Suddenly, application performance is important to your business, and you have been given the budget to improve it. You’re in a hurry because customers are complaining or because you expect jumps in transaction volume and your application needs to scale quickly. Do you know where to start? Join Ryan Riehle as he shares his experiences developing enterprise performance testing programs. Ryan covers the key techniques and heuristics that lead to an effective performance improvement effort. He discusses patterns teams use to effectively collaborate to achieve performance requirements, how to configure and organize test environments, considerations for application deployment and release cycles, appropriate metrics to use and how to report them, and strategies and techniques for data movement that support reproducible test results. But measuring alone does not solve the performance problem. So Ryan discusses how teams can act on testing results to improve and verify the impact of application and infrastructure changes.
Southwest Airlines Uses Automation to Accelerate and Ensure SOX ComplianceWorksoft
Originally presented at the 2015 Worksoft Customer Conference in Dallas. With over 3,600 flights a day and 100 million annual customers, Southwest Airlines is a complex business. The company uses automation with Worksoft Certify® to ensure that business processes function end-to-end, and has achieved important time and cost savings in accelerating Sarbanes Oxley compliance with automation.
MES experts Tom Hechtman and Mark French from Sepasoft joined Inductive Automation Chief Strategy Officer Don Pearson for an inside look at the new Sepasoft OEE Downtime 2.0 Module for Ignition, which gives manufacturers even more ways to improve profitability through operational excellence.
Learn about OEE improvements:
- Run multiple products on a line at one time
- Create, define, and customize equipment modes
- Based on ISA-95, the standard for building enterprise architectures
- Faster, more powerful analytics</li>
- And more
Mes SW Factory in Siemens AS MES - 2014.05.17 - mini Italian Agile Day - Genovaicelands
A description of how the Lean transition is progressing in the AS SW MES organization, a 500 people R&D group part of the Siemens Industrial Automation sector.
The leading change agent that coordinates the Lean transition is the Enterprise Transition Community, a group that initiates, encourages, and supports the effort to introduce and improve the Lean transition.
The transition is supported by the MES Software Factory, i.e. the collection of processes and tools that make possible the value creation in the software organization: key elements are the value stream management scaled at all levels of the enterprise together with a strong continuous improvement process.
The Need for AppOps in the Dynamic Data Center and CloudAppFirst
APM (Application Performance Management) traditionally focused on DevOps tools which help developers supporting custom code find issues within that code.
New APM solutions are needed that work for every application and help the Ops team support every application in production
Therefore, a new category is needed. This new category of solutions is called Application Operations or AppOps. Focused on Operations staff who are responsible for supporting all physical, virtual & cloud applications, running across every platform, and every source. The key attributes: ability to measure performance of every application in production and find problems in the infrastructure.
Southwest Airlines Uses Automation to Accelerate and Ensure SOX ComplianceWorksoft
Originally presented at the 2015 Worksoft Customer Conference in Dallas. With over 3,600 flights a day and 100 million annual customers, Southwest Airlines is a complex business. The company uses automation with Worksoft Certify® to ensure that business processes function end-to-end, and has achieved important time and cost savings in accelerating Sarbanes Oxley compliance with automation.
MES experts Tom Hechtman and Mark French from Sepasoft joined Inductive Automation Chief Strategy Officer Don Pearson for an inside look at the new Sepasoft OEE Downtime 2.0 Module for Ignition, which gives manufacturers even more ways to improve profitability through operational excellence.
Learn about OEE improvements:
- Run multiple products on a line at one time
- Create, define, and customize equipment modes
- Based on ISA-95, the standard for building enterprise architectures
- Faster, more powerful analytics</li>
- And more
Mes SW Factory in Siemens AS MES - 2014.05.17 - mini Italian Agile Day - Genovaicelands
A description of how the Lean transition is progressing in the AS SW MES organization, a 500 people R&D group part of the Siemens Industrial Automation sector.
The leading change agent that coordinates the Lean transition is the Enterprise Transition Community, a group that initiates, encourages, and supports the effort to introduce and improve the Lean transition.
The transition is supported by the MES Software Factory, i.e. the collection of processes and tools that make possible the value creation in the software organization: key elements are the value stream management scaled at all levels of the enterprise together with a strong continuous improvement process.
The Need for AppOps in the Dynamic Data Center and CloudAppFirst
APM (Application Performance Management) traditionally focused on DevOps tools which help developers supporting custom code find issues within that code.
New APM solutions are needed that work for every application and help the Ops team support every application in production
Therefore, a new category is needed. This new category of solutions is called Application Operations or AppOps. Focused on Operations staff who are responsible for supporting all physical, virtual & cloud applications, running across every platform, and every source. The key attributes: ability to measure performance of every application in production and find problems in the infrastructure.
The Pennsylvania State University: Modernizing and Standardizing the Penn Sta...Software AG
Innovation World 2013 presentation.
Penn State University realized its 47-year-old COBOL-based payroll system had to be replaced. An internal review of options resulted in the decision to modernize it within its current Adabas-Natural and webMethods BPMS environment. Learn how Penn State University utilized Software AG products and services to modernize an outdated payroll system by converting the COBOL system to Natural.
SpeakerS:
Wendi Herrington
Programmer/Analyst, The Pennsylvania State University
Achieve Performance Testing Excellence for Your SAP AppsNeotys
SAP applications are business-critical for your core operations. They must be continuously tested to avoid outages and slowdowns due to new application upgrades, service packs, customizations, and enhancement packages.
DOES15 - Vineet Banga and Jacob Johnson - Learnings from a DevOps Organizatio...Gene Kim
Vineet Banga, Senior Software Manager, GE Digital
Jacob Johnson, Director of Cloud Services & Operations, GE Digital
GE Software is building a platform for Industrial Internet. Over the last few months we have transformed our services into a cloud only offering. To achieve these results we have had to ramp our devops practices at an unprecedented rate, and we continue to do that as we move forward. Since we are building a platform to build application which monitor industrial assets such as: Wind Turbines, Jet Engines etc, security and compliance are extremely critical. While, these requirements require us to have clear delineation between operations and development, we continue to push the boundaries and blur the lines between dev and ops. This talk cover the organization model, development and operations practices that we have adopted:
Top Challenges & insights:
-Access control to production instances & policies on how to manage them
-How to prevent developer’s throwing code over the wall?
-How to take realtime feedback from deployed services to improve the development practices?
Learnings:
-True collaboration is driven by having a critical mass across the teams, who share some core beliefs.
-Talk of pager duty is generally not a motivator for developers, sometimes it can turn them off from thinking about operations
-Giving developers more control in the outcome of the service they have built is a much better way driving true collaboration
The Rocket ALM Hub for Total DevOps Automation
The Rocket® ALM Hub is a comprehensive DevOps solution that provides advanced application lifecycle
management and automation for all of your software application development and deployments. From
creating requests, to gathering approvals, to assigning tasks, to promoting code changes, to deploying those changes across your enterprise servers and tracking every activity, the Rocket ALM Hub is your central manager for all your application DevOps requirements. Our solution automates and streamlines the entire software development and release process, providing the visibility and control required in an enterprise environment—increasing developer productivity, improving code quality, and helping you easily meet regulatory and best practices requirements.
