More and more organizations are incorporating Quality Engineering into the SDLC. The organizations that are able to embrace this approach are able to significantly improve the quality of the applications that are...
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Ron WilsonSoftware Testing Evolution
Software testing has evolved and performed a more critical role in the software development lifecycle. As you can see from the picture, software testing has grown increasingly more important since 1990. When...
IT Reorganization: 5 Keys for Survival
If you are in IT, chances are you have been a part of an IT reorganization. As business changes, IT must realign to meet those changing needs. I have been part of companies that reorganize every 18...
Great Vendor Relationship = Priceless
Great vendor relationships are priceless. I recently was provided a priceless gift by one of my strategic vendors. Gary Smith, EVP of Sales for Cigniti provided me with an old school red phone...
DevOps: The Top 6 Industry Myths
DevOps is transforming the way IT is done. As with any movement there is a vast amount of uncertainty and that drives the creation of myths regarding DevOps. Here are a few: 1-DevOps replaces Agile...
Why Do DevOps?
Many people are asking. Why are all these companies embracing DevOps? The reason is simple. Business is demanding faster turnaround on software development projects. Waterfall methods are...
What is DevOps?
The DevOps term originally came from Patrick Debois and Andrew Shafer in 2008. There was a presentation at a conference with “10 deploys per day” and it was given by John Allspaw and Paul Hammond...
5 Agile Test Automation Best Practices
Here are 5 automation best practices you must consider when your team is building automation scripts in an Agile SDLC. 1. Planning It is extremely important to plan out what scripts you are going to automate and...
DevOps: Jenkins and UFT Integration
If you are thinking about creating smoke tests and incorporating those into your DevOps process that is a great idea. We have recently tied Jenkins to UFT and are now able to run smoke tests through the Jenkins HP...
7 Reasons Why QA Organizations Fail
I am currently establishing a QA organization and was thinking through some reasons why some organizations are highly successful and other organizations fail. There are many more but here are some that come to...