BoomTown No Bust with VM Supported Parallel Testing Environment
An Introduction to BoomTown DevOps Processes BoomTown uses a specific set of DevOps processes in order to deliver websites with the latest real estate listings and housing data as well as a CRM solution and analytics tools for real estate professionals. “Our development, operations, and QA teams automate everything in sight while offloading to cloud […]
Meeting Challenges in incorporating automated testing throughout the DevOps cycle
Enterprise development teams find it difficult to perform QA tests on software in short DevOps cycles where they cannot squeeze in lengthy regression tests. DevOps teams must insert automated testing approaches to resolve this predicament. “DevOps teams need to be more selective in prioritizing tests that occur at each stage of the integration to delivery […]
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 […]
DevOps Leadership Series 2015: Women & Diversity
Many of the leading minds and practitioners in the DevOps movement are women. I hope that comes as no surprise to you. DevOps has always embraced a diversity of thought and contribution. Case in point, close to 50% of the presenters at this year’s DevOps Days Boston event were women. In this episode of […]
DevOps Leadership Series 2015: Women & Diversity – a diversity of thought and contribution
Many of the leading minds and practitioners in the DevOps movement are women. I hope that comes as no surprise to you. DevOps has always embraced a diversity of thought and contribution. Case in point, close to 50% of the presenters at this year’s DevOps Days Boston event were women. In this episode of […]
Impacts of DevOps on Testing
I always come across a standard question from testers in any DevOps related presentation. “Will DevOps remove the need for Testers?” A simple answer is “No”. DevOps is not going to replace Testing as a discipline. Firms implementing DevOps have a vision for better product quality workable by brilliant Testing. DevOps is an enabler for the following. […]
The Wonder Pill for Mobile Application Success
Dr. James Brown stunned the British Science Festival by announcing a wonder pill that could reduce your weight, lower the risk of high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, depression, and anxiety. With everyone in attendance eagerly awaiting what it was, he plainly exclaimed that the “wonder pill” was daily exercise. The most effective solution was the […]
Testing Will Never Be Automated
“Come to think of it, no one speaks of automated programming or manual programming. There is programming, and there is lots of other stuff done by tools. Once a tool is created to do that stuff, it is never called programming again.” – James Bach and Michael Bolton, “Testing and Checking Refined That’s one of […]
BlazeMeter harnesses open source to deliver continuous testing for DevOps
DevOps is all about efficiency and automation—streamlining development and deployment. In order to deliver quality code quickly a culture of continuity is required—including continuous testing. BlazeMeter provides organizations with a platform for continuous performance testing in a DevOps environment. BlazeMeter claims to be a more affordable—and in some ways more powerful—performance testing platform than HP […]
Containers: Secure or Not, Here They Are
Containers are here. And it doesn’t mater whether or not containers are a transitional technology (they are, as our JP Morgenthal covered in Containers are designed for an antiquate application architecture) until all applications are designed for cloud and web-scale, containers will be part of the cloud and virtualization scene. Right now, containers are white […]
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 […]
Functional Testing for IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming a bit more than a fun three letter acronym. And while internet connected devices have been around for a while, turning it into a practice is an important evolution. It allows the establishment of best practices, better integration into standard software development, and thus more robust applications, sometimes […]
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 […]
DevOps and Organizational Debt
I recently published a blog on the Perficient Digital Transformation blog entitled “Is Cloud & DevOps Factored Into Your Digital Transformation?” In that blog I discuss the concept of organizational debt and its impact on your DevOps adoption. Here’s what I had to say in that blog: If technical debt addresses too little investment in […]
DevOps – It’s all about continuous testing !
I loved reading Steve Wilson’s blog post “Don’t Fear Testing Team. DevOps is Here!” https://devops.com/blogs/dont-fear-testing-team-devops-is-here/ The idea that DevOps somehow reduces the need for testing certainly puts fear in the hearts of QA and test teams who may envision the demise of product quality, reduced test resources and even their very livelihood. I understand the […]
Crowdsourced Software Testing
As a developer or technical architect, there is no better feeling than taking pride in giving a quality product or service result to your customers. Now, with computer trends going rapidly towards cloud services and mobile devices, regular company IT development teams are finding their testing capabilities more and more limiting. They are faced with […]
Service Virtualization – Window into “Advanced” DevOps
The new style of IT is pushing DevOps teams to reinvent software building, validation and delivering processes with an aim to shrink development cycle time and reducing defects in production. But in constrained testing environments, DevOps teams face a range of challenges in following the continuous integration and delivery approach for large multi-tier applications. Because […]
You Asked for Quality, You Got Alienated QA
The role of Quality Assurance (QA) is creating a bit of a buzz these days, because even as teams and budgets are shrinking, the demand for better quality is increasing. The chilling repercussions of service disruptions caused by software flaws warrants interest even at the executive level: “Nobody’s madder than me about the fact that […]
A/B Test with Caution
When the morning news starts talking about A/B Testing of course my ears perk up, and I eat my cereal a little slower. But when it becomes a conversation about how ethical it is to use customer usage data to iteratively improve the product, it spawns this blog post. It’s hard to believe that A/B […]
Episode 2 of DevOps.com Podcast
Mitchell Ashley and I are joined this week by Stephen Wilson of Compuware. Stephen is a regular blogger here on DevOps.com, but is also the technical evangelist at Compuware. Steve gives us his background and a brief description of what Compuware does. Then we all talk a bit about Steve’s last article here on DevOps.com, […]
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 […]