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For nearly the entire history of application development—certainly since application development became available to a larger market with the adoption of the personal computer for expansive business use—testing has taken a back se…
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DevOps Practice
Testing has long been a problem child of IT in general, AppDev in particular, and now it is DevOps’ problem. There are things that DevOps can do to improve the chances of tests act…
Blogs
I have long noted the trend of pendulums in IT, particularly in organizations with longer histories. Centralized IT will be achieved, its weaknesses noticed and a movement will beg…
Blogs
As opposed to the traditional software development lifecycle (aka waterfall), today’s Agile and DevOps-based software development process is more outcome-oriented. The unrelenting…
DevOps at IBM
Unit testing is like exercise: Companies know it’s good for you and you should do it, but given their druthers, they’d rather avoid the effort and just get to the benefit. I wish I…
Blogs
It sounds like an oxymoron: Create test cases before coding. In the process of writing and using test cases before writing functionality, a developer can produce higher-quality sof…
Blogs
Software testing and QA is sometimes given low priority during development. The idea of treating software testers as adversaries by the developers seems old-fashioned and is short-…
Blogs
We’ve gotten a lot of good out of agile development methodologies. I’m never a “One True Way” kind of person, but agile has a ton of benefits that development needed (and Ops incre…
Blogs
Editor’s Note: This post was updated Aug. 4, 2018, to reflect an updated slide presentation at the end of the article. Infrastructure as Code is a truly powerful concept whose sign…
Features
Supporting Swift Cyber Business Ramp Ups Around the World with Translation and Localization Sped by CD Smartling technology enables the business to quickly translate content in web…
