A few days ago, we announced one of our many recent new ElectricCommander customers – FamilySearch. This is very exciting – the world’s largest genealogy organization powering their development cloud using ElectricCommander! Read all about this announcement here.
[A version of this article appeared on eWeek http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/How-to-Make-Your-Automated-Software-Tests-Truly-Automatic/] A recent poll of software development professionals showed that the majority would rather be doing their taxes than dealing with their company’s test infrastructure. The reason: automated software tests require tremendous amounts of manual time and energy to configure, run, and monitor. This can be a [Read More →]
[posted on behalf of Usman Muzaffar, who is on a long flight with no WiFi] Here’s a sobering truth that shows up often in software automation: people are way better at sharing stuff than computers are. For example: say you have a scarce resource, like a box with special hardware or a service with serial [Read More →]
[This is a guest post from an Electric Cloud technology partner: Daniel Nelson, VP of Products at Phurnace Software (www.phurnace.com)] In the software development lifecycle the results need to ultimately get out into production. The application must make it onto the server, the server needs to be configured and all of the properties, paths and [Read More →]
Planning to head to JavaOne this week? Stop by our booth in the Expo Hall and say hello. We’ll have product experts on hand to show you our latest and greatest solutions for Java development. Come see us at booth #304. http://java.sun.com/javaone/
Efficiency sure is popular, especially in the business of software development. NetApp would like to help you track storage efficiency. Nokia Siemens Networks hopes you’re thinking about network efficiency And Cisco points out that energy efficiency should be at the top of your cost-cutting strategy list. Infrastructure vendors are on a singular quest to improve [Read More →]
Agile is great. It seems that everyone is either adopting or talking about it (of course many of those will probably be perpetually adopting and talking). However not everyone is succeeding with Agile. One reason is that in order for Agile to work well you need highly experienced developers that are familiar with a broad [Read More →]
If you’ve ever worked on a significant software development project you’ve probably looked at some part of your process and said ‘we have to change this!’ More often than not the topic is the software production process: that problematic build-test-release cycle. We can all identify places where our process is slow or broken; so why [Read More →]
Andy Glew’s written a piece over on his blog opining about the need for automatic discovery of dependencies and some applications of having that data. Understanding dependencies is a requirement for any (reasonable) build tool, and all build tools allow the specification of dependencies – even shell script: specifying a serial order lets you define [Read More →]
Hello, my name is Dax Farhang. I am the Product Manager, responsible for ElectricCommander. From time to time I will post my thoughts on the software industry, the Software Product Management space, and Electric Cloud’s software solutions. I might even toss some darts at our competition if the appropriate mood sets in. Given that I [Read More →]
