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• What to look for in application load testing tools

  Load testing tools help ensure an app is ready for prime time. But, with so many tools on the market, buyers must closely examine the products' features and their own environments.  Continue Reading

• Why human instinct causes mistakes in project management

  Project management isn't brain surgery, but it involves brain chemistry. A testing expert discusses how we instinctively value gains and losses and how it leads to bad decisions.  Continue Reading

• 5 tips to jump-start a DevOps pipeline

  DevOps is a trendy methodology -- and one many enterprises implement incorrectly. Pore over this popular expert advice from 2018 to carefully and correctly accelerate app delivery in 2019.  Continue Reading

• Application load testing is critical for business success

  Load testing tools help ensure apps can withstand normal amounts of user traffic, as well as spikes and other conditions. Learn how these tools work and their business benefits.  Continue Reading

• The 2018 app-dev trends and news that will shape 2019

  Aside from big acquisitions, IBM and Microsoft turned heads with new releases and features in 2018. Catch up with the top news of the year to learn what it means for you in 2019.  Continue Reading

• Experts weigh in on DevOps transformation, QA topics

  As the technology conference season winds down, sessions at Velocity and DevOps Enterprise Summit offer helpful insight for forward-thinking organizations.  Continue Reading

• Make your pitch for chaos engineering practices

  Is your QA team ready for chaos engineering? Find out how to prep staff for resilience engineering and why you should avoid that 'chaotic' name altogether.  Continue Reading

• Words to go: QA testing methodologies

  Do bottom-up and top-down testing throw you for a loop? In the dark about the difference between black box and functional testing? Print out this handy cheat sheet of testing terms.  Continue Reading

• BPM development goes beyond low-code with AI, RPA

  BPM vendors are enhancing their low-code process development tool sets with AI and robotic process automation.  Continue Reading

• Improving testing architecture when moving to microservices

  Gamesys, the developer and operator of many online games, rethought its approach to testing during the move from a monolith. A pyramid made software tests more manageable.  Continue Reading

• IT pros weigh Git version control against the competition

  You won't get far today without version control to safely iterate on application code. But is Git -- or one of the many commercial products based on Git -- right for your team?  Continue Reading

• OSS security requires DIY scrutiny, not trusting 'many eyes'

  How many ways can hackers exploit the security flaws in open source? Cybersecurity experts count the ways and the approaches that can prevent costly security breaches.  Continue Reading

• Amp up OSS security with these steps

  A test vendor's CTO describes the OSS security mistakes that enterprises make, such as not patching vulnerabilities or inaccurate inventory dependencies.  Continue Reading

• Ten ways to implement automated app testing effectively

  QA and test pros give advice on how to craft software test automation strategies that can speed app deployment. They also share their criteria for choosing automated test tools.  Continue Reading

• Which software engineer skills matter? All of them

  The ongoing developer shortage means employers face unique challenges when it comes to hiring. LinkedIn's Sarah O'Brien offers insight into how developers behave and what they're really looking for.  Continue Reading