This document discusses introducing continuous delivery practices at an organization. It provides four stories from different companies about their continuous delivery journeys. The first story describes challenges at Nokia with complicated dependencies and integration problems that were addressed by implementing delivery pipelines and consumer driven contracts. The second story focuses on delivering value and achieving a higher release frequency, shorter cycle times, and higher release success rates at another unnamed company. The third story discusses the architecture at eBay and improvements achieved by moving to more modular code and weekly releases. The final story cautions against skipping testing phases when moving to continuous delivery. Common themes that helped organizations were taking baby steps, establishing cross-functional teams, test automation, and focusing on delivering value.
Behavior Driven Development—A Guide to Agile Practices by Josh EastmanQA or the Highway
The document discusses Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and how it can help increase quality and prepare an organization for increased business demands. It describes BDD as an industry practice where the whole team collaborates on system testing and definition of done. BDD promotes requirements using examples, collaboration between roles, finding defects earlier and more often through automation, and keeping technical debt low.
This document discusses implementing continuous delivery practices. Continuous delivery aims to have software always ready for deployment by automating the development process, including coding, testing, and deployment. The key aspects are establishing an automated deployment pipeline and practicing continuous integration, deployment, and delivery. The document outlines steps to transition from a manual process to continuous delivery, including upgrading processes and using a patch installer tool to automate upgrades. Metrics are also important to measure the effectiveness of continuous delivery practices.
The document summarizes the key capabilities of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server for improving the software development lifecycle. It discusses how the tools can help ensure quality code, enhance team collaboration through integration, and allow teams to spend more time creating code rather than debugging it. The tools provide capabilities for version control, build automation, testing, project management, code analysis, modeling, and more to help deliver projects on time and on budget.
This document discusses Test Driven Development (TDD). TDD helps create clean, simple code designs with low coupling between components. Writing tests first allows developing code with confidence as tests accumulate. It helps avoid technical debt by refactoring code as needed. TDD produces documentation in the form of executable tests and enables continuous integration and delivery. The TDD process follows the "Red-Green-Refactor" mantra of writing a failing test first, then code to pass the test, and refactoring code as needed. Tests should be written to be fast, independent, repeatable, self-validating, and timely. Tools and coding dojos can help practice and improve TDD skills.
DevOps Continuous Integration & Delivery - A Whitepaper by RapidValueRapidValue
In this whitepaper, we will deep dive into the concept of continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment and explain how businesses can benefit from this. We will also elucidate on how to build an effective CI/CD pipeline and some of the best practices for your enterprise DevOps journey.
This document provides an overview of SpecFlow, a behavior-driven development (BDD) tool for .NET. It introduces SpecFlow, discusses BDD and how SpecFlow fits into agile practices like test-driven development (TDD) and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). The document outlines TechTalk, the company behind SpecFlow, demonstrates SpecFlow functionality, and discusses integrations with tools like Visual Studio and build servers. It also previews upcoming SpecFlow sessions at NDC 2011 and takes questions from the audience. The summary concludes in 3 sentences or less.
The document discusses dependency injection, including its benefits like loosely coupled classes, increased code reuse, maintainable code, and testable methods. It notes that with dependency injection, all dependencies are specified in one place and class dependencies are clearly visible in the constructor. Examples are provided of how dependency injection can help when requirements change, like needing to support new notification methods or data sources.
Continuous Integration using Hudson and Fitnesse at Ingenuity Systems (Silico...Jen Wong
Continuous Integration using Hudson and Fitnesse
Speaker: Vasu Durgavarjhula , Jennifer Wong , Norman Boccone
Level: Intermediate | Room: 4221 | 11:15 AM Saturday
Learn about Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment(CD) and how Ingenuity Systems moved from a traditional release process to a more agile frequent release model. In this talk we will discuss specifics and show demos on:
using Hudson as a framework for continuous integration, deployment, and build promotion
deployment and configuration management
changes we made to make our architecture more service-oriented
our automated test strategy using JUnit, FitNesse, and Selenium
migrating our build and deployment process from Ant to Maven
challenges to overcome and lessons learned in implementing a successful CI system
Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a short development cycle of requirements, design, and coding. It promotes writing tests before writing code (test-first design) and helps improve code quality by reducing defects. The TDD cycle involves writing an automated test, running the test and seeing it fail, writing the minimum amount of code to pass the test, and refactoring the code as needed. TDD brings benefits like clarifying requirements, adding executable documentation, and detecting errors early. Acceptance TDD involves automating acceptance tests to define and validate requirements. It helps establish a definition of done and improves team collaboration.
Testing and DevOps Culture: Lessons LearnedLB Denker
This document discusses the speaker's background and experiences with software engineering practices. It covers his education in computational mathematics and computer science, past roles at Universal Instruments developing machine software and at Google and Etsy implementing DevOps practices. Key topics covered include the benefits of continuous integration, deployment and delivery; the importance of testing including test-driven development; and embracing interdependence between developers and other IT roles. Best practices are noted to be situational and relationships must be respected.
DevOps Tactical Adoption Theory tries to make the transition process as smooth as possible. It hypothesis each step towards DevOps maturity should bring a visible business value empowering management and team commitment for the next step. The innovative idea here, it is not required to add the tools/processes to stack from sequential beginning to end, but seeking benefit.
