Is there anything you can do if your phone number was breached (other than getting a new phone number)?
Self managed teams became popular with the agile movement in software development. However, there isn’t a lot of advice on what it means to manage teams, nor what managers should do when a team self manages. (There is a lot of advice on coaching and organization culture.)
Line management has…
In 2016, Dan Ashby wrote a blog post, ‘Continuous Testing in DevOps’. The post included a hand drawn sketch of the DevOps loop and a modification on how to include testing. Dan explained that this meant testing in all parts of the DevOps model. …
Monitoring has been a very important concept in network or infrastructure operations for a long time. It has got much more attention in DevOps as part of the feedback loop on operations.
I happened to sit in on a few DevOps/Ops engineers, talking about monitoring, to a junior engineer, among…
Agile software development radically changed the nature of software creation. One of the hallmarks of agile is the creation of small increments of end user functionality as opposed to creating software in one or few large portions. Agile also included many other innovations such as starting with confirmatory tests as…
Good ideas in software testing endure, despite changes in technology and development approaches. In 1988, Cem Kaner first described a ‘defect catalog’ for software in his landmark book, Testing Computer Software. …
There are different interpretations of the term, ‘DevOps’. However, in the DevOps values — CAMS (Culture, Automation, Measurement, Sharing), culture is considered the most important value.
The methodology begins by looking for the right people or person to fulfill a needed role. Secondly, ensure that role’s process is correct and…
If you are an operations or infrastructure type engineer, testing may mean traditional “QA”, UAT or the newer test automation. An alternate way to think about tests is that you are asking a question about the software or infrastructure. The question is open ended — there is no definitive answer…
When testing API you use tools like Postman or write tests in Java, Python or another language. Reviewing defects reported by users, reveals critical techniques that you can use to test API. In this blog post, I review defects in a Python package to access Twitter, to get insights on…
What does it mean to test AI? If you look at the spam detection feature in your email, it sometimes works, less often doesn’t. Even if you flag items as not spam, some again show up in spam after some time. You could categorize that as a machine learning FAIL?
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