Companies, today, are finding that costs can be significantly reduced by
moving test environments to the cloud and implementing automated testing and
infrastructure. The temporary nature of test environments creates
opportunities to reduce the time it takes to cycle through individual tests.
If hours can be shaved down to minutes in the process of setting up an
environment, running a test and tearing down the environment, then budgets
for test environments can be cut considerably.
The impact of cloud adoption on test environments is a valuable advancement
in both cost savings and agility. The on-demand model takes advantage of
public cloud APIs requiring only payment for the time needed to run automated
tests. In this framework, success depends on two things: automated
infrastructure and automated acceptance tests. If these two goals can be
achieved, the cost savi... (more)
How often is an environment unavailable due to factors within your project's
control? How often is an environment unavailable due to external factors? Is
the software and hardware in the environment up to date with the target
production systems? How often do you have to resort to manual workarounds due
to an environment?
These are all questions that you should ask yourself if testing environments
are consistently unavailable and affected by outages. Here are three key
metrics that you can track that can help avoid costly downtime.
Metric: Availability and Uptime Percentage
QA and... (more)
In today's digitized world, a software glitch can create chaos. For example,
in July 2017, a glitch caused the stock prices of blue-chip Nasdaq companies
such as Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, eBay and Microsoft to be misreported on
websites long after that day's closing bell.
Even though the real-world prices of the stocks were unchanged, the sites
showed some had taken a nosedive in price and others had nearly doubled.
Unsurprisingly, investors were rattled and took to social media to debate the
false listings, dragging company names into a cloud of suspicion over
something that ha... (more)
The Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodology is defined by a series
of software development stages. The individual stages will include,
requirements analysis, design of the software, implementation or development
of the software, testing of the software and continuous evolution of the
software.
Testing is a critical stage of the SDLC and can determine the quality of
software being released into live environments. Therefore, it is important to
ensure that test environments are reliable and closely aligned to production.
Here is a list of possible trouble spots environment... (more)
How to Boost Enterprise Software Testing Predictability
Software development cycles are increasingly difficult to predict, and the
uncertainty can make teams feel as if they have lost control over the
consistency of software testing. But this doesn't have to be the case. In
this article, I will detail here a number of ways to improve the
predictability of software testing across multiple teams and projects that
will lead to improved performance and greater success.
Consistency
It's not easy to achieve predictability in software testing for even a single
team, but doing so across... (more)
Dalibor Siroky, CEO and Co-Founder, Plutora:
Dalibor has close to 15 years of leadership, consulting, enterprise product, and operations experience in Australia, Asia, and Europe. Before co-founding Plutora, Dalibor was the founder and managing director of Finotaur, a leading provider of independent management consulting services to Wealth Management, Investment Management, Private Banking, and Payment institutions within the Asia Pacific region. Earlier in his career, Dalibor served as the CIO of financial advisory software at Macquarie Bank, head of solution architecture at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Dalibor holds an MS in Software Engineering with distinction from the University of Oxford and an MBA with honors from the University of Chicago. Dalibor is also a graduate of the Royal Military College of Australia and served as a Captain in the Army.
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