Tag: testing
DevOps: Commoditizing Infrastructure
Hardware vendors face a quandary. How do you distinguish yourself as superior from your competitors if you are unable to continue to grow a distinct architecture as your competitive advantage? But this ...
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 ...
Integrating ARA into traditional RM
Application Release Automation (ARA) is terminology that includes several DevOps constructs from a singular, application-centric point of view. In essence, ARA implies the automation of a single app from build through deployment ...
DevOps Chat: Steve Hazel, Sauce Labs
I recently had the chance to sit down and speak with Steve Hazel, CTO and co-founder of Sauce Labs. With so much being written and talked about the role of quality assurance ...
Baselining Metrics to Measure DevOps ROI
Assessing the ROI of DevOps normally is done against a company's baseline cost. The problem is, most organizations do not collect or evaluate the cost of “automating and delivering” innovation; they usually ...
Mobile Testing Delivers Big for Pizza
Mobile applications have been disrupting industries worldwide. For some industries, the disruption focuses on business internals, as enterprise apps enable manufacturing processes to be restructured and streamlined. In other industries, the disruption ...
LogiGear Launches Continuous Testing Solution and Service to Enable Faster High Quality Testing
New solution is an addition to the company’s evolving frameworks and technologies Foster City, CA, July 12, 2016— LogiGear, a world leader in software testing solutions, today announced the launch of its ...
How to Fail at Test Automation
Let me start by admitting that I am not a test automation expert. I have done some work with test automation and have supervised teams who practiced it, but when it comes ...
Give Test Automation the Respect It Deserves
One of the key mantras of DevOps is “continuous.” Effective DevOps relies on automating routine tasks. Any step in the process that requires human intervention or manual input becomes a roadblock that ...
It’s Time to End the Automated Tests Arms Race
I grew up during the end of the Cold War. During that time, I remember hearing that there were enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world 20 times over. That always seemed silly ...
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 ...
Infrastructure-Testing Dominoes
Understanding the artifacts of a given technology component is critical to an enterprise-class DevOps service offering. Second-most critical is understanding the dependencies between given components. Testing helps illuminate those dependencies. For example, ...