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Bringing the Value of Your Test Automation Efforts Front and Center Once you’ve adopted test automation, you should determine whether it’s actually yielding the expected benefits—and you’ll want to keep these benefits visible to stakeholders to reinforce the value. A metrics dashboard aligned with the organization goals and business objectives shows you're on the right track. |
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Work Hard, Play Hard: How Fun Provides Balance There’s a role for playfulness in our jobs to serve as a counterbalance to the difficult, serious work we do. A lighthearted attitude can reduce the intensity of the demands and pressures. This doesn't mean formal, scheduled timeouts in the workday; instead, adopt some of these fun ideas for your team. |
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The Problem with Job Titles Job titles are useful for giving a quick idea of a person’s skills and responsibilities. But nowadays in the tech world, a job title alone does not say as much as it used to. Some titles are ambiguous, and some can even encourage a kind of false hierarchy based on how fancy they are. Is there a better way? |
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Removing the Performance Testing Bottleneck When you start down the road to continuous testing, even if you increase speed, performance tests can still hold up production deployments. By using application monitoring, service virtualization, and open source performance testing tools, performance testing is accounted for in every cycle of development. |
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Office Dress Codes: Appropriate, Casual, and Otherwise Opinions vary about what qualifies as appropriate office attire, though the preponderance of opinion is toward the informal and casual, at least for technical professionals. But it can be difficult to determine what's acceptable, depending on the office—and for the always ambiguous "casual Fridays." |
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3 Major DevOps Roadblocks You Need to Consider Just because DevOps has proven to be successful in establishing better communication between development and operations teams, it doesn’t mean it’s easy. In fact, there are quite a few obstacles that teams of varying sizes will face when undergoing a DevOps transformation that are impossible to ignore. |
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Fail Fast: Embrace Failure to Encourage Success Fear of failure can hold you back from learning and creating new things. Conversely, creating an environment where it’s safe to fail shows that progress toward mastery is just as important as achieving mastery. A leader who encourages failing fast will have a team where everyone is performing at their best. |
