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Software Quality Insights
Commentary for IT professionals involved in the software development life cycle.
Recent Posts
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Salesforce seeks DevOps street cred with CD Foundation
- News Writer 24 Jul 2019 -
GitHub Sponsors pledge to OSS developers sparks debate
- News Writer 24 May 2019 -
Low-code platforms are more useful than you think
- News Writer 04 Oct 2018
Salesforce recently joined the Linux Foundation's Continuous Delivery Foundation to help grow the CI/CD ecosystem. This move seems to have gone unnoticed by many, but two things stood out to me ...
GitHub has created a way to empower and financially compensate open source developers, and it could reshape the open source software development model – for better or worse. The version control ...
Although low-code software development platforms are a hot area of software development, many pro developers and enterprise development shops eschew these tools. John Rymer, an analyst at Forrester ...
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Why QA, CI falter without automated release management
- Features Writer 21 Jun 2018 -
5 reasons the Microsoft, GitHub acquisition makes sense
- News Writer 05 Jun 2018 -
Missing out on software conferences? Here are four worthy alternatives
- Assistant Site Editor 31 May 2018 -
Does Microsoft's message to DevOps pros oversimplify?
- News Writer 25 May 2018 -
Why a former veteran is now offering pro Scrum Master training
- Senior News & Feature Writer 28 Nov 2017 -
Is your software automation testing framework working?
- Senior News & Feature Writer 25 Oct 2017 -
10 tech terms the business side needs to know
- Senior News & Feature Writer 14 Sep 2017
Automating software release management can help speed deployments and improve continuous integration processes and application quality.
Microsoft has acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion, but some devs see risk in the Microsoft/GitHub deal. This post looks at why the deal makes sense.
When you skip a conference, you miss the chance to hear talks from thought leaders, learn new practices, network and even discover upcoming technological advents. Here are four comparable ways to ...
The introduction of DevOps into an enterprise is hard enough. A catchy slogan often used by a Microsoft DevOps expert to encourage adoption gets mixed reviews, as a lighthearted embrace or an ...
Greg Gomel is an Agile consultant and a veteran of the Coast Guard Reserve. So when he and fellow Agile consultant Ravi Verma were brainstorming earlier this year about what they could do to help ...
When it comes to software testing automation, it seems we all still have a long way to go. A look at a new survey from Logigear looks at the state of your software automation testing framework, and ...
Scott McCarty, head of technical product marketing for containers at Red Hat, thinks we all just need to get along, and for that to happen we need to understand each other better. With that in mind ...
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Is Agile stuck? Looking for answers at Agile2017
- Senior News & Feature Writer 04 Aug 2017 -
Is the future of Agile actually BizDevOps?
- Senior News & Feature Writer 12 Jul 2017 -
We're not as automated as we think we are
- Senior News & Feature Writer 30 Apr 2017 -
Software salaries -- it's still very good news
- Senior News & Feature Writer 10 Apr 2017 -
Red Hat's 8 rules of successful Open Source
- Senior News & Feature Writer 13 Feb 2017 -
The promise -- and pitfalls -- of low code/no code
- Senior News & Feature Writer 28 Dec 2016 -
Software dev and test in 2017 -- what's next?
- Senior News & Feature Writer 21 Dec 2016 -
Gene Kim, DevOps zealot, on BizDevOps
- Senior News & Feature Writer 07 Dec 2016 -
Why we all need to take a deep breath
- Senior News & Feature Writer 30 Nov 2016 -
Why containers aren't one size fits all
- Senior News & Feature Writer 28 Sep 2016 -
An inside look at an enterprise architect's world
- Senior News & Feature Writer 16 Sep 2016 -
Making metrics less elusive in DevOps
- Senior News & Feature Writer 30 Aug 2016 -
Looking for direction at Agile 2016
- Senior News & Feature Writer 28 Jul 2016 -
App too slow? Let's just blame Brexit
- Senior News & Feature Writer 28 Jun 2016 -
About DevOps and Bernie Sanders
- Senior News & Feature Writer 17 Jun 2016 -
A new site for IT operations pros
- Editorial Director 07 Jun 2016 -
The 21st Century Definition of "Well-Rounded"
- Senior News & Feature Writer 27 May 2016 -
When apps behave badly
- Senior News & Feature Writer 31 Mar 2016 -
Experiencing Uber from the inside out
- Senior News & Feature Writer 18 Mar 2016 -
LWT Summit delivers straight talk about diversity in tech
- Features Writer 07 Mar 2016 -
How does your job -- and your paycheck -- compare?
