Insight and analysis from thought leaders in agile development and testing, DevOps, security, test automation, and more.
Adopting agile in your program comes with inherent benefits around transparency and delivery, but it also often requires changes to other business practices to align with a more iterative way of developing software. Threat modeling helps you determine where to focus your security testing efforts when building your app, so it’s a useful practice. But one […]
OWASP ZAP (Open Web Application Security Project Zed Attack Proxy) is a powerful security scanning tool for those new to security testing as well as professional penetration testers. ZAP can be used for many different security testing tasks, such as actively simulating attacks, in order to expose vulnerabilities, or passively scanning requests as a proxy. […]
“Failure is Feedback and Feedback is the breakfast of Champions” – fortune cookie Most everyone would agree that feedback is an essential ingredient to successful delivery. Feedback helps you to improve, whether you are a cashier, a coach, a teacher, or part of a software development team. So why is it so hard to accept […]
Executive Vice President Mike Sowers and Senior Learning & Coaching Consultant Stephanie Fender discuss how to get started with automation, common roles in automation, and more in our first Coveros Conversation.
It seems like every other day, someone in the software development community feels the necessity to declare that agile is dead and they have something new and better. Sometimes it’s one of the founders of agile who now think the Agile Manifesto is dated and needs to be overhauled. Other times it’s ageless software veterans […]
I recently had the opportunity to do a web seminar with Jeff Payne about using open source tools for DevSecOps. In our discussion, I made the point that the goal of DevSecOps is to make application security a first-class citizen in the DevOps process. Making application security a first-class citizen improves the quality of your […]
We’re a bit ahead of schedule this year, with the latest Selenified release coming out a whole month early! A LOT of new features were added in this time, but lookout, not everything is backwards compatible. Because we are following SemVer (Semantic Versioning), we bumped the minor version. This is to indicate not everything will […]
Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage. In traditional development methodologies, like waterfall, a customer might try to specify how a system should look and behave completely upfront before they even start development. The problem with this is it assumes that it is possible to completely […]
I work with many organizations that are trying valiantly to transition to agile. While it is noble to try to just follow the agile principles and develop your own solution, most understandably find comfort and support in following a well-understood and documented agile framework. But which of the many frameworks do you choose? Scrum? Kanban? […]
Successful agile coaching requires a combination of experience, knowledge, and soft skills to help organizations build competence, sustainability, performance, and maturity in their agile practices. And when it comes to coaching, there is a vast difference between knowing and doing. That means not all coaches are created equal. There are a few things you can […]