The reason behind the theory is to encourage practitioners to apply each step one-by-one and then having the benefits in projects. Consequently, each step is tested in terms of utility and proved method validity for the further steps. In contrast to previous adoption models, our model indicates concrete activities rather than general statements.
Theory built on the claim that many DevOps transition projects considered problematic, impractical or even unsuccessful causing concept to become a goal more than a technique. Basically, theory consists of different areas of interest describing various actions on a schema.
In the session, it is planned to demonstrate “DevOps Tactical Adoption Theory” with focus on Delivery Pipeline/Testing Practices sectioned "Continuous Testing in DevOps".
This document summarizes a concise QA and testing process developed for a small startup. It includes protocols for building, testing, managing changes, and releasing software. The build protocol ensures testing receives builds and information about changes. The test cycle protocol defines different types of testing cycles. The change protocol establishes feature freezes and code freezes to control changes late in development. The release protocol details the release approval and packaging process.
This document outlines an agenda for a lunch and learn on SpecFlow, a .NET framework for behavior-driven development (BDD). The agenda includes introductions to BDD, SpecFlow, and a demo of creating SpecFlow specifications. Benefits are discussed such as creating shared understanding and reducing assumptions. Challenges like test organization and state sharing are also covered. It concludes that capturing acceptance criteria in Gherkin specs and iterating with the business can lead to detailed requirements and automated regression tests.
Achieve Intelligent Test Execution: Strategies for Streamlining Regression Te...DevOps.com
If you ask a business leader which features in a given software release are most critical (and which potential failures keep them up at night), chances are they'll be related to the UI. But with many testing teams spending up to 80% of their time on regression testing, how can you make time for the resource-intensive tests that verify these high business value features? In this webinar, Adam Satterfield will share strategies for optimizing the plan and build phases of a project to eliminate redundancy and free up time for the tests that matter most to the business, including:
The questions you should ask business leaders before the build begins
Why it's critical for testers to give feedback during build output and unit test reviews
How to segment UI tests to focus on validating business-critical features first
Why adopting this approach can turn good test engineers into great ones -- and improve manual testers' technical aptitude
Let's review it: What designers can learn from (code) reviewIda Aalen
What if designers approached collaboration and critique more like developers? Could it make us better designers, and could it better collaboration between designers and developers? Presented at Yggdrasil 2018 in Sandefjord, Norway
Overview of the different aspects of agile engineering practices (the modern practices for software development) and how they can be adopted in [agile] teams.
The document discusses test management struggles and challenges in the software development life cycle (SDLC). It outlines three main challenges: 1) too much workload for reporting and manually linking test cases to incident tickets, 2) difficulty managing requirements and test cases and utilizing testing activities, and 3) difficulty completing automation tasks on time. It proposes solutions such as reducing reporting time, linking items automatically, improving test case management tools, and prioritizing automation.
Evolve or Die: Healthcare IT Testing | QASymphony WebinarQASymphony
Modern software testing for Healthcare Organizations. Learn about best practices for software testing in the healthcare industry featuring Mike Cooper, Chief Quality Officer of Healthcare IT Leaders and Kevin Dunne, VP of Business Development at QASymphony
Looking to move to Continuous Delivery? Worried about the quality of your the code? Helping your developers understand clean-code practices and getting the right testing strategy in place can take a while. What should you do to control the quality of the incoming code till then? This talk shares our experience of using PRRiskAdvisor to gradually educate and influence developers to write better code and also help the code reviewer to be more effective at their reviews.
Every time a developer raises a pull-request, PRRiskAdvisor analyzes the files that were changed and publishes a report on the pull request itself with the overall risk associated with this pull request and also risk associated with each file. It also runs static code analysis using SonarQube and publishes the configured violations as comments on the pull request. This way the reviewer just has to look at the pull request to get a decent idea of what it means to review this pull request. If there are too many violations, then PRRiskAdvisor can also automatically reject the pull request.
By doing this, we saw our developers starting paying more attention to clean code practices and hence the overall quality of the incoming code improved, while we worked on putting the right engineering practices and testing strategy in place.
More details: https://confengine.com/last-conference-canberra-2018/proposal/7294/improving-the-quality-of-incoming-code
Conference Link: https://2019.agileindia.org
How testers add value to the organization appium confCorina Pip
Testers add value to organizations by participating in requirements definition, technical discussions, and providing input to improve quality and testability. They help ensure requirements are clear and the developed features meet them by testing cases and automated tests. Testers prevent bugs, understand the role of automation in regression testing and fast delivery, and perform security, performance, accessibility, and other types of testing. Overall, testers help organizations achieve quality software and satisfy customers.
The Essentials Of Test Driven Development Rock Interview
Test Driven Development is the fastest method to get software onto the market. Being one of the most used methods in the present business world, here is why the method is essential.
Trends in Agile Testing by Lisa CrispinDirecti Group
- The document discusses trends in agile testing and how testing approaches have changed from traditional to agile methods. It focuses on practices like continuous integration, test-driven development, automating regression tests, and exploratory testing.
- Key aspects of agile testing covered include the whole team approach, collaboration between testers and developers, automating tests at different levels, and using feedback to continuously improve.
