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CA Technologies Finds Success Promoting Continuous Delivery as STARWEST Premier Sponsor For CA Technologies, the premier sponsor at this year’s STARWEST, the goal of the show was to promote continuous delivery and drive continuous testing. But the testing information, discussions of industry trends, and personal connections gathered were what made CA’s presence invaluable. |
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Can Adopting DevOps Practices Be Risky? You’ll often hear people worry that frequent deployment forces a dip in overall quality, but now that people are learning how to better leverage DevOps and are adjusting to the current speed of development, you don’t have to sacrifice quality just so that you can have quicker releases. |
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Artificial Intelligence Needs Best Practices Many predict artificial intelligence will someday cure cancer, clean up our environment, drastically improve our cities, and send us to Mars. However, with the potential benefits come risk and concern about what exactly are artificial intelligence best practices and a need for guidelines. |
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Maintaining Our Objective Voice in Testing As we embrace an agile culture, we adopt the core value of whole team accountability. But while collaboration is important, testers must continue to ask challenging questions, think deeply about the “what-ifs,” consider and advocate for alternative views, challenge assumptions, and look for ambiguities. |
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The Problem with Expectations for Agile Teams Too many people sell agile as a way to get better, faster, cheaper. But the problem with setting these high expectations for agile teams is that we too often neglect the roles of and expectations for agile managers. Managers are responsible for creating the environment in which people can deliver great work. |
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Reasons to Consider Software Tests as Products Software tests have to meet quality and robustness criteria that are similar to the application under test, but tests seldom get the attention and investments that the applications get. Hans Buwalda outlines why you should consider tests as products. |
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What Working at Netflix Is Like The Netflix team has to be dynamic in order to move as quickly as the demand of its audience. Because of that, the company only hires senior engineers, avoids actually sticking to process whenever possible, encourages a great deal of employee freedom, and even pushes budgets to the side. |