by Paul Hicks | Mar 7, 2019 | Automation, Blog, For Technology
As I wrote about earlier, I now have some of my GitLab CI/CD builds running in Docker containers on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), slowly chipping away at the US$500 credit I claimed from Google and GitLab. Getting that working was fairly easy, but not quite as easy...
by Paul Hicks | Mar 7, 2019 | Automation, Blog, For Technology, iQA - Develop
Scaling applications for changing workloads has previously been tricky. Having enough always-on VMs to handle any load is expensive, while having too few risks unwanted headlines when your application falls over. Kubernetes promises to solve this problem, but how do...
by Paul Hicks | Oct 5, 2018 | Automation, Blog
At IntegrationQA (iQA), we are advocates of building quality in, rather than testing defects out. But working within constraints can sometimes lead to the optimum solution. If a client tells us that testing before pre-production is impossible, then we must usually...
by Paul Hicks | Apr 27, 2018 | Automation, Blog, For Technology
The DevOps movement has produced many benefits in a short time: shorter lead times, greater intra-organizational communication, smaller feedback loops and more productive teams. It has also produced many myths and misconceptions. Here’s a few that I’ve...
by Paul Hicks | Feb 6, 2018 | Automation, Blog, For Technology
Explanations of the differences between the various “new” patterns and practices in software development can be found all over the internet. The Agile Manifesto, Humble and Farley, Allspaw and Hammond and dozens of other seminal publications contain the...
by Paul Hicks | Mar 9, 2017 | Automation, Blog, For Technology
The reason I was inspired to write this series is because I recently came across the test strategy and test plan documents I wrote for the customer during the first days of the engagement. They had sat unused in an email folder since originally delivered, as such...
by Paul Hicks | Mar 8, 2017 | Automation, Blog, For Technology
In the first part of this series, I described how we worked with a risk averse organization to achieve their test automation targets while leading them to a culture more accepting of change. We were working with a more confident project management organization now....
by Paul Hicks | Feb 9, 2017 | Automation, Blog, For Technology
Many of our customers come to us with a clear target and want us to help them achieve it. Often they have set their sights too low, and we try to convince them to aim higher. This is the story of one customer with no in-house development capabilities, and whose...
by Paul Hicks | Jun 2, 2016 | Automation, Blog, Delivery
You don’t need to adopt every recommended tool and practice to become a great DevOp organization. You just need to be willing to try new things, to make mistakes and to share your experiences with the rest of the organization. And to see what this means and how...
by Paul Hicks | Dec 9, 2014 | Automation, Blog, Parasoft, Quality Assurance
Parasoft SOATest enabled IntegrationQA’s integrated web interface and service testing solution to dramatically cut system test time AMS, a leading smart meter and meter data management provider in New Zealand, was suffering expensive delays in promoting pending...
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