Test Automation

Tutorials

TA Continuous Delivery: Rapid and Reliable Releases with DevOps

Bob Aiello, CM Best Practices Consulting

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 8:30am

DevOps is an emerging set of principles, methods, and practices that enable the rapid deployment of software systems. DevOps focuses on lowering barriers between development, testing, security, and operations in support of rapid iterative development and deployment. Many organizations struggle when implementing DevOps because of its inherent technical, process, and cultural challenges. Bob Aiello shares DevOps best practices starting with its role early in the application lifecycle and bridging the gap with testing, security, and operations.

TG Software Design for Testability

Peter Zimmerer, Siemens AG

Tue, 11/11/2014 - 8:30am

Testability is the degree to which a system can be effectively and efficiently tested. This key software attribute indicates whether testing (and subsequent maintenance) will be easy and cheap—or difficult and expensive. In the worst case, a lack of testability means that some components of the system cannot be tested at all. Testability is not free; it must be explicitly designed into the system through adequate design for testability.

Concurrent Sessions

BT16 Automating End-to-End Business Scenario Testing

Sandra Alequin, Allstate Insurance

Monika Mehrotra, Infosys, Ltd.

Thu, 11/13/2014 - 3:00pm

Allstate Insurance had a problem. While thoroughly testing each of their more than thirty business systems, they were still failing to provide good service to their clients, agents, and internal customers. The reason was simple. Implementing end-to-end business processes requires more than just running data through a set of separate systems.