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  • Automated Error Reporting: The Gateway to Better Quality

    Ignorance might be bliss, but it goes straight to the bottom line when it comes to software bugs. Those who can ferret out bugs and improve the quality of their software will be rewarded with greater customer trust, higher renewal rates, lower maintenance costs, and fewer opportunities for the competition. Laila Lotfi explains how automated error reporting aids in this endeavor.

    Laila Lotfi
    on Aug 28, 2012

  • The Pragmatic Architect - To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

    In this article, author Frank Buschmann talks about the architectural importance of the interaction between system components than within the components. He discusses three secrets of pragmatic architects: Uncover Hidden Domain Concepts, Be Where Things Meet and Use Uncertainty as a Driver.

    Frank Buschmann
    on Aug 24, 2012

  • Continuous Mobile Application Testing

    Given the onslaught of mobile devices and apps into the SDLC, fingers and eyeballs seem to be the only way apps can be tested right now. But manual testing drastically slows down the development process, leaves a huge margin for error, and ultimately lowers the team’s ability to release quality software in a short amount of time. Dan Bartow of SOASTA hopes to offer something better.

    Dan Bartow
    on Aug 21, 2012

  • Do we really need identity propagation in SOA and Clouds?

    Identity Propagation through Single Sign-On(SSO) has been assumed to be a panacea for all identity issues in SOA and Clouds. In this article, Michael Poulin raises questions around the business feasibility of propagation and proposes a delegate model of representation instead.

    Michael Poulin
    on Aug 20, 2012

  • Interview with Arun Murthy on Apache YARN

    Apache Hadoop YARN – a new Hadoop resource manager - has just been promoted to a high level Hadoop subproject. InfoQ had the chance to discuss YARN with Arun Murthy - founder and architect at Hortonworks.

    Boris Lublinsky
    on Aug 17, 2012

  • Mule ESB 3.3 Release and CloudHub

    MuleSoft, the company behind Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product Mule, recently released version 3.3 of the product. The new version's focus is to combine data integration with Mule's application integration capabilities and to deliver a solution for on-premise or cloud integration for developers. InfoQ spoke with Ross Mason and Daniel Feist about the new features and product roadmap.

    Srini Penchikala
    on Aug 15, 2012

  • Don't SCIM over your Data Model

    This opinion piece discusses three specific suggestions for improving the SCIM data model: 1. Both the enterprise client and cloud provider should map their internal IDs to a shared External ID, which is the only ID exposed through the API. 2. Multi-valued attributes of a resource must be converted from an array into a dictionary with unique keys. 3. 3 ways to improve the PATCH command

    Ganesh Prasad
    on Aug 08, 2012

  • A Brave New World of Testing? An Interview with Google's James Whittaker

    Cloud Computing is creating substantial changes to the usual way of doing business. How should organizations leverage this approach to improve testing and quality assurance of software? To get an answer, author Forrest Shull spoke with James Whittaker from Google about cloud computing testing.

    Forrest Shull
    on Aug 06, 2012

  • Defending against Web Application Vulnerabilities

    In this article, authors discuss the security in software development life cycle and how to defend against web application vulnerabilities using techniques like white-box analysis and black-box testing. They also talk about secure coding practices based on the defense-in-depth approach using three lines of defense: input validation, hotspot protection, and output validation.

    Nuno Antunes Marco Vieira
    on Jul 27, 2012

  • Cloud Computing Described Through The Analogy of (US) Thanksgiving Dinner

    This article explains Cloud computing using the analogy of US Thanksgiving dinner.

    JP Morgenthal
    on Jul 25, 2012

  • Introducing: Restful Objects

    Restful Objects is a public specification of a hypermedia API for domain object models. Version 1.0.0 of the specification has just been released and there are already two open source frameworks that implement the specification - one for the Java platform and one for .NET.

    Dan Haywood Richard Pawson
    on Jul 19, 2012

  • Book Review: Java Application Architecture

    Java Application Architecture: Modularity Patterns with Examples using OSGi is Kirk Knoernschild's seminal book on a pattern catalogue for modular systems design. Starting with an overview of the arguments for modularity, the main section in the book introduces eighteen categorised patterns for module development, and concludes with an OSGi example. InfoQ spoke to Kirk to find out more about it.

    Alex Blewitt
    on Jul 18, 2012
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