We have all heard that to be successful businesses need to drive down costs, reduce software project risk and increase the speed at which software is delivered to the market. Right now you are probably thinking...  "Great, tell me something I don't know!" The reality is that many companies are trying to continuously integrate,  test and release their software but few are effective in doing so. Those who have figured out the "secret" are winning - beating their competition, increasing their market share, and... [More]

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Have you ever wondered how and why certain individuals get promoted as featured speakers at conferences and events?  Is this the type of attention you would like for yourself? If you haven’t already figured it out, it is because they work very hard at promoting themselves. Their reward; credibility in the industry. They probably have a large number of social followers or their blogs are regularly read by thousands of people - people like you and me. Our reward in listening to them; we might just learn something new and innovative.... [More]

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  Couple of months back, IBM took recognizing technical thought leadership by announcing IBM Champion program . An IBM Champion is an IT professional, business leader, developer, or educator who influences and mentors others to help them make best use of IBM software, solutions, and services. The interesting part is IBM Champions are not IBMers! IBM Champions have gone above and beyond to share their knowledge for the benefit of a wider community through their participation in communities, articles, whitepapers and speaking assignments.   Out... [More]

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Looking for ways to save time, reduce effort and cut costs while improving quality is something all development organizations should be concerned  with as project teams deliver software releases at an accelerated pace to meet the growing demands of the business. While reducing cost to the project and cutting risk for the business are key measurements in quantifying business results, customer satisfaction and a successful end user experience significantly contributes to a business gaining market share and competitive advantage. Bottom line -... [More]

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As our need to deliver software faster and meet market demands has increased, something usually has to be cut.    The old adage says that you can only deliver against 2 of the 3 mandates (cost, time frame, quality), so choose which one won’t happen. However, that is no longer an acceptable answer.   As an increasing number of organizations are going “agile”, quality concerns are being raised yet again.   But being “agile” does not have to mean sacrificing quality.   As a matter of fact, with agility can come  increased quality as more... [More]

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Within the context of a complex middleware development project, attempting to work on “next release” deliverables prior to  gaining formal acceptance of the current release and reaching a “baselined” status can be a frustrating (and risky) exercise.    By their very nature, large development environments tend to be a little thin on the ground due to their associated licensing, hardware and maintenance costs -often projects will run only one “DEV” environment.  As a customer goes through... [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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As the need to rapidly develop and deploy quality systems and software grows, the world of testing and approaches used to validate the quality of these deployments is changing. Development and testing roles are continuing to blur and there is more and more focus on automation to increase team productivity and efficiency. Teams, now more then ever, are looking to adopt reliable optimized, collaborative and integrated solutions allowing them to focus on executing their activities while relying on the chosen solution to automatically capture or... [More]

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I’m putting the finishing touches on my presentation for Innovate 2013 called " What’s the Real Deal with Testing? "  My session will be Wednesday, June 5 th at 11:15 am. We’re going to have 90 minutes to talk about the real problems facing testers. Like what is this “continuous testing” thing? How much time do you spend setting up test environments and what’s the hardest part? Are you doing unattended testing? Do you want to?   Join me for these topics and much, much more! If you... [More]

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