The expert stage of test automation is all about continuous optimization. More specifically, this phase is about collecting data about your existing process, analyzing that data to derive quality insights, applying those insights to improve your practice and then measuring these improvements as part of repeating the cycle again. There are three key steps to realize continuous optimization ...
Vendor Forum
May 02, 2019
Joshua Platt
SmartDraw Software
DevOps play a critical role in increasing an organization's efficiency, productivity and profitability – but increasingly complex insights are often hard to communicate to the broader team, leaving a visibility gap that can hinder the overall value DevOps provide. Why is real-time visibility so important? ...
May 01, 2019
Dave Karow
Split Software
By now, the concept of experimentation in software development is fairly well known. Most development teams understand at a high level the benefits that can be achieved through experimentation. Perhaps the most important of those is the ability to identify positive or negative impacts of a feature — in terms of both app performance and customer experience — earlier in the development process ...
April 29, 2019
Manish Gupta
ShiftLeft
Only 10 percent of organizations report repairing critical vulnerabilities satisfactorily and in a timely manner. However, to understand how to address this problem, we first need to understand the current state of application security ...
April 25, 2019
Bob Davis
Plutora
In the current landscape where there is constant pressure to deliver faster and more frequently, without compromising value, companies need a way to control the overall process from the development level up to c-suite. To make it work, they are turning to value stream management ...
April 23, 2019
Derek Choy
Rainforest QA
In 2018, software defects in the US cost about $2.85 trillion. Needless to say, there's room for improvement. If you haven't taken a look at the QA health of your organization, you should consider it. How much money could be saved by better test coverage? ...
April 15, 2019
Drew Horn
Applause
In Part 1 of this three-part series, we covered the first steps of introducing automated testing into your software development lifecycle. Now that you've done the early work of codifying manual tests into an automation framework and achieved some quick wins with initial smoke tests, you can continue to build confidence in test automation ...
April 08, 2019
Eric Sheridan
WhiteHat Security
In this seventh step, the Twelve-Factor methodology encourages the integration of the network handling traffic code inside your running application ...
April 04, 2019
Paul Clauson
Functionize
Testing automation is in need of a revolution.So, let's banish the QA winter and usher in the QA spring. A review of problems throughout a test lifecycle cements the need for autonomous testing ...
April 01, 2019
Drew Horn
Applause
In your journey to mature test automation within your deployment pipeline, you will move through three distinct stages: beginner, intermediate, and expert. We will explore the beginner stage in part one of this series ...
March 28, 2019
Eran Kinsbruner
Perfecto by Perforce
The rise in "codeless" development and delivery is translating over to the DevOps world — even for those who are well-versed in coding and the numerous different languages that come with it. So much so that codeless test automation has become a top priority for testers, as well as the developers who are now also taking on some of those testing responsibilities ...
March 25, 2019
Nigel Kersten
Puppet
As companies change the way they deliver IT services and software, businesses need the right talent who can adapt to this shift and raise the bar for software delivery. This is proven to be true with Puppet’s fifth annual 2018 DevOps Salary Report, revealing that as the IT jobs landscape continues to evolve, larger organizations with more complex infrastructure are paying more for better talent and diverse skills ...
March 21, 2019
Brad Micklea
Red Hat
Containers and Kubernetes have become the most talked about way for services and applications to be deployed and managed. Already loved by development teams, there are an increasing number of businesses using Kubernetes and containers in production. There's a strong benefit to having DevOps and containers grow simultaneously because they have a symbiotic relationship. Containers have several qualities that make them well suited to DevOps-oriented teams ...
March 20, 2019
Tim Woods
FireMon
Cloud-based business initiatives are accelerating faster than security organizations' ability to secure them, according to the State of Hybrid Cloud Security Survey from FireMon. The survey revealed 60% of respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that this was happening in their organizations ...
March 18, 2019
Glen Rabie
Yellowfin
Are you a software product owner? Then you need to embrace the race to AI and automation and ensure you meet customers' needs for data insights and to stay competitive. To keep up in this race, you have two options as a software product owner: build your own analytics capability, or embed a third party analytics platform ...
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