Health IT and Testing: will software development equalize access to quality healthcare?
Health IT, eHealth, Healthcare software development. The phenomenon has more and more names of its own and is crossing new horizons all the time. The IT universe is revolutionizing the healthcare system, and its possibilities are expected to have global repercussions. The quality of technology…
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…
Q&A with Lisa Crispin: Behavior-Driven Development and Continuous Delivery
In our recent webinar, you asked… Lisa answered! This month, we had the opportunity to have Lisa Crispin present her and George Dinwiddie’s ideas about BDD and CD; mainly how BDD can shorten feedback loops, how CD impacts BDD and things your team can try….
Webinar: BDD and CD with Lisa Crispin
Lisa shares why and how to align behavior-driven development and continuous delivery for better outcomes Continuous delivery (CD) is all about delivering small changes to customers frequently and without strain or stress for the team. A big part of this involves enabling shared understanding across…
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:…
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….
GeneXus Continuous Integration with Jenkins
Our step by step guide for using Jenkins in a GeneXus project In this post, we will guide you on how to achieve basic Continuous Integration using Jenkins in a GeneXus project. This is a fundamental step for improving your productivity and development process (even…
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…