Michael Dubakov at TargetProcess makes a great philosophical as well as technical case for where the craftsmanship of software development must head in 2011 and beyond, and I love it. Basically, it’s about doing the right things right, and fast. That may sound simple but I agree with Michael, on the top line it shouldn’t [Read More →]
This is part two of a five part series where we will present five distinct challenges that if left unaddressed will drastically reduce an organization’s ability to gain the benefits promised by a move to Agile development methods. For complex modern applications, a single pass through the software build-test-deploy process can consume a substantial amount [Read More →]
This year, we are thrilled to welcome partners to the main stage at Electric Cloud’s annual customer event, Summit 2011. Partners presenting this year at the Summit include IBM, HP, VMware, Cisco, Perforce, Eucalyptus, Symphony Technology Services, VaraLogix and RightScale. Stay tuned for presentations and highlights of the partner panels and sessions.
Why do some men use a razor every morning?
The last mile of the software development process, deployment, is especially prone to being slow, brittle, and manual. Without automation, it is nearly impossible to take advantage of virtualized and cloud compute infrastructure. CM Crossroads asked me to write a piece on what we are seeing in our customer base and what to look for [Read More →]
[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 →]
