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Seven Essentials for DevOps Success[article] The success of DevOps depends on the team’s ability to have the right mix of human judgment, culture, process, tools, and automation. Here are seven essentials to help you be cautious and prepare for your DevOps journey. |
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What Are the Uses for a Vulnerability Scanner?[article] Today's hyper-connected world calls for extreme vigilance and knowledge of the ever-present threat of cyberattacks. These cyberattacks typically exploit vulnerabilities to breach your networks. What better way to prevent these attacks than to conduct regular vulnerability scans? |
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Choosing the Right Testing Metrics[article] Testing always looks to provide more information in order to have less uncertainty and better control over risk, but that information has to be analyzed carefully.
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Why Security Vulnerability Assessments Are Necessary[article] The growing menace of cybercrime has necessitated vulnerability assessments and testing. They help organizations understand their security flaws and work toward mitigating them. |
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Three Ways to Help Developers Embrace Testing[article] Development teams that shift testing left discover bugs earlier, enhance developer productivity, and increase release velocity by avoiding the long and costly delays that occur when bugs are discovered at the end of the development cycle. Shifting left creates faster feedback loops and allows for faster bug remediation. |
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Java for QA Automation Engineers: How to Learn?[article] If you are a manual tester and want to be a QA automation engineer, learn Java and programming via these 10 steps. |
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Let’s Focus More on Quality and Less on Testing [article] In order to understand a tester's value, we need to look at the role and understand the impact of the changing development process on this role. |
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5 Essentials to Ensure QA Fits Perfectly into DevOps[article] DevOps is the preferred methodology for software development companies looking to code, build, test, and deploy software as a continuous process. It is popular because it creates a fast-paced, results-oriented, collaborative environment that encourages cross-skilling and self-improvement. |
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As Test Automation Matures, So Do False Positives[article] In life and in test automation, a lot of things change as you mature—the challenges you face, the types of failures you experience, and the best ways to solve them. Let’s skip the “life lessons” and focus on the test automation angle here |
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Java Performance Testing with Your Own Tool[article] Performance testing is an important procedure to be carried out before approving any software product for shipment. You’ve probably heard some horror stories from senior colleagues about a time when the system was shipped without any performance testing. So now, it is an essential part of your testing. There are various tools for implementing performance testing for non-GUI middleware systems, but there are times we don't have the liberty to choose from an existing set of tools for performance testing |
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5 Steps to Get to Test Driven Development [article] TDD is a software development approach in which a test is written before writing the code. When TDD is properly set up, it can bring numerous advantages and become a cost-saver, providing true value to the business. When TDD is not properly set up or without understanding how it should be used, it can be a waste of time and money. Quality comes not from inspection but from the improvement of the production process |
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Most Common QA Myths[article] One of my mentors, whom I admire, once told me, "Quality is not only QA's responsibility; everyone- from development engineers to technical architects, to product managers need to share the responsibilities. In a QA role, if you want to be successful, you have to know the right amount of information from everyone and always ask questions." I took my mentor's advice very seriously. |
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The Art of Exploratory Testing[article] Some people assume that exploratory testing is a task with low-effort thinking, where the tester simply goes through the application and sees what comes up. While we shouldn't discount doing just that, because sometimes it does reveal some interesting bugs, there are techniques and patterns that testers can follow when exploring an application. Let's look at a two-step process to use in exploratory testing. |
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Wish-List Ideas for Software Testing Research[article] There are many established ideas for ways to test software, but the industry is changing every day, and there's plenty of room for growth of new ideas—or challenges to traditional ones. Here are three ideas for "wish-list" research to conduct in order to shake up some of the conventional notions you may have about software testing techniques. |
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A Primer on Continuous Testing[article] Continuous testing shortens feedback loops through automated testing that occurs throughout the development lifecycle—hence "continuous." Testing and QA become the responsibility of everyone working on the software, not just testers. Let's look at some proven practices from organizations that have used continuous testing effectively to realize tangible benefits. |
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