- Senior News & Feature Writer 03 Mar 2016 -
For RWE Supply, fast app performance fixes call for wide-angle view
- Features Writer 15 Feb 2016 -
The mob programming mindset
- Senior News & Feature Writer 31 Jan 2016 -
Testers, get ready...the IoT is about to make your life even harder
- Senior News & Feature Writer 18 Jan 2016 -
2016, design and the bottom line
- Senior News & Feature Writer 07 Jan 2016 -
2015 reasons to be looking forward to 2016
- Senior News & Feature Writer 17 Dec 2015 -
Time to share an Hour of Code
- Senior News & Feature Writer 07 Dec 2015 -
The evolution of the software developer
- Senior News & Feature Writer 20 Nov 2015 -
Testing what's appropriate
- Senior News & Feature Writer 28 Oct 2015 -
Today's software developer -- happy, self-reliant and maybe even female
- Senior News & Feature Writer 15 Sep 2015 -
This mob might be the answer
- Senior News & Feature Writer 02 Sep 2015 -
It's a small world, right?
- Senior News & Feature Writer 10 Aug 2015 -
Navigating your way through Agile2015
- Senior News & Feature Writer 30 Jul 2015 -
Automated dinosaurs? Check. Automated testing? It depends.
- Senior News & Feature Writer 23 Jul 2015 -
It's all fun and games until someone gets caught in a recursive loop.
09 Jul 2015 -
Containers, microservices, and DevOps, oh my… the big trends in enterprise open source
26 Jun 2015 -
Crashing an all-night hackathon
25 Jun 2015 -
Familiar landmarks on the roadmap from clipboards to tablets
03 Jun 2015 -
Cloud infrastructure enables DevOps at YPG
01 Apr 2015 -
Musings on the connection between Agile, Scrum and continuous delivery
11 Mar 2015 -
Cloud services director empowers development teams to work smarter
02 Mar 2015 -
Continuous development carries continuous improvement into 2015
12 Jan 2015 -
Applying Lean-Agile principles for successful enterprise agility
- Managing Editor 13 Aug 2012 -
Metrics for measuring quality
08 Mar 2012 -
Behavior driven development (BDD) with Liz Keogh
10 Aug 2011 -
Free performance test tool from SOASTA: CloudTest Lite
19 Jul 2011 -
James Bach on critical thinking: Huh? Really? So?
04 May 2011 -
A modern way of gathering requirements: Visualizations
08 Apr 2010 -
James Whittaker on exploratory testing and scenario-based exploration
29 Mar 2010 -
Real-world Agile: The advantage of Product Owner demos
03 Mar 2010 -
Methodology wars: Agile or waterfall?
12 Feb 2010 -
Excluding certain elements while recording JMeter tests
- DeveloperTown 07 Dec 2009 -
Software testing blog digest: Bug, team woes; memes; Ford Motors
31 Jul 2009 -
Two experts: Why not to skip some software testing phases
- DeveloperTown 10 Jul 2009 -
Why waterfall developers still shun Agile
- Features Writer 21 May 2009
It's hard not to ask the "Is Agile still relevant?" question today. And it's harder to still to hear some of the answers, ranging from straight up "No" to "too much focus on process" to "they're ...
It's easy to think every organization has DevOps on the corporate brain but in reality, interest in -- and commitment to -- Agile remains high, particularly in the enterprise space. Of course, that ...
Test automation is not as far along as we'd thought, Agile and DevOps aren't making software development easier and management is still everyone's biggest problem. Those are just some of the ...
Job site glassdoor.com just posted its top 25 highest paying jobs in America and 11 of those jobs were in high tech. And more than half of those, 7 actually, were software related. It's a really ...
