricentis Accelerate Conference’s Big Reveal Came from its Audience
At the recent Accelerate San Francisco 2018 conference, Tricentis was joined on stage by big-name customers, global partners and well-known quality and DevOps evangelists. This was the first time a U.S. date for Accelerate was added alongside its annual stop in Vienna, Austria. And, while the number of attendees was impressive—especially when Google IO and […]
Exploratory Testing: Expanding Testing Across the Delivery Cycle
Mindless testing, whether it is manually or automatically executed, can cover only a very narrow scope of possible bugs: the ones you’ve already thought of. Exploratory testing however, endeavors to think outside that scope. Thoughtful testers look at a problem from all angles, weighing factors such as feature usage, psychology, user stories and more. Their […]
Continuous Testing Success at ExxonMobil
Safety, security and controls are the foundations upon which 135-year-old ExxonMobil is built. As such, quality has become a key component in delivering software. The company is currently undergoing a shift from traditional project management organizations and support organizations to product teams, which has highlighted the need for testing early in the development cycle and […]
Attaining Continuous Testing in DevOps through a Templated Approach
The continuous demand market for flawless applications is being addressed through advanced software development techniques along with continuous delivery. As such, many organizations adopted the shift-left approach and agile best practices—which suggests the motto, “test early, test often,”—through which they get to imbibe QA practices and testing early in the software development pipeline. That also […]
Agile Development: The 3 Methods You Need to Master
As organizations embrace the age of Agile and digital transformation strategies, every brand is looking for a competitive advantage. To succeed, organizations need to focus on the user, offering services to users on their terms, on their devices and at their convenience. Even more, users expect these offerings to be visually appealing and fast. That’s […]
Sauce Labs Adds Analytics to Continuous Testing Platform
Sauce Labs has added additional debugging and analytics capabilities to its testing platform to make it easier to manage continuous testing across multiple application development projects. Lubos Parobek, vice president of product at Sauce Labs, said DevOps teams need to prioritize which bugs to address first across multiple development projects occurring simultaneously. In fact, according […]
Continuous Testing and the Broken Promise of Test Automation
The Broken Promise of Test Automation For more than two decades now, software testing tool vendors have been tempting enterprises with the promise of test automation. However, most companies have never been able to achieve the desired business results from their automation initiatives. Recent studies report that test automation rates average around 20 percent overall, […]
Adopting Continuous Testing: 4 Success Stories
Much has been written about the benefits and best practices of continuous testing. However, it’s not always clear how to make these concepts a reality. Here are a few stellar examples of how several leading organizations were able to apply continuous testing to remove roadblocks and achieve their organization’s distinct quality goals. The Middle Child […]
A Crash Course in Continuous Testing
What better way to start a blog on continuous testing than with this “I Love Lucy” clip, and then an analogy: https://youtu.be/8NPzLBSBzPI Like Lucy and Ethel, many software testers have been scrambling to keep pace with accelerated processes—then along comes the supervisor saying, “You’re doing splendidly … Speed it up!” This ever-increasing pace is just one […]
Continuous Testing Defined
Across the software testing industry today, everyone has started to agree that continuous testing is necessary for keeping pace with Agile and DevOps. What’s not as clear, however, is exactly what continuous testing involves. Wikpedia defines continuous testing as the process of executing automated tests as part of the software delivery pipeline to obtain immediate feedback on the […]
The Impact of DevOps and Continuous Testing in 2018
At its core, DevOps is meant to touch an entire organization; however it’s heavily weighted in the software development life cycle (SDLC). That’s why DevOps is going mainstream in 2018. Companies are making the business benefits of DevOps a top priority—it’s all about delivering value to the customer faster through maximum automation of the release […]
DevSecOps: Security Needn’t be Sacrificed for Speed
With the right practices, security needn’t be an impediment to continuous development and rapid improvement. The same cycle keeps repeating, according to IT security and risk management consultancy Sense of Security co-founder and CTO Murray Goldschmidt. A new technology is hyped, leading to rapid adoption, but security is left as an afterthought. It happened with […]
The Future of Continuous Testing: Fail Faster
In the early days of Agile and Lean development practices, a very noticeable gap appeared between dev teams and ops and QA. Development was accelerating at a lightning-fast pace, but testing processes could not keep up, slowing down the entire life cycle and preventing organizations from achieving continuous delivery. Traditional testing methods, which rely heavily […]
Continuous Testing: Crushing the Testing Bottleneck
The practice of continuous delivery has been with us for many years, but it has started to see real adoption in the last couple of years. Continuous delivery is about automating and simplifying the process of delivering new features to the market at any given time, accelerating delivery and helping bring Dev and Ops together […]
How an Integrated Tool System Helps Implement DevOps
DevOps is the marriage of application development teams with system operations teams, their philosophies and actions. In an agile environment, development, testing and operations all must work together to meet frequent iterations, releases and delivery goals. This calls for a collaborative development environment that supports data orchestration with other lifecycle tools. The article will explain […]
DevOps, Continuous Delivery – It’s All About Automation
I spent a large portion of my career in the networking industry, marketing routers, switches and other gear that makes the internet work. Networking—like many industries—is currently undergoing a revolution that is in large part driven by software. Functions that used to be delivered as a standalone device can now run in software (not unlike […]
In DevOps, Quality is a Team Effort
Technology is changing every industry; we can all agree on this foundational premise. If you disagree, I believe the rest of this post is going to do nothing for you, so feel free to stop reading now. If you do agree, then you know that apps, the internet of things (IoT) and APIs are table […]
Move the Needle in DevOps with Continuous Testing
Shift-left testing, risk based testing, early testing and technical debt reduction are all predicted to be some of the most sought-after trends in product development life cycle. All of these can be achieved with continuous testing through DevOps, as it emphasizes quicker transitioning of quality products to production environment at a reduced business risk. Software […]
Moving from ‘Tester’ to ‘Quality Enabler’
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
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
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
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
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 […]