In February 2016 IBM made available "RPT on Cloud" which uses SoftLayer public cloud to generate a load, from any of the dozens of SoftLayer Data Centers all over the world. There is a trial period, and it's pay-as-you-go (PAYGO), which means if you don't test in a given month, you don't pay anything at all. IBM now has created a new capability - I call it "RPT on Private Cloud" but it does not have an official name yet. With this new capability, you can use VMWare inside your own corporate network to generate... [More]

The term Shift Left refers to a practice in software development where teams focus on quality, work on prevention instead of detection, and begin testing earlier than ever before . The goal is to increase quality, shorten long test cycles, and reduce the possibility of unpleasant surprises at the end of the development cycle—or still worse, in production. In many organizations, automated testing of today’s composite applications is being executed via the user interface, once the complete application has been developed and deployed.... [More]

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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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Yesterday I was tuned into a popular music station for youngsters in the Netherlands. On that radio show they called the Vice-President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes. She is a well-known, highly rated, person in the Dutch politics and already for years she is a high profile European Commission member covering the Digital Agenda which includes ICT. As US regulations touch us here in Europe, you must have noticed that Windows provides you with a selection of browsers. A very visible result of her work, Kroes demanded that Microsoft... [More]

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You stay in this business long enough and you get to a point where everything old is new again. Seriously, it’s like the fashion industry. I always chuckle remembering my daughter’s shock that I, um, had also worn bell bottoms. And this is exactly what I think about when I hear all the chatter about the fragmentation of testing for mobile applications. There are a billion device combinations.  Yup.  Hasn’t there always been? About 10 years ago, to help choose how to test and to make a point, I did a spreadsheet with... [More]

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I had an awesome time last Saturday at CITCON in Boston. Not only were the views amazing but the conversations were thought provoking.  The conference follows open-space technology which means that all the topics are meaningful to the participants (we get to vote!) and there is lots of interaction in every session.   I continue to be thinking about the issues related to test data in the continuous delivery pipeline that was a CITCON topic. It’s typical to create test automation expecting certain sets of data to be available.... [More]

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I have always loved that subtitle on Dr. Strangelove – “ How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”  I have recently been thinking that better, faster, cheaper with continuous delivery and continuous testing means we really have to stop worrying about every defect. Which led me to Dr. Strangelove .  It’s equally mind bending in some ways … so many years of looking under every rock for those defects. The worst possible thing was an “escape” to production and its requisite... [More]

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The Agile Manifesto guiding principles says, “Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.”  (emphasis mine) So as teams have adopted agile development practices, we have rapidly hit the delivery wall. The current conventional wisdom says to reduce risk, deliver more frequently and to make sure you’re not changing very much. I mean really, how much can you screw up in a day (or even a week)? So, if you can’t really screw much up AND even if you do, you... [More]

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You may be hearing a lot about service virtualization lately and how it can help development organization overcome their testing challenges. Others may be wondering what the heck I am talking about when I when I use a phrase like service virtualization. In fact, during the recent IBM webcast Practical Tips to Successfully Test Complex Applications from the authors of "Service Virtualization For Dummies" , 65% of the attendees had no knowledge of service virtualization and another 18% had just begun the learning process by reading... [More]

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