Everyone wants to use and participate in an open source software environment but sadly not everyone knows how to do it right. This is the perspective of Matt Hicks, vice president of engineering ...
Amidst the many changes we saw in 2016, one stands out to me as I look forward to 2017 and that's the rise of low code/no code platforms. These tools are designed to let pretty much anyone -- even ...
It's certainly been a year. I feel as if 2016 started out as the year of Agile maturity, and ended as the year of DevOps. On the test side, 2015 ended with a debate over whether testers should ...
I was kind of afraid Gene Kim, the man behind the DevOps movement and a very in-demand speaker and consultant, would be offended when I asked him about the idea of BizDevOps, aka DevOps 2.0. But to ...
Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org, is the perfect person to talk with when you feel the sky is falling. We chatted a few weeks back, when it seemed that everything -- in technology and in the world -- ...
At a time when it seems containers and microservices are practically all everyone is talking about, it's easy to think they're a no-brainer solution to so many development problems. But it's not ...
Is the role of enterprise architect changing? It is, and it isn't. I know that's helpful. I recently spoke with Todd Loeppke, CTO Architect for Sungard Availability Services, a company that is ...
Andreas Grabner, a "performance enthusiast" who works at Dynatrace, understands that metrics are the holy grail of a DevOps team, but he also knows that the information can be hard to come by on ...
“To some extent Agile isn’t a solved problem.” “Agile needs to freaking grow up.” “We need to stop calling it Agile.” “We need to stop saying Agile makes it easy to go faster.” “Agile got us going, ...
App too slow? Blame Brexit
Yes, you read that title right. Too bad I can't take credit for the pairing. Way back when I worked for a daily newspaper, the most exciting times of all were of course the election cycles. The ...
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My recent story on the surprise skills gap -- writing, public speaking, communication and most decidedly NOT tech skills -- has me wondering what it means to be the ideal employee. The term ...
According to a new survey from NGINX, our apps are performing very badly indeed. And perhaps what's worse news is that a whole lot of companies really aren't doing anything about it. NGINX did an ...
Tom Hughes-Croucher stood before a standing-room-only crowd and explained how he and his team keep Uber running. Or, as he put it, “how we avoid screwing up the world’s largest Javascript project.” ...
There were plenty of wow moments as IT leaders revealed new software, space and robotics technologies at the 2016 Lesbians Who Tech (LWT) Summit. The biggest surprise, however, was a speaker’s ...
What matters most to you? A big paycheck? A job that is going to make the world better? Or an environment that’s not particularly stressful? Apparently you do have a choice. According to a brand ...
When legacy application performance monitoring tools took too long to identify root causes of slowdowns, RWE Supply & Trading's Marcel Lichter turned to a comprehensive APM suite.
Woody Zuill is careful to say he did not "invent" mob programming. But the career programmer turned consultant certainly played a big role in at least codifying the ideas behind mob programming. ...
In the midst of all the IoT hype, Claire Rowland is a well-timed reality check. A London-based UX consultant specializing in the IoT space, Rowland is enthusiastic about the opportunities. But ...
Maybe it's where I'm sitting but this feels like a time of great change in the software design and test arenas. Designers are in short supply, everywhere, but at the same time companies are looking ...
Perhaps 2015 reasons is a bit of a stretch. In any case, as we wrap up this year, it's interesting to look at where we've been and what we've all been interested in. It is certainly no surprise ...
With all the talk about the ongoing worldwide software developer shortage, it's encouraging to see the grass roots efforts by the non-profit Code.org to bring coding to everyone. In fact, the group ...
It’s tempting to think of the worldwide software developer shortage as a chicken and egg problem. Is there too much demand? Are there too few people? It doesn’t matter which came first because of ...
It's a fine line between appropriate, and not. But in today's open society, how do you draw that line? After all, what is funny to one person is offensive to another. I was talking to our testing ...
A brand new report from the Application Developers Alliance (and conducted by IDC) showcases some very encouraging news about the software development profession. A healthy 68% of today’s software ...
