DevOps Days 2017

DevOps Days Minneapolis 2017 was, by all counts, a pretty incredible event. 800 people gathered to nerd out on DevOps strategy, culture, technology, and share together in a rich community of likeminded individuals all coming together to move their companies forward into the future that is DevOps. As with all events, patterns emerge. Based on..

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Windows Hardware Certification

Microsoft has recnetly announced that Windows 10 will ship summer 2015 on PC’s, Tablets and Phones, and will launch in 190 countries with 111 languages supported. Take these two questions as an important opportunity to express who order-essay-online.net you are and what and who you want to be

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Automation – Empowering Devops

Devops is a culture, a collaboration between development, operations, business, and others in the organization. It is an idea that emphasizes efficiency, continuity, and certainty. Automation is one of the key pillars of Devops. The automation of software development, delivery, and testing empowers teams to focus energy on design, experience, and results and less on..

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Your Website is Down

Your website is down. Think about it for a minute. Your website is down. What’s the impact? Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year saw the downing of several big name websites including Target, Nieman Marcus, Newegg, and Walmart. How much money do you suppose was lost for those companies? Millions. Many. There are a..

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Get On Board With Containers

In the Linux world containers have been around awhile but with new technology such as Docker and now Microsoft containers are going main stream. In fact, they may be the preferred choice over VM’s to deploy applications. Microsoft – Windows Server 2016, the next generation of Windows Server which is in Technical Preview 3 now..

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Selenium Cucumber Framework

What is a Framework? Generally a framework is something that can be used to join different parts and construct a structure. In Software terms, we use framework to develop a product that needs to be created multiple times in the same way and to create a plan or basis for a project. Use of Framework..

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State of QA

Earlier this month, SWAT was able to participate in a “State of Our Profession” discussion at the September TCQAA meeting. While the discussion focused on many great topics (highly recommend going out and downloading the presentation), we thought for this month’s blog we would review a few topics that resonated with us. Agile Still Dominates..

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Continuous Integration with Jenkins

Want to use test automation with your Continuous Integration? Jenkins is an open source continuous integration software and when installed on a build server can be configured to execute tests on new builds thus determining if the latest code change has created a problem within the application. During this process Jenkins gets the latest code from..

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Selenium + Appium

In automated testing we can execute tests with open source tools like Selenium WebDriver. With Selenium we have the ability to programmatically capture and execute commands against objects on a web page, for an app or website, just as a user would do. Selenium WebDriver works with IE, Chrome and Firefox and Selenium has API..

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