Tag: testing

Environments-as-a-Service (EaaS) Explained in Only 3 Minutes!

  • Posted on: October 9, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​I’m not quite sure how he did it, but Jason English, Skytap’s Galactic Head of Product Marketing, managed to not just brilliantly explain what Skytap does, nor do it in only three minutes, but also solely create an amazing video to bolster his message! After watching, you’ll be a veritable expert in how Skytap enables:

Customer Spotlight: WorkWise to Tap Into Skytap at Upcoming Conference

  • Posted on: October 9, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​On October 14-16, WorkWise will be hosting their annual customer conference at the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. WorkWise has been a customer of ours for a long time, and they’re utilizing Skytap in a unique way at this year’s conference. I sat down with Carl Wysocki, WorkWise’s director of R&D Technology, and

How to Automate Your Environment Provisioning for Mobile App Development

  • Posted on: September 24, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​Last week, we co-hosted another great webinar with Orasi, one of our outstanding TapIn Partners, and we’re thrilled to now offer this on-demand to anyone who missed it, or even those who attended but who may want to share it with others! We focused on showing how to provide more complete test coverage for mobile

Why Aren’t We Letting Software Testers Test?

  • Posted on: September 17, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​What do software testers want to do most while at work? What do software testers enjoy most about their job? What do many testers struggle to find the time to do each and every day? What’s absolutely critical to the success of your enterprise? There’s one simple answer to these questions, and it might surprise

New Research Reveals the True Impact of Lifecycle Virtualization

  • Posted on: September 10, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​Independent analyst firm, voke, inc., recently conducted extensive research around the concept of “lifecycle virtualization” and the results of their efforts are incredibly revealing on two levels. On one hand you have the impressive benefits and improvements across the entire SDLC, detailed by those who have implemented lifecycle virtualization, and on the other—the completely devastating

I Am a Specialized Automation Tester—Hold on, Where Do I Draw a Balance?

  • Posted on: August 27, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
The article below was originally published by Rajini Padmanaban on the fantastic QAInfoTech blog. ​In any discipline, a specialization is most often considered valuable and has a premier status attached to it when compared to a generalized body of knowledge. For example, a cardiologist has a more specified focus than a general physician, an architect

Upcoming Webinar: Creating Complete Test Environments in the Cloud

  • Posted on: August 14, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
A top focus for application development today is on acceleration, but faster is not always better. The bigger challenge is to improve the speed and quality of software releases. By utilizing virtualization technology in the SDLC, specifically service virtualization and virtual dev/test labs, companies can increase test coverage in less time and ultimately produce better

Skytap’s new Copy-to-Region lets your SDLC “Follow the Moon”

  • Posted on: August 5, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
For the past few years, the holy grail of enterprise IT is to have large scale global software development, testing and integration activities that “follow the sun.” So when your development team checks in and goes home in San Jose, CA, there’s a testing team just getting started in Bangalore, India. And when they check

Theresa Lanowitz Teases Enterprise DevTest Survey Results

  • Posted on: August 1, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
At our recent Q3 Sales Kickoff, we were treated with a surprise session from Theresa Lanowitz, founder of technology industry analyst firm, voke. Regular visitors to our blog may recall an interview we did with Theresa back in February, where we discussed how the “next generation enterprise” is being fueled by “extreme automation.” What was so

Announcing MinorJS: An Unopinionated, Ultra-minimal Web Framework for Node.js

  • Posted on: July 16, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is a big believer in open source software. Our company is built on amazing open source projects like Linux, Ruby on Rails and Node.js. That’s why we feel it’s so important to give back to the open source community by releasing and maintaining the MinorJS project. What is MinorJS? MinorJS is an unopinionated, ultra-minimal

Celebrating 30 Years of Excellence with the CQAA

  • Posted on: July 9, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
​The Chicago Quality Assurance Association (CQAA) was founded in 1984 to “promote quality principles and practices within Chicago-area companies” and to provide “a forum for information professionals to present and discuss quality and process management within information systems, technology, and services.” To celebrate their 30 years of service, the CQAA is hosting an event on

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