Tag: testing
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This post’s title is rad
A post. Here is a man eating an apple: I read this book a lot when I was a kid. He has another book that was good too. I’ve read them to my kids. (I am using this post to test blog changes, so it is nonsense. What fun!)
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Rebuilding the Social Security Administration’s Codebase – “Still, it’s interesting to think about how this should be done. I wonder if they could run the new system in a sandbox for a year, feeding it all the same inputs, and see whether it generates the same outputs.” // This feels like the kind of advantage…
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AI is great for churning out apps, but don’t forget to test – Enterprise AI needs testing just like code needs testing. // “Research published by Leapwork, drawn from the feedback of 401 respondents across the US and UK, noted that while 85 percent had integrated AI apps into their tech stacks, 68 percent had…
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DevOps used to manage 35% of enterprise app portfolios, 60% of testing activities are not automated
Container, DevOps, and Generative AI for Testing Usage My work sponsored an IDC paper going over ways to use generative AI (and ML) at various stages of software development (the “Application Development and Product Life-Cycle Management”). There’s some interesting ideas in there, you should check them out. As always, I like to collect the numbers…
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You should automate your builds and tests – 71% of people do not “use continuous integration to automatically build and test my code changes.”
The CD Foundation Survey, 2024 Today’s survey: “State of CI/CD Report 2024: The Evolution of Software Delivery Performance,” CD Foundation and SlashData, April, 2024. Are people getting better at frequently releasing software and fixing problems in production? The most recent CD Foundation survey says…no: On average, 29% of respondents say they release software once a…
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A ChatGPT prompt for solo roleplaying Dungeons & Dragons
Here’s an overview of the prompt I’m currently using to play D&D with ChatGPT: In my mind, I’ve got as new talk that evaluates several of the AIs out there based on how well they can play Dungeons and Dragons. After using ChatGPT for about a year, I have first hand experience that makes all…
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Link: How Booking.com A/B Tests Ten Novenonagintillion Versions of its Site
“According to research by Evercore Group L.L.C., Booking.com’s “testing drives conversions across the whole platform at 2–3 times the industry average.” That means massive increases to their revenue and bottom line.” How Booking.com A/B Tests Ten Novenonagintillion Versions of its Site https://blog.usejournal.com/how-booking-com-a-b-tests-ten-novenonagintillion-versions-of-its-site-25fc3a9e875b via Instapaper Source: How Booking.com A/B Tests Ten Novenonagintillion Versions of its Site
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Link: The Art of Aphorism
We don’t absorb aphorisms as esoteric wisdom; we test them against our own experience. The empirical test of the aphorism takes the form first of laughter and then of longevity, and its confidential tone makes it candid, not cynical. Source: The Art of Aphorism
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Link: Technical debt leading to a company crisis
The power of focus. Before the crisis, each team worked on its own backlog and specialized in its domain. In the backlog, there were finely decomposed tasks, the team selected several tasks for a sprint. But during the crisis, we worked quite differently. The teams did not have specific tasks, they had a big challenging…
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Link: Cloud Foundry Project Eirini Inches the Group Closer to Kubernetes
“A lot of work needs to be done for that but it’s evolving quickly,” Childers said of interoperability tests using Eirini as a bridge between Diego and Kubernetes. He did add that the evolution from Diego to Eirini, if it does occur, will be similar to how Cloud Foundry moved from its DEA architecture system…
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🗂 Congress Votes For Better Government Websites, Digital Services
Make government apps that are actually useful on purpose: “Are designed around user needs with data-driven analysis influencing management and development decisions, using qualitative and quantitative data to determine user goals, needs and behaviors, and continually test the website or digital service to ensure that user needs are addressed.” www.nextgov.com/it-modern…
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Link: Configuring your release pipelines for safe deployments
“Also, it is recommended to not deploy to all production environments in one go, exposing all the customers to the changes. A gradual rollout that exposes the changes to customers over a period, thereby implicitly validating the changes in production with a smaller set of customers at a time… As an example, for an application…
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Link: After Months of Development, B3i’s Blockchain Prototype Is Ready for Testing
More using blockchain for tracking and validating insurance policies: “With the advent of smart contracts, distributed ledger technologies, and cryptography, we believe we can speed up the insurance transaction through the elimination of redundant and replicated processes, higher speed of execution and greater transparency,” Slaughter added. Paul Meeusen, Swiss Re’s head of Finance and Treasury…
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Link: A/B Testing in Marketing: The Customer’s Always Right
“Gartner’s Marketing Technology Survey of 206 marketers found that only 33% were regularly using A/B or multivariate testing technology and 28% were in the process of deploying a solution.” Original source: A/B Testing in Marketing: The Customer’s Always Right
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