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Well, if you want to reduce risk, increase coverage, and reduce defect leakage in your software the answer is a definitive and resounding YES! Over the past couple of decades, testers have largely been testing at the user interface (UI) level. The problem with this approach is the UI is constantly changing and must be stable before any testing can begin. If you have been following software development, you know that the trend is to release more quickly – waiting for a UI to be stable to be tested does not break any speed records, in fact this slows down the whole software engineering process. What if you could test earlier in the software engineering lifecycle with a stable interface? This would mean that you: • Test earlier in the lifecycle • Identify and remediate defects earlier • Reduce testing time and cost • Increase test coverage  If these benefits sound too good to be true check out our most recent research on API testing that shows how you can achieve bett...

I had the opportunity to attend the launch of the 8 th annual World Quality Report 2016 -2017 (WQR) authored by Capgemini and Sogeti , in collaboration with HPE . You can download a complimentary copy of the WQR here  This annual undertaking by the three companies is a global survey of 1600 participants consisting of 44 questions. The result is an 80-page report that provides a baseline for testing and QA trends. The launch event featured WQR co-authors Mark Buenen, Vice President, Global Leader, Sogeti QA and Testing Practice, Netherlands and Govindarajan Muthukrishnan, Senior Vice President,   Financial Services Testing Leader, United Kingdom. The co-authors spoke eloquently for about 30 minutes each on highlights of the WQR.  Following are some of the highlights from Mark and Govind’s WQR launch presentation. Overview As organizations continue on the path of digital transformation, there is immense pressure on the QA organization to d...

We are excited to launch a survey on one of the most topical IT agenda items – security operations automation. Security threats are a 24X7X365 concern for every single enterprise, regardless of size or type of business. Enterprises are worried about the business risk caused by un-remediated security vulnerabilities, compliance challenges, and configuration issues. We want to hear from you! How welcoming is your organization to hackers? Do IT operations professionals have enough information to remediate security vulnerabilities? Are IT security and IT operations working together? Are hackers “welcome” in your systems, infrastructure, and applications? We want to collect as much data as possible by September 25, 2016. So, take the voke Market Snapshot survey on security operations automation here . At the end of the survey you will have the opportunity to register for a complimentary copy of the report for your own personal use. Thank you in advance for your participation – ...

Releasing software, the last step to getting your software creation to your customers! Every team releases software differently, but everyone wants the release to be a success. So, regardless of how you release, how frequently you release, or how much you know about what you are releasing – we want your opinion! voke , the analyst firm focused on the edge of innovation, is conducting research on the topic of release management. We are looking for people exactly like you to share your opinion on software release management.  Please help out by letting us know what you think. The survey will take about 10 minutes to complete. Click here to share your story on release management. t

voke is excited to share the results of our second and most recent research on service virtualization – the voke Market Snapshot TM  Report: Service Virtualization . The latest research was announced on January 22, 2015. This most recent data was collected from over 500 participants from August – October 2014. Survey participants told us how they are using service virtualization, why they adopted it, their general thoughts about service virtualization, the challenges they face with service virtualization, and the benefits of service virtualization.  This research shows that service virtualization is no longer a nascent technology with a practitioner following. Service virtualization is now a proven technology with visibility at all levels of the organization. Change agents, C-level executives, and practitioners alike find value in the measurable and quick ROI service virtualization brings. Full ROI details achieved by participants provided in the report include: Reduced...

The analysts at voke are embarking on a busy time of year! Join voke founder, Theresa Lanowitz, on October 28, 2014 at 8:30AM Pacific / 11:30AM Eastern to discuss “ The Hidden Cost of Rework ”. Each and every software project has defects – that is just a fact. However, the longer the defect is ignored, the more expensive it is to remediate. Join Theresa Lanowitz of voke and Jon Jarboe of Coverity to learn how to identify defects earlier and reduce the cost of rework involved with every software project. Register here to learn about “The Hidden Cost of Rework”  Next up, voke founder, Theresa Lanowitz, will be the keynote presenter at the Cognizant Quality Engineering and Assurance Summit in Sydney, Australia! The theme of the event is “The Future of Quality: Challenge the Conventional Status Quo”. The event is Thursday, November 6. If you are in the ANZ region, register here .  Theresa’s keynote will discuss “Software Quality in the Sound Bite Era”. Join T...

We are running a market survey on service virtualization and really want to know what you think of service virtualization . Are you using it, have you evaluated it, or is the technology brand new to you? We want to hear from you! Take the voke survey on service virtualization.   Service virtualization is one of those technologies that comes along once in a generation and makes a real difference on many levels. Service virtualization helps remove the constraints associated with the classic cost, quality, schedule timeline. Please let us know why you like service virtualization, what the benefits of service virtualization are, how you are using service virtualization across your software supply chain. Let us know by taking the survey.     This survey consists of a combination of multiple choice and optional short answer questions to provide you the opportunity to influence our research and the overall market based on your experiences. The areas of foc...

Are you aware of what your cost of rework is for your software? Yes, the very software that runs your business and is an integral part of your brand promise. Most organizations are either not aware or not interested in what the cost of rework means. However, this cavalier stance to the cost of rework is dangerous. Each and every software project has an associated cost of rework – that is the cost involved with removing defects. The later in the lifecycle a defect is discovered, the more expensive it is to remediate. Defects create the hidden cost of rework in every software project. The new voke Strategic Brief TM Report: Reducing the Cost of Rework highlights: The business impact of defect leakage with real-world use cases The cost of rework models for both Agile and non-Agile projects Ways to test earlier to reduce rework and its costs The Strategic BriefTM Report: Reducing the Cost of Rework is available here or at www.vokeinc.com for su...

In my last post I asked for your opinions on virtual and cloud-based labs.   Thank you so much for letting us know what you think of virtual and cloud-based labs! On August 21, 2014 voke officially published its Market Snapshot TM Report: Virtual and Cloud-based Labs. The full report is available here  or at www.vokeinc.com to subscribers. While virtual and cloud-based lab technology has been widely available since 2005, we still see development and test teams wait for protracted periods of time to gain access to the physical environments needed. From our research, we now know that on average, teams wait for 18 days to gain access to the required physical environments needed for development or testing. And, these teams that wait to access physical environments also have restrictions on environment access time. This type of lost productivity is easily remedied with virtual or cloud-based labs. The full report contains an abundance of data to help ma...