- The presentation highlights current trends like behavior-driven development, open source testing tools, and more emphasis on examples and collaboration with customers.
Is Test Planning a lost art in Agile? by Michelle WilliamsQA or the Highway
This document provides an overview of a presentation on agile test planning. It discusses the challenges of agile requirements and how test strategies serve a purpose beyond a single sprint. It also examines how the agile manifesto relates to planning and the value of test plans in agile. The presentation outlines four testing phases in agile - requirements and design, story/feature verification, system verification, and acceptance. It provides examples of what should be included in a test plan for each phase such as scenarios, automation approach, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
This document discusses agile test automation and addresses whether it is an essential truth, oxymoron, or lie. It notes that agile emphasizes parallel teamwork between development, testing, and business. While test automation may initially require extensive ramp-up time and skills acquisition, building a library of automated scripts and using programmatic test tools can help achieve faster feedback, consistency, and avoid technical debt. The document advocates automating tests in parallel with development in each sprint to allow for easy, flexible regression testing. It argues that with an evolving approach to automation and a focus on reusing test data, process knowledge, and results, agile test automation can be an essential part of the agile process.
Everyone is talking about test driven development (TDD) being so cool and elaborating for both developers and persons responsible for the projects success ( like project managers, project owners, and customers ). But very few projects are using TDD to gain its relieving aspects. How does that go along? Seems many project responsibles are uncertain about the efforts and direct benefits of TDD and step back. This talk is about a transition from a usual project to TDD. Within this talk I will raise some questions to be answered before moving and show the benefits of TDD for each party of the project setup. We will find possible impediments to be faced and will see how to get rid of them.
The document summarizes findings from the Standish Group on IT project failures and successes between 2000-2006. It found that on average, software projects delivered only 67% of planned functionality, with cost overruns of 45% and time overruns of 63%. The top reasons for project challenges were lack of integrated tools, separation of design and technology teams, and poor communication between teams. The document then outlines the features and capabilities of Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System product, which aims to address these challenges through an integrated Agile development environment and tools.
Continuous Integration using Hudson and Fitnesse at Ingenuity Systems (Silico...Jen Wong
Continuous Integration using Hudson and Fitnesse
Speaker: Vasu Durgavarjhula , Jennifer Wong , Norman Boccone
Level: Intermediate | Room: 4221 | 11:15 AM Saturday
Learn about Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment(CD) and how Ingenuity Systems moved from a traditional release process to a more agile frequent release model. In this talk we will discuss specifics and show demos on:
using Hudson as a framework for continuous integration, deployment, and build promotion
deployment and configuration management
changes we made to make our architecture more service-oriented
our automated test strategy using JUnit, FitNesse, and Selenium
migrating our build and deployment process from Ant to Maven
challenges to overcome and lessons learned in implementing a successful CI system
Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a short development cycle of requirements, design, and coding. It promotes writing tests before writing code (test-first design) and helps improve code quality by reducing defects. The TDD cycle involves writing an automated test, running the test and seeing it fail, writing the minimum amount of code to pass the test, and refactoring the code as needed. TDD brings benefits like clarifying requirements, adding executable documentation, and detecting errors early. Acceptance TDD involves automating acceptance tests to define and validate requirements. It helps establish a definition of done and improves team collaboration.
Testing and DevOps Culture: Lessons LearnedLB Denker
This document discusses the speaker's background and experiences with software engineering practices. It covers his education in computational mathematics and computer science, past roles at Universal Instruments developing machine software and at Google and Etsy implementing DevOps practices. Key topics covered include the benefits of continuous integration, deployment and delivery; the importance of testing including test-driven development; and embracing interdependence between developers and other IT roles. Best practices are noted to be situational and relationships must be respected.
DevOps Tactical Adoption Theory tries to make the transition process as smooth as possible. It hypothesis each step towards DevOps maturity should bring a visible business value empowering management and team commitment for the next step. The innovative idea here, it is not required to add the tools/processes to stack from sequential beginning to end, but seeking benefit.
The reason behind the theory is to encourage practitioners to apply each step one-by-one and then having the benefits in projects. Consequently, each step is tested in terms of utility and proved method validity for the further steps. In contrast to previous adoption models, our model indicates concrete activities rather than general statements.
Theory built on the claim that many DevOps transition projects considered problematic, impractical or even unsuccessful causing concept to become a goal more than a technique. Basically, theory consists of different areas of interest describing various actions on a schema.
In the session, it is planned to demonstrate “DevOps Tactical Adoption Theory” with focus on Delivery Pipeline/Testing Practices sectioned "Continuous Testing in DevOps".
This document summarizes a concise QA and testing process developed for a small startup. It includes protocols for building, testing, managing changes, and releasing software. The build protocol ensures testing receives builds and information about changes. The test cycle protocol defines different types of testing cycles. The change protocol establishes feature freezes and code freezes to control changes late in development. The release protocol details the release approval and packaging process.
This document outlines an agenda for a lunch and learn on SpecFlow, a .NET framework for behavior-driven development (BDD). The agenda includes introductions to BDD, SpecFlow, and a demo of creating SpecFlow specifications. Benefits are discussed such as creating shared understanding and reducing assumptions. Challenges like test organization and state sharing are also covered. It concludes that capturing acceptance criteria in Gherkin specs and iterating with the business can lead to detailed requirements and automated regression tests.
