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Solutions for Testing Blockchain: Private Blockchains, Permutations, and Shifting Left
Blockchain is an emerging software architecture that has the potential to be a big disruptor in the industry. With change however, comes the added risk of quality issues. As developers and test engineers, we need to be prepared for those changes to better adapt to the new technology and allow for the continued development of software and products through it, without compromising on quality.
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Using API-First Development and API Mocking to Break Critical Path Dependencies
Teams are using API mocking to break critical path dependencies and enable what were serial execution sequences into parallel paths. This article looks at where mocks should be used for the greatest impact and provides a model to estimate the effect of implementing API mocking and an API-first approach.
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Are Canary Releases an Alternative to Testers?
Canary releases enable product owners to check how a new feature is getting adopted by users by rolling it out to a small percentage of users and then incrementally rolling it out to a wider audience. Product owners might feel tempted to discontinue or reduce testing upon adopting canary releases, but decisions should be approached cautiously as they can have serious and unintended consequences.
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The Fundamentals of Testing with Persistence Layers
Mocking out dependencies such as databases and other persistence layers leads to ineffective tests. Unfortunately, our industry is also focused on function-level testing to the exclusion of all else, so few are trained on how to write any other type of test. This article seeks to correct the issue by reintroducing the concept of testing with databases.
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Improving Speed and Stability of Software Delivery Simultaneously at Siemens Healthineers
In this article, we focus on the software delivery process at Siemens Healthineers Digital Health. The process is subject to strict regulations valid in the medical industry. We show our journey of transforming the process towards speed and stability. Both measures improved at the same time during the transformation, confirming research from the “Accelerate” book.
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Software Testing in the World of Next-Gen Technologies
The introduction of next-gen technologies like AI, Big Data, Robotics and IoT have quickly redefined the way the world looks at software technology. Some of the biggest impacts of these changing trends can be seen in the software testing industry. This article discusses how these emerging technologies need some new approaches, and changes to existing approaches to software testing.
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Improving Testability: Removing Anti-Patterns through Joint Conversations
Code is always testable, but the cost may be high, and the effort exhausting. We can change code to be highly testable by identifying anti-patterns and fixing them. And developers can make the code fit the test requirements, by having discussions with the testers who actually test it.
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A Journey in Test Engineering Leadership: Applying Session-Based Test Management
This article shows how modifying Session-based Test Management to our context helped us gain more visibility into our testing. Having a structured yet flexible approach to test management allowed us to make better, more timely decisions about the testing, and gave us more opportunities to influence quality decisions earlier in the process.
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Leverage the Cloud to Help Consolidate On-Prem Systems
A cloud model can be used to architecturally validate the possibility of consolidating multiple application servers into a smaller number of physical resources that will ultimately remain on-prem.
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Moving into "Modern Test Leadership"
Test management is dead; it just really needs to evolve. Test Leadership means focusing more on raising the awareness of testing across an organisation, and coaching/mentoring your team to be passionate advocates for quality. As a test leader, you need to learn to adapt to remain relevant, take time to self-reflect on what is important to you, and build personal leadership values.
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Validation of Autonomous Systems
This article introduces validation and certification as well as the general approval of autonomous systems and their components, such as those used in automation technology and robotics. It gives an overview of methods for verification and validation of autonomous systems, sketches current tools and show the evolution towards AI-based techniques for influence analysis of continuous changes.
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Enhance Your Testing Strategy with Mind Map-Driven Testing
Mind map-driven testing can enable testers to focus on test idea generation, it exposes you to your thinking and enables you to brainstorm and organize your ideas effectively. This article shares ideas and knowledge about mind maps and shows how they can be used as lean documents to plan, organize, record, present, and report on testing.
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