Testing is an integral and vital part of creating software. In fact, test code is as important as your production code. When you create test code, you need to create test data for your code to work against. This post is about the different types of test data that are used in software testing. I’ll elaborate […]
For years, CA Test Data Manager was one of the default answers in the test data management category. That context changed when Broadcom acquired CA Technologies in 2018, a deal Broadcom valued at roughly $18.9 billion in equity and one that CA’s own legal counsel described as the largest sale of an enterprise software company […]
Deployment planning, sometimes referred to as “implementation planning,” is the process of creating a plan for the successful deployment of a new software or system. It involves identifying the resources, tasks, and timeline needed to ensure that the deployment is successful. Deployment planning also includes risk assessment and contingency planning to ensure that any potential […]
Every release carries risk. A team can test in staging, review the code, and run the deployment pipeline successfully, yet still introduce a regression, broken integration, or unexpected performance issue in production. When that happens, the team needs a reliable way to restore service. A deployment rollback returns an application or service to a previously […]
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a comprehensive set of principles and practices designed to help organizations adopt agile methods on an enterprise level. It provides a set of guidelines and best practices that enable large-scale product development with agility. At its core, SAFe has a hierarchical structure, which assigns different roles and responsibilities in […]