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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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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. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver. It can be a cost-effective approach.

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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.

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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. Synthetic Testing versus Real User Activity. With Synthetic Testing, we continuously get information about the availability of the system. We create these tests to detect issues fast and predictably. Conclusion.

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Build cloud infrastructure from your CI pipeline with Pulumi

CircleCI

Managing that interaction with the cloud is part of what cloud engineering is all about. 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.

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

Strategic Tech

If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. The best thing is, this type of culture comes almost for free when you treat developers extremely well (as discussed previously). Chances are they won’t do yours.

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Is the Paved Road right for you?

Xebia

This could include building the code, testing, building images, scanning the images for vulnerabilities and, finally, publishing those images. You can run code compliance checks, unit tests, and even test the Docker images as part of your pipeline. Find out how easily the code can be built and tested. Conclusion.