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Use Canary Deployments to Test in Production
Companies use "Canary Deployments" to test software in production by routing a subset of users to new functionality as part of continuous delivery according to Nolio in their 1st video in a series about DevOps Best Practices. A "Canary Deployment" is a type of incremental release performed by deploying a new version of software side by side with its production version counterpart.
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Stripe Open Sources Abba, an A/B Testing Framework
Stripe has open sourced their JavaScript A/B testing framework called Abba.
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Trends in the latest Technology Radar
ThoughtWorks's latest "Technology Radar" focuses on mobile, accessible analytics, simple architectures, reproducible environments, and data persistence done right.
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Community-Driven Research: Top Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Toolsets
InfoQ's research initiative continues with an 13th question: "Top Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Toolsets". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Twitter Open Sources Clutch
Clutch enables developers to write hybrid applications for iOS and to run A/B test experiments on iOS and Android devices.
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Pradeep Soundararajan on the Negative Effects of Enforced Manual Testing
In his blog “Tester Tested!” Pradeep Soundararajan recently published an interesting show case called "Story from a company that built "the best software testing tool". The blog author describes what happens if for business reasons testers are forced to perform tests manually in a "boring" routine activity.
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Anthony F. Voellm Discusses Testing 2.0 at the Google Testing Blog
In his recent posting "Testing 2.0" at the Google Testing Blog, Anthony F. Voellm is discussing the evolution of testing. While some experts might believe, almost all research in testing already has been done, Voellm anticipates what he calls “Testing 2.0” . This evolution of testing could comprise aspects such as automation of complex decisions on quality issues.
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Automated UI Testing in .NET
Recently DevExpress announced that they are the first third-party control vendor to achieve full support for Coded UI. So we decided to take this opportunity to talk about Coded UI and how it can play a role in building a comprehensive automated test suite.
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Smart Continuous Test-Runner For .NET – For Free
Mighty-Moose, a continuous build and test-runner for .NET, now comes free of charge.
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Thoughtworks Technology Radar March 2012
ThoughtWorks recently published the latest update to its Technology Radar; a report produced to help technology decision makers understand emerging trends in software development techniques, tools, languages and platforms. There are some interesting observations of interest to Agile software development teams.
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Coverity: Open Source Code Has Fewer Defects than Commercial One
A Coverity study concludes that open source code using static analysis has on average a lower number of defects than commercial code, but they are on par when it comes to code of similar sizes.
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Automated Testing Solutions for Android
There are a number of automated testing frameworks or tools for Android applications, including but not limited to Activity Instrumentation, MonkeyRunner, Robotium, or Robolectric. LessPainful is providing automated tested on real devices as a service.
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Stephen Walther on Integrating JavaScript Unit Tests
Automated testing frameworks need both a good test library and a good integration story. While most JavaScript testing frameworks have been focusing on the former, Stephen Walther has been working on a solution to the integration problem.