Should the goals and principles of DevOps be the same for every company? Is it possible for every company to reach CI/CD? Software delivery teams come in all different shapes and sizes. Each team has its own DNA that has organically evolved through generations of diverse experiences, skill sets, tools, technologies and sets of processes….
Year: 2017
We’re excited to announce that Testim has raised $5.6M in Series A funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. In the last year, we’ve raised a total of $8 million from early investors including Foundation Capital, Spider Capital and joined Heavybit. This is a big deal for us and we’re incredibly thrilled by what it means….
Practical steps to shift left Last month we published “Do you know how much your quality costs?” where we discussed the importance of shifting left and shortening the feedback loop as it relates to the cost of quality. According to IBM System Science Institute Relative Cost of Fixing Defects, discovering a bug and fixing a…
As many yoga instructors do, they encouraged students to find balance. It’s an effective bit of advice in that it puts the onus on the practitioner. It’s also a popular concept for software testing, as industry experts often recommend that software teams find the balance between automation and manual testing practices. Another similarity is the…
Do you how much quality costs? Have you ever calculated it? If you do, you’ll learn that you spend thousands of dollars and hours of productivity on every bug. From the cost of labor, to the cost of deployment, to the cost of finding the bugs in production, no bug fix is free. Many companies…
Struggling to get answers to these Test Automation questions? Watch the Recorded Webinar What constitutes an adequate degree of test automation coverage? Does every single function in the application need a corresponding test associated with it or just the core functionality? Does every application need a full end to end automation suite built out or just…
Google recently announced that they released Puppeteer, a Node library which provides an API to control headless Chrome. Within 24hrs they received great feedback from the community; 6,685 stars on Github 2.2K likes and 1.2K shares on Twitter So why should we care? Here’s a snippet from its GitHub documentation: In Google’s own words, there…
It’s inevitable. Agile has matured and in addition to speed, now the new set of challenges are about accountability and proving its worth. Just as with other areas of the business, Agile must also answer to traceability, auditability, and compliance. After all, what good is a methodology that delivers fast, but ultimately fails to deliver…
Testing has been in the spotlight of software development, as organizations continually seek to optimize development cycles. Continuous Delivery and its promises of frequent releases, even as often as hourly, is a big factor driving executives to find ways to shave time off of any eligible technical processes. As enterprises embark on their DevOps transformational…
Testing is one of the key processes in software development. As the requirements to support multiple browsers and devices increases, it is driving the demand to automate the functional testing of applications. While teams embark on their DevOps transformational journeys, the handoffs between traditional application lifecycle silos begin to dismantle, enabling a continuous process of…