Quality assurance. Quality at speed. Agile Agile Testing Application Development Application Development Continuous Testing DevOps Quality assurance Quality at speed agile software development continuous delivery continuous integration MORE

I recently had the chance to spend some time with some senior technology leaders in Sydney discussing the need for quality when delivering digital business outcomes. With the growing need for speed, many businesses sacrifice quality for speed. Your Quality Assurance and Testing practices must adapt to digital business too - testing needs to be able to accelerate development - not slow it down. MORE

But this emphasis on speed can have the unintended consequence of developers focusing less on other development objectives, like quality. But this mindset can lead to low quality applications development and time-consuming rework. MORE

Company CTO Infrastructure Companies Business Chief Information Officer Data center Database Delphix Quality assurance Software as a service Software testing Applications are core to the enterprise; they drive nearly every aspect of the business. The typical F1000 CIO completed 46 application projects in 2013, and on average, 28 of these 46 projects were over budget and behind schedule. That CIO also spends an average of 40% of her annual budget on applications. MORE

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Typical warehouse performance and data quality measures include: Speed and volume of data extract. Data enters the warehouse from operational systems either directly or via transferred extract files. This data is collected daily via a snapshot process at the end of regular business cycles. Metrics include total data volume, CPU and elapsed time used for each MORE

DevOps provides your business leaders, enterprise architects, developers and I&O leaders a philosophy to achieve, not only the velocity that customers desire but also drive innovation and enforces quality. Key performance metrics such as such as availability, the number of features added are used to measure the speed and quality of how these product centered teams work. Quality. MORE

Quality Assurance links the business and technical requirements to the delivered solutions. One of my clients is faced with retooling its IT workforce as a wave of employees approach retirement. MORE

One of the reasons why organizations have a Quality Assurance department is to manage risk. In a complex software product, quality, or the risk of poor software product, can really be a challenge for an organization. Have you ever stopped to think how well Quality Assurance is doingSpecifically the risk that software is broken when it's delivered to customers. MORE

With promises of incredibly fast queries, many IT shops implemented one or more big data applications in combination with high-performance hardware and software suites. Results have been generally good: many installations report incredible decreases in query elapsed times, sometimes by factors of 100 or more. Such improvements translated to faster results from analytical queries as well as a better MORE

More businesses now use enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for quality assurance management. If you are still using manual processes for quality assurance, ERP could improve the operational efficiency of your business. This software lets managers identify mistakes in the production cycle and ensure products are consistent, safe and effective. MORE

It comes when quality and acceptance criteria isnt well defined. The Quality Assurance Analyst must comprehend the full scope to help define the testing approach. Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Monday, October 10, 2011. MORE

Businesses that are not able to deliver with agility and quality fall behind. Quality assurance operations: Relying on prolonged manual testing as opposed to building a robust, automated suite for acceptance testing. MORE

They must understand and practice Quality Assurance. Because in order to deliver production quality software at the end of an iteration, developers must participate in the testing process. Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. MORE

External quality assurance. Information Technology Projects. Why do we consistently promise too much and then fail to deliver on information technology and other government projects? MORE