Achieve Intelligent Test Execution: Strategies for Streamlining Regression Te...DevOps.com
If you ask a business leader which features in a given software release are most critical (and which potential failures keep them up at night), chances are they'll be related to the UI. But with many testing teams spending up to 80% of their time on regression testing, how can you make time for the resource-intensive tests that verify these high business value features? In this webinar, Adam Satterfield will share strategies for optimizing the plan and build phases of a project to eliminate redundancy and free up time for the tests that matter most to the business, including:
The questions you should ask business leaders before the build begins
Why it's critical for testers to give feedback during build output and unit test reviews
How to segment UI tests to focus on validating business-critical features first
Why adopting this approach can turn good test engineers into great ones -- and improve manual testers' technical aptitude
Let's review it: What designers can learn from (code) reviewIda Aalen
What if designers approached collaboration and critique more like developers? Could it make us better designers, and could it better collaboration between designers and developers? Presented at Yggdrasil 2018 in Sandefjord, Norway
Overview of the different aspects of agile engineering practices (the modern practices for software development) and how they can be adopted in [agile] teams.
The document discusses test management struggles and challenges in the software development life cycle (SDLC). It outlines three main challenges: 1) too much workload for reporting and manually linking test cases to incident tickets, 2) difficulty managing requirements and test cases and utilizing testing activities, and 3) difficulty completing automation tasks on time. It proposes solutions such as reducing reporting time, linking items automatically, improving test case management tools, and prioritizing automation.
Evolve or Die: Healthcare IT Testing | QASymphony WebinarQASymphony
Modern software testing for Healthcare Organizations. Learn about best practices for software testing in the healthcare industry featuring Mike Cooper, Chief Quality Officer of Healthcare IT Leaders and Kevin Dunne, VP of Business Development at QASymphony
Looking to move to Continuous Delivery? Worried about the quality of your the code? Helping your developers understand clean-code practices and getting the right testing strategy in place can take a while. What should you do to control the quality of the incoming code till then? This talk shares our experience of using PRRiskAdvisor to gradually educate and influence developers to write better code and also help the code reviewer to be more effective at their reviews.
Every time a developer raises a pull-request, PRRiskAdvisor analyzes the files that were changed and publishes a report on the pull request itself with the overall risk associated with this pull request and also risk associated with each file. It also runs static code analysis using SonarQube and publishes the configured violations as comments on the pull request. This way the reviewer just has to look at the pull request to get a decent idea of what it means to review this pull request. If there are too many violations, then PRRiskAdvisor can also automatically reject the pull request.
By doing this, we saw our developers starting paying more attention to clean code practices and hence the overall quality of the incoming code improved, while we worked on putting the right engineering practices and testing strategy in place.
More details: https://confengine.com/last-conference-canberra-2018/proposal/7294/improving-the-quality-of-incoming-code
Conference Link: https://2019.agileindia.org
How testers add value to the organization appium confCorina Pip
Testers add value to organizations by participating in requirements definition, technical discussions, and providing input to improve quality and testability. They help ensure requirements are clear and the developed features meet them by testing cases and automated tests. Testers prevent bugs, understand the role of automation in regression testing and fast delivery, and perform security, performance, accessibility, and other types of testing. Overall, testers help organizations achieve quality software and satisfy customers.
The Essentials Of Test Driven Development Rock Interview
Test Driven Development is the fastest method to get software onto the market. Being one of the most used methods in the present business world, here is why the method is essential.
Trends in Agile Testing by Lisa CrispinDirecti Group
- The document discusses trends in agile testing and how testing approaches have changed from traditional to agile methods. It focuses on practices like continuous integration, test-driven development, automating regression tests, and exploratory testing.
- Key aspects of agile testing covered include the whole team approach, collaboration between testers and developers, automating tests at different levels, and using feedback to continuously improve.
- The presentation highlights current trends like behavior-driven development, open source testing tools, and more emphasis on examples and collaboration with customers.
Is Test Planning a lost art in Agile? by Michelle WilliamsQA or the Highway
This document provides an overview of a presentation on agile test planning. It discusses the challenges of agile requirements and how test strategies serve a purpose beyond a single sprint. It also examines how the agile manifesto relates to planning and the value of test plans in agile. The presentation outlines four testing phases in agile - requirements and design, story/feature verification, system verification, and acceptance. It provides examples of what should be included in a test plan for each phase such as scenarios, automation approach, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
This document discusses agile test automation and addresses whether it is an essential truth, oxymoron, or lie. It notes that agile emphasizes parallel teamwork between development, testing, and business. While test automation may initially require extensive ramp-up time and skills acquisition, building a library of automated scripts and using programmatic test tools can help achieve faster feedback, consistency, and avoid technical debt. The document advocates automating tests in parallel with development in each sprint to allow for easy, flexible regression testing. It argues that with an evolving approach to automation and a focus on reusing test data, process knowledge, and results, agile test automation can be an essential part of the agile process.
