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Redistributed Testing: A Shift to Refine Requirements In short, redistributed testing is a shift in the emphasis and responsibility for testing. Testers are reassigned to work closer to the business with users or business analysts or are embedded in the development team.By being involved in story and scenario writing, the testers help to refine requirements and improve their quality. How could your systems benefit from redistributed testing?
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Consider Deployment Automation to Add Business Value Faster “Business value sooner” is a simple phrase, but it has been pondered by the best IT project managers. Deployment automation provides business value sooner, which makes for a better return on investment. It not only gets features to market sooner but also gets defects resolved faster.
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Securing the Trusted Application Base Corporations, government agencies, and other institutions need to embrace industry best practices that have been proven to help develop and implement reliable systems. One of the most important considerations is the need for a secure, trusted application base. This article will help you get started delivering systems that can be verified and supported while continuously being updated as needed.
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Continuous Testing and Deployment: Two Key Ingredients in Accelerating Software Delivery Continuous testing along with continuous deployment enables the rapid delivery of higher quality applications due to additional testing activities. Together, integrating these practices can help organizations achieve a DevOps approach to software delivery, seize market opportunities, and reduce time to customer feedback.
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How to Build Reliable Systems Bob Aiello describes some of the essential techniques necessary to ensure that systems can be upgraded and supported while enabling the business through frequent and continuous delivery of new system features.
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The Importance of Software Safety Software impacts our world in many important ways. Almost everything that we touch, from the beginning to the end of our day, relies upon software. Bob Aiello explains the importance of software safety for configuration managers. Remember, software safety requires that systems be built and configured in a secure and reliable way.
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Eight Mistakes that Prevent DevOps Success DevOps is more than just a buzzword; it’s about delivering value to customers faster and more reliably. Jonathan Thorpe explains eight mistakes that can dramatically increase cycle time and slow the flow of releases to customers, which is counter to the goals of DevOps.
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Guidelines for Building a Monolithic Release Management System The release management system is an important component of the service-transition process. This article highlights the importance of building a monolithic release management system, which encompasses all of the functions and processes necessary to support application build, package, and deployment. The monolithic release management is holistic, comprehensive, and based upon industry best practices. These guidelines are applicable for any type of organization or projects of any size.
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Designing Products for Users in Context When designing software, you must look beyond simply knowing the goals of your users. It's far more useful to understand the context in which the product will be used.
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Cloud Wars Heat Up With Rackspace Fully Integrating OpenStack With Rackspace announcing that its hosting services are now operating on OpenStack, the IT hosting company seems poised to compete with the big boys of the cloud.
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