….actually there is no need to choose, ITIL and DevOps play nicely together! Availability of frameworks and best practices are here to help businesses and not confuse them over what to choose. Some of the common myths include “ITIL is too much of processes”, “DevOps is a separate team in the company”. But the reality is that we get overwhelmed with these methodologies and start implementing without getting the basics right. Does DevOps mean the end of traditional IT service management schema? Or is it merely another corporate trend that will burn out in time? While technology experts debate which of these two will be the sole survivor, a third opinion has crept to the foreground: Are these really mutually exclusive concepts? Could these two elements merge into a single holistic paradigm and offer modern businesses more value than if they'd chosen one or the other? ITIL-DevOps takeaways summary from Gartner Datacenter Conference 2017: IT Ops teams still experience uncertainty Continue Reading
Moving forward: Agile Testing
Agile methodology is rapidly adopted by many project teams. Traditional methods of software development such as Waterfall, Spiral model, V-Model are becoming more and more outdated. First introduced by Dr. Winston W. Royce in a paper published in 1970, the waterfall model is a software development process. This model emphasizes that a logical progression of steps be taken throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC), much like the cascading steps down an incremental waterfall. Software developers and software testers are positioned as separate entities at different points along a production cycle. Waterfall is a respected methodology, but it's faced criticism: efficient production is severely hampered if developers are striving to refine their code to a state of perfection before passing it on to a separate testing team, who then strive to break it in as many ways as they can before sending their damage report back to the development team. This two-step process requires time, Continue Reading