Uruguay, Latin America’s best hub for software development
This small South American country of 3.4 million people is a global leader in software exports. With more than 1000 active software development companies, progressive politics, and amazing opportunities, Uruguay has earned international recognition.
Quality Sense Podcast: Ashley Hunsberger – Leading Agile Transformation at Blackboard
This week’s Quality Sense guest has been at her company now for 16 years, but in that time she has had the chance to assume several different roles that allowed her to explore her interests, lead others, and help the company grow. Ashley Hunsberger started…
Quality Sense Podcast: Sumit Agarwal – DevOps and Testing
In today’s Quality Sense episode, Federico has a conversation all about DevOps and testing with Sumit Agarwal, the Lead Cloud Architect for a global fin-tech leader with over $4.5 billion in revenues that helps clients get ahead of today’s challenges. Listen to today’s episode where…
We Want our DevOps Venn Diagram Circle Back – Plus One!
In this guest post, Agile test experts, Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, share their views on DevOps and Software Quality Close to a decade ago, the DevOps movement grew out of agile development. It was defined as the intersection of “Dev”, “Ops”, and “QA”. (Source:…
The 3 Fast and the Furious Agile C’s
Breaking Down Agile and DevOps Practices: The “Continuouses” Software development is like NASCAR racing. Both require velocity, and in software development, it’s about developing, testing, and fixing issues at a speedy yet sustainable pace to avoid a crash and burn. And like driving a car,…
Testing as the Driver Towards a DevOps Culture
Lessons learned from helping organizations foment a DevOps culture through Agile testing practices At Abstracta we work with many companies, several of whom already have a DevOps culture and others whom we’ve helped to define and promote it. Over the years, we’ve seen DevOps gaining…
The First-Timer’s Guide to the O’Reilly Velocity Conference 2018
What to know before you go Three years ago, I left Uruguay and embarked on a new journey: to introduce Abstracta’s software quality solutions to the US. The team and I started to do so by attending events like TechCrunch Disrupt and Velocity by O’Reilly….
Why So Much Talk Around DevOps Culture?
DevOps is taking software development by storm… Here’s what it means for testers. DevOps is a little word that has become very much the trend. It comes from uniting the words Development and Operations, with the idea of joining two worlds between which there is…
Not Convinced Yet About “Shift-Left Testing”?
From quality assurance to quality engineering: Why you should use shift-left testing If you work in the software industry, you’ve most likely heard about “shift-left testing” from conferences, blog posts, industry publications, co-workers, etc. With Agile practices (including TDD, BDD, and CI) and DevOps increasing…
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