Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how Türk Telekom subsidiary TTNET has leveraged Service Virtualization to significantly improve productivity.
HP's ALM11 Guides Companies Through Shifting Landscape of Application Develop...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored BriefingsDirect podcast on application lifecycle management and HP ALM 11 from the HP Software Universe 2010 conference in Barcelona, Spain.
Starting Your DevOps Journey – Practical Tips for OpsDynatrace
To watch, please see:
https://info.dynatrace.com/apm_wc_getting_started_with_devops_na_registration.html
Starting Your DevOps Journey: Practical Tips for Ops
In this webinar, Andreas Grabner, Chief DevOps Activist at Dynatrace, shares practical tips that all IT groups from Dev to Ops can use to start their DevOps journey quickly. With experience from hundreds of DevOps deployments, Andi provides insights it would take your team months or years to learn firsthand.
- Learn how everyone on your Ops team can use APM to better understand and monitor SLAs, Performance and End User Impact of their applications.
- Foster better collaboration between Ops and architects by extending basic system monitoring to monolith and microservices architectures.
- Shift-left your testing and QA by working with metrics that you and the architects agreed on up front, resulting in early relevant feedback and faster code deployments.
- Hear why changing the cultural mindset from “fear of change” to “Continuous Innovation and Optimization” is critical for success.
Andi is joined by guest speaker, Brian Chandler, Systems Engineer at Raymond James, who shares commonly used Ops dashboards that increase collaboration across IT teams and pro-actively break down silos!
Closing the Requirements and Testing Loop WebinarQASymphony
QASYMPHONY & BLUEPRINT PARTNER UP
Learn about the new partnership between QASymphony and Blueprint. Connecting software requirements with proper test coverage still remains an age old problem for software development teams. This new partnership will provide alignment between requirements and testing teams of all types to get the visibility and traceability needed to understand their requirements coverage.
In this webinar, Kevin Dunne, QASymphony's VP of Strategy and Business Development and Ruth Zive, VP of Marketing at Blueprint will answer the following questions:
What is QASymphonys qTest Platform?
How is this platform enhanced by Blueprint?
How does the integration between qTest and Blueprint work?
Why does your team need this offering?
HP's ALM11 Guides Companies Through Shifting Landscape of Application Develop...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored BriefingsDirect podcast on application lifecycle management and HP ALM 11 from the HP Software Universe 2010 conference in Barcelona, Spain.
Starting Your DevOps Journey – Practical Tips for OpsDynatrace
To watch, please see:
https://info.dynatrace.com/apm_wc_getting_started_with_devops_na_registration.html
Starting Your DevOps Journey: Practical Tips for Ops
In this webinar, Andreas Grabner, Chief DevOps Activist at Dynatrace, shares practical tips that all IT groups from Dev to Ops can use to start their DevOps journey quickly. With experience from hundreds of DevOps deployments, Andi provides insights it would take your team months or years to learn firsthand.
- Learn how everyone on your Ops team can use APM to better understand and monitor SLAs, Performance and End User Impact of their applications.
- Foster better collaboration between Ops and architects by extending basic system monitoring to monolith and microservices architectures.
- Shift-left your testing and QA by working with metrics that you and the architects agreed on up front, resulting in early relevant feedback and faster code deployments.
- Hear why changing the cultural mindset from “fear of change” to “Continuous Innovation and Optimization” is critical for success.
Andi is joined by guest speaker, Brian Chandler, Systems Engineer at Raymond James, who shares commonly used Ops dashboards that increase collaboration across IT teams and pro-actively break down silos!
Closing the Requirements and Testing Loop WebinarQASymphony
QASYMPHONY & BLUEPRINT PARTNER UP
Learn about the new partnership between QASymphony and Blueprint. Connecting software requirements with proper test coverage still remains an age old problem for software development teams. This new partnership will provide alignment between requirements and testing teams of all types to get the visibility and traceability needed to understand their requirements coverage.
In this webinar, Kevin Dunne, QASymphony's VP of Strategy and Business Development and Ruth Zive, VP of Marketing at Blueprint will answer the following questions:
What is QASymphonys qTest Platform?
How is this platform enhanced by Blueprint?
How does the integration between qTest and Blueprint work?
Why does your team need this offering?