With Rocket® Aldon Lifecycle Manager (LM), you can
accelerate and automatically track all your software
development and maintenance workflows from
design to production. Our solution keeps you in
control while increasing your developers’ productivity so that you can deploy IT projects on time and on budget. Its comprehensive activity tracking and performance reporting provide management with the input and feedback needed
to optimize IT’s responsiveness.
From the moment a change is requested or an enhancement is filed, you are in total control of your application development lifecycle and software
change management process. What’s more, our
software gives you a way to easily keep compliant,
from user request through release to production, so
passing an IT audit is never a problem.
This webinar was held live on March 4th, 2021. Watch the on demand recording here: https://curiositysoftware.ie/resources/democratisation-testing-webinar/
Learn how Infuse, Kumoco and Curiosity enabled rigorous in-sprint test automation at a large telecommunications company. BAs, Testers and Developers at the telco now collaborate to build visual flows of the system logic in-sprint. The easy-to-maintain diagrams generate complete SIT and E2E tests for the latest business processes, rigorously testing before every rapid release.
To overcome siloes and overly-manual processes, Infuse, Kumoco and Curiosity built a “telecommunications-company-in-a-box”, a digital twin of the system under test. Artifacts created by BA’s were imported to build complete business flows, providing a single source of truth for the systems in scope. The flows were then used to generate rigorous tests in seconds, and were further used by developers and testers to build CI/CD assets. This generated a complete set of artifacts across the SDLC, while allowing every stakeholder to use their favourite tools.
Join Infuse, Kumoco and Curiosity live to see this cutting-edge approach to in-sprint design, development and testing in action. You will discover how:
1. Slow and siloed system design and test creation were replaced by test generation for useMango, with matching test cases generated in Jira.
2. Risk-based test generation identified exactly what to test in short sprints, overcoming the challenge of having more in a system than you could ever test in-sprint.
3. The rigorous automation is now maintained in-sprint, updating tests across tools as the business customize processes in BPMN-style diagrams.
4. The business know that their changes will be validated rigorously before each release, optimizing test generation for time and risk and defining reliably when testing is ‘done’.
This webinar was held live on March 4th, 2021. Watch the on demand recording here: https://curiositysoftware.ie/resources/democratisation-testing-webinar/
Going back to the year 2014, Kovair touched upon several milestones in different arenas starting from Product Enhancements to Enhanced Website Launch to Event Participations and Partnerships. We would like to hear your feedback on how we can help you serve better in the years to come.
June 09 - build recurring revenue from reactive customersSolarwinds N-able
75% of SMBs purchasing IT services do so reactively, forcing you to wait for their business. This webinar will show you how to proactively monitor these customer’s networks at no cost and generate reports- a strategy that builds recurring revenue from reactive customers.
Join Scott Parker and Somya Bahadur for this 30 minute presentation and learn about:
• Using free licenses to collect information about a reactive customer’s network
• Using discovery reports to identify upsell opportunities (Backup, AV, Patch)
• Using business reports to build trust with reactive customer and win more business
This presentation covers data migration challenges, Kovair's migration architecture and components, example scenarios and benefits derived from Omnibus solutions. To learn more contact sales@kovair.com
In this presentation you will learn about software quality management, the difference between QA and Testing and the ways to achieve better quality software. Kovair iTM - Integrated Test Management with its 100% web based, flexible and comprehensive test management platform helps teams in adopting DevOps.
Why Agile Fails in Large Enterprises—and What to Do about ItTechWell
Agile works. We get it. You don’t have to sell people on the underlying principles anymore. Even so, many large-scale agile transformations are struggling. Some have failed. Others can’t figure out why things aren't working after multiple attempts. It’s easy to blame the people, the process, and the culture. And it’s especially easy to blame management. However, the underlying problem is that most large organizations weren’t built to be agile. You need a way to safely and pragmatically refactor your company into an organization that can adopt agile and sustain the transformation. Mike Cottmeyer introduces a framework for understanding the type of company in which you work, its delivery constraints, and likely challenges you’ll face in your agile transformation. Mike shares a strategy for establishing an end-state vision and operational model to guide your transformation. Finally, he defines an approach for incrementally introducing change, measuring outcomes, and sustaining those changes.
Mobile App Testing: The Good, the Bad, and the UglyTechWell
Mobile app testing has lots of good practices, some not so useful (bad) concepts, and some really ugly, don’t-ever-do ones. In the tradition of James Whittaker’s How to Break Software books, Jon Hagar applies the testing “attack” concept to mobile app software. Jon starts by defining the big problems and challenges of testing mobile app software and examines the patterns of product failures that you must attack. He then shares a set of good, bad, and ugly test techniques, which testers and developers can direct against their software to find important bugs quickly. Looking at native, web-based, and hybrid apps, Jon explains the pros and cons of each technique with examples to further your understanding. Finally, he gives you takeaway information on tools, automation, and test attacks your can begin using immediately. Go beyond basic functionality verification and learn how to attack your mobile apps with the best techniques while avoiding the ugly ones.
The Pennsylvania State University: Modernizing and Standardizing the Penn Sta...Software AG
Innovation World 2013 presentation.
Penn State University realized its 47-year-old COBOL-based payroll system had to be replaced. An internal review of options resulted in the decision to modernize it within its current Adabas-Natural and webMethods BPMS environment. Learn how Penn State University utilized Software AG products and services to modernize an outdated payroll system by converting the COBOL system to Natural.
SpeakerS:
Wendi Herrington
Programmer/Analyst, The Pennsylvania State University
Achieve Performance Testing Excellence for Your SAP AppsNeotys
SAP applications are business-critical for your core operations. They must be continuously tested to avoid outages and slowdowns due to new application upgrades, service packs, customizations, and enhancement packages.
DOES15 - Vineet Banga and Jacob Johnson - Learnings from a DevOps Organizatio...Gene Kim
Vineet Banga, Senior Software Manager, GE Digital
Jacob Johnson, Director of Cloud Services & Operations, GE Digital
GE Software is building a platform for Industrial Internet. Over the last few months we have transformed our services into a cloud only offering. To achieve these results we have had to ramp our devops practices at an unprecedented rate, and we continue to do that as we move forward. Since we are building a platform to build application which monitor industrial assets such as: Wind Turbines, Jet Engines etc, security and compliance are extremely critical. While, these requirements require us to have clear delineation between operations and development, we continue to push the boundaries and blur the lines between dev and ops. This talk cover the organization model, development and operations practices that we have adopted:
Top Challenges & insights:
-Access control to production instances & policies on how to manage them
-How to prevent developer’s throwing code over the wall?
-How to take realtime feedback from deployed services to improve the development practices?
Learnings:
-True collaboration is driven by having a critical mass across the teams, who share some core beliefs.
-Talk of pager duty is generally not a motivator for developers, sometimes it can turn them off from thinking about operations
-Giving developers more control in the outcome of the service they have built is a much better way driving true collaboration
The Rocket ALM Hub for Total DevOps Automation
The Rocket® ALM Hub is a comprehensive DevOps solution that provides advanced application lifecycle
management and automation for all of your software application development and deployments. From
creating requests, to gathering approvals, to assigning tasks, to promoting code changes, to deploying those changes across your enterprise servers and tracking every activity, the Rocket ALM Hub is your central manager for all your application DevOps requirements. Our solution automates and streamlines the entire software development and release process, providing the visibility and control required in an enterprise environment—increasing developer productivity, improving code quality, and helping you easily meet regulatory and best practices requirements.
