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Achieving Success through Servant Leadership[magazine] Regardless of whether you are working with a stellar team or one that struggles, your style of management can influence the success of the project. Josh Dawson wants you to consider adopting servant leadership. |
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Bigger and Better Test Design through Automation: An Interview with Hans Buwalda[interview]
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In this interview, LogiGear's Hans Buwalda explains how better test design can lead to improved test automation and can make the difference between automation success and failure. He details why successful automated testing is a test design challenge, not a technical challenge. |
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Saying No to More Work[magazine] We’ve all been placed in the situation where a boss asks you to perform more work than you can possibly handle. Johanna Rothman knows firsthand that there is a better way to respond that benefits you and your manager. |
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Teach DevOps Software Development with a Game[article] The core idea of DevOps is the various roles working together to create a stable software system. People can hear that, or read about it, or even observe it, but often, the best way for a team new to DevOps to understand it is to just do it. When you're starting out, that can lead to failures on a real system, so a simulation is a good idea. Try playing a game to introduce your team to DevOps. |
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Testing Faster, Better, and Cheaper with Continuous Delivery: An Interview with Gene Gotimer[interview]
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In this interview, Gene Gotimer, the senior architect at Coveros, explains how you can test better, deploy features into production faster with continuous delivery, and arrange your tests so each round provides just enough testing to give you confidence. |
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Testing as a Development Catalyst: Accelerate Project Delivery[magazine] Putting technical people together and hoping for success isn’t enough, according to Justin Rohrman. The testing team’s involvement can never be an afterthought. |
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The Value of Making Your Data Sources Reusable across Test Automation Tools[article] Many automation tools have a mechanism for storing data used in their test scripts. Typically, the specifics of this mechanism is different across tools, making it difficult to use this data outside the tool itself. Using an external, reusable data source allows organizations to avoid the cost of migrating or duplicating existing data, thereby future-proofing their frameworks. |
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Alternate Testing Models: A Tale of Veggies and Precious Gems[magazine] As if working at Lego isn’t fun enough, Sherri Sobanski delights in finding new ways to test. Faced with a situation requiring a complete product redesign, she shares the route her team took to overhaul testing. |
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Helping Organizations Scale Agile across the Enterprise[magazine] Transitioning a software organization to agile isn’t easy. Kirk Botula believes that incorporating an enterprise-wide performance improvement model strengthens the application of agile throughout your company. |
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Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile Using DevOps: An Interview with Mark Levy[interview] In this interview, Mark Levy, the director of strategy at Micro Focus, explains why DevOps is so important when making the move from waterfall to agile. He details speed versus quality when it comes to agile, why agile transformations take so long, and first steps you should take. |
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Reducing the Risk of Failed System Updates[magazine] As software applications become more powerful and complex, users are demanding seamless and automatic updates. There is nothing worse than a “bricked system” after a failed update. The selection of a reliable file system is a vital component of the software update process. |
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Testing with a DevOps Approach: An Interview with Tom Stiehm[interview]
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In this interview, Tom Stiehm of Coveros explains how you can integrate test automation with DevOps to create a continuous testing environment. In this performance-driven environment, software development, testing, and operations must evolve to meet iteration and release delivery goals. |
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Shift Left but Get It First-Time Right: An Interview with Shankar Konda[interview] In this interview, Shankar Konda from TCS discusses the long-term viability of the shift-left movement, how to achieve the best returns when abiding by shift-left principles, and how DevOps and continuous integration fit in to the shift-left world. |
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Accelerate Testing and Development with Continuous Delivery: An Interview with Naga Jayadev[interview]
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In this interview, Naga Jayadev of CA Technologies digs into continuous delivery, continuous testing, DevOps, and virtualization. He explains what he does at CA Technologies, the trends when it comes to testing, and the value of velocity within your development lifecycle. |
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The Keys to a Successful Software Team: An Interview with Andy Kaufman[interview]
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In this interview, Andy Kaufman, the founder of the Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development, explains why team chemistry is often an afterthought, how enthusiasm can often trump skill, and how to deal with conflict. |
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