Corporate Presentation | Software Testing Company USA | IndiumIndium Software
Indium software is an independent testing company that provides both Outsourced/In-house Manual and Regression Automation testing services across the world. Our software testing / QA validation services helps to enhance the performance of your desktop, mobile or web application under load and stress.
Practical Tips for Ops: End User MonitoringDynatrace
Practical Tips for Ops: End User Monitoring
Watch replay here: https://info.dynatrace.com/apm_wc_devops_journey_series_end_user_monitoring_na_registration.html
Companies that have adopted DevOps Best Practices have 2555x faster lead times* in delivering new features to their end users. However, speed of delivery is not the only success metric! Success must also be measured on how end-users react to the speed of innovation.
Getting insights into how your end-users react to the changes you deploy allows you to share valuable feedback to the Dev and Biz teams. The teams can then see clearly how their changes impacted end-users and where fine tuning can improve infrastructure performance.
In this webcast Andreas Grabner, Chief DevOps Activist, and Brian Chandler, Systems Engineer, share practical tips that IT groups can start to implement quickly. You'll learn:
• Best approach for monitoring end-user mobile versus desktop versus tablet versus service end-points
• How to evaluate network bandwidth requirements by app, service and feature; to better understand and optimize resource consumption
• How to optimize your delivery chain in depth by understanding who is using your app, where, and on what device
• Clear view on which features are being used the most, the least, and what kind of behavior can be observed that is useful in tuning performance
If you are stuck in analysis paralysis, get insights that you can apply today!
*In addition, companies using DevOps are two times more likely to exceed profitability, market share and productivity goals (from the State of DevOps report by Puppet Labs 2016)
The project title “SAP Development Object Testing” is a study of the software testing in the company. The project report is about software testing that is an important part of any system development process. In the initial chapter review we see that for proper functioning of the organization. It defines the organization structure of the company.
SolarWinds Application Performance End User Survey (Denmark)SolarWinds
The proliferation of BYOD, cloud, SaaS and consumer technologies in the workplace have made the application the disruptive technology that will drive business IT into the coming decades. At the same time, the application delivery chain is becoming more complex to support as applications become more networked, virtualization drives IT infrastructure convergence and abstraction and end users become more mobile. These survey findings highlight the impact of application performance and availability on business end users, and their experiences with and expectations of IT when problems arise. Chief among the findings is that while the application is now the heart of businesses of all sizes and its performance is the lifeblood of success, IT continues to struggle to ensure its performance and availability.
The Tester’s Role: Balancing Technical Acumen and User AdvocacyTechWell
Ten years ago, many of us started our careers in testing, generally moving from a different internal role. It was common for people who were product users to be hired to jump start their technical career. Now, we see the growth of tester positions that require coding experience or a computer science degree. Melissa Tondi discusses the changing landscape of the role of testers, the challenges when hiring developers with no previous testing experience, and a way to shift the pendulum back to balance technical acumen with a user advocacy role. Melissa leads a thoughtful discussion on what makes a good tester, how we can continue to promote our profession, and how to accentuate the value testers bring to organizations. She identifies factors that caused the test/QA role to become mainstream and how it shifted to become more technically focused. Melissa helps fill in the gaps with a test strategy that balances time for the test team to continue supporting the development efforts while equally emphasizing user advocacy tests. She presents recommendations you can take back to your team to achieve the right balance for your organization.
Weber’s Journey: How a Top Grill Maker Serves Up Connected CookingApplause
Established brands creating their first IoT offerings often need new knowledge and skills to guide their product development efforts. When one of the biggest names in household grills decided to enter the IoT space, the company set an aggressive timeline for rolling out new products — and hired a small team to bring the vision to market. Once Weber had launched its first IoT-based grill integration and smart thermometer, staff saw opportunities to hone and improve the customer experience while rolling out additional connected products.
Finding the right partners allowed Weber to scale to improve existing product quality and collect valuable feedback earlier in the new product development process.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
Succession “Losers”: What Happens to Executives Passed Over for the CEO Job?
By David F. Larcker, Stephen A. Miles, and Brian Tayan
Stanford Closer Look Series
Overview:
Shareholders pay considerable attention to the choice of executive selected as the new CEO whenever a change in leadership takes place. However, without an inside look at the leading candidates to assume the CEO role, it is difficult for shareholders to tell whether the board has made the correct choice. In this Closer Look, we examine CEO succession events among the largest 100 companies over a ten-year period to determine what happens to the executives who were not selected (i.e., the “succession losers”) and how they perform relative to those who were selected (the “succession winners”).
