Outsourcing Software Projects, Project Management Process, Testing and QA Fundamentals, Software Project Teams, Project Tracking, Software Quality Management
Extreme Programming (XP), Traditional Models (RUP, V-Model, CMMI, Waterfall), Agile, Software Development Fundamentals, Scrum, TDD and MDD
Software Requirements Use Cases, Software Requirements Techniques, Software Requirements Tools, Building security into the SDLC
Security Testing, Software Security Testing Tools, Internet Security, Penetration Testing
Automated Software Testing, Software Testing Methodologies, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Mobile Testing, Software Test Design, Cloud Application Testing, Testing Tools and Frameworks, Exploratory Testing, Cloud Computing Testing and Development, Software Performance Testing, Functional Software Testing
Performance Management, Software Requirements Management, Deployment Management, Software Maintenance Process, Version Control, Configuration and Change Management, Business and ROI Analysis, ALM Tools, SLA Management, ALM Fundamentals
A build tool is a programming utility that is used when building a new version of a program. For example, make is a popular open source build tool that uses makefile, another build tool, to ensure that source files that have been updated (and files that are dependent on them) will be compiled into a new version (build) of a program.
A recent study conducted by CAST used their Application Intelligence Platform to evaluate the structural quality of 365 million lines of code. In this interview with CAST’s chief scientist Dr. Bill Curtis, he discusses the study and what IT decision makers can do about technical debt.
In this first of a two-part series about code coverage, software consultant Mike Kelly explains code coverage and gives a specific example of how code coverage was calculated on a small program using the tool rcov for Ruby.
In this interview, consultant Lanette Creamer answers questions about how testers or others involved in software development can benefit from learning the language of programmers, even if they are not programmers themselves.
Implementing strong enterprise architecture and SOA helps support both business and software technology growth.
As both service-oriented and cloud-based architecture take the fore, IT shops increasingly value top-notch integration design. Stories show application integration is changing today.
Service-oriented architecture is a way of including roles (customers, suppliers, engineers, etc.) and viewing everything as a service. Generally, we recognize services that are provided by people, machines and both. SOA is the most important development in the last ten years and is 1) Business-oriented - "describe what not how" and 2) Message-oriented - "just ask and the service is given."
One of the problems with casting is that it does have the potential to cause a loss of precision, especially if the number that gets cast does indeed fall outside of the range of the target type. Here we will explain why this happens.
When naming your variables, put a little bit of thought into it and name them well. Well thought out variable names make Java programs both easier to read and easier to maintain. Good names can even make Java programming fun.
Everyone always talks about these new computer programming languages, and how great one is over the other. But really, has computer programming really changed that much over time?
This is the second part in a two part series on unit testing in Visual Studio 2010.
Visual Studio 2010 contains a unit testing framework, and I’ll show you how to use it to automate your own unit tests.
Get an overview of the testing tools available in Visual Studio. You will learn which testing features are in which Visual Studio edition.
Oracle has spent $3.4 billion on Taleo and RightNow in the past few months, showing that it is serious about hosting applications in the cloud for its customers.
One reader asks how to set up a report in Oracle SQL so that Monday is the first day of the week.
Oracle Advanced Analytics is the company’s newest announcement around data analytics, a market that Oracle seeks to blanket with products.
Seamless cloud application management isn’t a pipe dream. By following a few steps, cloud admins can monitor cloud app performance from one interface.
Cloud infrastructure providers attracted the attention of acquisitive suitors last year. Profitable cloud vendors this year will catch the eye of telecoms.
IBM SmartCloud services give enterprises some options to build private and hybrid clouds and may give IBM a chance to improve its lagging cloud image.
The Paradies Shops’ search for BI tools to access data quickly and break away from Excel spreadsheets started with data discovery vendors but didn’t end with them.
New research reveals businesses’ relative lack of “big data” maturity and the hurdles in both technology and analytics techniques they need to overcome.
Interest in mobile BI is growing, but democratizing data also presents hurdles for building a business case, according to new research from TDWI.