Everyone is talking about test driven development (TDD) being so cool and elaborating for both developers and persons responsible for the projects success ( like project managers, project owners, and customers ). But very few projects are using TDD to gain its relieving aspects. How does that go along? Seems many project responsibles are uncertain about the efforts and direct benefits of TDD and step back. This talk is about a transition from a usual project to TDD. Within this talk I will raise some questions to be answered before moving and show the benefits of TDD for each party of the project setup. We will find possible impediments to be faced and will see how to get rid of them.
The document summarizes findings from the Standish Group on IT project failures and successes between 2000-2006. It found that on average, software projects delivered only 67% of planned functionality, with cost overruns of 45% and time overruns of 63%. The top reasons for project challenges were lack of integrated tools, separation of design and technology teams, and poor communication between teams. The document then outlines the features and capabilities of Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System product, which aims to address these challenges through an integrated Agile development environment and tools.
Slides from webinar, co-hosted by the Vivit UK & Ireland Local User Groups on May 27th 2020. James Walker from Curiosity Software Ireland presented on model-based testing for ALM/Octane, setting out how model-based testing enables greater communication, collaboration and end-to-end automation.
For many organizations today, ALM Octane provides the single source of truth for distributed teams. Its scalable test management keeps testers and developers synchronised with granular analysis of testing progress and results, all integrated into CI/CD pipelines and agile methodologies. However, the quality of this testing remains dependent on the quality of the tests fed in and assigned to testers. Testing speed furthermore remains limited by the efficiency of that test creation. Manual, unsystematic test design and a reliance on low-coverage production data will still lead to low coverage tests. Those tests will also remain impossible to maintain in tight iterations, leaving new releases further exposed to damaging bugs. Impeccable test management instead deserves impeccable test design.
This webinar demonstrated how model-based test generation seamlessly maintains optimized test cases and data in ALM Octane, all linked to system requirements and automation frameworks for in-sprint maintenance and test execution. You will discover a requirements-driven approach to test maintenance, in which test cases, scripts and data are maintained as quick-to-build flowcharts are updated. Powerful mathematical algorithms generate the smallest set of tests needed to “cover” the latest system logic, with “just in time” data allocation to ensure that every test has valid test data. Pushing the tests to integrated automation frameworks enables truly “Continuous Testing”, with granular run results synchronized automatically in ALM Octane.
This webinar was co-hosted by Testery.io and Curiosity Software on 10th November 2022. Watch the on demand recording here: https://www.curiositysoftware.ie/hitting-the-right-test-coverage-ci-cd-webinar-testery
Testing today too often faces a choice between introducing bottlenecks to software delivery, or allowing an unacceptable level of negative risk. A lack of traceability between tests, changing code, user stories and data leaves testers no way of knowing reliably which tests to run, when. They further have no time to create the tests required for optimal in-sprint coverage, instead being held back by slow and manual test creation. Pipeline configuration and environmental constraints further force testing behind parallelised development, rendering true CI/CD an unobtainable ideal for many organisations.
This webinar will set out how you can automatically identify, generate, and execute optimized tests at the speed of CI/CD. Curiosity Software’s CTO, James Walker, and Testery CEO Chris Harbert will discuss how automated test generation and test orchestration integrate into CI/CD pipelines, running the right blend of tests to de-risk continuous deployments. A live demo will then show you how you can execute these targeted tests on-the-fly, setting out how:
1. Model-based test generation dynamically creates the smallest set of tests needed to satisfy different risk profiles on demand.
2. Automated test orchestration triggers the right blend of tests to de-risk deployments, executed across environments and ranging from smoke tests to full regression.
3. Sequentially triggering tests from different repositories targets bugs across APIs, UIs, and back-end systems, delivering rigorously tested software at speed.
Watch the on demand webinar: https://www.curiositysoftware.ie/hitting-the-right-test-coverage-ci-cd-webinar-testery
Despite the belief that a shared context and collaboration drives quality, too often, software testers and quality professionals struggle to find their place within today's integrated agile teams. This session is a practitioner’s view of testing and testing practices within an iterative/incremental development environment. We will begin with a discussion of some of the challenges of testing within an agile environment and delve into the guiding principles of Agile Testing and key enabling practices. Agile Testing necessitates a change in mindset, and it is as much, if not more, about behavior, as it is about skills and tooling, all of which will be explored.
This talk was geared around the concept of showing developers what goes into getting enterprise products out the door. Unit testing, release process, continuous integration, security, social engineering, bug bashes.
Agile & DevOps - It's all about project successAdam Stephensen
The document provides information on DevOps practices and tools from Microsoft. It discusses how DevOps enables continuous delivery of value through integrating people, processes, and tools. Benefits of DevOps include more frequent and stable releases, lower change failure rates, and empowered development teams. The document provides examples of DevOps scenarios and recommends discussing solutions and migration plans with Microsoft.
Visual Studio ALM and DevOps Tools WalkthroughAngela Dugan
If you're considering moving to Team Foundation Server or Visual Studio Team Services, this deck will walk you through the highlights, of which there are a TON!
