virtualization

Articles

stacked containers Containers: A Tester's Friend or Foe?

Containers support the timely delivery of a quality software application. However, the change to a DevOps process involving containers will require testers to adapt to this new, more agile environment. What does that mean for testers and the work they do? Here's how testers can embrace these changes, containers, and DevOps.

Kevin Dunne's picture Kevin Dunne
Service virtualization 4 Ways to Boost Your Test Process with Service Virtualization

One of the major challenges in software development is ensuring that all the software components needed to do integration and end-to-end testing are available in the test environment. Implementing service virtualization can remove environment setup as a blocking condition—and enable project teams to release better software, faster.

Bas Dijkstra's picture Bas Dijkstra
Service Virtualization Service Virtualization for Testers

With service virtualization (SV), technology stands in for the manual efforts of testers or the simulators companies used to write. SV solutions aren’t simple bits of code that stand in for manual testing processes. They’re surprisingly powerful software tools that are self-learning. Jon Spencer explains how they work.

Jon Spencer's picture Jon Spencer
Virtual Hudson Build System: The Rest of The Story

The second half of this Hudson-adoption case study sees the team working through some challenges and setbacks. Do they meet their goals? Find out how this virtualization journey ends.

Tony Sweets's picture Tony Sweets

Better Software Magazine Articles

Virtual Labs in the Cloud

Learn how to overcome infrastructure management challenges using virtual lab automation, and discover which cloudprivate, public, or hybridbest meets your organization's needs.

Ravi Gururaj

Interviews

Glenn Buckholz Enhance Your Testing with Docker: An Interview with Glenn Buckholz
Video

In this interview, Glenn Buckholz from Coveros explains how you can use Docker to improve your testing. He details how the containers platform allows testers to capture more descriptive defect reports while communicating a high volume of information to developers quickly and effectively.

Jennifer Bonine's picture Jennifer Bonine
Chris Fuller discusses test data management Test Data Management Takes Center Stage in the Race to Innovate: An Interview with Chris Fuller
Podcast

In this interview, Delphix vice president of worldwide customer success, Chris Fuller, explains why test data management has become so relevant in software today. He defines the term, explains its business impact, and details how your company can use Delphix for test data management.

Josiah Renaudin's picture Josiah Renaudin

Conference Presentations

Virtualization to Improve Speed and Increase Quality
Slideshow

Many development and test organizations must work within the confines of compressed release cycles, various agile methodologies, and cloud and mobile environments for their business applications. So, how can test organizations keep up with the pace of development and increase the quality...

Clint Sprauve, HP, and Todd DeCapua, HP
Service Virtualization: Speed Up Delivery and Improve Quality
Slideshow

“We could not test this because…” Every technology professional has experienced issues during system testing when unit testing was overlooked or cut short. Every project team has hit roadblocks during system testing when dependent systems or complicated data have been unavailable...

Anne Hungate, DIRECTV, and Robb Kelman, DIRECTV
Virtualization: Improve Speed and Increase Quality
Slideshow

Many development and test organizations must work within the confines of compressed release cycles, various agile methodologies, and cloud and mobile environments for their business applications. So, how can test organizations keep up with the pace of development and increase the quality...

Clint Sprauve, HP

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