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Testing Big Data in the Retail Marketplace The concept of data as a tool for retailers is not a new one. But the volume of that data is greater than ever. Testing big data is essential because the collected information only becomes an asset when it is analyzed and processed in a way that makes it useful to retailers, which in turn engages consumers. |
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The Future of Cloud Connectivity in an IoT World When new technologies are embraced and popularized, they usually fail sooner rather than later. The IoT, new architectures, and cloud systems are developing into perfect storms that will take time to develop and move on to maturity, finally providing calm, consistent conditions. How should you plan to fail? |
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Validate Your Core Business Assumptions Early On Verifying whether a product is being built per specifications is only solving half of the problem. Validation is a very significant activity performed by testers to ensure that the final product is ready for consumption by users and answers an important question. Are we building the right product? |
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Look to Corporate Standards to Guide Your Organization In large organizations with distributed teams, departments can have their own procedures, acting as if they are in completely isolated silos. One approach to solving this issue is establishing corporate standards. Tap the models of widely used standards to create practical guidance for your own organization. |
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Adapt or Fail: Why Mobile Development and Testing Need to Be Agile When it comes to effective and efficient mobile app development and testing, transitioning to agile has almost become a requirement. Agile allows you to make amendments at any stage of the process, both welcoming change and using it as an advantage. |
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From Waterfall to Agile: Keys to Making the Transition A number of teams are making the agile transition, and while plenty of agile coaches give strong advice for how to go from zero to agile in a measured, streamlined manner, it’s also important to focus on how to transition from an existing waterfall mentality to an agile one. |
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How Do We Sell the “Test Early” Principle? Many companies are striving to test earlier. But goals and principles are always easier to articulate than they are to implement. Often, this is less of a technical issue and much more an organizational, change management challenge. Michael Sowers talks about the steps to take to make things happen. |
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Calculating the Cost of Failure What is the cost to your business of an outage due to a major bug? Usually it's calculated as mean time between failures multiplied by mean time to recovery. But what if you could deploy to a limited number of users and monitor effects? Then the equation includes a third variable: number of users impacted. |