We ask:
• Are the executives selected for the CEO role really better than those passed over?
• What are the implications for understanding the labor market for executive talent?
• Are differences in performance due to operating conditions or quality of available talent?
• Are boards better at identifying CEO talent than other research generally suggests?
The impact of innovation on travel and tourism industries (World Travel Marke...Brian Solis
From the impact of Pokemon Go on Silicon Valley to artificial intelligence, futurist Brian Solis talks to Mathew Parsons of World Travel Market about the future of travel, tourism and hospitality.
We’re all trying to find that idea or spark that will turn a good project into a great project. Creativity plays a huge role in the outcome of our work. Harnessing the power of collaboration and open source, we can make great strides towards excellence. Not just for designers, this talk can be applicable to many different roles – even development. In this talk, Seasoned Creative Director Sara Cannon is going to share some secrets about creative methodology, collaboration, and the strong role that open source can play in our work.
The Six Highest Performing B2B Blog Post FormatsBarry Feldman
If your B2B blogging goals include earning social media shares and backlinks to boost your search rankings, this infographic lists the size best approaches.
Each technological age has been marked by a shift in how the industrial platform enables companies to rethink their business processes and create wealth. In the talk I argue that we are limiting our view of what this next industrial/digital age can offer because of how we read, measure and through that perceive the world (how we cherry pick data). Companies are locked in metrics and quantitative measures, data that can fit into a spreadsheet. And by that they see the digital transformation merely as an efficiency tool to the fossil fuel age. But we need to stretch further…
Internet of Things Brings On Development Demands That DevOps Manages, Say Exp...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect discussion on how continuous processes around development and deployment of applications impact and benefit the Internet of Things trend.
Corporate Presentation | Software Testing Company USA | IndiumIndium Software
Indium software is an independent testing company that provides both Outsourced/In-house Manual and Regression Automation testing services across the world. Our software testing / QA validation services helps to enhance the performance of your desktop, mobile or web application under load and stress.
Practical Tips for Ops: End User MonitoringDynatrace
Practical Tips for Ops: End User Monitoring
Watch replay here: https://info.dynatrace.com/apm_wc_devops_journey_series_end_user_monitoring_na_registration.html
Companies that have adopted DevOps Best Practices have 2555x faster lead times* in delivering new features to their end users. However, speed of delivery is not the only success metric! Success must also be measured on how end-users react to the speed of innovation.
Getting insights into how your end-users react to the changes you deploy allows you to share valuable feedback to the Dev and Biz teams. The teams can then see clearly how their changes impacted end-users and where fine tuning can improve infrastructure performance.
In this webcast Andreas Grabner, Chief DevOps Activist, and Brian Chandler, Systems Engineer, share practical tips that IT groups can start to implement quickly. You'll learn:
• Best approach for monitoring end-user mobile versus desktop versus tablet versus service end-points
• How to evaluate network bandwidth requirements by app, service and feature; to better understand and optimize resource consumption
• How to optimize your delivery chain in depth by understanding who is using your app, where, and on what device
• Clear view on which features are being used the most, the least, and what kind of behavior can be observed that is useful in tuning performance
If you are stuck in analysis paralysis, get insights that you can apply today!
*In addition, companies using DevOps are two times more likely to exceed profitability, market share and productivity goals (from the State of DevOps report by Puppet Labs 2016)
The project title “SAP Development Object Testing” is a study of the software testing in the company. The project report is about software testing that is an important part of any system development process. In the initial chapter review we see that for proper functioning of the organization. It defines the organization structure of the company.
SolarWinds Application Performance End User Survey (Denmark)SolarWinds
The proliferation of BYOD, cloud, SaaS and consumer technologies in the workplace have made the application the disruptive technology that will drive business IT into the coming decades. At the same time, the application delivery chain is becoming more complex to support as applications become more networked, virtualization drives IT infrastructure convergence and abstraction and end users become more mobile. These survey findings highlight the impact of application performance and availability on business end users, and their experiences with and expectations of IT when problems arise. Chief among the findings is that while the application is now the heart of businesses of all sizes and its performance is the lifeblood of success, IT continues to struggle to ensure its performance and availability.
