Digital resilience and relevance rely on the right infrastructure to deliver on cloud promises IDC has developed an index that determines how ready an organisation’s infrastructure is for digital and whether or not it can deliver on business outcomes., the Digital Infrastructure Resiliency Index (DIRI) uses the Digital Infrastructure Resiliency Quotient (DIRQ) to measure an …
It is the end of talented times, it is the beginning of talented people, and it is the era of replacing jobs with skills It is perhaps Deloitte that best framed the current skills landscape in its recent analysis entitled ‘Navigating the end of jobs’. This is not a post-apocalyptic warning that all humans will …
Automation adds that little something extra to the quality assurance and testing process, and it can transform processes, development and quality McKinsey believes that automation is the future of quality control. Yes, the research firm was talking about pharma – its research into digitization, automation and online testing was laser-focused on this specific industry – …
There are very good reasons why security and quality assurance work better together, but the biggest is risk mitigation on a granular level It’s a mess out there. Poor data protection, limited security budgets, increasingly elusive security talent, smart and sophisticated cybercriminals and relentlessly malicious threats targeting employees remain key issues impacting the business. The …
There’s a global skills shortage that is impacting how business and society can fully realise the potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution The World Economic Forum (WEF) describes the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) as a ‘fundamental change to the way we live, work and relate to one another. It’s a digital future defined by the human-machine connection, …
DevOps, ever elegant and resourceful, has become indispensable to consistent software development frameworks and methodology There is little doubt that DevOps has evolved. It has become one of the foundational pillars of the agile organisation, delivering measurable value to the organisation across the important metrics of quality, speed of delivery, reliability and customer experiences. It …
Finding the patterns and fixing the legacy challenges to rebuild the continent’s skill profile for the future The skills challenge in Africa remains an obstacle to growth. In South Africa, the Human Resource Development Council (HRDC) was established in 2010 as a way of connecting people to skills development and to try and ‘address the …
Cloud-based testing brings many more benefits than can be delivered by traditional test environments. Software testing in the cloud involves using cloud-based tools to mimic real-world user traffic and environments for testing any type of application, network, and infrastructure. Service providers offer testing environments configured according to an application’s requirements and these may include labs, virtualisation, …
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning can enhance and improve testing and quality control. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are technologies that have long since left the moniker of ‘emergent’ behind. These tools have become so embedded into systems and solutions that they are reshaping the organisation’s approach to development, automation, and, of course, …
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Why bother with quality assurance and testing when all you have at stake is money, reputation and business growth? What’s the point of quality assurance (QA) and testing? Isn’t it just another block in the road to product delivery? Doesn’t it just add more hours between innovation and delivery? The answer is yes. If it’s …