InfoQ Homepage Articles
-
/articles/day-qa-dept-died/en/smallimage/logo.jpg)
The Day the QA Department Died
The role of QA is changing. In the waterfall world, QA teams, siloed away from developers, are slow and costly. Unit testing passes the responsibility for software quality to the developers and leads to better code, reducing reliance on a separate QA department. Is unit testing a better way to ensure software quality – the ultimate goal of QA?
-
/articles/MSBuild-1/en/smallimage/image_msbuild-gears1b.jpg)
Continuous Integration with MSBuild and Jenkins – Part 1
In this first of a two-part series, Mustafa Saeed Haji Ali looks at implementing a continuous integration system using MSBuild. Part two will how to integrate this into Jenkins, an extendable continuous integration server with support for a wide variety of operating systems and programming languages.
-
/articles/jason_zander_vstudio/en/smallimage/zander-article-logo.jpg)
Jason Zander on Visual Studio's Past, Present, and Future
InfoQ recently had an exclusive interview with Microsoft's Jason Zander to discuss the latest release of Visual Studio and the state of the project as a whole. The wide ranging talk covered everything from C99/C+11 standards compliance plans, to cross-platform support and how Microsoft tries to balance the needs of corporate developers with those of smaller, independent users.
-
/articles/mobile-architecture-html5-javascript/en/smallimage/mob.jpg)
Mobile Application Architecture with HTML5 and Javascript
David Pitt presents a guide to combining specific frameworks and structures for the basic functionality of HTML5-based mobile applications. He discusses the development considerations mobile devices require, difficulties necessary to overcome with HTML5 development, and a detailed example implementation of an HTML5-based mobile application with MVC architecture.
-
/articles/retro_handbook/en/smallimage/article-logo.jpg)
Interview and Book Review : The Retrospective Handbook
Patrick Kua has recently published The Retrospective Handbook which provides practical advice on how to make retrospectives much more effective. In this book Patrick draws upon his 8 years of valuable experience with retrospectives in real agile teams.
-
/articles/cap-and-cloud-data-management/en/smallimage/article logo.jpg)
CAP and Cloud Data Management
In this article, author Raghu Ramakrishnan discusses data management in the cloud and the tradeoff between consistency, availability and partition tolerance aspects of CAP theorem, which has become a key design factor in large scale data management systems. He also talks about Yahoo PNUTS system case study and concepts of Relaxed and Timeline consistency and Selective record replication.
-
/articles/wide-range-devops/en/smallimage/article-logo.jpg)
The Wide Range of DevOps
The changes necessary for DevOps adoption can be plotted on a timeline-style graph, where the extreme left represents traditional ops culture and practices, and the right represents a newer DevOps-style. In this view of the world, the question is not “Is your company practicing DevOps?” but instead is the more accurate “How strong of a DevOps culture has your company adopted?”
-
/articles/how-google-tests-software/en/smallimage/book-cover.jpg)
Interview and Book Review: How Google Tests Software
"How Google Tests Software" by James Whittaker, Jason Arbon and Jeff Carollo is a book that details exactly what is described on the cover. It is an informative and interesting look beneath the covers of how a large technical organization like Google deals with the complexity of software testing.
-
/articles/Transition-RDBMS-NoSQL/en/smallimage/big_data.jpg)
Transitioning from RDBMS to NoSQL. Interview with Couchbase’s Dipti Borkar
While relational databases have been used for decades to store data, and they still represent a viable solution for many use cases, NoSQL is being chosen today especially for scalability and performance reasons. This article contains an interview with Dipti Borkar, Director of Product Management at Couchbase, on the challenges, benefits and the process of migrating from RDBMS to NoSQL.
-
/articles/death-by-agile-fever/en/smallimage/logo.jpg)
Death by Agile Fever
Agile Fever is a condition that robs otherwise rational people of their common sense in regard to adoption and application of Agile based processes for developing software. Because the consequences of Agile Fever can be very impacting in terms of cost, schedule, and productivity, all software professionals have an obligation to educate themselves in recognizing the symptoms of the dreaded malady.
-
/articles/SaaSificationOfLegacyApps/en/smallimage/logo.jpg)
SaaS-ify Legacy Applications
Legacy applications can be difficult to move to the cloud, yet you may want to include them in your IT-as-a-Service strategy. This article discusses an approach to wrapping legacy applications for delivery as Software-as-a-Service.
-
/articles/Error-Reporting/en/smallimage/logo.jpg)
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.