An Agile testing paradigm shift

Agile techniques are becoming mainstream as companies gear up to deliver the software they need to meet rapidly shifting consumer needs and intense competition. However, it’s also clear that many companies are struggling with testing in this new, agile world. “I’ve...

Go Agile for continuous delivery

Continuous delivery is a software-development paradigm that aims to put business requirements in control of the process. It thus recognises the fact that businesses rely on software for competitive advantage, and thus that software development has to be achieved in...

Converged storage makes business agile

Kathy Gibson reports from the Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai – A converged storage infrastructure lets companies deploy one operating system across various storage topologies. Ruiqi Fan, president of the IT storage line at Huawei Technologies, outlined the...

Agile experts at Wits Fak’ugesi Festival

Software and technology projects challenge most organisations’ from a scoping, cost and quality perspective. In its first Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Festival event in August 2014, Wits University and the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) bring two project...

Agile testers must develop new mind-set

Testers have a vital role to play in the agile world, but in order to do so, they need to develop a distinct mind-set. Speaking at a workshop hosted by IndigoCube, Janet Gregory, a leading international expert in agile testing, outlined the characteristics of an agile...