The Tester’s Role: Balancing Technical Acumen and User AdvocacyTechWell
Ten years ago, many of us started our careers in testing, generally moving from a different internal role. It was common for people who were product users to be hired to jump start their technical career. Now, we see the growth of tester positions that require coding experience or a computer science degree. Melissa Tondi discusses the changing landscape of the role of testers, the challenges when hiring developers with no previous testing experience, and a way to shift the pendulum back to balance technical acumen with a user advocacy role. Melissa leads a thoughtful discussion on what makes a good tester, how we can continue to promote our profession, and how to accentuate the value testers bring to organizations. She identifies factors that caused the test/QA role to become mainstream and how it shifted to become more technically focused. Melissa helps fill in the gaps with a test strategy that balances time for the test team to continue supporting the development efforts while equally emphasizing user advocacy tests. She presents recommendations you can take back to your team to achieve the right balance for your organization.
Weber’s Journey: How a Top Grill Maker Serves Up Connected CookingApplause
Established brands creating their first IoT offerings often need new knowledge and skills to guide their product development efforts. When one of the biggest names in household grills decided to enter the IoT space, the company set an aggressive timeline for rolling out new products — and hired a small team to bring the vision to market. Once Weber had launched its first IoT-based grill integration and smart thermometer, staff saw opportunities to hone and improve the customer experience while rolling out additional connected products.
Finding the right partners allowed Weber to scale to improve existing product quality and collect valuable feedback earlier in the new product development process.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
Succession “Losers”: What Happens to Executives Passed Over for the CEO Job?
By David F. Larcker, Stephen A. Miles, and Brian Tayan
Stanford Closer Look Series
Overview:
Shareholders pay considerable attention to the choice of executive selected as the new CEO whenever a change in leadership takes place. However, without an inside look at the leading candidates to assume the CEO role, it is difficult for shareholders to tell whether the board has made the correct choice. In this Closer Look, we examine CEO succession events among the largest 100 companies over a ten-year period to determine what happens to the executives who were not selected (i.e., the “succession losers”) and how they perform relative to those who were selected (the “succession winners”).
We ask:
• Are the executives selected for the CEO role really better than those passed over?
• What are the implications for understanding the labor market for executive talent?
• Are differences in performance due to operating conditions or quality of available talent?
• Are boards better at identifying CEO talent than other research generally suggests?
The impact of innovation on travel and tourism industries (World Travel Marke...Brian Solis
From the impact of Pokemon Go on Silicon Valley to artificial intelligence, futurist Brian Solis talks to Mathew Parsons of World Travel Market about the future of travel, tourism and hospitality.
We’re all trying to find that idea or spark that will turn a good project into a great project. Creativity plays a huge role in the outcome of our work. Harnessing the power of collaboration and open source, we can make great strides towards excellence. Not just for designers, this talk can be applicable to many different roles – even development. In this talk, Seasoned Creative Director Sara Cannon is going to share some secrets about creative methodology, collaboration, and the strong role that open source can play in our work.
The Six Highest Performing B2B Blog Post FormatsBarry Feldman
If your B2B blogging goals include earning social media shares and backlinks to boost your search rankings, this infographic lists the size best approaches.
Each technological age has been marked by a shift in how the industrial platform enables companies to rethink their business processes and create wealth. In the talk I argue that we are limiting our view of what this next industrial/digital age can offer because of how we read, measure and through that perceive the world (how we cherry pick data). Companies are locked in metrics and quantitative measures, data that can fit into a spreadsheet. And by that they see the digital transformation merely as an efficiency tool to the fossil fuel age. But we need to stretch further…
Internet of Things Brings On Development Demands That DevOps Manages, Say Exp...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect discussion on how continuous processes around development and deployment of applications impact and benefit the Internet of Things trend.
How INOVVO Delivers Analysis that Leads to Greater User Retention and Loyalty...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how advanced analytics drawing on multiple data sources provides wireless operators improved interactions with their subscribers and enhances customer experience through personalized insights.
Transcript of a discussion on how the reuse of proven performance scripts and replaying of synthetic transactions that mimic user experience have cut costs and gained insights into app behaviors.
Using Testing as a Service, Globe Testing Helping Startups Make Leap to Cloud...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on how Globe Testing is pushing the envelope on Agile development and applications development management using HP tools and platforms.
With Large Workforce in the Field, Source Refrigeration Selects an Agile Plat...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how a nationwide company has harnessed the power of mobile applications to increase the productivity of its workforce.
