May 9, 2020 bestdevops Software Leave a comment

Latest Parasoft Software Testing Suite Release Strengthens DevOps Team Collaboration

Source:-aithority.com Parasoft Showcases New Product Capabilities for DevOps and Remote Work Team Initiatives at STAREAST Virtual Conference 2020 Parasoft, a global leader in automated software testing for over 30 years, announced the 2020.1 releases of Parasoft’s enterprise solutions: SOAtest, Virtualize, and Continuous Testing Platform (CTP). The new features in the product suite strengthen DevOps team collaboration, making it simple for customers to manage virtual services more effectively as part of the test environment. Parasoft added key capabilities to enable remote

May 8, 2020 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Checkmarx Scores Highest for DevOps/DevSecOps Use Case in 2020 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Application Security Testing Report

Source:-businesswire.com NEW YORK & RAMAT GAN, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for DevOps, today announced that it ranked highest for the DevOps/DevSecOps use case in the 2020 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Application Security Testing report. Checkmarx was also recently recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing based on analyst research and named a 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Application Security Testing based on customer reviews. Gartner Critical

May 7, 2020 bestdevops Software Leave a comment

Latest Parasoft Software Testing Suite Release Strengthens DevOps Team Collaboration

Source:-wfmz.com Parasoft Showcases New Product Capabilities for DevOps and Remote Work Team Initiatives at STAREAST Virtual Conference 2020 MONROVIA, Calif., May 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Parasoft, a global leader in automated software testing for over 30 years, today announced the 2020.1 releases of Parasoft’s enterprise solutions: SOAtest, Virtualize, and Continuous Testing Platform (CTP). The new features in the product suite strengthen DevOps team collaboration, making it simple for customers to manage virtual services more effectively as part of the test

November 12, 2019 bestdevops AWS Leave a comment

The major hybrid cloud options compared: AWS Outposts vs Azure Stack vs Google Anthos

Source:-arnnet.com.au Now that all of the major public cloud providers have a clearly defined hybrid cloud solution on the market we can start to compare the different approaches from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Hybrid cloud is an enterprise IT strategy that involves operating certain workloads across different infrastructure environments, be it one of the major public cloud providers, a private cloud, or on-premise, typically with a homegrown orchestration layer on top. Multi-cloud is a similar idea

November 7, 2019 bestdevops Google Cloud Leave a comment

Your crash course on zero-coding ML: An introduction to Google Cloud and its AutoML services

Source:-yourstory.com “What is the first thing you do when you are watching YouTube and the page is not loading?” asked KC Ayyagari, Startup Ecosystem Manager – India, Google Cloud for Startups. Not surprisingly, many said, they would check the internet connection. An answer that KC expected. “That’s right, most people take it for granted that YouTube will always be up and running. So, we at Google have built the capability to manage that expectation. And, how we have been able

October 28, 2019 bestdevops GitHub Leave a comment

When to Choose GitLab Instead of GitHub?

Source:-demotix.com Git, as everyone knows, is a distributed version control system that is used to track changes in the source code during the phase of software development. Unlike the client-server systems, the Git directory is a repository that stores the complete history and has tracking abilities as well. Another great thing about Git is that it is independent network access and acts as a central server.Being the free and open-source software, Git is getting more and more popular. But the biggest challenge is

September 20, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

The use of open source software in DevOps has become strategic for organizations of all sizes

Source:-helpnetsecurity.comA higher percentage of top performing teams in enterprise organizations are using open source software, according to a survey conducted by DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) and Google Cloud. Additionally, the proportion of Elite performers (highest performing teams) nearly tripled from last year, showing that DevOps capabilities are driving performance. These findings reflect organizations’ increased willingness to embrace investments in technology to deliver value and the use of open source – even in highly regulated, traditionally cautious industries such as financial services. Openness

August 4, 2018 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

How Can DevOps Enable Your Software Testing efforts?

Source – devops.com Digital transformation is not an easy task for business enterprises. There are myriad issues to conquer, such as department silos, legacy systems and a well-entrenched work culture that often refuses to align with the business goals. Needless to say, the imperatives of reaching out to the market quickly and with quality products often are not achieved because of these issues. To eliminate the bottlenecks that end up blighting business enterprises, a growing number of organizations are adopting DevOps,

July 18, 2018 bestdevops Agile, DevOps Leave a comment

Applying DevOps and agile to embedded testing

Source – devopsonline.co.uk When people talk about testing, it generally applies to all types of software testing. However, if you look at a bit more in detail, there are some areas of testing that claim their own space and embedded testing is one of them. It is an area that deserves to be treated as a specific case due to the particularities of the requirements and of the skills needed. With the evolution of the development and testing practices towards agile

