by Kavithaa Rajendran | Jun 10, 2019 | Automation, Blog, For Technology
There are many unit testing frameworks available for testing, my aim with this presentation is to share some of our team requirements, the options available and a technical overview of the framework we implemented. Hopefully it will save you some time if embarking on...
by Paul Hicks | Mar 7, 2019 | Automation, Blog, For Technology
As I wrote about earlier, I now have some of my GitLab CI/CD builds running in Docker containers on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), slowly chipping away at the US$500 credit I claimed from Google and GitLab. Getting that working was fairly easy, but not quite as easy...
by Paul Hicks | Mar 7, 2019 | Automation, Blog, For Technology, iQA - Develop
Scaling applications for changing workloads has previously been tricky. Having enough always-on VMs to handle any load is expensive, while having too few risks unwanted headlines when your application falls over. Kubernetes promises to solve this problem, but how do...
by Paul Hicks | Oct 5, 2018 | Automation, Blog
At IntegrationQA (iQA), we are advocates of building quality in, rather than testing defects out. But working within constraints can sometimes lead to the optimum solution. If a client tells us that testing before pre-production is impossible, then we must usually...
by IntegrationQA | Oct 2, 2018 | Automation, Blog, Delivery, Experiments, For Teams, For Technology
Few IT executives are unaware of the gains contemporary development practices can bring. Yet for large organisations there is a chasm between the reality of legacy bound divisions and the dreams of frequent, valuable releases. But even small experiments can...
by Paul Hicks | Apr 27, 2018 | Automation, Blog, For Technology
The DevOps movement has produced many benefits in a short time: shorter lead times, greater intra-organizational communication, smaller feedback loops and more productive teams. It has also produced many myths and misconceptions. Here’s a few that I’ve...
by Paul Hicks | Feb 6, 2018 | Automation, Blog, For Technology
Explanations of the differences between the various “new” patterns and practices in software development can be found all over the internet. The Agile Manifesto, Humble and Farley, Allspaw and Hammond and dozens of other seminal publications contain the...
by Neisha Kindley | Sep 11, 2017 | Automation, Blog, For Technology, News, Parasoft
Posted by Mark Lambert Let’s face it. Nobody really likes to do unit testing. I’ve had people come up to me at conferences with stories and stories of how much they hate it. And while there are some people who are good at it, for the majority of us, it is...
by Paul Hicks | Mar 9, 2017 | Automation, Blog, For Technology
The reason I was inspired to write this series is because I recently came across the test strategy and test plan documents I wrote for the customer during the first days of the engagement. They had sat unused in an email folder since originally delivered, as such...
by Paul Hicks | Mar 8, 2017 | Automation, Blog, For Technology
In the first part of this series, I described how we worked with a risk averse organization to achieve their test automation targets while leading them to a culture more accepting of change. We were working with a more confident project management organization now....
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