I've been talking to a lot of stressed out testers recently. These are people who take their profession seriously but don't always think anyone else does, particularly when they're told time and ...
In all of the Agile talk last week at Agile2015, there were lots of good, insightful observations, a ton of interesting, useful and actionable data and a few downright jaw-droppers. The ...
Is this your first time going to Agile2015? You’re not alone – it’s my first time too – but from what I understand this isn’t your mother’s tech conference. So I asked Agile consultant and author ...
Have you heard about the brand new hotel in Japan that is staffed exclusively by robots? If you’re lucky (and English-speaking), you’ll be welcomed at the front desk by a robotic dinosaur. Japanese ...
The Boston Software Craftsmanship Meetup group met recently to play a couple of programming games. They were gracious enough to let me sit in as one of their own. The games were to demonstrate the ...
Red Hat Summit / Dev Nation 2015 fell pretty well in line with the theme everything old is new again. The three main themes repeated again and again were containers, DevOps and microservices. I ...
For a journalist, an all-night hackathon can be a pretty intimidating undertaking. I was sure I'd be way over my head sitting with professional programmers as we built and programmed as Raspberry ...
The folks behind Alpha Anywhere, including Alpha Software CTO Dan Bricklin, gathered a bunch of their users to focus on mobile application development and specifically on tablet applications ...
The Yellow Pages Group (YPG) in Canada grew out of traditional print publishing. Now, they're a major player in internet directory services across Canada. The transition wasn't easy. It took a ...
There's one big question at the heart of everything that good software project managers do. How do we develop software better? How do we improve the ways and means through which we develop ...
One of the main tenets of Agile development is to empower the development team to make its own choices. This is really important because it helps the developers identify with their projects in a ...
One year ago this Sunday, I predicted that the word for 2014 would be continuous – as in continuous development. I know it might be a self-fulfilling prophecy, but the word 'continuous' did seem to ...
How can Lean-Agile principles help guide teams in successfully adopting Agile in the enterprise? Alan Shalloway, founder and CEO of NetObjectives, is presenting "Scaling Agile with Multiple Teams: ...
Recently, SSQ created a quality metrics guide which includes a series of articles, tips and stories related to measuring software quality. It's a complicated and controversial topic with no easy ...
At the Agile Alliance 2011 conference in Salt Lake City, there are 268 sessions, so choosing which ones to attend has been a challenge. Behavior driven development (or BDD) is an area that I hadn't ...
Today SOASTA announced CloudTest Lite, a free, enterprise-class performance test tool for Web and mobile performance testing in the cloud. I spoke with SOASTA's CEO, Tom Lounibos, and the ...
I'm guessing James Bach has never been accused of being a "yes-man." The outspoken test guru, well-known for his intolerance of step-by-step test scripts, is at STAREAST 2011 and delivered a ...
If a picture's worth a thousand words, a visualization's worth a thousand pictures. A "visualization" is a term used to describe a functional software prototype. This form of rapid User Interface ...
Last fall I listened to James Whittaker talk about his book, "Exploratory Testing," at a virtual presentation hosted by uTest. I have since been able to read the book and follow-up with Whittaker ...
During a discussion about Scrum at the Boulder Agile User Group (BAUG) meeting recently, Paul Quarles of Oppenheimer Funds shared his experience as a Product Owner demoing to the business in a ...
Lately, I've been talking with software testers and developers about software methodologies, and I've noticed the Agile vs. waterfall camps are very divided. Miss Manners will tell you to stay away ...
In a recent article on JMeter, I related some tips for recording JMeter tests using the proxy recorder. Sometimes when you're recording tests, you want to exclude certain transactions like images, ...
If you don’t read software testing blogs, you’re missing some great advice and thoughtful ramblings on testing philosophies. I tap into those blogs daily, and here I’m sharing the wealth with this ...
Is software testing really necessary? Do we do it just because everyone else does it? Why is software testing important? While ideas about testing vary, the motive is generally the same: someone ...
Jon Kern, co-author of the Agile Manifesto, told me recently that many companies won’t adopt the agile development methodology soon. Why? Some companies are doing just fine with waterfall, he said, ...