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Configure Once, Run Everywhere: Decoupling Configuration and Runtime
Configuration is one of the most widely used cross-cutting concerns in application development. Apache Tamaya is a new incubator project that brings standardized property management to Java.
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Beyond Page Objects: Next Generation Test Automation with Serenity and the Screenplay Pattern
Automated acceptance testing reduces time wasted in manual testing and bug fixing, and when combined with Behaviour-Driven Development, can guide development effort. But it requires skill, practice and discipline. The Screenplay Pattern helps teams address these difficulties and is where you may end up by mercilessly refactoring Page Objects using SOLID design principles.
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Faster, Smarter DevOps
Moving your release cadence from months to weeks is not just about learning Agile practices and getting some automation tools. It involves people, tooling and a transition plan. Derek Weeks discusses some of the benefits and approaches to getting there.
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Immutable Layers, Not (Just) Infrastructure
How splitting applications and infrastructure into separate immutable layers speeds up deployment times and increases resource density, while keeping the benefits of immutable infrastructure.
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Thread – An Open Standard Protocol for Home Automation
The Internet of Things is poised for huge growth. Along with SMAC (Social, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud), it’s one of the key building blocks of digital technologies and superior digital customer experience. As IoT gets more matured there is the need for a standardization of network protocols used in IoT. With Thread, Google invented a protocol to easily connect various devices in your home.
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Q&A with Matthias Marschall on Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook Update
InfoQ asked Matthias Marshall what's new in the 2nd edition of his book and his view on the evolution of the configuration management tool space.
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Q&A on the book Leading the Transformation
In the book Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale executives Gary Gruver and Tommy Mouser share their experiences with applying lean and agile development methodologies in enterprise development teams.
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Developing Test Automation Scripts and Automation Frameworks
In the article Alexander responds to the questions about the difference between test frameworks and test scripts and discusses an approach for how test a automation solution could be implemented.
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Infrastructure Code Reviews
As infrastructure becomes code, reviewing (and testing) provides the confidence necessary for refactoring and fixing systems. Reviews also help spread consistent best practices throughout an organization and are applicable where testing might require too much scaffolding.
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Version Control, Git, and your Enterprise
This article is about understanding Git – both its benefits and limits – and deciding if it’s right for your enterprise. It is intended to highlight some of the key advantages and disadvantages typically experienced by enterprises and presents the key questions to be contemplated by your enterprise in determining whether Git is right for you and what you need to consider in moving to Git.
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Q&A on Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Tests
An interview with Gojko Adzic, David Evans and Tom Roden on why they wrote this book, how quantifying quality can support testing, balancing trust levels when testing large and complex systems, why automating manual tests is almost always a bad idea, on using production metrics in testing, how to reduce or prevent duplication in test code, and on upcoming books in the fifty quick ideas series.
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How Agile Has Changed Test Management
Agile methods have many traditional test management activities built into them. With desired agile team traits like self-organising, role blurring and skill diversification, the nature of test management is changing. We have to question whether the role of Test Manager should exist in effective agile organisations and how the activities which have long made up the role are divested?