With Rocket® Aldon Lifecycle Manager (LM), you can
accelerate and automatically track all your software
development and maintenance workflows from
design to production. Our solution keeps you in
control while increasing your developers’ productivity so that you can deploy IT projects on time and on budget. Its comprehensive activity tracking and performance reporting provide management with the input and feedback needed
to optimize IT’s responsiveness.
From the moment a change is requested or an enhancement is filed, you are in total control of your application development lifecycle and software
change management process. What’s more, our
software gives you a way to easily keep compliant,
from user request through release to production, so
passing an IT audit is never a problem.
This webinar was held live on March 4th, 2021. Watch the on demand recording here: https://curiositysoftware.ie/resources/democratisation-testing-webinar/
Learn how Infuse, Kumoco and Curiosity enabled rigorous in-sprint test automation at a large telecommunications company. BAs, Testers and Developers at the telco now collaborate to build visual flows of the system logic in-sprint. The easy-to-maintain diagrams generate complete SIT and E2E tests for the latest business processes, rigorously testing before every rapid release.
To overcome siloes and overly-manual processes, Infuse, Kumoco and Curiosity built a “telecommunications-company-in-a-box”, a digital twin of the system under test. Artifacts created by BA’s were imported to build complete business flows, providing a single source of truth for the systems in scope. The flows were then used to generate rigorous tests in seconds, and were further used by developers and testers to build CI/CD assets. This generated a complete set of artifacts across the SDLC, while allowing every stakeholder to use their favourite tools.
Join Infuse, Kumoco and Curiosity live to see this cutting-edge approach to in-sprint design, development and testing in action. You will discover how:
1. Slow and siloed system design and test creation were replaced by test generation for useMango, with matching test cases generated in Jira.
2. Risk-based test generation identified exactly what to test in short sprints, overcoming the challenge of having more in a system than you could ever test in-sprint.
3. The rigorous automation is now maintained in-sprint, updating tests across tools as the business customize processes in BPMN-style diagrams.
4. The business know that their changes will be validated rigorously before each release, optimizing test generation for time and risk and defining reliably when testing is ‘done’.
This webinar was held live on March 4th, 2021. Watch the on demand recording here: https://curiositysoftware.ie/resources/democratisation-testing-webinar/
Going back to the year 2014, Kovair touched upon several milestones in different arenas starting from Product Enhancements to Enhanced Website Launch to Event Participations and Partnerships. We would like to hear your feedback on how we can help you serve better in the years to come.
June 09 - build recurring revenue from reactive customersSolarwinds N-able
75% of SMBs purchasing IT services do so reactively, forcing you to wait for their business. This webinar will show you how to proactively monitor these customer’s networks at no cost and generate reports- a strategy that builds recurring revenue from reactive customers.
Join Scott Parker and Somya Bahadur for this 30 minute presentation and learn about:
• Using free licenses to collect information about a reactive customer’s network
• Using discovery reports to identify upsell opportunities (Backup, AV, Patch)
• Using business reports to build trust with reactive customer and win more business
This presentation covers data migration challenges, Kovair's migration architecture and components, example scenarios and benefits derived from Omnibus solutions. To learn more contact sales@kovair.com
In this presentation you will learn about software quality management, the difference between QA and Testing and the ways to achieve better quality software. Kovair iTM - Integrated Test Management with its 100% web based, flexible and comprehensive test management platform helps teams in adopting DevOps.
Why Agile Fails in Large Enterprises—and What to Do about ItTechWell
Agile works. We get it. You don’t have to sell people on the underlying principles anymore. Even so, many large-scale agile transformations are struggling. Some have failed. Others can’t figure out why things aren't working after multiple attempts. It’s easy to blame the people, the process, and the culture. And it’s especially easy to blame management. However, the underlying problem is that most large organizations weren’t built to be agile. You need a way to safely and pragmatically refactor your company into an organization that can adopt agile and sustain the transformation. Mike Cottmeyer introduces a framework for understanding the type of company in which you work, its delivery constraints, and likely challenges you’ll face in your agile transformation. Mike shares a strategy for establishing an end-state vision and operational model to guide your transformation. Finally, he defines an approach for incrementally introducing change, measuring outcomes, and sustaining those changes.
Mobile App Testing: The Good, the Bad, and the UglyTechWell
Mobile app testing has lots of good practices, some not so useful (bad) concepts, and some really ugly, don’t-ever-do ones. In the tradition of James Whittaker’s How to Break Software books, Jon Hagar applies the testing “attack” concept to mobile app software. Jon starts by defining the big problems and challenges of testing mobile app software and examines the patterns of product failures that you must attack. He then shares a set of good, bad, and ugly test techniques, which testers and developers can direct against their software to find important bugs quickly. Looking at native, web-based, and hybrid apps, Jon explains the pros and cons of each technique with examples to further your understanding. Finally, he gives you takeaway information on tools, automation, and test attacks your can begin using immediately. Go beyond basic functionality verification and learn how to attack your mobile apps with the best techniques while avoiding the ugly ones.
The key to successful testing is effective and timely planning. Rick Craig introduces proven test planning methods and techniques, including the Master Test Plan and level-specific test plans for acceptance, system, integration, and unit testing. Rick explains how to customize an IEEE-829-style test plan and test summary report to fit your organization’s needs. Learn how to manage test activities, estimate test efforts, and achieve buy-in. Discover a practical risk analysis technique to prioritize your testing and become more effective with limited resources. Rick offers test measurement and reporting recommendations for monitoring the testing process. Discover new methods and develop renewed energy for taking your organization’s test management to the next level.
At Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Technology, we provide the applications and infrastructure our online guests use to plan, book, explore, and enjoy their stay at our parks and resorts. With millions of page views per day and a multi-billion dollar ecommerce booking engine, we face a unique set of challenges. Join Les Honniball for insights into how they work with Product Owners and development teams to design tests, both manual and automated for these challenges. Les explains the testing processes that support a global set of brands on one web platform, including successful QA strategies, analytics, and user experience design―all while working within an agile development process. Discover how Les and his team of QA engineers work with various development teams in Orlando FL, Glendale CA, and Argentina to support many areas of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Technology Business.
Innovation for Existing Software Product: An R&D ApproachTechWell
In the world of software, innovating an existing product often makes the difference between continued success and rapid irrelevance and failure. Although innovation can come from many different sources, it can be difficult to develop breakthrough innovations while simultaneously trying to maintain an existing piece of software. Aaron Barrett says that a stand-alone R&D team, freed from the constraints of production software, is a great answer to this dilemma. Join Aaron as he shares some simple guidelines to facilitate the process of integrating R&D efforts into an existing software product while avoiding R&D that does not lead to production-ready systems. Learn how and when to get company buy-in, actively engage your developers, and develop with your go-to-market strategy in mind to reap the innovation benefits of a dedicated R&D team.
