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Working with Your IT Talent to Support More Mobile Devices While supporting multiple devices certainly has its business advantages, it also means the need for knowledge of multiple operating systems, device-specific idiosyncrasies, and having to hire or train staff for the skills necessary to perform the required tasks. Eric Bloom addresses these concerns. |
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The Fallacy of Ten Thousand Hours to Achieve Mastery In his book Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell asserts that it takes about ten thousand hours of practice to achieve mastery in a field. But practice has its limits. Naomi Karten explores other reasons that contribute to becoming an expert—whether at your job or in your golf game. |
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Keeping Quality in DevOps In our drive for better quality and productivity, we are coming close to realizing full continuous application lifecycle management. Continuous testing is emerging as a best practice that focuses on developing testing procedures, primarily automated, to meet the need for fast application testing. |
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Ben Simo Presents The Power of an Individual Tester at STARWEST 2014 In this STARWEST 2014 keynote, Ben Simo shares his experience with HealthCare.gov, the issues he found, and lessons testers can learn from the website's failures. He digs into everything he had to do to discover the many flaws of the government website. |
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Quality Principles for Today’s Glueware In this STARWEST 2014 keynote, Julie Gardiner goes into how to make the business case for including test professionals in software evaluation in order to add their unique focus on software quality. She gives advice on how to talk to managers and produce better software. |
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Programming Languages and Code Reuse—The Long-Term Trends Is COBOL defunct? Are single language projects a thing of the past? Based on a study of more than 8,000 business projects, find out what trends and changes are occurring within programming languages and code reuse, and how those trends affect project sizes. |
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Apple Pay Gets off to a Rough Start Apple Pay made its debut October 20, and while plenty of iPhone users are having success paying for certain items with little effort and greater security, early glitches and issues have made this service difficult to recommend. |
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Why You Should Focus On What Automation Does Not Do Often, what automation “does” directly relates to the bottom line. This has loosely been interpreted as the misconception that the more automation you have, the fewer people you will need on your payroll. Melissa Tondi focuses on what automation does not do to give a more accurate idea. |
