Software has become the invisible thread which drives an increasingly larger percentage of innovation in manufactured products and business systems. Meaning both product manufacturers and companies whose business relies on IT are becoming more and more dependent on software to help achieve their business objectives. These objectives could be externally focused toward getting to market first with innovative offerings, internally focused on process improvement and/or increased return on investment, or both!   However, the reality of our world... [More]

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Earlier this year, IBM hosted a webinar where we asked you, the customer, for feedback on Innovate. Well, the Quality Management and Testing Innovate team heard you loud and clear. For one, you said you wanted more sessions delivered by our customers and to hear the benefits they are realizing first hand. This year, we are offering more customer sessions than in years past. In fact two thirds of this year's agenda is being delivered by customers and our business partners. But we didn't stop there and believe we took this year's line... [More]

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Hopefully you have already read the first TheRationalTester blog posting sharing what is going on in the quality management and testing (QM&T) track across the entire week at Innovate 2013.  If you haven't, you can read about it here.  This time let's dive a little deeper into Day 1.    Kicking things off is a pre-game or tailgate session. For the football fans in the US, I am sure you are very aware of what tailgating is all about. We occasionally do something similar in... [More]

All my bags are packed and I am ready to go... Can you believe it? 8 days until Innovate 2012 starts on June 3rd! Seems that  Innovate 2011  was not long ago but then again  "That Was Yesterday" . If you want to learn more about integration testing and service virtualization it is  "Urgent"  that you attend Innovate 2012. But "Just Between You and Me" there are also quality management and testing sessions for those quality professionals with an interest in mobile application development, agile testing, and so much... [More]

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I thought the entry I posted in the Learning Circle might also be of interest to this community. You can find it at What's the most confusing thing about tests vs "virtual services"?

Just a short note to make all aware of some upcoming webcasts. The content to be presented during these events should really help teams address their continuous testing and continuous deployment challenges.   Shift Left to better business results: Speed delivery of higher quality software. October 15, 2014 - 1 pm ET Many of today's organizations struggle to deliver quality software at the speed their users demand. Successful organizations are moving to a DevOps approach and shifting testing to the left. But what does a shift left... [More]

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Are you thinking about what to do about mobile testing?  Everyone is talking about device fragmentation, but how do you manage to test and keep track of what’s different on each device type? We’re going to talk about ways to increase your reuse of manual or automated test scripts by leveraging a single multichannel approach to your automation on Tuesday, June 4 th at 1:45 PM in my Innovate 2013 called “Multichannel Testing - From Web to Mobile and Beyond.”  If you haven’t signed up for Innovate,... [More]

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Just wanted to let everyone know about some new and upcoming IBM sponsored webcasts to assist development teams in their pursuit of quality. At the StarWest 2012 conference in Anaheim, Peter Cole, Director for Quality Management, IBM Rational delivered a session on " Accelerating the Software Development Lifecycle Using Service Virtualization ".   During this session Peter shared how, service virtualization can produce dramatic results including reducing cycle times, improving quality, and cutting costs. When coupled with the cloud,... [More]

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I’m still thinking about what the right content should be for continuous testing. My previous blog was about thinking about what test content matters. But there’s also the consideration of how much content and considering avoiding waste of building too much automation.   I’ve had the experience several times of too much success (amazing, right?) in building automation.  In those days, it was actually great to have a robust test automation suite that took 12-18 hours to run. We actually measured our success at... [More]

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