In the agile world, it’s important to remember that planning and documentation are still important and serve a purpose. While agile promotes “working software over comprehensive documentation,” it doesn’t say ignore documentation as much as we’d all often like to think. When developing a working DevOps pipeline, it is important to understand what your quality […]
I am currently working on implementing Single Sign-On (SSO) for the entire Coveros domain. This project required me to implement a process to add current Coveros employees into our FreeIPA server as well as account for any future employees that will be onboarded. In order to deal with this problem, a script was written which […]
Selenified is the re-branded, updated, and patched software version of the software previously called the SecureCI™ Testing Framework. The Selenified Test Framework provides mechanisms for simply testing applications at multiple tiers while easily integrating into DevOps build environments. Selenified provides traceable reporting for both web and API testing, wraps and extends Selenium calls to more […]
In my latest Ignite Talk, I (quickly) discuss some lightweight text editors. There are appearances from Visual Studio Code, of course Vim, and some others. Given this is an Ignite Talk, I don’t get to cover any one editor in depth. An Ignite Talk consists of 20 slides auto-advancing every 15 seconds. This was given […]
Sequence Diagrams Often it is helpful to visualize a solution before implementing it. Diagrams in general help simplify a complicated system to make it easier to understand at a high level. One specific way you might accomplish this is with a sequence diagram. A sequence diagram shows how pieces of a system interact and in […]
In this Ignite Talk, Gene Gotimer talks about why different types of tests are important in the delivery pipeline. Testing is a means to an end. We only test because we want to learn something about the software we are building, and we want to learn at a point in our pipeline when we can […]
Do you want to get started with performance testing, but think that it is unimportant or that it won’t fit into your process? This 5-minute ignite talk provides an introduction to performance testing and some of the potential negative consequences of releasing a system with poor performance. In it, I provide an overview of six […]
Unity3D, the popular game development platform, began offering a ton of services a while back, but a lot of independent developers I’ve met haven’t used them. This makes sense, as integrating things like Ads and Analytics probably won’t become relevant in small projects until the second 90%. However, one service that everyone should make use […]
For decades, software security organizations and those that assure security have built processes and procedures around waterfall software development practices. This has often led to security testing being “bolted on” at the end of the process. In addition, many organizations have seen the rise of mindless information security assurance, whereby engineers avoid assessing, understanding, or […]
In my last two posts, I talked about different options for securing your network traffic, and how to setup a machine to pass network traffic through. As promised, this last post in the series will walk you through some of the more complex steps in configuring the last 3 options. Please note, that each of these […]
