DevOps may be the next big buzzword, but Test teams really need to focus on its little sister, Continuous Delivery If you pay attention to trends in software development—from the perspective of what some sophisticated teams are doing, what articles and books are being written, to conference topics, you may have noticed the tools being ...
In this article, I share some of my experiences and observations on training teams, mainly in corporate settings. The operative word here is “team”, not “individual”. When training teams or groups in an organization, many of the considerations and benefits are different than those for the individual. We’ll examine those differences and I will share successful solutions. ...
Cloud computing has been the buzzword in the world of Information Technology for quite some time and it is likely to retain that status in the coming years. Cloud computing has been helping business enterprises deliver services faster and cheaper compared to all other existing delivery models. Small and medium business enterprises have changed their ...
If you haven’t already caught a glimpse, we announced in January the Testing in DevOps and Continuous Testing videos series, available on YouTube!
It is a fundamental role for testing teams to align their test design, test automation, and test case development with DevOps–not only to verify that code changes work but that the changes do not break the product. A key differentiator of DevOps is testing maturity. An organization can automate their integration, testing, delivery, and monitor, ...
DevOps for Test Teams By Michael Hackett Now that Dev Teams have had a little time to settle into the Agile, the new wave of process optimization has arrived. DevOps. DevOps has been described as Agile on Steroids. DevOps has also been described as Agile for Operations/IT. I like both of those descriptions as well ...
Times have changed, the tools have improved, and with books like this available you have no reason to not give CI a go. I still remember the first time I was on a project that used NAnt and CruiseControl.NET. It was years ago and both were new tools with plenty of bugs. The project manager ...
DevOps has been described as Agile on Steroids; DevOps has also been described as Agile for Operations/IT. I like both of those descriptions. Many organizations want Development, Test, and Operations teams to move to DevOps now. DevOps is a big topic, but DevOps is not the focus of this article. We will not be talking ...
Throw away clunky hyper-visors, and stop thinking about computer hardware and software license during your development projects. The first thing you think about when you hear “The Cloud” may not be development and testing. The Cloudy market is filled with SaaS applications, hosting, and cloud-based file systems. All are very useful, and offer a clear ...
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Sauce Lab’s Perspective on Integration with Continuous Testing The term ‘DevOps’ implies that implementing an effective development and production workflow is as easy as developing the collaborative interaction between developers and IT operations. On the surface, DevOps may appear as a simple and straightforward idea but, as you will find out, there is more than meets ...
Eric Minick is internationally recognized as a leading authority on continuous delivery and DevOps. Eric joined IBM four years ago with the acquisition of UrbanCode where he had worked as a developer, technical seller, and evangelist for a decade. Today, he has responsibility for leading the product management team overseeing continuous delivery solutions ...