Cloud Approach to IT Service Desk and Incident Management Bring Analysis, Low...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how SaaS delivery and BMC Software’s “truth in data” architecture deliver big payoffs for IT support at Comverge and Design Within Reach.
Innovation Showcase: Top Healthcare Apps Built on Salesforce App CloudDreamforce
Join us to hear how top health and life science companies are using Salesforce App Cloud to accelerate app development, tackle new challenges, and innovate across their entire organization. Watch the video now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNWra_JL-FY
Accelerate and Streamline Performance Testing with AI-powered Test Automation...RohitBhandari66
Performance testing is the process of determining a system's stability and responsiveness under a particular workload. Performance tests are typically conducted to assess application size, speed, resilience, and dependability.
ITPlusPoint | Delivering top-notch application development and business proce...Saurav Mohanty
At ITPlusPoint, we design, deliver and manage innovative application development and business process automation solutions that help you sustain competitive advantage. Our talented technologists help you do more with your data and stay ahead in the competition.
ITPlusPoint focuses on the growing connectivity between software, the cloud, and the devices we use in day-to-day business operations.
We have handpicked a team of the best UI/UX designers, front and back-end developers, API specialists, data analysts and project managers into a team that you can trust to deliver excellent results.
Data-Driven AI is a Microsoft Gold Partner specialising in building modern data platforms and advanced analytics consulting.
We deliver innovative data and AI solutions to help organisations build a data-driven culture and empower their business decisions with insights.
Clutch Review: Decision Support Tool Dev & Design for Oil & Energy CompanyMaruti Techlabs
Technology today is evolving at a rapid pace, enabling faster changes and causing acceleration of the rate of change.
Such scenarios require the businesses to opt for custom software development to improve, customize and scale their product.
Our portfolio’s most recent success story involves partnering with an oil and energy company based in the UK.
The project aimed to upgrade their decision support tool that assists the staff in deciding whether it is safe to send technicians to offshore wind turbines.
Our engineering team impressed the client successfully by implementing the project with the right combination of scaled agile frameworks and spearheaded software testing efforts.
There is no joy bigger than the compliment of a happy client, and here’s what they has to say about working with us-
“Maruti Techlabs was able to deliver consistently, so we were able to review everything at every stage. There was also no gap in their #communication. As a result, some design decisions were made effectively because they worked well with all the backend engineers, ensuring that there was no friction between the front- and backend.”
This is what encourages us to put our clients at the center of everything we do.
Check out the carousel below to learn more about what it is like to work with us.
#clienttestimonial #customerfeedback #customerexperience #clientreview
Similar to Service Virtualization Brings Speed Benefit and Lower Costs to TTNET Applications Testing Unit (20)
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Service Virtualization Brings Speed Benefit and Lower Costs to TTNET Applications Testing Unit
1. Service Virtualization Brings Speed Benefit and Lower Costs
to TTNET Applications Testing Unit
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how Türk Telekom subsidiary TTNET has leveraged
Service Virtualization to significantly improve productivity.
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Dana Gardner: Hello, and welcome to the next edition of the HP Discover Performance
Podcast Series. I'm Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, your
moderator for this ongoing discussion of IT innovation and transformation.
Once again, we're focusing on how software improvements and advanced HP
Service Virtualization (SV) solutions are enabling IT leaders to deliver better
experiences and payoffs for businesses and end-users alike.
Today, we’re going to learn about how TTNET, the largest internet service provider in Turkey,
with 6 million subscribers, has significantly improved on applications deployment, while cutting
costs and time to delivery.
With that, let's join our guest. We’re here with Hasan Yükselten. He's the Test and Release
Manager at TTNET, which is a subsidiary of Türk Telekom, and they're based in Istanbul.
Welcome to the show, Hasan.
Hasan Yükselten: Thank you.
Gardner: Before we get into this discussion of how you’ve used SV in your testing, what was
the situation there, before you got more automated and before you started to use more software
tools? What was the process before that?
Yükselten: Before SV, we had to use the other party’s test infrastructures in our test cases. We're
the leading ISP company in Turkey. We deploy more than 200 applications per
year and we have to provide better and faster services to our customers every
week and every month.
We mostly had problems on issues such as the accessibility, authorization,
downtime, and private data for reaching the other third-party’s infrastructures.