What is the Internet of Things (IoT)? What are the technologies that make it happen? Where do we see it today? Where will we see it tomorrow? What capabilities will it provide, and what do we need to know to take part in it? Jim McKeeth considers where IoT is taking us and discusses the hurdles we face today and in the future. With a focus on applications, Jim offers examples of IoT technology from the perspective of developers. Join Jim to learn about cross-platform development, cloud synchronization, app-to-app communication, Bluetooth, WiFi, security concerns, privacy issues, and more. Look at specific IoT devices now available that are changing the landscape for businesses and the consumer. Is the Internet of Things the dawn of a new age or just another way for “Big Brother” to watch our every move? Come find the answers to this and other thought-provoking questions.
Many projects implicitly use some kind of risk-based approach for prioritizing testing activities. However, critical testing decisions should be based on a product risk assessment process using key business drivers as its foundation. For agile projects, this assessment should be both thorough and lightweight. Erik van Veenendaal discusses PRISMA (PRoduct RISk MAnagement), a highly practical method for performing systematic product risk assessments. Learn how to employ PRISMA techniques in agile projects using Risk Poker. Carry out risk identification and analysis, see how to use the outcome to select the best test approach, and learn how to transform the result into an agile one-page sprint test plan. Erik shares practical experiences and results achieved by employing product risk assessments. Learn how to optimize your test effort by including product risk assessment in your agile testing practices.
Survival Guide: Taming the Data Quality BeastTechWell
As companies scramble to adjust to the demands of an increasingly data-driven world, testers are told “go test data quality” without any guidance as to what that entails or how to go about it. The fact that the data is often a living, flowing ecosystem, rather than just a single object, requires the use of different strategies to gain meaningful insights. Shauna Ayers and Catherine Cruz Agosto guide you through the challenges of data quality and apply a structured approach to analyze, measure, test, and monitor living data sets, and gauge the business impact of data quality issues. Shauna and Catherine define data quality, describe the five goals of data quality management, provide the four pillars of data quality assurance, and show how data flow, scale, and properties interact to build the data quality landscape. Learn how to tame the data quality beast, determine what and how to test, overcome technical obstacles—and emerge with a usable plan of attack.
Crafting Smaller User Stories: Examples and ExercisesTechWell
Agile development techniques generally emphasize frequent iterations. But even after adopting agile values, methods, and ceremonies, many organizations struggle to make such iterations work in practice. These organizations inevitably wrestle with agile rhythms until they learn to break up their work into small user stories that will fit within short iterations and allow for fast feedback. Stephen Frein discusses the importance of small user stories and how crucial they are to finishing the stories within the iteration and avoiding a mini-waterfall inside an iteration. After reviewing the characteristics of a good user story, Stephen introduces various techniques for identifying stories that could be decomposed into several other stories, along with accompanying practice exercises to help you get a good feel for the practical aspects of breaking up large stories. Join Stephen if you are having trouble finishing stories within their planned iterations or if your work seems to double in the last days of an iteration.
Successful Test Automation: A Manager’s ViewTechWell
Many organizations invest substantial time and effort in test automation but do not achieve the significant returns they expected. Some blame the tool they used; others conclude test automation just doesn't work in their situation. The truth, however, is often very different. These organizations are typically doing many of the right things but they are not addressing key issues that are vital to long term test automation success. Describing the most important issues that you must address, Mark Fewster helps you understand and choose the best approaches for your organization—no matter which automation tools you use. We’ll discuss both management issues—responsibilities, automation objectives, and return on investment—and technical issues—testware architecture, pre- and post-processing, and automated comparison techniques. If you are involved with managing test automation and need to understand the key issues in making test automation successful, join Mark for this enlightening tutorial.
Building on Existing Infrastructure for Mobile ApplicationsTechWell
In 2013 Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica) wanted to enter the mobile application arena so their customers could manage their FCSAmerica lending accounts. Anthony Carlson explains that in the previous thirteen years, FCSAmerica had built an SOA infrastructure for internal applications, including services for customer authentication, lending accounts, and remote check depositing. However, mobility had not been considered when the services were created, and these services were internally protected by a firewall inside their DMZ. If your company has concerns of exposing services to a mobile app, yet wants to reuse what already exists in the enterprise, then the concept of designing services through an API Gateway may be your answer. API Gateways are part of an API Management solution to deal with issues of integration and security. Anthony shares the benefits, challenges, and results of designing a system with an API Management solution to expose services to a mobile application.
Mindmaps: Lightweight Documentation for TestingTechWell
Quality starts with requirements. In small to mid-size companies, it is not uncommon for the communication chain to be broken. Florin Ursu shares ways to avoid miscommunication through a streamlined process in which requirements are communicated to both developers and testers simultaneously; then developers write code while testers document what will be tested. Florin explores what mindmaps are; what they can be used for, both in general and applied to software development; and then dives deeper into how mindmaps can be used for testing. He describes how his teams use mindmaps to brainstorm, organize testing scenarios, prioritize work, review test scenarios, present results to stakeholders highlighting what was tested and (just as important) what was not tested, issues found, and risks. Using example mindmaps, Florin highlights important details captured in day to day work, including tips regarding format, communication style, and how to “sell” the idea of mindmaps to your stakeholders.
The Power of an Individual Tester: The HealthCare.gov ExperienceTechWell
Like millions of other Americans, Ben Simo visited HealthCare.gov in search of health insurance and found a frustratingly buggy website that was failing to fulfill its purpose―to educate people on the new health insurance law and help them purchase health insurance. After failing to create an account, Ben put on his tester hat and turned on his web developer tools. In addition to many functional and performance issues, Ben soon discovered a chain of security vulnerabilities that exposed users to unnecessary risk. Finding HealthCare.gov customer service unequipped to receive reports of security vulnerabilities, he blogged his discoveries, spawning a storm of public attention which hailed Ben as a “web expert,” “methodical IT guru," “folk hero”—and “not too bright.” His reports even came up in congressional hearings, where the Secretary of Health and Human Services referred to Ben as “a sort of skilled hacker.” Ben’s reports helped bring attention to problems that suggested a systematic lack of care and understanding of system design and information security. Join Ben as he shares his experience, the issues he found, and lessons testers can learn from HealthCare.gov.
Metrics Program Implementation: Pitfalls and SuccessesTechWell
When we talk about product quality, test team efficiency, and productivity, we always talk numbers. However, very few companies implement metrics programs in a way that supports solid decision making. Many have tried and failed, leaving a negative impression of metrics. Kris Kosyk explains what metrics like Defect Removal Efficiency tell us and how it is impacted by Test Coverage and Defect Backlog Change Rate. Moving up a level, Kris explains how to use operational testing metrics to understand the development lifecycle process. Though it’s a common belief that a successful metrics program depends on the metrics selected, that is really only half the battle. The other half is a well-designed implementation of the metrics program and effective ongoing governance. Kris addresses these issues and other related questions, and shares a case study on her successes and mistakes while implementing a company-wide test metrics program for more than 200 projects.
Quality Index: A Composite Metric for the Voice of TestingTechWell
It is quite possible that you are spending a considerable amount of your time as a QA manager making sense of the multitude of metrics reported by your teams, connecting the facts, understanding the underlying reality, and articulating it to your peers and leadership. Still, others in the organization may not interpret the message correctly, rendering most of your efforts futile. Nirav Patel and Sutharson Veeravalli share insights to help you resolve this challenge through a composite measure called Quality Index. By aligning metrics to business outcomes and using Quality Index as a tool of articulation, disparate interpretation of data can be eliminated and a cohesive message delivered to stakeholders. Learn how QA can acquire a voice across the senior forums by articulating succinct, contextual, and actionable information to speed up executive decisions in the course of programs and projects.
