Craig Risi
How To Choose Between Open Source and Commercial Software
The days of needing to spend large sums of money on proprietary commercial software have long gone. With the growth of open-source...
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Craig Risi
Oct 1, 20228 min read
Best Practices for CI/CD
If there is one thing the software development world loves, it’s following the latest development trends. Call it the “cool factor” or...
Craig Risi
May 27, 20227 min read
Why you should consider Mutation Testing
In my previous article, I looked at the importance of Static Analysis and how it can benefit the quality of your code. Another common...
Craig Risi
May 12, 20225 min read
Benefits to Static Analysis
A lot of the functional testing focus in software delivery is focused on the automation of traditional test cases which execute against...
Craig Risi
Apr 19, 20225 min read
How To Test Application Security
The following article first featured on Snapt. We constantly read about leaks and security attacks that hit well-known applications....
Craig Risi
Apr 14, 202211 min read
Why Traceability Matters?
As development teams look to be more responsive and agile in their processes, one of the key initiatives is to reduce waste. Identifying...
Craig Risi
Mar 11, 20226 min read
Designing for Testability - Part 1
In this blog post, I will unpack the design specifics that make software more testable, maintainable, of better quality, and ultimately...
Craig Risi
Feb 25, 20223 min read
Quality is more than just software testing
As much as the quality triangle is a crucial first component of building quality software – that definition and understanding of what...
Craig Risi
Feb 11, 20224 min read
Balancing the Quality Triangle
At the heart of software quality, is the quality triangle. Something we all know, but perhaps don’t place enough effort into...
Craig Risi
Jan 21, 20225 min read
Defining Quality – What is a software system
The word “quality” can be rather subjective and probably means different things to each of us. To one it may mean that an application...
Craig Risi
Oct 8, 20219 min read
How to develop a Test Strategy
Test Strategies might be something that fewer people are focusing on in the shift to highly automated test systems and lower level...
Craig Risi
Sep 27, 20215 min read
The structure of a quality-driven CI pipeline
Continuous Integration is the aim of many development teams wanting to quickly add new features and make changes to their software and...
Craig Risi
Sep 14, 20216 min read
Building a Model for Quality Maturity.
Software quality is something that most development teams will aspire to achieve when they release software to production. Producing high...
Craig Risi
Aug 13, 202110 min read
Performance Testing across the pipeline with k6
I’ve spoken about the effectiveness of performance testing before and what to look out for. There are many tools that can be used to test...
Craig Risi
Dec 11, 20207 min read
Software Testing in an AI-driven world – Part 4 – AI’s future in software development
Over the past few weeks, I’ve looked at various classifications of artificial intelligence some tips on how to test AI along with how to...
Craig Risi
Dec 2, 20204 min read
Software Testing in an AI-driven world – Part 3 – Using AI to improve quality
AI systems themselves can be used for various different applications that all need testing but that doesn’t mean we should ignore...
Craig Risi
Nov 25, 20207 min read
Software Testing in an AI-driven world – Part 2 – Testing AI systems
So, in my last article, I introduced you to the most popular branches of artificial intelligence, but now we need to know how to test...
Craig Risi
Nov 17, 20205 min read
Software Testing in an AI-driven world – Part 1 – Understanding AI/ML
We live in a world that is advancing rapidly and where engineers are making massive strides in the field of artificial intelligence....
Craig Risi
Oct 23, 20205 min read
Maintaining Quality
So, as a follow up to my previous article on Designing for Quality, I think it is important to talk about maintaining quality. Yes, we...
Craig Risi
Oct 16, 20206 min read
Designing for Quality
I have spoken many times before in my articles about the importance of design in software quality and hope you shouldn’t merely just be...
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