John Michelsen's Blog
It will take a while for SaaS in a Cloud Computing model to catch up with
SOA. One obstacle for the pure plays in the cloud to join SOA is to recognize
and deal with the increased testing and validation of data from even more
diverse sources, as well as the governance and validation of all the
underlying technologies that contribute to specific business outcomes.
I'm on my way to STARwest in Disneyland, CA today, and since it's been a
little while since my last software quality-focused conference, I'm
particularly interested to see how these testing experts and vendors are
addressing the needs of a more distributed computing environment. Our own
expert Rajeev Gupta is coming in to present "Building the SOA Quality Center
of Excellence" at 11:30 PT o... (more)
John Michelsen's iTKO Blog
In the past, test “scripts” in TM tools were largely recorded as actual
step-by-step instructions (in a Word doc or Excel spreadsheet) for a manual
tester to point-and-click through a finished interface to test the
application. When tests were completed, the tester would then “check a
box” in the test management UI, to indicate that the test had passed or
fail... (more)
Server virtualization provides an immediate reduction in hardware and
configuration cost. But in focusing merely on the hardware side of
virtualization, are we leaving money on the table?
While organizations can reduce the number of boxes they need, and save the
cost of replicating servers for virtual test beds, these servers are becoming
commodities.
What if we could apply the benefits ... (more)
Server virtualization provides an immediate reduction in hardware and
configuration cost. But in focusing merely on the hardware side of
virtualization, are we leaving money on the table?
While organizations can reduce the number of boxes they need, and save the
cost of replicating servers for virtual test beds, these servers are becoming
commodities. What if we could apply the benefits of... (more)
I'm in Germany right now, looking forward to a session at ZapThink's
Practical SOA in Frankfurt event tomorrow. I'll be joining some peers from
companies like T-Mobile, Swisscom, Novartis and SwissLife who are going to be
sharing their own SOA success stories.
Why does SOA seem to be moving forward a little faster in Europe than in
North America? We've posed these kinds of questions in our... (more)
John Michelsen is the founder & chief architect of iTKO's LISA automated testing product and a leading industry advocate for software quality, learned through leading countless large-scale enterprise development projects. Before forming iTKO, John was CTO at Trilogy Inc., and VP of development at AGENCY.COM.
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