The Business Value of Continuous Testing
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, “Continuous Testing,” by our friends at Parasoft. Enterprise software development models have presented many innovative solutions for IT to align development efforts with business goals. Adopting new software development lifecycle methodologies is as much a business decision as an IT decision. From an […]
The continuous continuousness of DevOps
Defining DevOps is getting easier, but it’s still an elusive goal. Part of the challenge is that DevOps is more of a culture than a specific “thing” and how that culture exists is subjective and varies from one organization to the next. DevOps is what you want or need DevOps to be to some extent, […]
DevOps Makes Security Assurance Affordable
Despite the fact that information security is a top priority, many organizations face challenges integrating security assurance practices into their product and service development practices. All too often security problems are only detected and resolved with software patches following a security breach. Security assurance is often reactive but what is needed is a more consistent […]
Continuous Testing System Stability
The effort to speed up continuous testing will be wasted if the underlying system that continuous testing depends on is not stable. In my prior blog Continuous Test Results Analysis – at the Speed of DevOps, I discussed the importance and practices for speeding up continuous testing results analysis. However, unless the continuous test system […]
Test Results Analysis at the Speed of DevOps
Fast continuous testing is counterproductive if the analysis of test results does not keep up with the speed of testing. In my prior blog Continuous Testing – Accelerated! I discussed the importance and practices for speeding up continuous testing. Unless test analysis is as fast as the tests, all that will happen is an accumulated […]
Continuous Testing – Accelerated !
Except for cases where test duration is the point of the test, as indicated in my prior blog “Isn’t Continuous Testing a Longevity Test Anti-pattern?”, faster continuous testing cycles are preferred because failing early and often is a DevOps goal. There are multiple reasons for this, but it should be evident that faster tests reduce […]
Isn’t Continuous Testing a Longevity Test Anti-pattern?
Accordingly to Jim Coplien: “an anti-pattern is something that looks like a good idea, but which backfires badly when applied. “ In DevOps context, continuous testing is an attractive solution for the narrow context of testing specific software components quickly (in cycles measured in minutes or hours) but may be “bad” if the system that […]
From QA to Continuous Testing
My prior blog “DevOps – It’s All About Continuous Testing” posits that QA testers don’t need to fear DevOps because continuous testing QA is a central part of DevOps infrastructures that are implemented according to best practices. That is not to say however that continuous testing is precisely the same as traditional QA testing or […]
IBM Webcast Nov 12: Use Discovery to accelerate testing and virtualization
Many of today’s business applications offer a multitude of services (APIs) across many different technologies. These same applications also reach out into a web of already-existing services in order to retrieve and update information necessary to successfully deliver the end to end business processes. In many cases, these applications are being built by multiple development […]
Don’t Fear, Testing Team! DevOps is here!
I love Gene Kim’s analogy about how all unicorns used to be horses; its a great visual that I use all the time when encouraging IT organizations to change from thinking “why not” to “why not us” when it comes to starting their DevOps transformation. If culture is really one of the greatest enemies to […]