The document discusses software project failures and the benefits of using an integrated platform like Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) for software development. It notes that on average in 2000-2004, software projects were 45% over budget, 63% over schedule, and only delivered 67% of planned functionality. VSTS provides features like version control, work item tracking, build automation, and reporting that help improve collaboration, accountability, visibility and quality of software projects. It discusses how one company saw a 225% ROI and 6 month payback by deploying VSTS across their development teams.
This document provides an introduction to test-driven development (TDD), including its goals, benefits, and challenges. TDD is an iterative, test-first approach to development where functionality and behavior are defined by tests. Tests are written before code and define the desired API and design. Benefits of TDD include reduced defects, increased initial development time, and easier refactoring and collaboration. Adopting TDD requires practice and a focus on good design principles like separation of concerns.
This DevOps CTO Masterclass covers DevOps tools, methodologies, and principles. The presentation introduces DevOps and its history, then discusses when DevOps is needed through a case study of a company that implemented DevOps to improve their development process. The remainder of the presentation covers DevOps practices for various stages including planning, coding, building, testing, deploying, operating, and monitoring. Key takeaways are to plan and communicate, automate processes, and continuously improve.
The document summarizes a presentation about using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server. It discusses using these tools to trace requirements, code check-ins, builds, and test results. It also provides an overview of Team Foundation Server, describing its main functions like version control, work item tracking, and build automation.
Ravindra Prasad has over 10 years of experience as a Software Development Engineer and SDET. He has extensive experience developing automation frameworks using C# and technologies like Selenium, Coded UI, and Visual Studio. Some of his responsibilities include writing test automation scripts; developing keyword-driven and page object frameworks; and managing teams of 4-7 people on projects for clients such as Dell and Microsoft. He is proficient in languages like C# and databases like SQL Server, and has experience across the full development lifecycle from requirements to delivery.
The Magic Of Application Lifecycle Management In Vs PublicDavid Solivan
The document discusses challenges with software development projects and how tools from Microsoft can help address these challenges. It notes that most projects fail or are over budget and challenges include poor requirements gathering and testing. However, tools like Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server that integrate requirements, work tracking, source control, testing and other functions can help make successful projects more possible by facilitating team collaboration. The document outlines features of these tools and how they aim to make application lifecycle management a routine part of development.
Test Driven Development (TDD) is a software development technique where unit tests are written before functional code to verify functionality. The TDD process follows a "Red, Green, Refactor" cycle where tests fail initially ("Red"), code is written to pass tests ("Green"), and code is refactored to improve design. While TDD may improve code quality and catch errors earlier, studies have shown mixed results on productivity and quality improvements. Adopting TDD fully can be challenging in practice due to issues like incomplete test coverage and resistance to change.
Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 aims to align IT and business goals through an integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) solution. It provides tools to support each stage of the development process from requirements through deployment. New features in VSTS 2010 include improved planning, testing, architecture and version control tools to enable more efficient collaboration and delivery of high quality software.
Behavior Driven Development is one of the most commonly misunderstood techniques in DevOps, but it is also one of the key enablers of both an Agile culture and true continuous deployment. This talk will attempt to fill in the missing pieces on exactly what BDD is and how your teams can use it to increase communication, drive quality, and reduce waste. We will also connect the dots on why you need a test-first strategy to enable trunk-based development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. If your business still struggles with monthly or quarterly big-batch releases, this talk will show you what your teams must do to evolve to the next stage of continuous delivery.
Critical Capabilities to Shifting Left the Right WaySmartBear
The concept of testing earlier in the SDLC isn't new, but the term "shift left" has reignited its importance. See how shifting left can help you, and how to do it right.
Summary of Accelerate - 2019 State of Devops report by Google Cloud's DORARagavendra Prasath
A detailed 82 pages report is abridged to 5 pages report. Access DORA report here - https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/state-of-devops-2019.pdf
Inspiration and Courtesy to the authors.
Quant + Qual + Iteration for Great ProductsBen Carey
This document discusses the importance of combining quantitative, qualitative, and iterative methods for product development. It argues that quantitative data tells you what problems exist, qualitative research reveals why those problems exist, and iteration allows you to fix them. The document provides examples of quantitative metrics like retention, activation, and sentiment analysis that can be tracked. It also emphasizes the importance of qualitative methods like design thinking, observation, and human-centered design to understand user needs at a deeper level. The overall message is that using both quantitative and qualitative approaches together in an iterative process leads to better product outcomes.
Discount Usability Testing for Agile TeamsBen Carey
A talk from Agile Roots in 2010. You can't get the whole picture or much context from the slides.
The last part of the talk was referring to how you'll be remembered and your legacy in a social-media-based world.
It would be unfortunate if your last status update was the one that you see in the facebook wall post.
Video from the talk will be posted later.
Adopting A Whole Team Approach To QualityBen Carey
A presentation give at Agile Carolinas on some things that I think are needed to build quality software.
The content of the presentation is in the presenter notes.
The document discusses how cutting budgets by an order of magnitude could spur creativity in software development. It suggests adopting an operating expenditure mindset over capital expenditure, following Agile principles, focusing on effectiveness over efficiency, and reducing meeting times, documentation lengths, and presentations. Doing more with less could apply to other areas and help build better software through different approaches.
