The A&C of SMAC: Analytics and Cloud

In the last issue on testing the SMAC stack we talked about the social and mobile aspects of testing. We will be referring to them in this article. In this issue part 2, we focus on the Analytics and Cloud aspect. The goal of this article is to understand a simple landscape of analytics and cloud.

Leader’s Pulse: Get Your Teams the Training that They Need!

Every leader knows having a fully trained staff is essential to productivity, employee satisfaction, teamwork, and just getting the job done! This is particularly true today in technology for many reasons. I want to focus on three ideas. 1.Training for training’s sake: Training to keep up with tech changes Training as a tool for better employees …

Infographic: SMAC and the History of IT

  LogiGear Corporation LogiGear Corporation provides global solutions for software testing, and offers public and corporate software-testing training programs worldwide through LogiGear University. LogiGear is a leader in the integration of test automation, offshore resources and US project management for fast and cost-effective results. Since 1994, LogiGear has worked with hundreds of companies from the …

Make Design a Priority for Cloud Testing

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 …

What Exactly Is ‘Cloud Testing’ Anyway?

Special considerations that should be applied to an application running in the cloud. Over the last weeks, I have found myself in several rather intense discussions about “cloud testing”: what it is, what it isn’t, and what it means for testing and QA professionals. The major source of confusion in these discussions usually revolves around …

Glossary: Cloud Testing

Cloud Computing: Cloud computing is a concept used to describe a variety of computing concepts that involve a large number of computers connected through a real-time communication network such as the Internet. In science, cloud computing is a synonym for distributed computing over a network, and means the ability to run a program or application on many connected computers at the …