Tag Archives: Software testing

Hat check: Green Hat and IBM 15 months on

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Paul Herzlich

IBM’s play in Service Virtualization (SV) for testing In January 2012, I mused over the implications of IBM’s acquisition of Green Hat, vendor of a product that simulated external interfaces for software testing. Fifteen months later, I’ve had another look … Continue reading →

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Marketing the development testing revolution

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Paul Herzlich

A recent Chilean film called NO narrates the campaign to defeat General Pinochet’s 1988 referendum that would have allowed him to remain as President after having ruled Chile as a despot for 12 years. Despite his tight grip on power … Continue reading →

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A mobile-first philosophy needs a mobile-first methodology

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Adrian Bridgwater

Software application development has had to embrace a ‘mobile-first’ philosophy for the road ahead. Smartphone and tablet sales have skyrocketed, web usage from mobile devices far outstrips that seen at the desktop level and mobile data channels are now reported … Continue reading →

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Adding flexibility to governance for developers

Posted on February 6, 2013 by CIC Analysts

We’ve just published a new Spotlight report covering Open Source software project Git, a lightweight, distributed and fast version control system has seen a significant take-up. Git is being installed by developers on their own machines allowing them to experiment … Continue reading →

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Converged Cloud and HP Service Virtualization 2.0

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Paul Herzlich

Mid way through HP’s announcement on the 10th of April of its Converged Cloud portfolio we find the announcement of version 2.0 of HP’s Service Virtualization software for testing applications using simulated services in a virtualized environment. Although HP places … Continue reading →

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Application transformation the HP way

Posted on March 27, 2012 by CIC Analysts

HP software and service announcements of March 20th Application transformation sets out HP’s portfolio of products and services for helping organizations transition their application portfolios to the next generation of Cloud-enabled, mobile client-served application solutions. It is a strategy well … Continue reading →

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Tackling a storm of integration and testing complexity – IBM acquires Green Hat

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Paul Herzlich

Yesterday IBM announced its intention to acquire software test tool vendor Green Hat. You might be forgiven for wondering why IBM needs Green Hat’s portfolio when it already has its own suite of Jazz-based Rational test tools that cover test … Continue reading →

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The benefits and practice of early lifecycle performance testing

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Paul Herzlich

A new paper from CIC is now available for download with the kind permission of Microsoft where we examine the benefits and challenges of early lifecycle testing for a cluster of technical test types, commonly known as performance testing. The aim … Continue reading →

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Software testing needs to drastically improve

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Ian Murphy

No matter how well an application is designed or how hard developers try, in a world of complex software we need to rely on QA and software testing to ensure that applications are secure and stable. Unfortunately for many companies, they still treat the QA and test teams as an afterthought. Unless that changes, software will never live up to the hype or be the successful tool that most users expect it to be.
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