Tag: DevOps

My first programming job after college was for a garment maker in Slough, in the United Kingdom. We were a small team, and everyone had to do everything. My programming by day tasks were complemented by being “on call” one night per week and one weekend day per month. Arriving at the data center in the middle of the night, the first words I said to the operations team were always the same, “What changed?” I had learned, just as Newton had predicted, that software continued in its “uniform state of motion” unless acted upon by some external force. That

As business becomes increasingly digitized, it’s critical for teams to produce better quality, even as the complexity of applications to run your business on increases. And now do so in an hour or less. And in fact, you are going to have to be 800 times more productive (from a QA standpoint) if you want a world-class quality product moving from Agile to DevOps. You actually have to test 10 times more than you have been to cover everything your users are doing (substantially more than just your age-old “test coverage”). And achieve all of this without undue increased risk.