So, we needed virtualization on our test systems and we needed automation for
getting fast deployment to make the release time shorter for greater
virtualization. And of course, we needed to reduce our cost. So, we decided to solve the problems
of the company by implementing SV.
2. Gardner: What did you do to begin this process of getting closer to a faster and automated
approach? Did you do away with scripts? Did you replace them? How did you move from where
you were to where you wanted to be?
Yükselten: Before SV, we couldn’t do automation, since the other parties are in discrete
locations and it was difficult to reach the other systems. We could automate functional test cases,
but for end-to-end test cases, it was impossible to do automation.
First, we implemented SV for virtualizing the other systems, and we put SV between our
infrastructure and the third-party infrastructure. We learned the requests and responses and then
could use SV instead of the other party infrastructure.
Automation tools
After this, we could also use automation tools. We managed to use automation tools via
integrating Unified Functional Testing (UFT) and SV tools, and now we can run automation test
cases and end-to-end test cases on SV.
Gardner: Was there anything about this that allowed you to have better collaboration between
the developers and the testers. I know that in many companies, this is a linear
progression, where they develop and then test, and it can be something that
there's not a lot of communication on. Was there anything about what you've
done that's improved how developers and testers have been able to coordinate
and collaborate?
Yükselten: We started to use SV in our test systems first. When we saw the
success, we decided to implement SV for the development systems also. But, we've
just implemented SV in the development site, so I can't give results yet. We have to wait and see,
for maybe one month, before I can reply to this question.
Gardner: Tell me about the types of applications that you’re using here as a large internet
service provider. Are these internal apps for your organization? Are they facing out to the
customers for billing, service procurement, and provisioning? Give me a sense of the type of
applications we’re talking about?
Yükselten: We are mostly working on customer relationship management (CRM) applications.
We deploy more than 200 applications per year and we have more than six million customers.
We have to offer new campaigns and make some transformations for new customers, etc.
We have to save all the informations, and while saving the information, we also interact the other
systems, for example the National Identity System, through telecom systems, public switched
telephone network (PSTN) systems.
3. We have to ask informations and we need make some requests to the other systems. So, we need
to use all the other systems in our CRM systems. And we also have internet protocol television
(IPTV) products, value added services products, and the company products. But basically, we’re
using CRM systems for our development and for our systems.
Gardner: So clearly, these are mission-critical applications essential to your business, your
growth, and your ability to compete in your market.
Yükselten: If there is a mistake, a big error in our system, the next day, we cannot sell anything.
We cannot do anything all over Turkey.
Gardner: Let's talk a bit about the adoption of your SV. Tell me about some of the products
you’re using and some of the technologies, and then we’ll get into what this has done for you.
But, let's talk about what you actually have in place so far.
Yükselten: Actually, it was very easy to adopt these products into our system, because including
proof of concept (PoC), we could use this tool in six weeks. We spent first two weeks for the PoC
and after four weeks, we managed to use the tool.
Easy to implement
For the first six weeks, we could use SV for 45 percent of end-to-end test cases. In 10 weeks,
95 percent of our test cases could be run on SV. It was very easy to implement. After that, we
also implemented two other SVs in our other systems. So, we're now using three SV systems.
One is for development, one is just for the campaigns, and one is for the E2E tests.
Gardner: Tell me how your relationship with HP Software has been. How has it been working
with HP Software to attain this so rapidly?
Yükselten: HP Software helped us so much, especially R&D. HP Turkey helped us,
because we were also using application lifecycle management (ALM) tools before SV. We were
using QTP LoadRunners, QC, etc., so we had a good relation with HP Software.
Since SV is a new tool, we needed a lot of customization for our needs, and HP Software was
always with us. They were very quick to answer our questions and to return for our development
needs. We managed to use the tool in six weeks, because of HP’s Rapid Solutions.
Gardner: Let’s talk a little bit about the scale here. My understanding is that you have
something on the order of 150 services. You use 50 regularly, but you're able to then spin up and
use others on a more ad-hoc basis. Why is it important for you to have that kind of flexibility and
agility?
Yükselten: As you say, we virtualized more than 150 services, but we use 48 of them actively.
We use these portions of the service because we virtualized our third-party infrastructures for our
4. needs. For example, we virtualized all the other CRM systems, but we don’t need all of them. In
gateway remote, you can simulate all the other web services totally. So, we virtualized all the
web services, but we use just what we need in our test cases.
