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Continuous Delivery in a Legacy Shop—One Step at a Time
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Not every continuous delivery (CD) initiative starts with someone saying “Drop everything. We’re going to do DevOps.” Sometimes, you have to grow your process incrementally. And sometimes you don’t set out to grow at all—you are just fixing problems with your process, trying to make things... |
Gene Gotimer, Coveros, Inc.
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Exploratory Testing: Make It Part of Your Test Strategy
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Developers often have the unfortunate distinction of not thoroughly testing their code. It’s not that developers do not understand how to test well; it’s just that often they have not had an opportunity to understand how the product works. Kevin Dunne maintains that implementing a... |
Kevin Dunne, QA Symphony
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The Show Must Go On: Leadership Lessons from the Theater
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When creating a play or movie, what are the first three rules of directing? Casting, casting, and casting. How does Saturday Night Live produce sketch after sketch of comedy? By iterating. John Krewson finds that the principles of leadership and management in the worlds of theatre, TV, and... |
John Krewson, MasterCard Worldwide
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Performance Testing Cloud-Based Systems
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As cloud computing becomes of strategic importance in the enterprise, part of the solution is no longer on-premise but in the cloud, adding a layer of complexity. Edwin Chan demystifies performance testing of cloud systems and applications by addressing the following key questions: Is... |
Edwin Chan, Deloitte Inc.
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Soft Skills You Need Are Not Always Taught in Class
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For years in the software industry, the focus of discussion, programs, and expense has been on career skill development to enhance team performance. To support skill development, a variety of certifications and training opportunities have been created to increase technical knowledge... |
Jon Hagar, Independent Consultant
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Fostering Long-Term Test Automation Success
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In today’s environment of plummeting software delivery cycle times, test automation becomes a more critical and strategic necessity. How can we possibly keep up with software delivery’s explosive pace while retaining satisfactory test coverage, keeping the reins on costs, and reducing... |
Carl Nagle, SAS Institute, Inc.
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Testing Is the Profession I Chose
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Never underestimate the power of sharing the testing team’s achievements, lessons learned, challenges faced, roadblocks encountered, and the enriching solutions found. Jyothi Rangaiah says as testers we must be ready to nurture the needs of testing and testers in the organizations we serve. |
Jyothi Rangaiah
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Bringing Continuous Delivery to Dell.com: A Retrospective
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Multibillion dollar sales portal Dell.com has more than 1,000 developers working in tandem to contribute content and code. This presents unique strategic challenges when it comes to selecting, planning, and deploying DevOps tools. James Watt presents a retrospective on transitioning one of... |
James Watt, Dell, Inc.
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Lean Entrepreneurship for Software Professionals
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Software teams are faced with the prospect of building a product, only to have unexpected shifts in customer demand, changes in the competitive landscape, or swings in the economic climate undermine their plans and turn their product into expensive waste. What is an... |
Thomas Vaniotis, Liquidnet
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Quality Index: A Composite Metric for the Voice of Testing
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It is quite possible that you are spending a considerable amount of your time as a QA manager making sense of the multitude of metrics reported by your teams, connecting the facts, understanding the underlying reality, and articulating it to your peers and leadership. Still, others in the... |
Nirav Patel, Walgreens Boots Alliance, and Sutharson Veeravalli, Cognizant Technology Solutions
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