DOES15 - Sherry Chang - Intel’s Journey to Large Scale DevOps Transformation Gene Kim
Sherry Chang, Enterprise Architect, Intel
Is it possible to transform large enterprises with 100’s of in-flight projects across myriad technology stacks and entrenched processes, requiring massive workforce re-skilling? In this session, I’ll share approaches we employed to increase the likelihood of success through DevOps adoption by:
-Offering of a common Continuous Delivery Service, similar to industry offerings from Codeship.io, CloudBees, and others
-Establishing a Maturity Model to help teams incrementally adopt DevOps practices
-Coaching teams through Kaizen sessions to eliminate bottlenecks and waste in their value stream
Measuring and Maximizing the Business Impact of Network AutomationItential
As networks become more complex, the rate of change is exceeding human capacity and automation is needed to scale. Automation provides opportunities to re-engineer business processes and shift from human-centric processes to machine-centric in order to maximize business value. However, given all of the choices involved in selecting and implementing an automation platform, decision makers should focus on evolving their ability to evaluate options and measure the business impact of network automation through creating a metric driven automation strategy.
In this webinar, we’ll dive into the following:
- Getting started with measuring automation value by selecting the right use cases.
- How to measure success factors for an effective automation strategy.
- Constructs of a framework for assessing automation value.
- Key metrics to consider when evaluating automation solutions.
- Considerations for scaling automation strategies to support business objectives.
Live Webinar- Making Test Automation 10x Faster for Continuous Delivery- By R...RapidValue
A live webinar hosted by RapidValue Solutions on "Making Test Automation 10X Faster for Continuous Delivery".
Key takeaways:
1. Achieving test automation in a DevOps world
2. Building a business-tailored test automation framework
3. Overcoming limitations of open source tools
4. Case study: Creating 2000+ test cases in less than a month for a product development firm
5. Demo: Zero-code test automation for non-testers using AccuRate ( test automation suite by RapidValue)
Best Practices in Testing Force.com ApplicationEmtec Inc.
Webinar: Best Practices in Testing Force.com Applications2013-10-03 12:03 PM010:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. CSThttps://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/262454512
Emtec hosted this webinar, which highlighted our QA advantage for Force.com applications. Today's force.com applications are becoming more complicated and the need for regression testing is more important than ever, especially with Agile Development methods. Emtec provides a prebuilt test automation framework and services platform with open source tools to provide seamless regression testing and quality assurance turnkey services for Salesforce.com customers.
Is JDA a critical application for your business? Are you planning or completing a JDA upgrade? Have you experienced issues that are difficult to track, locate or root cause? If you answered YES to any of these questions, then this webinar is tailor-made for you.
Industry experts from Spinnaker and Germain Software discuss best practices in managing a JDA environment. They share war stories to highlight why you are having issues, how you can locate and root cause them, and proactively safe guard your environment from the issues in the future!
Agile Certainty, bringing predictability in Agile engagementsPuneet Sachdev
Can Agile projects be predictable? What do we need to predict? Is it cost, is it time to market or is it business value? In an outsourcing context, how does a service provider provide contractual certainty in an Agile project? Are solid engineering practices enough for bringing predictability in Agile? In this talk we will see various techniques which NIIT has used in bringing predictability in Agile projects for both itself and its customers.
The latest Primavera Roadmap June 2015
The recognized standard for high-performance project management Primavera P6 Professional Project Management, handles large-scale, highly sophisticated and multifaceted projects. Organize projects of up to 100,000 activities with unlimited resources and an unlimited number of target plans.
Best Practices for Managing IaaS, PaaS, and Container-Based Deployments - App...AppDynamics
Organizations are rapidly adopting Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI / CD) and DevOps processes to de-couple previously monolithic service delivery cycles, drive faster innovation, and reduce time to market. A key enabler of this shift software and infrastructure automation on top of increasingly progressive deployment environments including public/private cloud (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and lightweight containers (Docker).
This session will provide a deep-dive view into using AppDynamics in these next-generation environments that provide the backbone of the DevOps movement.
Key takeaways:
o How AppDynamics enables the shift to a CI/CD or DevOps culture
o The differences between IaaS, PaaS, and containerized deployments
o Examples of using automation platforms (Chef/Puppet/Ansible) to enable AppDynamics
o Best practices for using AppDynamics to manage a highly distributed, micro-services architecture
o Strategies for managing container-based deployments with AppDynamics
For more information go to: www.appdynamics.com
Which One Works You The Best: In-House or Cloud-Based Development EnvironmentBitbar
Watch a live presentation at http://offer.bitbar.com/which-one-works-you-the-best-in-house-or-cloud-based-development-environment
The best and the most suitable development environment whether it is a full in-house solution with your own devices, servers and other infrastructure – or development infrastructure environment fully hosted for you, depends on various aspects.
Stay tuned and join our upcoming webinars at http://bitbar.com/testing/webinars/
Do you ever feel you have lost confidence in your own abilities? Why does this happen? Isabel Evans spends a lot of time painting. Someone once commented, “Why are you doing this, when you are not very good at it?” And gradually she stopped drawing and painting, after being intimidated by a conventional vision of what good art should look like. At the same time, she experienced a parallel loss of confidence in her professional abilities. Attempting creative pursuits like drawing and painting is essential to cognitive, emotional, creative abilities and she began to understand the correlation between her creative activities and her confidence. Making errors, being wrong, failing – that is a generous gift we receive when we practice outside our skill level. By staying in a comfort zone and repeating successes, we stagnate. As Isabel started to create again she thought “I don’t feel good at it, I do feel good doing it” The difference was that she was learning, having ideas and the act of re-engaging with failure, together with the comradeship of friends and colleagues, including at Women Who Test, Isabel has regained her confidence in her professional abilities, and been able to reboot her career and joy. Join Isabel to share a journey from self-perceived failure, to recovery and renewed learning.
Instill a DevOps Testing Culture in Your Team and Organization TechWell
The DevOps movement is here. Companies across many industries are breaking down siloed IT departments and federating them into product development teams. Testing and its practices are at the heart of these changes. Traditionally, IT organizations have been staffed with mostly manual testers and a limited number of automation and performance engineers. To keep pace with development in the new “you build it, you own it” environment, testing teams and individuals must develop new technical skills and even embrace coding to stay relevant and add greater value to the business. DevOps really starts with testing. Join Adam Auerbach as he explains what DevOps is and how it relates to testing. He describes how testing must change from top to bottom and how to access your own environment to identify improvement opportunities. Adam dives into practices like service virtualization, test data management, and continuous testing so you can understand where you are now and identify steps needed to instill a DevOps testing culture in your team and organization.
Test Design for Fully Automated Build ArchitectureTechWell
Imagine this … As soon as any developed functionality is submitted into the code repository, it is automatically subjected to the appropriate battery of tests and then released straight into production. Setting up the pipeline capable of doing just that is becoming more and more common and something you need to know about. But most organizations hit the same stumbling block—just what IS the appropriate battery of tests? Automated build architectures don't always lend themselves well to the traditional stages of testing. In this hands-on tutorial, Melissa Benua introduces you to key test design principles—applicable to organizations both large and small—that allow you to take full advantage of the pipeline's capabilities without introducing unnecessary bottlenecks. Learn how to make highly reliable tests that run fast and preserve just enough information to let testers and developers determine exactly what went wrong and how to reproduce the error locally. Explore ways to reduce overlap while still maintaining adequate test coverage. Take back ideas about which test areas could benefit from being combined into a single suite and which areas could benefit most from being broken out altogether.
