Continuous Testing: Shift Left and Find the Right Balance
You may have heard the term “continuous testing,” but are struggling to understand what it is and how to achieve it. Project teams need to improve their ability to test and perform test automation when needed, not just when possible. Service virtualization allows teams to test earlier and more often in the life cycle, or […]
DevOps Matchmaking: APM + CI = A Perfect Marriage
As anyone who has ever been set up on blind dates by friends can attest, finding the right match in today’s world is a tricky feat. There’s a lot of evidence suggesting that the frantic pace of life makes such matchmaking more difficult than ever. That said, when the right set of complimentary traits exist […]
DevOps: Shift Left to Reduce Failure
DevOps is all about increasing the feedback loop from idea to customer and back again. Tremendous gains have been achieved in automation and tools to drastically reduce the amount of manual labor involved in progressing down the release pipeline. But mission-critical applications in a highly competitive market cannot afford to go down. Complex applications, environments […]
Data Protection for Operational Reporting Platforms
Making real-time business decisions based on data from social, mobile and cloud platforms is a requirement in today’s world. That’s why an ecosystem of next-generation operational reporting platforms such as Spark, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, Docker, Mesos, Marathon and more have come to life. Enterprises are using these technologies to re-architect their data storage and processing […]
Continuous Testing Live Network DevOps
My earlier blog, “From Laboratories to DevOps: Factories for Continuous Testing,” discussed the importance of and suggested practices for a fully automated, orchestrated software DevOps laboratory infrastructure, akin to a modern factory staffed by robots churning out products at a dizzy pace. The blog applies to development of software for networks, and the practices increasingly […]
Continuous Testing Improves Speed, Quality
We live in a world that expects immediacy. For a society that gets news updates from Twitter in 140-character increments as it happens while we microwave a complete meal in less than five minutes, anything that takes months—or even weeks or days—seems like an eternity. When it comes to continuous performance testing, organizations and developers […]
Does DevOps Improve or Undermine Quality?
In my earlier blog, “From QA to Continuous Testing,” I explained that “several industry developments converged to make continuous testing the winning method for software engineering quality assurance (QA).” The “combination of improved test methods, agile processes, continuous integration speed afforded by automation and orchestration tools and low-cost test dynamically configurable infrastructures afforded by virtualization […]
Evolving to Continuous Testing
As agile development practices mature and DevOps principles infiltrate our corporate cultures, organizations are realizing the distinct opportunity to accelerate software delivery. However, when you speed up any process, immature practice areas such as testing and roadblocks become much more pronounced. It’s the difference between driving over a speed bump at 5 mph vs. 50 […]
Flash Mob Inflection: Rugged DevOps Revolution
Truthfully, I was never a huge fan of the HBO series “The Sopranos.” It’s not that it wasn’t entertaining; I just didn’t agree with the “best ever” label that so many espoused during the show’s halcyon days. This had something to do with living in Hoboken, N.J., at the time and feeling the show was […]
Performance Testing is a Team Sport
Performance testing is a vital component of any developer’s working process. The performance of your website or app can be judged by a lot of people in your organization, both technical and non-technical. Developers, operators and performance engineers are on the front lines when it comes to the development of a functioning site/app, but there will […]
Testing: Mind the DevOps Gap
If DevOps is a continuum, it starts with planning and development, and ends with deployment into operations. Much of the focus in DevOps and within the DevOps toolchain has been on application build automation (development) and deployment of apps into operations. But, for DevOps to pay off, there must be a continuous flow and automation […]
From Laboratories to DevOps Factories for Continuous Testing
The prior blog Continuous Testing and Monitoring Essentials for SDN and NFV discussed the importance and suggested practices for testing and monitoring complex systems such as software defined networks and network functions that are virtualized . Whether the product being tested is a complex network system or not, with DevOps the laboratory is no longer […]
An obituary to a Managed Test Service
1st October 2020, Enterpirseborough , F500 Inc street Managed Test Service, 66, died Friday, 3rd October, 2020 at the Delivery governance war room in the IT head quarters of F500 inc. following a terminal illness caused by a lifetime burden of 34 SLA’s, debt burden of 44 KPIs , 29 painful claw backs by procurement […]
What is expected of software developers vs QA testers during development?
“What is expected of software developers vs QA testers during development?” Michael Oubre – Agile evangelist, practitioner and trainer, and Marc Hornbeek – DevOps evangelist and thought leader, share their views on popular questions regarding Agile and DevOps from their respective viewpoints. Michael: The thing we do in agile is to train the team to […]
Testing Nightmares: Real-Life Frightening QA Experiences
In the spirit of Halloween, this past month testing experts from around the globe answered the call to join in a “crowd-sourced” article highlighting their most frightening testing QA experiences. These are real-life examples of testing gone wrong—leading to all sorts of mayhem in some cases. We allowed these testers to hide their identity, and […]
Continuous test and monitoring essentials for SDN and NFV
The prior blog Continuous Test Monitoring DevOps Healthbeat discussed the importance and suggested practices for testing and monitoring test trends. This need is amplified when the system that is being tested and monitored is a network of co-operating applications, infrastructures and devices such as networked components of next generation Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function […]
Does Agile need continuous integration?
Michael Oubre – Agile evangelist, practitioner and trainer, and Marc Hornbeek – DevOps continuous testing evangelist and thought leader, share their views on popular questions regarding Agile and DevOps from their respective viewpoints. If you are doing Agile do you need to do Continuous Integration? Michael: From an Agile perspective, let’s consider your company decided […]
Digital Disrupters – Building a DevOps Leadership Profile
While the advancement of DevOps methodology remains fairly nascent for many organizations, an ever-expanding class of leading practitioners are evolving a wide range of related best practices. Beyond the well-worn concept of “unicorns” – the scant few organizations that stand as mythical examples of DevOps nirvana – this broader set of early adopters have begun […]
Native Integration of APM Driving DevOps Maturity
With applications performance monitoring established as one of the fundamental cornerstones of today’s DevOps methodologies, it’s easy to overlook the reality that effective instrumentation of such tools remains extremely difficult. Specifically, the biggest challenge remains creating performance metrics that address both IT and larger business initiatives. There’s no question that APM is one of the […]
Continuous test monitoring DevOps ”health-beat”
In my prior blog Test Results Analysis at the Speed of DevOps I discussed ways that test analysis features and practices can be optimized to ensure that test results for each CI/CT cycle keep pace with accelerated continuous testing. Beyond optimizing continuous test analysis for each cycle, longer term continuous test monitoring is necessary to […]
Librato Seeks to Unlock DevOps Application Monitoring
As wider adoption of DevOps methodologies continues to foster demand for new tooling to help streamline evolving workflows, at least one vendor is attempting to address the growing need for related monitoring capabilities. Librato, a San Francisco-based provider of Amazon AWS applications performance monitoring (APM) services, claims that it is finding favor among the rapidly […]
SaaS: Building Tools for the DevOps-Minded
DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing are no longer just methodologies and development strategies — they’re all a part of a growing economy within the tech industry. Great Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies such as Chef, Docker and New Relic have done an amazing job of spotting the trends early and building their tools and […]
Continuous Delivery and The Proof of Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance is critical in Continuous Delivery. Every change we commit to the common source repository is a release candidate. That’s why we test our code before we release it. We find out whether objectives has been met or not. Unfortunately, testing is a discipline that many try to avoid and it’s one of the […]