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How DevOps Is Making Testers Evolve As the streamlined DevOps movement catches on, more and more companies are abandoning “traditional testers” and getting software developers to test. Testers are not becoming obsolete—but it means testers have to evolve and start ensuring that quality is baked in. Adam Auerbach details how they need to change. |
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Why Your Agile Team Needs to Slow Down in Order to Speed Up If you find yourself rushing through development or accelerating your testing process to a speed that’s not conducive to the nature of your software or project, it might be time to take a step back, examine your methods, and find a new solution. |
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How the Right Tools Can Help You Overcome Common Agile Pain Points Agile is a major undertaking for any business as it requires significant changes, and there are a number of issues that teams can experience along the way. Sanjay Zalavadia looks at some common agile pain points and how the right tools can help organizations overcome these issues. |
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What Do You Believe? Many people in the agile community believe their way of doing agile is the only right way. This is supported by confirmation bias, which lets us only see facts that support our beliefs. We deserve data-based approaches to determine what leads to the best outcomes. Can you look beyond your personal beliefs? |
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Keynotes Recap from the Agile, Better Software & DevOps Conferences Last week was the Agile Development, Better Software & DevOps Conferences East in Orlando, Florida: a jam-packed week with more than a hundred learning and networking opportunities. Here, we recap three of the keynote presentations, about scaling agile, experimental development, and continuous everything. |
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DevOps or NoOps: Can You Have Too Much Automation? Some DevOps thought leaders have been promoting “NoOps,” which is the notion that IT resources can be provisioned in a fully automated way that does not require operations engineers to manage. There have been notable successes with this approach, but also some challenges. Can you have too much automation? |
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Testing Isn't Dead, but Agile Has Changed It for Good The adoption of agile—which has taken place within both small teams and massive organizations—has changed the tester’s role. However, that doesn’t mean it’s time for testers to pack up their things and sulk out the door. The “testing is dead” narrative doesn’t tell the whole story. |