Time and time again, skilled developers with good intentions set out into the green field of their new Rails app. Alas, as days turn to weeks, weeks to months and months to years, they find themselves with an ever increasing maintenance burden. Adding new features in a well-designed way starts …
Almost daily, we see reports of software failures that harm enterprises and impact the brand, putting software testing organizations and their efforts in the spotlight. Fortunately, testers are now in one of the most exciting times in the software industry’s history!
Learn from failures (and successes) around testing patterns and culture in a growing company, both in amount of code, and number of engineers. We’ll dive into how DISQUS adopted testing, and the many challenges we’ve had to overcome.
Software quality is a topic of importance throughout the world. Unfortunately software quality assurance groups are often understaffed for the work at hand, and also undercapitalized and under equipped. This presentation attempts to cover the known factors which influence software quality results, including methodologies, tools, and staffing levels.
There is a holy grail for Javascript developers: Getting a test suite up and running fast and have multiple browsers execute the tests. Getting the holy grail is damn hard. Look how much work Indiana Jones had to get it – and he didn’t even have program!
MAX is a company well known for practicing and advocating Continuous Delivery, but it hasn’t been a completely smooth journey. This talk describes how MAX safely continuously releases a production system processing $10 billion a day, confident that everything will be working when the markets open and highlight some of …