TDD provides benefits beyond just testing code. Practicing TDD fosters empathy, both for other developers using an API and customers using software. It encourages designing APIs with the end user in mind. TDD also helps improve software quality by reducing complexity, enabling continuous integration, and facilitating learning through testing code in short iterations.
This document discusses testing with mock objects and provides guidance on their use. It notes that mocks are used to test in isolation by removing dependencies, and that mocks simulate object interaction while stubs simulate object state. Examples are given of scenarios where mocks are useful, such as distributed development and non-deterministic outcomes. The document recommends using mocks for developer tests but not acceptance tests, and lists some useful mocking patterns and resources for learning more.
Increasing Retail Store Efficiency How can Planograms Save Time and Money.pptxAnoop Ashok
In today's fast-paced retail environment, efficiency is key. Every minute counts, and every penny matters. One tool that can significantly boost your store's efficiency is a well-executed planogram. These visual merchandising blueprints not only enhance store layouts but also save time and money in the process.
Complete Guide to Advanced Logistics Management Software in Riyadh.pdfSoftware Company
Explore the benefits and features of advanced logistics management software for businesses in Riyadh. This guide delves into the latest technologies, from real-time tracking and route optimization to warehouse management and inventory control, helping businesses streamline their logistics operations and reduce costs. Learn how implementing the right software solution can enhance efficiency, improve customer satisfaction, and provide a competitive edge in the growing logistics sector of Riyadh.
Andrew Marnell: Transforming Business Strategy Through Data-Driven InsightsAndrew Marnell
With expertise in data architecture, performance tracking, and revenue forecasting, Andrew Marnell plays a vital role in aligning business strategies with data insights. Andrew Marnell’s ability to lead cross-functional teams ensures businesses achieve sustainable growth and operational excellence.
HCL Nomad Web – Best Practices and Managing Multiuser Environmentspanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-nomad-web-best-practices-and-managing-multiuser-environments/
HCL Nomad Web is heralded as the next generation of the HCL Notes client, offering numerous advantages such as eliminating the need for packaging, distribution, and installation. Nomad Web client upgrades will be installed “automatically” in the background. This significantly reduces the administrative footprint compared to traditional HCL Notes clients. However, troubleshooting issues in Nomad Web present unique challenges compared to the Notes client.
Join Christoph and Marc as they demonstrate how to simplify the troubleshooting process in HCL Nomad Web, ensuring a smoother and more efficient user experience.
In this webinar, we will explore effective strategies for diagnosing and resolving common problems in HCL Nomad Web, including
- Accessing the console
- Locating and interpreting log files
- Accessing the data folder within the browser’s cache (using OPFS)
- Understand the difference between single- and multi-user scenarios
- Utilizing Client Clocking
Massive Power Outage Hits Spain, Portugal, and France: Causes, Impact, and On...Aqusag Technologies
In late April 2025, a significant portion of Europe, particularly Spain, Portugal, and parts of southern France, experienced widespread, rolling power outages that continue to affect millions of residents, businesses, and infrastructure systems.
Artificial Intelligence is providing benefits in many areas of work within the heritage sector, from image analysis, to ideas generation, and new research tools. However, it is more critical than ever for people, with analogue intelligence, to ensure the integrity and ethical use of AI. Including real people can improve the use of AI by identifying potential biases, cross-checking results, refining workflows, and providing contextual relevance to AI-driven results.
News about the impact of AI often paints a rosy picture. In practice, there are many potential pitfalls. This presentation discusses these issues and looks at the role of analogue intelligence and analogue interfaces in providing the best results to our audiences. How do we deal with factually incorrect results? How do we get content generated that better reflects the diversity of our communities? What roles are there for physical, in-person experiences in the digital world?
AI and Data Privacy in 2025: Global TrendsInData Labs
In this infographic, we explore how businesses can implement effective governance frameworks to address AI data privacy. Understanding it is crucial for developing effective strategies that ensure compliance, safeguard customer trust, and leverage AI responsibly. Equip yourself with insights that can drive informed decision-making and position your organization for success in the future of data privacy.
This infographic contains:
-AI and data privacy: Key findings
-Statistics on AI data privacy in the today’s world
-Tips on how to overcome data privacy challenges
-Benefits of AI data security investments.
Keep up-to-date on how AI is reshaping privacy standards and what this entails for both individuals and organizations.
Dev Dives: Automate and orchestrate your processes with UiPath MaestroUiPathCommunity
This session is designed to equip developers with the skills needed to build mission-critical, end-to-end processes that seamlessly orchestrate agents, people, and robots.
📕 Here's what you can expect:
- Modeling: Build end-to-end processes using BPMN.
- Implementing: Integrate agentic tasks, RPA, APIs, and advanced decisioning into processes.
- Operating: Control process instances with rewind, replay, pause, and stop functions.
- Monitoring: Use dashboards and embedded analytics for real-time insights into process instances.
This webinar is a must-attend for developers looking to enhance their agentic automation skills and orchestrate robust, mission-critical processes.
👨🏫 Speaker:
Andrei Vintila, Principal Product Manager @UiPath
This session streamed live on April 29, 2025, 16:00 CET.
Check out all our upcoming Dev Dives sessions at https://community.uipath.com/dev-dives-automation-developer-2025/.
Enhancing ICU Intelligence: How Our Functional Testing Enabled a Healthcare I...Impelsys Inc.
