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Testing in Agile and DevOps: Where Are We Going? When looking at what the software market is currently talking about, the top item is DevOps and Continuous Integration/Deployment, which seems to be taking over some of the spotlight from agile and is now a widely accepted new normal. Hans Buwalda looks at where the future of software testing is going. |
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3 Key Contributors to Software Development’s Demand for Speed Why does software development demand so much speed? We throw around terms like “agile” or “DevOps” and consider that a good enough answer for the demand for speed, but there are three major factors outlined by Mark Levy, the director of strategy at Micro Focus, that call for greater development speed. |
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How Your Software Team Can Successfully Adopt a Shift-Left Approach "Shift left" is the latest philosophy teams are adopting to account for the fact that releases are happening on a daily basis, rather than a weekly or monthly basis. If you're working on mobile applications and don’t adhere to a shift-left mindset, your team will be left behind. |
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Where Do You Start When It Comes to DevOps? DevOps can be a loaded term. Sometimes, you’re just referring to the agile relationship between development and operations. Other people, when discussing it at a conference or in meetings, point toward more frequent releases, to the rate of hundreds of times per day or even per hour. |
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The Changing Role of Testing in DevOps Testing is just as important as ever, but with DevOps, who does the testing and how it is done are changing. Testing has become the responsibility of everyone along the software development lifecycle, and automation is key to success. Learn how testers should elevate their skills and shift their QA mindsets. |
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Can’t We Tear Down More Than One Wall at a Time? Specializations tend to put people in silos, which inhibits communication and collaboration. The agile movement seeks to break down the dividing walls between customers and developers, and now DevOps is dismantling the wall between development and operations. But can't we break down multiple walls at once? |
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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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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. |