System-Level Test Automation: Ensuring a Good StartTechWell
Many organizations invest a lot of effort in test automation at the system level but then have serious problems later on. As a leader, how can you ensure that your new automation efforts will get off to a good start? What can you do to ensure that your automation work provides continuing value? This tutorial covers both “theory” and “practice”. Dot Graham explains the critical issues for getting a good start, and Chris Loder describes his experiences in getting good automation started at a number of companies. The tutorial covers the most important management issues you must address for test automation success, particularly when you are new to automation, and how to choose the best approaches for your organization—no matter which automation tools you use. Focusing on system level testing, Dot and Chris explain how automation affects staffing, who should be responsible for which automation tasks, how managers can best support automation efforts to promote success, what you can realistically expect in benefits and how to report them. They explain—for non-techies—the key technical issues that can make or break your automation effort. Come away with your own clarified automation objectives, and a draft test automation strategy to use to plan your own system-level test automation.
Build Your Mobile App Quality and Test StrategyTechWell
Let’s build a mobile app quality and testing strategy together. Whether you have a web, hybrid, or native app, building a quality and testing strategy means (1) knowing what data and tools you have available to make agile decisions, (2) understanding your customers and your competitors, and (3) testing your app under real-world conditions. Jason Arbon guides you through the latest techniques, data, and tools to ensure the awesomeness of your mobile app quality and testing strategy. Leave this interactive session with a strategy for your very own app—or one you pretend to own. The information Jason shares is based on data from Appdiff’s next-gen mobile app testing platform, lessons from Applause/uTest’s crowd, text mining hundreds of millions of app store reviews, and in-depth discussions with top mobile app development teams.
Testing Transformation: The Art and Science for SuccessTechWell
Technologies, testing processes, and the role of the tester have evolved significantly in the past few years with the advent of agile, DevOps, and other new technologies. It is critical that we testing professionals evaluate ourselves and continue to add tangible value to our organizations. In your work, are you focused on the trivial or on real game changers? Jennifer Bonine describes critical elements that help you artfully blend people, process, and technology to create a synergistic relationship that adds value. Jennifer shares ideas on mastering politics, maneuvering core vs. context, and innovating your technology strategies and processes. She explores how new processes can be introduced in an organization, what the role of organizational culture is in determining the success of a project, and how you can know what tools will add value vs. simply adding overhead and complexity. Jennifer reviews critically needed tester skills and discusses a continual learning model to evolve your skills and stay relevant. This discussion can lead you to technologies, processes, and skills you can stake your career on.
We’ve all been there. We work incredibly hard to develop a feature and design tests based on written requirements. We build a detailed test plan that aligns the tests with the software and the documented business needs. And when we put the tests to the software, it all falls apart because the requirements were changed without informing everyone. Mary Thorn says help is at hand. Enter behavior-driven development (BDD), and Cucumber and SpecFlow, tools for running automated acceptance tests and facilitating BDD. Mary explores the nuances of Cucumber and SpecFlow, and shows you how to implement BDD and agile acceptance testing. By fostering collaboration for implementing active requirements via a common language and format, Cucumber and SpecFlow bridge the communication gap between business stakeholders and implementation teams. In this workshop, practice writing feature files with the best practices Mary has discovered over numerous implementations. If you experience developers not coding to requirements, testers not getting requirements updates, or customers who feel out of the loop and don’t get what they ask for, Mary has answers for you.
Develop WebDriver Automated Tests—and Keep Your SanityTechWell
Many teams go crazy because of brittle, high-maintenance automated test suites. Jim Holmes helps you understand how to create a flexible, maintainable, high-value suite of functional tests using Selenium WebDriver. Learn the basics of what to test, what not to test, and how to avoid overlapping with other types of testing. Jim includes both philosophical concepts and hands-on coding. Testers who haven't written code should not be intimidated! We'll pair you up to make sure you're successful. Learn to create practical tests dealing with advanced situations such as input validation, AJAX delays, and working with file downloads. Additionally, discover when you need to work together with developers to create a system that's more easily testable. This tutorial focuses primarily on automating web tests, but many of the same concepts can be applied to other UI environments. Demos and labs will be in C# and Java using WebDriver. Leave this tutorial having learned how to write high-value WebDriver tests—and stay sane while doing so.
DevOps is a cultural shift aimed at streamlining intergroup communication and improving operational efficiency for development and operations groups. Over time, inclusion of other IT groups under the DevOps umbrella has become the norm for many organizations. But even broadening the boundaries of DevOps, the conversation has been largely devoid of the business units’ place at the table. A common mistake organizations make while going through the DevOps transformation is drawing a line at the IT boundary. If that occurs, a larger, more inclusive silo within the organization is created, operating in an informational vacuum and causing operational inefficiency and goal misalignment. Sharing his experiences working on both sides of the fence, Leon Fayer describes the importance of including business units in order to align technology decisions with business goals. Leon discusses inclusion of business units in existing agile processes, benefits of cross-departmental monitoring, and a business-first approach to technology decisions.
Eliminate Cloud Waste with a Holistic DevOps StrategyTechWell
Chris Parlette maintains that renting infrastructure on demand is the most disruptive trend in IT in decades. In 2016, enterprises spent $23B on public cloud IaaS services. By 2020, that figure is expected to reach $65B. The public cloud is now used like a utility, and like any utility, there is waste. Who's responsible for optimizing the infrastructure and reducing wasted expenses? It’s DevOps. The excess expense, known as cloud waste, comprises several interrelated problems: services running when they don't need to be, improperly sized infrastructure, orphaned resources, and shadow IT. There are a few core tenets of DevOps—holistic thinking, no silos, rapid useful feedback, and automation—that can be applied to reducing your cloud waste. Join Chris to learn why you should include continuous cost optimization in your DevOps processes. Automate cost control, reduce your cloud expenses, and make your life easier.
Transform Test Organizations for the New World of DevOpsTechWell
With the recent emergence of DevOps across the industry, testing organizations are being challenged to transform themselves significantly within a short period of time to stay meaningful within their organizations. It’s not easy to plan and approach these changes considering the way testing organizations have remained structured for ages. These challenges start from foundational organizational structures and can cut across leadership influence, competencies, tools strategy, infrastructure, and other dimensions. Sumit Kumar shares his experience assisting various organizations to overcome these challenges using an organized DevOps enablement framework. The framework includes radical restructuring, turning the tools strategy upside down, a multidimensional workforce enablement supported by infrastructure changes, redeveloped collaborations models, and more. From his real world experiences Sumit shares tips for approaching this journey and explains the roadmap for testing organizations to transform themselves to lead the quality in DevOps.
