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Reducing Verification Lead Time by 50% by Lowering Defect Slippage and Applying AI/ML Techniques

Can we increase our flexibility? Can we increase our test coverage? Can we increase our efficiency? And is it possible to reduce our verification lead-time by 50%? One company challenged itself with these questions. This article explores two important “‘pillars”’ of their testing strategy: shifting left and using state-of-the-art techniques to support verification activities.

Paul Derckx
on Aug 21, 2023
Culture & Methods

Actionable Green Choices for Your Software, Your Products, and You

Climate change is no longer just a huge worry cloud hanging over our heads. There are solutions, choices, and actions we can take - for ourselves, our children, and the future. This article gives you information about some of those choices: some bare glimpses into the art of the possible; others are tried and tested methods with known outcomes.

Joanna Masraff
on Jul 27, 2023 1
Culture & Methods

Debugging outside Your Comfort Zone: Diving beneath a Trusted Abstraction

This article takes a deep dive through a complex outage in the main database cluster of a payments company. We’ll focus on the aftermath of the incident - the process of understanding what went wrong, recreating the outage in a test cluster, and coming up with a way to stop it from happening again, and dive deep into the internals of Postgres, and learn about how it stores data on disk.

Chris Sinjakli
on Jun 07, 2023
Culture & Methods

Data-Driven Decision Making - Software Delivery Performance Indicators at Different Granularities

Optimizing a software delivery organization is not a straightforward process standardized in the software industry. Getting the organization to analyze the data and act on it is a difficult undertaking. This article presents insights into how a socio-technical framework for optimizing a software delivery organization has been set up and brought to the point of regular use.

Vladyslav Ukis
on May 23, 2023
Culture & Methods

Start Your Architecture Modernization with Domain-Driven Discovery

Successful projects start with robust discovery. What if your project is modernizing your tangled old legacy system or migrating all your workloads to the cloud? This article presents a guided approach to starting your next architecture modernization project with a Domain-Driven Discovery (DDD), illustrated with a medical supply company that is migrating its core systems to the cloud.

Ryan Shriver
on May 12, 2023 4
Culture & Methods

Assessing Organizational Culture to Drive SRE Adoption

SRE adoption is greatly influenced by the organizational culture at hand. This article describes how to assess the organizational culture in terms of production operations at the beginning of the SRE transformation. It provides a roadmap of small culture changes accumulating over time, and shows how the leadership facilitated the necessary culture changes

Vladyslav Ukis
on Apr 04, 2023
Culture & Methods

How Skyscanner Embedded a Team Metrics Culture for Continuous Improvement

This article explains why Skyscanner decided not just to deploy a tool, but to think about this as changing their engineering management culture to being one that values and utilises metrics to drive greater improvement at scale. It shows how they evaluated tools to find one that would enable their teams and reinforce the cultural change that was the fundamental goal of this exercise.

Ramsay Ashby Laz Allen
on Mar 08, 2023
Culture & Methods

Moving towards a Future of Testing in the Metaverse

In this article, Tariq King describes the metaverse concept, discusses its key engineering challenges and quality concerns, and then walks through recent technological advances in AI and software testing that are helping to mitigate these challenges. To wrap up, he shares some of his thoughts on the role of software testers as we move towards a future of testing in the metaverse.

Tariq King
on Feb 24, 2023
Culture & Methods

How I Contributed as a Tester to a Machine Learning System: Opportunities, Challenges and Learnings

Have you ever wondered about systems based on machine learning? In those cases, testing takes a backseat. And even if testing is done, it’s done mostly by developers themselves. A tester’s role is not clearly portrayed. Testers usually struggle to understand ML-based systems and explore what contributions they can make. This is a journey of assuring quality of ML-based systems as a tester.

Shivani Gaba
on Feb 16, 2023 1
Culture & Methods

Secure Delivery: Better Workflows for Secure Systems and Pain-Free Delivery

The software delivery process has been transformed in the last decade; we’ve adopted well-understood workflows around functions such as testing, release management and operational support. In this article we'll explore the impact that security workflows have on software delivery, explain the root causes and share battle-proven techniques to show how we can make delivering secure software easier.

Chris Rutter
on Feb 10, 2023
DevOps

Hard-Won Lessons from the Trenches: Failure Modes of Platform Engineering — and How to Avoid Them

Platform Engineering is a hot topic with many orgs hoping to reap the benefits. However, it is easy to go astray. This article reviews the common pitfalls of building a platform and how to avoid them.

Aaron Erickson
on Feb 08, 2023
Culture & Methods

How to Measure the Energy Consumption of Bugs

Software engineers should accept their responsibility for taking energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions into account when developing software; they have a big responsibility towards nature, our environment and sustainability. This article sheds light on how software engineers can this perspective into account, zooming in on energetic shortcomings or bottlenecks of bugs.

Jan Reimann
on Jan 11, 2023