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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

In many organizations, automated testing lags behind and becomes a bottleneck for successful continuous delivery. Either tests do not provide enough confidence or companies take a very traditional approach, resulting in releases either introducing substantial risks or becoming costly. Prerequisites. Independent.

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Well-tested code: in search of meaningful coverage

CircleCI

If you work anywhere near the field of software development, you’ve likely already heard that you should always write code that is well-tested. Everyone wants to have well-tested code and for a good reason! Testing ensures our code is working as intended and protects against regression. Testing techniques.

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Quality Control: Using Acceptance Testing to Guarantee Product Quality

Altexsoft

In software development, quality control exists alongside two other concepts: quality assurance (QA) and testing. Quality Assurance vs Quality Control vs Testing. The differences might not have much meaning for particular organizations or projects, who prefer to call all these processes QA or testing.

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Quality Assurance (QA) Testing & the Business Impacts of Software Quality

Gorilla Logic

As the pace of software-driven innovation expands, organizations often struggle to balance the need to deliver business value at speed and scale with the need to deliver consistent, reliable, and performant software products. What does the QA function do in a cross-functional development team? Test planning.

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Continuous deployment without downtime

CircleCI

Often you can find information on how to adopt DevOps practices like continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment, but there isn’t as much information on what could go wrong and how to handle those challenges. First, let’s note that continuous delivery is different from continuous deployment.

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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

Honeycomb

Namely, that LLMs are black boxes that produce nondeterministic outputs and cannot be debugged or tested using traditional software engineering techniques. Maybe not Software is traditionally assumed to be testable, debuggable, and reproducible, depending on the flexibility and maturity of your tooling and the complexity of your code.

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Discover 2022 DevOps trends with CircleCI data report

CircleCI

Focusing on testing, whether it’s practices like test-driven development (TDD), or integrating validation into your normal development process at all phases of the SDLC, will give you confidence, even when headcount is low. This automation is the critical path to achieving change validation.

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