The Fourth Constraint in Project Delivery—LeadershipTechWell
All too often, the triple constraints—time, cost, and quality—are bandied about as if they are the be-all, end-all. While they are important, leadership—the fourth and larger underpinning constraint—influences the first three. Statistics on project success and failure abound, and these measurements are usually taken against the triple constraints. According to the Project Management Institute, only 53 percent of projects are completed within budget, and only 49 percent are completed on time. If so many projects overrun budget and are late, we can’t really say, “Good, fast, or cheap—pick two.” Rob Burkett talks about leadership at every level of a team. He shares his insights and stories gleaned from his years of IT and project management experience. Rob speaks to some of the glaring difficulties in the workplace in general and some specifically related to IT delivery and project management. Leave with a clearer understanding of how to communicate with teams and team members, and gain a better understanding of how you can be a leader—up and down your organization.
Resolve the Contradiction of Specialists within Agile TeamsTechWell
As teams grow, organizations often draw a distinction between feature teams, which deliver the visible business value to the user, and component teams, which manage shared work. Steve Berczuk says that this distinction can help organizations be more productive and scale effectively, but he recognizes that not all shared work fits into this model. Some work is best handled by “specialists,” that is people with unique skills. Although teams composed entirely of T-shaped people is ideal, certain skills are hard to come by and are used irregularly across an organization. Since these specialists often need to work closely with teams, rather than working from their own backlog, they don’t fit into the component team model. The use of shared resources presents challenges to the agile planning model. Steve Berczuk shares how teams such as those providing infrastructure services and specialists can fit into a feature+component team model, and how variations such as embedding specialists in a scrum team can both present process challenges and add significant value to both the team and the larger organization.
Pin the Tail on the Metric: A Field-Tested Agile GameTechWell
Metrics don’t have to be a necessary evil. If done right, metrics can help guide us to make better forward-looking decisions, rather than being used for simply managing or monitoring. They can help us identify trade-offs between options for what to do next versus punitive or worse, purely managerial measures. Steve Martin won’t be giving the Top Ten List of field-tested metrics you should use. Instead, in this interactive mini-workshop, he leads you through the critical thinking necessary for you to determine what is right for you to measure. First, Steve explores why you want to measure something—whether it’s for a team, a portfolio, or even an agile transformation. Next, he provides multiple real-life metrics examples to help drive home concepts behind characteristics of good and bad metrics. Finally, Steve shows how to run his field-tested agile game—Pin the Tail on the Metric. Take back this activity to help you guide metrics conversations at your organization.
Agile Performance Holarchy (APH)—A Model for Scaling Agile TeamsTechWell
A hierarchy is an organizational network that has a top and a bottom, and where position is determined by rank, importance, and value. A holarchy is a network that has no top or bottom and where each person’s value derives from his ability, rather than position. As more companies seek the benefits of agile, leaders need to build and sustain delivery capability while scaling agile without introducing unnecessary process and overhead. The Agile Performance Holarchy (APH) is an empirical model for scaling and sustaining agility while continuing to deliver great products. Jeff Dalton designed the APH by drawing from lessons learned observing and assessing hundreds of agile companies and teams. The APH helps implement a holarchy—a system composed of interacting organizational units called holons—centered on a series of performance circles that embody the behaviors of high performing agile organizations. Jeff describes how APH provides guidelines in the areas of leadership, values, teaming, visioning, governing, building, supporting, and engaging within an all-agile organization. Join Jeff to see what the APH is all about and how you can use it in your team and organization.
A Business-First Approach to DevOps ImplementationTechWell
DevOps is a cultural shift aimed at streamlining intergroup communication and improving operational efficiency for development and operations groups. Over time, inclusion of other IT groups under the DevOps umbrella has become the norm for many organizations. But even broadening the boundaries of DevOps, the conversation has been largely devoid of the business units’ place at the table. A common mistake organizations make while going through the DevOps transformation is drawing a line at the IT boundary. If that occurs, a larger, more inclusive silo within the organization is created, operating in an informational vacuum and causing operational inefficiency and goal misalignment. Sharing his experiences working on both sides of the fence, Leon Fayer describes the importance of including business units in order to align technology decisions with business goals. Leon discusses inclusion of business units in existing agile processes, benefits of cross-departmental monitoring, and a business-first approach to technology decisions.
Databases in a Continuous Integration/Delivery ProcessTechWell
DevOps is transforming software development with many organizations adopting lean development practices, implementing continuous integration (CI), and performing regular continuous deployment (CD) to their production environments. However, the database is largely ignored and often seen as a bottleneck in the DevOps process. Steve Jones discusses the challenges of database development and why many developers find the database to be an impediment to the CD process. Steve shares the techniques you can use to fit a database into the DevOps process. Learn how to store database code in a version control system, and the differences between that and application code. Steve demonstrates a CI process with SQL code and uses automated testing frameworks to check the code. Steve then shows how automated releases with manual gates can reduce the stress and risk of database deployments while ensuring consistent, reliable, repeatable releases to QA, UAT, and production.
Mobile Testing: What—and What Not—to AutomateTechWell
Organizations are moving rapidly into mobile technology, which has significantly increased the demand for testing of mobile applications. David Dangs says testers naturally are turning to automation to help ease the workload, increase potential test coverage, and improve testing efficiency. But should you try to automate all things mobile? Unfortunately, the answer is not always clear. Mobile has its own set of complications, compounded by a wide variety of devices and OS platforms. Join David to learn what mobile testing activities are ripe for automation—and those items best left to manual efforts. He describes the various considerations for automating each type of mobile application: mobile web, native app, and hybrid applications. David also covers device-level testing, types of testing, available automation tools, and recommendations for automation effectiveness. Finally, based on his years of mobile testing experience, David provides some tips and tricks to approach mobile automation. Leave with a clear plan for automating your mobile applications.
Cultural Intelligence: A Key Skill for SuccessTechWell
Diversity is becoming the norm in everyday life. However, introducing global delivery models without a proper understanding of intercultural differences can lead to difficulty, frustration, and reduced productivity. Priyanka Sharma and Thena Barry say that in our diverse world, we need teams with people who can cross these boundaries, communicate effectively, and build the diverse networks necessary to avoid problems. We need to learn about cultural intelligence (CI) and cultural quotient (CQ). CI is the ability to relate and work effectively across cultures. CQ is the cognitive, motivational, and behavioral capacity to understand and respond to beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviors of individuals and groups. Together, CI and CQ can help us build behavioral capacities that aid motivation, behavior, and productivity in teams as well as individuals. Priyanka and Thena show how to build a more culturally intelligent place with tools and techniques from Leading with Cultural Intelligence, as well as content from the Hofstede cultural model. In addition, they illustrate the model with real-life experiences and demonstrate how they adapted in similar circumstances.
Turn the Lights On: A Power Utility Company's Agile TransformationTechWell
Why would a century-old utility with no direct competitors take on the challenge of transforming its entire IT application organization to an agile methodology? In an increasingly interconnected world, the expectations of customers continue to evolve. From smart meters to smart phones, IoT is creating a crisis point for industries not accustomed to rapid change. Glen Morris explains that pizzas can be tracked by the minute and packages at every stop, and customers now expect this same customer service model should exist for all industries—including power. Glen examines how to create momentum and transform non-IT-focused industries to an agile model. If you are struggling with gaining traction in your pursuit of agile within your business, Glen gives you concrete, practical experiences to leverage in your pursuit. Finally, he communicates how to gain buy-in from business partners who have no idea or concern about agile or its methodologies. If your business partners look at you with amusement when you mention the need for a dedicated Product Owner, join Glen as he walks you through the approaches to overcoming agile skepticism.
