Continuous Testing (CT) is often described in terms of unit tests. Performance tests deserve to be in CT, too, though. While performance testing has its challenges, the right understanding makes it possible not just to fit performance into CT, but to make t...
Today I will give a few examples of cases that are not big enough to warrant a full-time performance tester, where traditional functional testers and test groups stepped up to do the work. I’ll show you what I did, teach you how to do it, and, alo...
Your agile team might think that the developers collaborate with developers and testers collaborate with testers. However, the more the various people collaborate across specialty, the better the product can be. And, they might be able to finish the work fa...
Distributed tracing has the potential to take application monitoring and performance testing to new, unimagined levels. Seeing everything across the entire landscape of application activity, static and ephemeral, is a game-changer.Distributed tracing has th...
Initially developed for the Facebook News Feed, today GraphQL is powering APIs from companies such as Atlassian, Credit Karma, GitHub, Intuit, KLM, Pinterest, Shopify, The New York Times, WordPress and Yelp. While it is a transformational technology, it req...
Virtualized container use in software application development and deployment is increasing across nearly all industry verticals. Containers provide advantages of virtualization without draining computing resources. When used in the testing process, containe...
Kubernetes is fast becoming the go-to open-source technology for container orchestration at the enterprise level. It not only allows IT departments to deploy containers at scale automatically, but also ensures that those containers will run reliably in a fa...
Ephemeral computing is the practice of creating a virtual computing environment as a need arises and then destroying that environment when the need is met, and the resources are no longer in demand. You pay only for what’s used, when it’s used. ...
Ephemeral computing makes sense; the simple fact is that more companies want to maximize the expense of computing: Nobody wants to pay for computing power that goes unused. Ephemeral computing lets companies pay only for the computing power they need, exact...
The digital infrastructure of the modern IT enterprise is a complex place. New forms of automation are required to support an enterprise that’s growing beyond the capabilities of human management. Once such technology that is appearing on the digital ...
Service Mesh technologies such as Istio, LinkedD and Conduit are becoming common on the microservice landscape. A Service Mesh is a layer of architecture in the cloud native environment that handles communication between microservices. Working in the cloud ...
Edge computing is becoming more prominent in application design, particularly with the growth of the Internet of Things. Making IoT devices responsible for some aspects of application logic reduces operational costs. This is good, but it also creates a haza...