2014 – Page 4 – Eye on Quality

Test automation that lets you have it all? Eliminating the time/cost/risk trade-off with Scriptless Testing.

Anyone involved in a QA project understands the competing pressures of delivering high quality business applications and the business realities of schedule pressures, cost and resource constraints, along with the need to balance the risks associated with the decision matrix that these competing issues force. We all know how a project timeline works; the QA… Continue reading Test automation that lets you have it all? Eliminating the time/cost/risk trade-off with Scriptless Testing.

Finding Resource Leaks in Windows Processes with Microsoft Performance Monitor

Summary Performance monitoring is built into the Windows operating system and every metric available is being constantly monitored, whether you choose to view it or not. There are many different built-in tools that will allow you to view this performance data such as Taskgr.exe, Perfmon.exe, or Typeperf.exe. You can also access this performance data through code inside… Continue reading Finding Resource Leaks in Windows Processes with Microsoft Performance Monitor

Increasing the Velocity of DevOps with Automated Mobile App Testing

The burgeoning science of DevOps comes to the forefront at a critical moment in IT’s history. The mobility wave has stretched the technical difficulty of both ends of the application development process – defining requirements at one end – and testing the robustness of the finished app at the other. In prior app delivery cycles,… Continue reading Increasing the Velocity of DevOps with Automated Mobile App Testing

Webinar Recap: Achieve Continuous Integration/Delivery with HP ALM, Jenkins, and Skytap

In today’s hyper-competitive markets, businesses must constantly strive to develop, test, and release better software faster. One of the best ways we’ve found to make this difficult task possible is by embracing “continuity”—one of the decade’s fastest growing buzzwords. This means continuously integrating, testing, and delivering new applications. This past Tuesday, we hosted a webinar… Continue reading Webinar Recap: Achieve Continuous Integration/Delivery with HP ALM, Jenkins, and Skytap

Software Centers of Excellence Foster Quality Assurance

Quality is an inherent goal of every software project, but reality can get in the way of achieving it. Between the desire to curtail costs and the drive to get solutions and services out the door and into the hands of customers, organizations may inadvertently―or even knowingly―allocate less time to testing than is needed for… Continue reading Software Centers of Excellence Foster Quality Assurance

Do You Really Need to Jailbreak?

In a white paper Orasi recently published on its website, our mobile team dug into the question of using jailbroken devices and the risks this approach poses for mobile software testers. We thought it would be interesting to explore these issues here, as well. Jailbreaking is a term that has always had negative connotations for… Continue reading Do You Really Need to Jailbreak?

Geometric Value in Continuous Integration

One of the most important measurements in software development is related to the defect queue. I don’t mean simply the count of defects. A queue has a depth, latency, service time and throughput. The depth is the count of issues assigned to a team or person. The latency tells you how long an issue sits… Continue reading Geometric Value in Continuous Integration

A Look at Today’s Cyber Security Threats

Understanding the link between information security awareness training & today’s cyber environment The strength of being human is our ability as a species to adapt to our environment. Over the course of a lifetime, we humans will experience many different environments and our ability to understand and recognize the threats within an environment successfully dictates whether… Continue reading A Look at Today’s Cyber Security Threats

Is Your Enterprise Experiencing Groundhog Day?

In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays the roll of Phil Connors, a regular Joe who wakes up each day to find out that he is reliving February 2nd all over again—and he’s the only one aware of the time loop. To take advantage of this phenomenon, knowing that there will be no long-term… Continue reading Is Your Enterprise Experiencing Groundhog Day?