Tag: Quality Assurance
Leveraging Crowdtesting in DevOps to Enhance Quality Assurance (QA)
There are still challenges for QA teams within DevOps, including the need to "shift left." Crowdtesting can help ...
mabl Adds Load Testing Tool to Test Automation Suite
mabl today added a load testing capability to its portfolio of application testing tools that it makes available via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. That capability promises to make it simpler to streamline ...
Continuous Testing: The Key to Quality Assurance in the DevOps Era
Continuous testing has emerged as a critical aspect of quality assurance in the DevOps era. In recent years, there has been a rapid transformation in software development methodologies. With the advent of ...
Decidability: SLOs to Measure Quality Attributes
Pawel Rusakiewicz | | application quality, devops, Quality Assurance, Service Level Objectives, SLOsYou may be familiar with the “-ilities”–the quality attributes that define a system's so-called “non-functional” parts. One that isn’t on the list is decidability, which is the ultimate quality attribute because it ...
Software Quality is the Heartbeat of the Best Organizations
James Walker | | CI/CD, collaboration, development, engineering, industry 3/4.0, modelling, quality, Quality Assurance, shift left, testingJPMorgan recently announced it was hiring 2,000 engineers, despite the gloom in global economic markets. Is this not an odd risk for an organization to take, given the demand for (and cost ...
So Many Options, So Little Time
So many language/framework options, so little testing time, that is. Recently, two projects I was working on drove me to check out a breadth of languages and/or frameworks to handle cross-platform development ...
Swinging the Pendulum of IT Back to QA
I was reading Nuria Manuel's excellent article about quality assurance (QA), and it got me thinking about the wide variety of 'pendulums' that impact IT. I call them pendulums because they follow ...
Why IT Should Focus on Quality Over Velocity
Quality assurance (QA) isn’t a new phrase for developers. Most know it as a staple part of the software process that is crucial for producing quality code. But throughout the pandemic, with ...
Continuous Testing Practices (Part 1)
In my prior blog, Continuous Testing – The Quest for Quality at Speed, I described five tenets and some of the practices for continuous testing (CT) to help those understand what continuous ...
Synopsys Advances DevSecOps via IDE Plugin
Synopsys has extended the static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA) of the Code Sight plugin it makes available for integrated development environments (IDEs). The latest iteration of Code ...
The Bug in Production: What You Don’t Know Can – and Will – Harm You
Frank Huerta | | CI/CD pipeline, devops, QA testing, Quality Assurance, rollbacks, rollouts, software bugsDespite the risk of unplanned downtime, many organizations that develop software and services push them live without adequately testing for bugs that will manifest against production traffic. This is a huge gamble: ...
