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 ...
Aligning the Dev and Ops Teams DevOps as a philosophy has had as its centerpiece the principle that Dev and Ops teams need to align better. This is a people and organizational principle, not a process centric principle. To me this is more important when adopting DevOps than any other capability or tool. My last post ...
As a software development company, what is your goal? What is the one thing you feel you need to do to ensure you have a job at the beginning of each wonderful work week? The answer is actually quite simple; You need to deliver a quality product. Like how I used the word simple? Although the answer I ...
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 ...
Having the right skills and experience, even if you have to go outside, is essential for designing tests for large-scale cloud deployments. Moving existing applications to a cloud environment adds new dimensions to testing. One of the primary reasons for moving to the cloud is scalability. Capacity to handle traffic and data transfer can be ...
How to ensure a successful test-driven environment In order to ensure a higher quality product is released in the end, many teams have turned to test-driven development. Under this scenario, quality assurance metrics professionals first create various QA tests, and then software engineers code based on these tests, typically while using a robust enterprise test management ...
It’s no secret that the cloud is growing at an exponential rate. By 2016, two-thirds of the world’s server workloads will exist in the cloud. But according to Cisco’s 2012 Cloud Index, less than half of server workloads currently run in the cloud. Closing the gap between current capabilities and future requirements is a mission-critical ...
This post is part of the Pride & Paradev series With continuous deployment, it is common to release new software into production multiple times a day. A regression test suite, no matter how well designed, may still take over 10 minutes to run, which can lead to bottlenecks in releasing changes to production. So, do ...
The book is an incredibly effective and valuable guide that details the risks that arise when deploying cloud solutions. More importantly, it provides details on how to test cloud services, to ensure that the proposed cloud service will work as described. It is a great start to the topic. The 6 chapters detail a paradigm ...
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 ...
Disclaimer: This article was originally published in the LogiGear Magazine, but has been updated for the June 2020 issue. Leading an organization into Continuous Delivery is a daunting task that usually takes software development teams months if not years. This guide covers the main points that organizations need to consider to increase their chance of ...
By Jez Humble and David Farley Continuous Delivery from Jez Humble and David Farley is an important contribution to the field of software development. It takes continuous integration to the logical conclusion and covers how to set up a continuous integration system, delving into everything from check-in to delivery to production. It doesn’t state you ...