Innovating Inference - Remote Triggering of Large Language Models on HPC Clus...Globus
Large Language Models (LLMs) are currently the center of attention in the tech world, particularly for their potential to advance research. In this presentation, we'll explore a straightforward and effective method for quickly initiating inference runs on supercomputers using the vLLM tool with Globus Compute, specifically on the Polaris system at ALCF. We'll begin by briefly discussing the popularity and applications of LLMs in various fields. Following this, we will introduce the vLLM tool, and explain how it integrates with Globus Compute to efficiently manage LLM operations on Polaris. Attendees will learn the practical aspects of setting up and remotely triggering LLMs from local machines, focusing on ease of use and efficiency. This talk is ideal for researchers and practitioners looking to leverage the power of LLMs in their work, offering a clear guide to harnessing supercomputing resources for quick and effective LLM inference.
Top Features to Include in Your Winzo Clone App for Business Growth (4).pptxrickgrimesss22
Discover the essential features to incorporate in your Winzo clone app to boost business growth, enhance user engagement, and drive revenue. Learn how to create a compelling gaming experience that stands out in the competitive market.
SOCRadar Research Team: Latest Activities of IntelBrokerSOCRadar
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has suffered an alleged data breach after a notorious threat actor claimed to have exfiltrated data from its systems. Infamous data leaker IntelBroker posted on the even more infamous BreachForums hacking forum, saying that Europol suffered a data breach this month.
The alleged breach affected Europol agencies CCSE, EC3, Europol Platform for Experts, Law Enforcement Forum, and SIRIUS. Infiltration of these entities can disrupt ongoing investigations and compromise sensitive intelligence shared among international law enforcement agencies.
However, this is neither the first nor the last activity of IntekBroker. We have compiled for you what happened in the last few days. To track such hacker activities on dark web sources like hacker forums, private Telegram channels, and other hidden platforms where cyber threats often originate, you can check SOCRadar’s Dark Web News.
Stay Informed on Threat Actors’ Activity on the Dark Web with SOCRadar!
A Comprehensive Look at Generative AI in Retail App Testing.pdfkalichargn70th171
Traditional software testing methods are being challenged in retail, where customer expectations and technological advancements continually shape the landscape. Enter generative AI—a transformative subset of artificial intelligence technologies poised to revolutionize software testing.
May Marketo Masterclass, London MUG May 22 2024.pdfAdele Miller
Can't make Adobe Summit in Vegas? No sweat because the EMEA Marketo Engage Champions are coming to London to share their Summit sessions, insights and more!
This is a MUG with a twist you don't want to miss.
TROUBLESHOOTING 9 TYPES OF OUTOFMEMORYERRORTier1 app
Even though at surface level ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError’ appears as one single error; underlyingly there are 9 types of OutOfMemoryError. Each type of OutOfMemoryError has different causes, diagnosis approaches and solutions. This session equips you with the knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to troubleshoot and conquer OutOfMemoryError in all its forms, ensuring smoother, more efficient Java applications.
First Steps with Globus Compute Multi-User EndpointsGlobus
In this presentation we will share our experiences around getting started with the Globus Compute multi-user endpoint. Working with the Pharmacology group at the University of Auckland, we have previously written an application using Globus Compute that can offload computationally expensive steps in the researcher's workflows, which they wish to manage from their familiar Windows environments, onto the NeSI (New Zealand eScience Infrastructure) cluster. Some of the challenges we have encountered were that each researcher had to set up and manage their own single-user globus compute endpoint and that the workloads had varying resource requirements (CPUs, memory and wall time) between different runs. We hope that the multi-user endpoint will help to address these challenges and share an update on our progress here.
Navigating the Metaverse: A Journey into Virtual Evolution"Donna Lenk
Join us for an exploration of the Metaverse's evolution, where innovation meets imagination. Discover new dimensions of virtual events, engage with thought-provoking discussions, and witness the transformative power of digital realms."
We describe the deployment and use of Globus Compute for remote computation. This content is aimed at researchers who wish to compute on remote resources using a unified programming interface, as well as system administrators who will deploy and operate Globus Compute services on their research computing infrastructure.
Globus Connect Server Deep Dive - GlobusWorld 2024Globus
We explore the Globus Connect Server (GCS) architecture and experiment with advanced configuration options and use cases. This content is targeted at system administrators who are familiar with GCS and currently operate—or are planning to operate—broader deployments at their institution.
top nidhi software solution freedownloadvrstrong314
This presentation emphasizes the importance of data security and legal compliance for Nidhi companies in India. It highlights how online Nidhi software solutions, like Vector Nidhi Software, offer advanced features tailored to these needs. Key aspects include encryption, access controls, and audit trails to ensure data security. The software complies with regulatory guidelines from the MCA and RBI and adheres to Nidhi Rules, 2014. With customizable, user-friendly interfaces and real-time features, these Nidhi software solutions enhance efficiency, support growth, and provide exceptional member services. The presentation concludes with contact information for further inquiries.
Paketo Buildpacks : la meilleure façon de construire des images OCI? DevopsDa...Anthony Dahanne
Les Buildpacks existent depuis plus de 10 ans ! D’abord, ils étaient utilisés pour détecter et construire une application avant de la déployer sur certains PaaS. Ensuite, nous avons pu créer des images Docker (OCI) avec leur dernière génération, les Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNCF en incubation). Sont-ils une bonne alternative au Dockerfile ? Que sont les buildpacks Paketo ? Quelles communautés les soutiennent et comment ?
Venez le découvrir lors de cette session ignite
Globus Compute wth IRI Workflows - GlobusWorld 2024Globus
As part of the DOE Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) program, NERSC at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and ALCF at Argonne National Lab are working closely with General Atomics on accelerating the computing requirements of the DIII-D experiment. As part of the work the team is investigating ways to speedup the time to solution for many different parts of the DIII-D workflow including how they run jobs on HPC systems. One of these routes is looking at Globus Compute as a way to replace the current method for managing tasks and we describe a brief proof of concept showing how Globus Compute could help to schedule jobs and be a tool to connect compute at different facilities.
Software Engineering, Software Consulting, Tech Lead.
Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Core, Spring JDBC, Spring Security,
Spring Transaction, Spring MVC,
Log4j, REST/SOAP WEB-SERVICES.
Developing Distributed High-performance Computing Capabilities of an Open Sci...Globus
COVID-19 had an unprecedented impact on scientific collaboration. The pandemic and its broad response from the scientific community has forged new relationships among public health practitioners, mathematical modelers, and scientific computing specialists, while revealing critical gaps in exploiting advanced computing systems to support urgent decision making. Informed by our team’s work in applying high-performance computing in support of public health decision makers during the COVID-19 pandemic, we present how Globus technologies are enabling the development of an open science platform for robust epidemic analysis, with the goal of collaborative, secure, distributed, on-demand, and fast time-to-solution analyses to support public health.
OpenFOAM solver for Helmholtz equation, helmholtzFoam / helmholtzBubbleFoamtakuyayamamoto1800
In this slide, we show the simulation example and the way to compile this solver.
In this solver, the Helmholtz equation can be solved by helmholtzFoam. Also, the Helmholtz equation with uniformly dispersed bubbles can be simulated by helmholtzBubbleFoam.