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Implementing DevOps in Large, Complex Organizations: An Interview with Mike Baukes[interview]
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Mike Baukes talks about his definition of DevOps and why it's hard for organizations to get it right, common failues organizations experience when implementing DevOps, and the importance of visibility across the organization, and he even covers some of the great tools available today. |
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Is Software Configuration Management Technology Regressing?[magazine] There are ever-growing ways to organize your project assets with public domain configuration management tools. There's a mistaken belief that these free software configuration management (SCM) alternatives can be just as powerful as leading commercial tools. |
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The Organization Must Change Before Going Agile: An Interview with John Holmes and David Nielson[interview]
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In this interview John Holmes and David Nielson talk about their upcoming presentation, what it takes for your organization to really go agile (and to stick with it), the role of technology in organizational changes, and the importance of marrying your agile and Scrum with change management. |
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Need to Learn More about the Work You’re Doing? Spike It![article] How do you estimate work you've never done before? One proven method is to spike it: Timebox a little work, do some research—just enough to know how long it will take to finish the rest of the work—and then you can estimate the rest of the work. You don’t waste time, you can explore different avenues of how best to complete the task, and your team learns together. |
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Management Myth 29: I Can Concentrate on the Run[article] Busy managers get used to making decisions on the fly. But, some decisions require more thought and consideration than others. Johanna offers some tips for knowing when you need to slow down, take a seat, and give a problem your undivided attention. |
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We Value Your Feedback - Editor's Note[magazine] Better Software magazine editor Ken Whitaker introduces the May/June 2014 issue, highlighting the feature articles and detailing how readers can provide their feedback. |
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Avoiding the Prioritization Trap[magazine] With incoming priorities being requested by just about everybody, how in the world can you and your team prioritize? Brandon shows you some innovative techniques that you can use to turn chaos into order. One surprising approach is simply handling priorities on a first-in, first-out basis. |
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Build the Right Regression Suite with Behavior-Driven Testing[presentation]
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Manual functional testing is a slow, tedious, and error prone process. As we continue to incrementally build software, the corresponding regression test suite continues to grow. Rarely... |
Anand Bagmar, ThoughtWorks
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The Three Pillars Approach to Your Agile Test Strategy[presentation]
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Far too often, agile transformations focus just on development teams, agile frameworks, or technical practices as adoption strategies unfold. Often the testing activity and the testing... |
Bob Galen, Velocity Partners
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Video: The Art of Testing Transformation: Blending Technology with Cutting-Edge Processes[presentation]
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Technologies, testing processes, and the role of the tester have evolved significantly over the past several years. As testing professionals, it is critical that we evaluate and evolve... |
Jennifer Bonine, tap|QA, Inc.
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Designing for Testability: Differentiator in a Competitive Market[presentation]
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In today’s cost conscious marketplace, solution providers gain advantage over competitors when they deliver measurable benefits to customers and partners. Systems of even... |
David Campbell, MITRE Corporation
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STAREAST 2014: Using DevOps to Improve Software Quality in the Cloud[presentation]
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DevOps is gaining popularity as a way to quickly and successfully deploy new software. With all the emphasis on deployment, software quality can sometimes be overlooked. In order to... |
Glenn Buckholz, Coveros
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STAREAST 2014: Leveraging Open Source Automation: A Selenium WebDriver Example[presentation]
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As online activities create more revenue than ever, organizations are turning to Selenium both to test their web applications and to reduce costs. Since Selenium is open source, there... |
David Dang, Zenergy Technologies
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STAREAST 2014: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes[presentation]
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Throughout the years, Lightning Talks have been a popular part of the STAR conferences. If you’re not familiar with the concept, Lightning Talks consists of a series of five-minute... |
Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
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Leaping over the Boundaries of Boundary Value Analysis[presentation]
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Many books, articles, classes, and conference presentations tout equivalence class partitioning and boundary value analysis as core testing techniques. Yet many discussions of these... |
Michael Bolton, DevelopSense
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