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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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Article: Using Machine Learning for Fast Test Feedback to Developers and Test Suite Optimization

InfoQ Culture Methods

Software testing, especially in large scale projects, is a time intensive process. Test suites may be computationally expensive, compete with each other for available hardware, or simply be so large as to cause considerable delay until their results are available. By Gregor Endler, Marco Achtziger.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There’s huge variety between those two extremes, and there’s also a point where too much focus on design and not enough on delivery is hugely counter-productive as well. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary. So we need to make it part of everything we do. My experience is the opposite.

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Improve your Functional Monitoring with the Functional Monitoring Quadrants

Xebia

Functional monitoring is a crucial part of any successful Continuous Delivery implementation. We often see development teams having difficulty striking the right balance between different kinds of monitoring, focusing on observability primarily in terms of technical metrics like error rate. Functional Monitoring Quadrants.

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Build cloud infrastructure from your CI pipeline with Pulumi

CircleCI

To deliver applications cleanly, you need to manage infrastructure with pipelines just like you manage continuous delivery. You can bring the practices of application delivery to infrastructure as code with the maturity of cloud engineering. Getting started with cloud engineering using Pulumi and CircleCI.

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Why is Hiring so Hard? How to Improve Your Hiring Fortunes

Strategic Tech

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. 61 percent of C-suite executives believe access to developer talent is a threat to the success of their business. Tech Blog Encourage your developers to write posts on a tech blog. Hiring is so hard?—?finding

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Platform Engineering Essentials: 5 Key Learnings Before You Start

Xebia

Platform engineering can help organizations reduce cognitive load for development teams, and create a significant improvement in developer experience (DevEx) as well as several other areas. Test that the capabilities you want to deliver are actually desired by the teams. Build a pl atform b ased on an actual need.