InfoQ Homepage Artifacts & Tools Content on InfoQ
-
Creating and Nurturing an Intentional Remote Culture
Company culture isn’t built in the short term, nor can it be imposed. It’s deeply rooted in the founders’ ideologies and behaviours around work. From there, it grows and evolves organically as the company hires individuals who embrace these values, and who also bring their own identity into the mix.
-
Report Validates Impact of Visual AI on Test Automation
Empirical data from 288 quality engineers across 101 countries provide insight and credibility behind a report demonstrating the benefits of Visual AI in the field of test automation. The report comes from Applitools, a company that sells functional and visual testing tools using visual AI.
-
Storybook 5.3 Released, Targets Design Systems, Supports Web Components
Storybook 5.3 was recently released and strives to allow developers to build production design systems faster. Storybook users can now document their components with MDX, have a documentation site automatically generated, and integrate with popular design tools like Sketch, Figma or Adobe XD. Storybook 5.3 also now officially supports web components.
-
Reducing Build Time with Observability in the Software Supply Chain
Tools commonly used in production can also be applied to gain insight into the CI/CD pipeline to reduce the build time. Ben Hartshorne, engineer at honeycomb.io, gave the presentation Observability in the SSC: Seeing into Your Build System at QCon San Francisco 2019.
-
Lessons from an Ex-Project Manager Turned Product Manager
To survive as a product manager, you need to put strategy first and be able to balance it alongside being heavily involved in delivery. All ideas need testing, and you need to truly listen to your customers to deeply understand their problems, said Emma Sephton. She shared her lessons learned from becoming a product manager at the Agile Greece Summit 2019.
-
Spring Boot Project-Creation-Tool, Spring Initializr, Gets Several New Updates
Spring Initializr received several updates and additions including the addition of a highly requested feature, a project explorer. They also included a refactored and redesigned project generation API and a newly redesigned UI.
-
How Design Systems Support Team Communication and Collaboration
By using design systems, design teams can improve their workflow, reuse their knowledge, and ensure better consistency, said Stefan Ivanov. They allow one to fail faster and to speed up the iteration cycle, enable spending more time collecting user feedback in the early stages of product design, and reach the sweet spot of a product market fit much faster.
-
Open Source Testware for Systematic IoT Testing: Eclipse IoT-Testware
The project Eclipse IoT-Testware is delivering free open-source test tools and programs for the industry and companies developing Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions. At TestCon Moscow 2019 Axel Rennoch, senior scientist at Fraunhofer FOKUS, spoke about quality assurance for IoT.
-
Observability in Testing with ElasTest
In a distributed application it is difficult to use debugging techniques common in developing non-distributed applications. Bringing production observability to your testing environment helps to find bugs, argued Francisco Gortázar at the European Testing Conference 2019. He presented ElasTest, a tool for developers to test and validate complex distributed systems using observability.
-
Strategic Partnership Announced Between Atlassian and Slack: HipChat to Be Discontinued
Atlassian announced that they are entering into a strategic partnership with Slack on July 26, 2018, and will no longer offer their own real-time communications products Hipchat Cloud, Hipchat Data Center, Hipchat Server, and Stride. The partnership enables them to extend existing integrations between their tools and co-build new ones.
-
Testing Software with Artificial Intelligence
Advances in computer vision algorithms and the application of modern artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have made writing visual tests practical. With AI in testing, autonomous testing becomes possible. The boring and rote tasks will be delegated to the AI so that the tester can do the thinking.
-
Automating Visual Testing with Appraise
Developing applications where the look and feel is key for success might help to automate visual testing. Appraise, an open source tool on Github licensed under MIT, applies the approach of specification by example to visuals. It helps teams to review and approve changes to web pages using visual inspection.
-
WebAssembly Studio: An Online WASM IDE Tool from Mozilla
WebAssembly Studio is an online tool developed by Mozilla and used to compile C/C++ and Rust code into WASM.
-
DevOps Workbench Launched by ZeroStack
Private cloud provider, ZeroStack, has announced a self-service capability from which developers can create their own workbenches. Forty developer tools from a mix of open source and commercial providers are available to users of the DevOps Workbench through Zerostack’s Intelligent Cloud Platform.
-
How Do We Automate Testing?
Test automation will demand time and attention, but when done the right way, is worth the investment. Don’t overdo automation; instead, focus on the needs and requirements. Having clean and easy-to-read code is very important to keep your test suite maintainable.