In a lot of ways, developer-time testing is a solved problem. Not to say that test-driven development is always easy. There are still plenty of people and technical issues to sort through when you decide to start testing your application aggressively. That said, I think that bringing testing into every aspect of your software development Read more…
A one-minute screencast on using the Cloud ROI Calculator to determine the costs between a Automated Cloud Operations team and a Traditional Operations team. Read more…
Use ROI calculator to determine amount you’ll save in moving to a 100% automated cloud operations environment Read more…
The “impossible” four-minute mile was accomplished by Sir Roger Bannister on a windy day in May of 1954. Now you can do it too. It is not that complicated when you think about it: just run four consecutive quarter-mile sprints in under sixty seconds each. Okay, so maybe the actual execution isn’t trivial. But his Read more…
“Fuzzing” is a concept that has been in use for many years, mostly with in-house testing departments, and its effectiveness can have a profound effect on your code quality. In an IBM DeveloperWorks article, Elliotte Harold presents this testing technique for hardening applications against unexpected input – and shows what happens when he deliberately injects Read more…
There is an interesting thread on InfoQ entitled “Opinion: Code Coverage Stats Misleading” where the author states that coverage reports do not provide adequate confidence on testing efforts. It’s a good read– I also recommend checking out my article dubbed “Don’t be fooled by the coverage report” which uses code examples to show how misleading Read more…