If you had some doubt about SCRUM and Agile development getting real in the software development world, here is an interesting chart showing the evolution of agile and SCRUM related job for the past 4 years. A picture is worth a thousand words and I guess this one clearly demonstrate a clear growing trend. We’re [...]
I’ve attended the first day of SOFTEC 2009 in Kuala Lumpur and I had a chance to listen for the first time to Lee Copeland. One of his presentation was about the 9 things the software testing community tends to forget. He looks at each of these ‘forgettings’, the negative effects of each, how recognizing [...]
While the Cloud platforms vendors (Amazon, IBM, Google, Rackspace etc.) are fighting to offer the cheapest and the most flexible environment for companies to use, we see some cloud testing services coming our way. After all James Whittaker did predict it, so it must be true While cloud computing for business is still in its [...]
For a company such as Experian, providing best of breed information,analytical tools and marketing services there is a real opportunity to match quickly new market requirements. The world is transforming itself and whoever is able to rapidly adapt, will emerge at the top of the pack. We need to act fast, deliver these new products [...]
On May 14th, Google has experienced one of its largest public outage. Not only Google homepage was down but it also affected most of Google’s services including Gmail, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google Apps and AdSense. Google has taken responsibility for the problem. Urs Hoelzle, SVP of Operation at Google, released the following statement: Imagine [...]
It looks like cloud computing is going to be very hot in 2009. After Amazon, Microsoft and Google, IBM is planning to make its push in the cloud computing space. This is definitely a good news for everyone looking to use these type of service. As mentioned in one of my previous post, this is [...]
As all my testing teams are geographically distributed, I am obviously always trying to maximize the effectiveness of our test hardware infrastructure while looking very closely at costs (especially in this tough economic environment). I’m particularly trying to reach optimum flexibility and scalability for our environment. All the products I’m responsible for are developed and [...]
