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My Testing and Code Analysis Toolbox

Last week we kicked of a “Testing Skill Group” at LINEAS, a group for exchanging knowledge about testing. One question that came up over and over again...

1 replies - 5826 views - 12/12/11 by Jens Schauder in Articles

The 5 Whys/Root cause analysis – Douglas Squirrel

At XP Day I was chatting to Benjamin Mitchell about the 5 whys exercises that we’d tried on my team and I suggested that beyond Eric Ries’ post on the...

1 replies - 3100 views - 12/12/11 by Mark Needham in Articles

10 Goals Related to DevOps

Looking for a "DevOps Manifesto" to help guide your own organizational transiton?  Well, there's no 'manifesto' out there like we have for Agile and...

1 replies - 3481 views - 12/09/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Doing DevOps "Before it was Cool"

We caught up to Eric Minick of UrbanCode at the Agile 2011 conference and asked him how he has been involved with the DevOps movement before it really had a...

0 replies - 4047 views - 12/07/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

It’s time to clean up your mess: refactoring Cucumber step definitions

This week I decided to look through my features/step_definitions folder after reading Aslak Hellesøy’s post from Wednesday about removing web_steps.rb. I...

1 replies - 2525 views - 12/06/11 by Pat Shaughnessy in Articles

The Agile and DevOps Band-Aids

I just read a great InfoWorld blog post by Neil Mcallister, “DevOps – IT’s latest paper tiger” http://t.co/l3VMXEfU. Neil contends, “no...

1 replies - 2484 views - 12/06/11 by Steven Romero in Articles

Application Performance Testing: From Conception to Gravestone

Performance testing of software systems is discussed frequently as an episodic activity that is accomplished once per production release as the final step in...

0 replies - 3534 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

Why Load Testing From The Cloud Doesn't Work

Web sites and web applications have transformed business. They are crucial to your company’s bottom line, whether you are involved in e-commerce, have a...

0 replies - 3498 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

DevOps – Break Down The Wall

Instead of escalating wars between departments by driving them to ever more ambitious, local goals, we need to break down the wall between development and...

0 replies - 2172 views - 12/01/11 by Matthias Marschall in Articles

Manage Non-Cloud Dev+Test Environment With a Cloud Hat On

Over the years I've moved from Production to Test to Development and back to Production. This presentation is a summary of my...

0 replies - 4118 views - 11/28/11 by Patrick Debois in Articles

Dev+Ops+Org - How we are including (almost) everyone

Abstract John Clapham and Paul Swartout: The presentation will give an insight into how the whole of Nokia Entertainment has embraced DevOps: The Journey:...

0 replies - 4267 views - 11/26/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Video: DevOps & IBM with Pete Marshall & Peter Spung

It seems that concepts related to DevOps are starting to become more mainstream.  This interview, featuring IBM's Pete Marshall and Peter Spung at Innovate...

0 replies - 1753 views - 11/26/11 by David Pell in Articles

Everything I learned about CI , I learned from System Administration

Abstract Julian Simpson: Before I donned my secret identity as The Build Doctor, I was a average Solaris administrator (okay, I spent too much time playing...

0 replies - 5126 views - 11/25/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Rolling Forward and other Deployment Myths

There is more and more writing on Devops lately, which is good and bad. There still remains a small core of thoughtful people that are worth listening to and...

1 replies - 2639 views - 11/24/11 by Jim Bird in Articles

The Resistance Against Requirements Specifications

Martin Fowler re-posted this article from 2004: Tests are always going to be incomplete, so they always have to be backed up with other...

0 replies - 4781 views - 11/23/11 by Krishna Kumar in Articles