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Enhancing Your Testing Efforts: An Interview with Rajini Padmanaban

  • Posted on: July 8, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​Noel: I recently read a piece of yours on the QAInfoTech blog where you asked, “Is it fair to compare manual and automated test results.” That’s a great question, and one that I imagine could result in a variety of answers, depending on who is being asked the question. What made you want to take

Is It Fair to Compare Manual and Automated Test Results?

  • Posted on: July 2, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​The article below was originally published by Rajini Padmanaban on the fantastic QAInfoTech blog. Manual and automated testing have long co-existed and have contributed significantly in successfully signing off on a product’s quality. Over the years test teams have talked about the value of one over another, how testers need to groom their test automation

Tap In Open Forum: What Is the Greatest Blocker to a Frictionless Enterprise?

  • Posted on: June 27, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
  We’re launching the “Tap In Open Forum”: a new series of blog posts where we detail a current topic being discussed in the software development and testing community and invite you to participate in an open discussion with our best and brightest here at Skytap. Feel free to share your thoughts and we’ll do

Realizing the Value of Cloud Beyond the Infrastructure Itself for Dev & Test

  • Posted on: June 25, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
  By now we’ve seen plenty of cost justification on the efficiency of using cloud infrastructure. You can easily Google “Cloud Computing Value” and get a stack of analyst and vendor reports. Or just pop open Amazon’s AWS value calculator and plug in some numbers. There are huge one-time and recurring IT cost savings to

[Video] SDLC Acceleration: Faster in What Direction?

  • Posted on: June 20, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​ At the 2014 SDLC Acceleration Summit, Peter Coffee, VP for Strategic Research at Salesforce.com, led a fantastic discussion panel that asked the question, “Sure, your SDLC is accelerating, but in what direction?” The panel addressed the biggest barriers to SDLC acceleration, how to overcome them, and what the real benefits are to truly delivering

Webinar On-Demand: The Software Virtualization Lifecycle

  • Posted on: June 18, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​A top focus for application development today is on acceleration, but faster is not always equal to better. The bigger challenge is to improve both the speed and quality of software releases.  Orasi, one of our close partners, recently presented a webinar titled, “Software Virtualization Technology. This webinar addressed combining service virtualization technology with cloud-based

Service Virtualization Expedites Testing; Enhances Quality

  • Posted on: June 13, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
This post was written by Orasi Sr. Solutions Architect Scott Jefferies and originally appeared on Orasi’s “Eye on Quality Assurance” blog. In December 2012, research firm Coleman Parkes released a landmark study about the business benefits of service virtualization. The findings were significant: 60% of the respondents indicated that unavailability of systems for testing routinely

Upcoming June Webinars

  • Posted on: June 11, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​We’ve got two webinars coming up in June that we wanted to take a minute to make you aware of. And while we encourage you to attend them live so that you have the opportunity to ask any questions you may have, each will be made available on-demand after the fact so that you and

Guest Post: [Infographic] SDLC Acceleration Summit Poll Results

  • Posted on: June 10, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
This post originally appeared on the Parasoft blog. ​At the 2014 SDLC Acceleration Summit in San Francisco, industry experts gathered to discuss the future of the SDLC and share best practices for delivering better software faster. Throughout the event, attendees participated in real-time “SDLC Pulse” polls to share their opinions about the current state of

SAP Sapphire Recap: The Race to Simplify

  • Posted on: June 9, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Give credit to the organizers of SAP Sapphire, held last week in Orlando, Florida. I’d never attended this conference before, and was a little intimidated at the concept of navigating the one million square feet of the event space and choosing which of the 1,800+ sessions to attend. That is a staggering amount of information,

Using the Skytap Automation Pack for IBM UrbanCode Deploy

  • Posted on: June 4, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap recently announced the availability of the Skytap Automation Pack for IBM UrbanCode Deploy. This plugin adds functionality into the IBM UrbanCode Deploy Application Process web UI to create and manipulate templates and configurations in Skytap Cloud. While the functionality is focused at enabling continuous delivery activities, the functionality is not solely limited to use

Guest Post: DataXu Releases Open Source Skytap Project

  • Posted on: June 2, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
We wanted to take a minute to share a blog post, and some really cool news from one of our customers. Along with being ranked as the fifth fastest growing private company in the US (and the fastest in the advertising and marketing industry,) DataXu just released an open-sourced toolkit with the help of some

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