April 13, 2018 bestdevops Agile, DevOps Leave a comment

Adoption of continuous testing in DevOps and Agile cultures

Source – techtarget.com It takes an all-encompassing cultural shift to realize continuous testing in DevOps and Agile teams. All team members must understand and embrace responsibility for quality, but testers — the champions of quality — should lead this transformation. Rely not on technical skills to encourage continuous testing in DevOps teams, but rather on leadership skills, specifically communication, collaboration and creativity. DevOps and Agile call for communication up, down and across the company. Testers collaborate with multiple, diverse groups to achieve

March 31, 2018 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Application Testing is Making a Comeback for Agile DevOps Teams

Source – business2community.com “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges.” In the classic film, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, this line was spoken by a group of bandits who clearly didn’t need law and order on their side. Today, one could easily picture a different type of bandit that has been disrupting application development and coding, uttering something very similar. “Testing? We don’t need no stinking testing.” Yep, for a few years now, it has seemed like agile developers and

November 21, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Why domain experts are vital for DevOps test automation

Source – techtarget.com At a recent DevOps test automation conference, a participant in a panel discussion suddenly interrupted himself and looked out at the audience. “How many of your companies have a shadow IT?” A few hands tentatively went up, and he explained further: “How many of you have people outside of IT, in the functional groups, manufacturing, marketing, accounting, who are constantly doing unexpected things with your applications? Are they using them for different purposes, entering nontraditional data, even writing their

June 29, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps Leave a comment

Is quality assurance holding back your agile development efforts?

Source – itworldcanada.com Does the software testing process hamper your ability to introduce new applications quickly enough to meet market demand? For an overwhelming number of companies, the answer is yes. Quality assurance experts insist it’s a problem that has to be solved if they are to see the results of digital transformation. All of the work that companies are doing in agile and rapid development can be undone by traditional software testing methods. The need for more rapid development is

June 28, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

A new DevOps survey underscores demand for automation

Source – searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com Software testing toolmaker LogiGear Corp. just released a new DevOps survey, and based on the results, it is clear there is lingering confusion about the development methodology. One DevOps survey participant summed it up: “Agile and Scrum were concrete processes that led to tangible and positive results in the workplace. On the other hand, I have yet to understand the term DevOps, except as a meaningless buzzword that has had zero effect to our work processes.” According to

April 8, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Change is the Focus: QA in the DevOps Era

Source:- capgemini.com There is a popular business adage that states, “Fast, Good, Cheap: pick any two”. But what if you want it all? I definitely want to ensure good quality, in little time and at the lowest cost. Therein lies the challenge. Throughout the product development lifecycle, we face bottlenecks that often prevent us from having it all. Today, Agile and DevOps introduce timeboxed development and continuous integration, which means shorter development cycles and more frequent releases. This results in

April 7, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, DevOps Process Leave a comment

Why we always start with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

Source:- 126kr.com Ten years ago, researchers and cutting-edge developers had to argue that software testing was part of the process of writing software, not a nice to have depending on the budget. Nowadays, it is almost always accepted that shipping an application (or a feature) is an inherent bundle including code, tests and documentation. Open Source software have been written that way for decades and thanks to GitHub, which generalized Open Source good practices, things got a lot better. In

April 1, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Process, DevOps Tools, Test Driven DevOps Leave a comment

Has DevOps changed the role of a tester?

Source:- hackernoon.com DevOps, should be the replacement of process, in the form of out-of-date Wiki pages, the one person in the team that knows how to configure the servers correctly, or that person you always go to in order to fix the database issues, with automation. Everything-as-code. Infrastructure-as-code, Networking-as-code and database-upgrades as code. But in this world of everything-as-code, whose responsibility is it to test it? Does the role of the tester still have to be limited to the core

March 3, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, IT trends Leave a comment

Control Costs: Use Cloud Test Environments

Source:- sys-con.com There is no more effective way to reduce your overall test environment spend than to migrate to cloud test environments and embrace testing and infrastructure automation. The nature of test environments is inherently temporary—you set up an environment, run through an automated test suite, and then tear down the environment. If you can reduce the cycle time for this process down to hours or minutes, then you may be able to cut your test environment budgets considerably. This

March 2, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps Process Leave a comment

The Value of Service Virtualization for Agile and DevOps Teams

Source:- techwell.com In our current software development and testing landscape, it’s critical to pinpoint and eliminate as many bottlenecks as humanly possible. If there’s something along your regular development lifecycle that can be tweaked or moved around for the sake of greater speed and better quality, it’s a no-brainer to make that move. If you’re looking to remove these constraints, service virtualization should be high up on your list of things to take advantage of in 2017. The idea is

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