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Craig Risi
Apr 24, 20183 min read
Making the pieces of your microservices testing puzzle fit
Creating a microservices ecosystem is definitely the way of the future and allows for faster development and expansion of complex and...
Craig Risi
Apr 9, 20183 min read
Is there a need for commercial testing tools?
Many years ago, if any company wanted to automate their set of test cases, the only real options were expensive tools which few companies...
Craig Risi
Mar 22, 20184 min read
A little governance is a good thing
When it comes to strategies for working with many different agile development teams, there are often two chains of thought – full...
Craig Risi
Mar 7, 20184 min read
Why Building Software is like running a marathon
For those that know me personally, they will know that along with software development and writing, one of my other big passions is...
Craig Risi
Feb 20, 20183 min read
Dealing with your debt problem
We can spend an incredible amount of time on the topic of financial debt and how to manage it correctly or even better yet, avoid it...
Craig Risi
Feb 7, 20183 min read
Measuring Quality in an Agile Environment - Part 2
For part two of my Agile metrics section (you can read part 1 here), I want to focus on metrics that are testing specific. These are a...
Craig Risi
Jan 30, 20183 min read
Measuring Quality in an Agile Environment - Part 1
I have written before about how it’s important that we don’t rely on metrics exclusively to make decisions, but rather use the data in...
Craig Risi
Jan 3, 20184 min read
Why Test Automation Fails
While almost all software companies see the need for automation and promote it in their strategies, few are actually getting it right in...
Craig Risi
Dec 20, 20174 min read
Is It Really An Emergency?
It’s easy to get caught up in the frantic excitement of trying to wrap up all your work tasks. However, there is no need to let some...
Craig Risi
Nov 30, 20175 min read
Preparing for the Load
During this last week, we saw many South African sites and retailers struggle to deal with the increased load experienced on Black...
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