Impelsys provided a robust testing solution, leveraging a risk-based and requirement-mapped approach to validate ICU Connect and CritiXpert. A well-defined test suite was developed to assess data communication, clinical data collection, transformation, and visualization across integrated devices.
AI EngineHost Review: Revolutionary USA Datacenter-Based Hosting with NVIDIA ...SOFTTECHHUB
I started my online journey with several hosting services before stumbling upon Ai EngineHost. At first, the idea of paying one fee and getting lifetime access seemed too good to pass up. The platform is built on reliable US-based servers, ensuring your projects run at high speeds and remain safe. Let me take you step by step through its benefits and features as I explain why this hosting solution is a perfect fit for digital entrepreneurs.
Designing Low-Latency Systems with Rust and ScyllaDB: An Architectural Deep DiveScyllaDB
Want to learn practical tips for designing systems that can scale efficiently without compromising speed?
Join us for a workshop where we’ll address these challenges head-on and explore how to architect low-latency systems using Rust. During this free interactive workshop oriented for developers, engineers, and architects, we’ll cover how Rust’s unique language features and the Tokio async runtime enable high-performance application development.
As you explore key principles of designing low-latency systems with Rust, you will learn how to:
- Create and compile a real-world app with Rust
- Connect the application to ScyllaDB (NoSQL data store)
- Negotiate tradeoffs related to data modeling and querying
- Manage and monitor the database for consistently low latencies
This is the keynote of the Into the Box conference, highlighting the release of the BoxLang JVM language, its key enhancements, and its vision for the future.
Quantum Computing Quick Research Guide by Arthur MorganArthur Morgan
This is a Quick Research Guide (QRG).
QRGs include the following:
- A brief, high-level overview of the QRG topic.
- A milestone timeline for the QRG topic.
- Links to various free online resource materials to provide a deeper dive into the QRG topic.
- Conclusion and a recommendation for at least two books available in the SJPL system on the QRG topic.
QRGs planned for the series:
- Artificial Intelligence QRG
- Quantum Computing QRG
- Big Data Analytics QRG
- Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation & Control QRG (coming 2026)
- UK Home Computing & The Birth of ARM QRG (coming 2027)
Any questions or comments?
- Please contact Arthur Morgan at [email protected].
100% human made.
TrustArc Webinar: Consumer Expectations vs Corporate Realities on Data Broker...TrustArc
Most consumers believe they’re making informed decisions about their personal data—adjusting privacy settings, blocking trackers, and opting out where they can. However, our new research reveals that while awareness is high, taking meaningful action is still lacking. On the corporate side, many organizations report strong policies for managing third-party data and consumer consent yet fall short when it comes to consistency, accountability and transparency.
This session will explore the research findings from TrustArc’s Privacy Pulse Survey, examining consumer attitudes toward personal data collection and practical suggestions for corporate practices around purchasing third-party data.
Attendees will learn:
- Consumer awareness around data brokers and what consumers are doing to limit data collection
- How businesses assess third-party vendors and their consent management operations
- Where business preparedness needs improvement
- What these trends mean for the future of privacy governance and public trust
This discussion is essential for privacy, risk, and compliance professionals who want to ground their strategies in current data and prepare for what’s next in the privacy landscape.
2. What We Will Cover What is Test-Driven Development (TDD)? Why should we use TDD? The TDD cycle TDD for integration projects A TDD episode with Microsoft ® BizTalk ® Server
3. Session Prerequisites General knowledge of BizTalk Server General knowledge of integration concepts A desire to know if your code works Level 200
4. Test-Driven Development Repeatable / automated tests Proving the system for various scenarios Feedback Incremental design Executable documentation
5. The Benefits of TDD Feedback Short cycles to knowing what works, what’s broken, and extended effects of modifications Flow Red, Green, Refactor It feels good. Courage Have confidence in your work and your purpose. Documentation It’s executable. Design Organic architecture Simplicity
6. The Test-Driven Cycle What do I need to do? How can I test it? Write a test (or a few). Watch it fail. Write some code. Watch it pass. Refactor if necessary. Repeat
7. Test-Driven Integration Start with acceptance / integration level tests. Integration tests usually take the bulk of the time (for both development and execution). Don’t worry so much about systems out of your control. Test at a finer-grained level if it makes sense (layered testing).
11. A Test-Driven Episode - Scenario Our Scenario… We are developers at FooCorp. FooCorp has been asked to develop a system that will aggregate weather data and find hazardous mountain conditions. We need to write a system that will pull data from various sources and input them into our system so that we can do trend analysis and make predictions.
14. Session Summary Discussion of what TDD really is Some key benefits of using TDD The test-driven cycle Using TDD for integration projects Demonstration of TDD with BizTalk
15. For More Information Agile EAI http://www.eaipatterns.com/docs/agileEAI.html Test-Driven Development in Enterprise Integration Projects http://www.hohpe.com/Gregor/Work/docs/ TestDrivenEAI.pdf www.testdriven.com
16. Additional Resources Framework for Rapid Test Case Development http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/ workspace.aspx?id=8353c433-5b5c-464d-9605-bd4220686850 NUnit http://www.nunit.org/
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