Software Testing Automation with TOSCA

New ways of working and increased use of low-code or no-code solutions are bring benefits to the businesses in several ways

- Less to No dependency on scripting or coding

- Speed 

- Reusability

- Less Maintenance

One such enterprise tool is Tosca. 

Important to note this is not open source or freeware - you have to have a license to use this tool which bring some benefits like defined framework and continuous support from the product vendor.

However it is recommended to weigh the cost benefit analysis before hopping-on.

What is Tosca:

Software Automation Tool with following advantages,

1. Low-code or No code
2. Intuitive GUI based tool
3. Test Data Management
4. API Testing
5. Comes with functionalities for SAP, ServiceNow, Workday, Salesforce
6. Assists in Test coverage prioritization  
7. Reporting

Microsoft Azure DevOps - Challenges - Test Management 

We always hear about the nicest and shiny aspects of all types of Products - does Microsoft Azure DevOps have any challenges to be taken into Consideration 

API Testing - Postman

API (Application Programming Interface)) testing gained prominence in the recent years with the Agile way of Software Development bringing the flexibility and benefits of using services from another application, platform or product.

Cloud computing growth and advances even made API's a key component. This has drawn importance to have expertise in API domain.

One prominent tool that becomes very handy for testers is Postman.

Agile Software Testing and Microsoft Azure DevOps

In this post, I would like to talk about Microsoft Azure DevOps and its play a key role for a Agile Software Tester.

Quickly in a glance :

A very details Azure DevOps

Software Testing / Software Quality Assurance (QA)

Software Testing over years moved from a low lying focus area to much more prominent position assisting in improving productivity, user experience and reducing overall costs.

Companies started realizing benefits of getting know to what is not working as expected as early as possible to reduce the waste - as a way of "Lean" ways of working or sometimes also referred as "moving to the left".

Quality of a Software Product is playing a significant role in the success of the overall Software Product uptake and enabling the confidence with the users.

A key question is - do Software Quality Assurance (QA) falls in the remit of Product Managers remit?

I would say - "Yes". A quality product deliverable is a major and key accountability of a Product Manager. 

Said that, Organizationally the Software Testing or Software Quality Assurance need not be mapped to a specific Product Manager.

In the current ways of Agile ways of working and leveraging organizational resources in a productive way along with keeping a tab on Total Cost of Ownership - a Product Manager should be able to pull all the required resources - cross organizational - for the required period and release them when not-needed.

 

Monitoring Application Performance in Kubernetes - NewRelic

Monitoring Application Performance in Kubernetes

https://blog.newrelic.com/2017/11/27/monitoring-application-performance-in-kubernetes/

Monitoring Kubernetes - NetSiL

Monitoring Kubernetes - NetSiL

https://netsil.com/kubernetes/

Monitoring Tool - prometheus

Monitoring using the OpenSource Tool Prometheus

https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/getting_started/

Monitoring Tool - Zabbix

Monitoring on dockers

https://hub.docker.com/r/zabbix/zabbix-agent/

Monitoring Tool - Nagios

Nagios

https://www.nagios.org/