Testing should not be a roadblock
To keep up with the competition, companies need to get new applications and upgrades to market faster. Testing cannot be a roadblock on this path.
Testing and impact analysis
You need to understand how changes might impact on other parts of the system, because the former can break the latter.
Traceability in testing
In order to automate change you need the data, expected results and test scripts to automatically update, by virtue of their traceability back to requirements.
Automating reusability
By building up a library of reusable test assets functionality can be tested more rapidly by selecting components from this library
Responsive automation
So called "test automation frameworks" have to be able to respond to constant user demands. This process should be automated.
New thinking on spreadsheets
There are some interesting new kids on the block in the spreadsheet world
Tackling the storage provisioning nightmare and business clamour to save costs
Load DynamiX's appliance stress-tests large throughputs and infrastructures addressing the "what-ifs"
Alation comes to market
Alation can be best thought of as a pre data prep tool: helping users to find the data that's available to them.
Managing the data asset with Pentaho
A look at the solution that Pentaho is putting in place to manage the data asset in a way that befits both the business and technology
Re-thinking data security
This is a short preview of Informatica's Secure@Source, which be released next year