Gardner: And this must be a major basis for your savings when you only use what you need.
The utilization rate goes up, but your costs can go down. Tell us a little bit about how this has
been an investment that’s paid back for you.
Yükselten: In three months we got the investment back actually, maybe shorter than three
months. It could have been two and half months. For example, for the campaign test cases, we
gained 100 percent of efficiency. Before HP, we could run just seven campaigns in a month, but
after HP, we managed to run 14 campaigns in a month.
We gained 100 percent efficiency and three man-months in this way, because three test engineers
were working on campaigns like this. For another example, last month we got the metrics and we
saw that we had a total blockage for seven days, so that was 21 working days for March. We
saved 33 percent of our manpower with SV and there are 20 test engineers working on it. We
gained 140 man-months last month.
For our basic test scenarios, we could run all test cases in 112 hours. After SV, we managed to
run it in 54 hours. So we gained 100 percent efficiency in that area and also managed to do
automation for the campaign test cases. We managed to automate 52 percent of our campaign test
cases, and this meant a very big efficiency for us. Totally, we saved more than $50,000 per
month.
Broader applications
Gardner: That’s very impressive and that was in a relatively short period of time. Do you
expect now to be able to take this to a larger set of applications, maybe beyond your
organization, more generally across Türk Telekom?
Yükselten: Yes. Türk Telekom licenses these tools and started to use these tools in their test
service to get this efficiency for those systems. We have a branch company called AVEA, and
they also want to use this tool. After our getting this efficiency, many companies want to use this
virtualization. Eight companies visited us in Turkey to get our experiences on this tool. Many
companies want this and want to use this tool in their test systems.
Gardner: Do you have any advice for other organizations like those you've been describing,
now that you have done this? Any recommendations on what you would advise others that might
help them improve on how they do it?
Yükselten: Companies must know their needs first. For example, in our company, we have three
blockage systems for third parties and the other systems don't change everyday. So it was easy to
5. implement SV in our systems and virtualize the other systems. We don’t need to do virtualization
day by day, because the other systems don't change every day.
Once a month, we consult and change our systems, update our web services on SV, and this is
enough for us. But if the other party's systems changes day by day or frequently, it may be
difficult to do virtualization every day.
This is an important point. Companies should think automation besides virtualization. This is
also a very efficient aspect, so this must be also considered while making virtualization.
Gardner: As to where you go next, do you have any thoughts about moving towards UFT, using
cloud deployment models more? Where can you go more to attain more benefits and
efficiencies?
Yükselten: We started to use UFT with integrating SV. As I told you, we managed to automate
52 percent of our campaign test cases so far. So we would like to go on and try to automate more
test cases, our end-to-end test cases, the basic scenarios, and other systems.
Our first goal is doing more automation with SV and UFT and the other is using SV in
development sites. We plan to find early defects in development sites and getting more quality
products into the test.
Rapid deployment
Of course, in this way, we get rapid deployment and we make shorter release times because the
product will have more quality. Using performance test and SV also helps us on performance.
We use HP LoadRunner for our performance test cases. We have three goals now, and the last
one is using SV with integrating LoadRunner.
Gardner: Well, it's really impressive. It sounds as if you put in place the technologies that will
allow you to move very rapidly, to even a larger payback. So congratulations on that.
Well, Hasan, I'm afraid we’ll have to leave it there; we've run out of time. We’ve learned how
TTNET the largest internet service provider in Turkey has significantly improved on mission-
critical application deployment, while also cutting costs and reducing that important time to
delivery.
I like to thank first our supporter for this series, HP Software, and remind our audience to carry
on the dialogue on the Discover Performance Group on LinkedIn. Of course, I'd like to extend a
huge thank you to our special guest Hasan Yükselten. He is the Test and Release Manager at
TTNET, which is a subsidiary of Türk Telekom in Istanbul. Thanks so much. Hasan.
Yükselten: You're welcome, and thank you for your time too.
6. Gardner: And you can gain more insights and information on the best of IT Performance
Management at www.hp.com/go/discoverperformance. And you can always access this and other
episodes in our HP Discover performance podcast series on iTunes under BriefingsDirect.
I'm Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and I've been your host and
moderator for this discussion part of our ongoing series on IT Innovation. Thanks again for
listening, and come back next time.
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