Testing should not be a roadblock
To keep up with the competition, companies need to get new applications and upgrades to market faster. Testing cannot be a roadblock on this path.
The accessibility blog contains short pieces of news and thoughts on accessibility and usability. Accessibility covers making all of ICT easier to use by people with disabilities and challenges and how to make peoples lives easier by the use of ICT. Deeper examination of product and supplier matters appear in Peter Abrahams publications and articles for Bloor Research.
NoHow is the antidote to NoSQL
Declarative languages are becoming more and more prevalent for NoSQL
Testing and impact analysis
You need to understand how changes might impact on other parts of the system, because the former can break the latter.
Traceability in testing
In order to automate change you need the data, expected results and test scripts to automatically update, by virtue of their traceability back to requirements.
Automating reusability
By building up a library of reusable test assets functionality can be tested more rapidly by selecting components from this library
Responsive automation
So called "test automation frameworks" have to be able to respond to constant user demands. This process should be automated.
Mobile assumptions
Assumptions are always dangerous in IT. Assumptions about what mobiles are and how they are used (amongst others) are a particularly egregious example.
Not what I would call data preparation
Another one of my occasional digs at misleading marketing material, this time from CloverETL
Stylish Documents are Best – A Rant
Word processors have powerful tools that make it easy to create elegant and accessible documents. Many people do not know how to use them which is a disaster.
CA Technologies acquires Grid-Tools
CA has acquired Grid-Tools. As always, the questions are what CA will do with its new products and will this be good for users?