Test Case Calamity

One question. Do you manually create your test cases? If the answer is yes, you might want to turn away now as our research has turned up some pretty ugly conclusions. We looked at a large multi-national financial services company and a number of examples of how their development teams approached test case design. As… Continue reading Test Case Calamity

I need a TDM team, but how do I staff it?

My name is Jessica Toton. I’m a senior consultant at Orasi Software. The first six years of my career, I was a PL/SQL developer for custom Oracle projects. Over the last 7 years, I’ve been leading Oracle Development and Test Data Management teams. I’ve been a consultant for the last 8 years and have worked… Continue reading I need a TDM team, but how do I staff it?

QA Automation within CD Pipeline

One of the best ways to improve the quality of IT solutions is to leverage automation, to shorten the iterations between changes and validation. Let’s start with the tools available to a modern software developer. In the diagram above, a developer has some code ready to go and they have an approved change ready to… Continue reading QA Automation within CD Pipeline