Quality Data for Quality Testing

Technology can be an accelerator, but, if not properly tested, it can bring everything to a halt… Software is often intended as an accelerator, to make lives easier while driving up efficiency and efficacy. However, as organizations and individuals come to depend on software more, the greater the impact when it fails. This has been… Continue reading Quality Data for Quality Testing

Grid-Tools Webinar: Quality Data for Quality Testing

We have a natural instinct to improve, automate, and make ourselves more efficient in our daily tasks. Take washing our clothes for an example. For years, washing clothes was a mundane task involving a washboard and hours of manual labour which rarely resulted in a high quality clean. Today, we automate the process using a… Continue reading Grid-Tools Webinar: Quality Data for Quality Testing

Autotrader uses AppDynamics to Solve Performance Issues in Production

There is a common theme among the stories told by our new enterprise customers freshly adopting our AppDynamics platform. As their application grows in scale to meet their customer demands, their time to diagnose performance issues were painfully increasing, too. Operations and development teams slowly seemed to come to accept an untrue reality that solving… Continue reading Autotrader uses AppDynamics to Solve Performance Issues in Production

The New Grid-Tools Webinar Series: ‘Lunch and Learn’

Grid-Tools Lunch and Learn webinar series is back by popular demand! Each month we will be hosting a webinar on a variety of different topics, from technical demonstrations to broadcasts which focus on ROI and business benefits. If you would like to be sure that you get the invites to the webinars then click here… Continue reading The New Grid-Tools Webinar Series: ‘Lunch and Learn’

Forget your own waistline and get your business data in shape this year!

By Becky Saunders, Technical Writer at Grid-Tools We all make New Year’s resolutions usually when we’re nursing hangovers, full up on turkey and mince pies and feeling a couple of stone heavier! But New Year resolutions don’t have to stop at making improvements to ourselves, we can bring new ideas and processes to our jobs… Continue reading Forget your own waistline and get your business data in shape this year!

IT for People, Not People for IT

by Nora Jacques, Brand Journalist at Intact Technology Imagine a project in which everyone understands their role, they know what success looks like, and they’re working synchronously to achieve results. A project that is fully supported by the executive level and where the business actually understands and embraces the value the project will provide. We… Continue reading IT for People, Not People for IT

Breaking Through Fusion14

by Nora Jacques, Brand Journalist at Intact Technology If there’s one thing that we’ve learned over the years, it is that powerful things can be accomplished when people unite for a cause and push through resistance, beyond challenges and BREAKTHROUGH! In the conversations we had at our booth at Fusion14, and through the surveys we… Continue reading Breaking Through Fusion14

Understanding Performance of PayPal as a Service (PPAAS)

By Steve Sturtevant, Sales Engineer at AppDynamics In a previous post – Agile Performance Testing – Proactively Managing Performance – I discussed some of the challenges faced in managing a successful performance engineering practices in an Agile development model.  Let’s continue this with a real world example, highlighting how AppDynamics simplifies the collection and comparison… Continue reading Understanding Performance of PayPal as a Service (PPAAS)

Agile Performance Testing – Proactively Managing Performance

Just in case you haven’t heard, Waterfall is out and Agile is in.  For organizations that thrive on innovation, successful agile development and continuous deployment processes are paramount to reducing go to market time, fast tracking product enhancements and quickly resolving defects. Executed successfully, with the right team in place, Agile practices should result in… Continue reading Agile Performance Testing – Proactively Managing Performance

Choosing a Testing/Requirements Tool – from a tester/user perspective

Practice what you preach. As a tester it is easy to review someone else’s requirements and find issues but what if you’re forced to create your own requirements? I was asked to put in requirements for a test data management tool and then a lot of things started to go through my mind. What functions… Continue reading Choosing a Testing/Requirements Tool – from a tester/user perspective