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Verification and Validation: The Difference by Jeffrey Martin I've been asked several times recently about the difference between Verification and Validation in automated testing and for some advice on applying and documenting each kind of testing. Let me first take a minute to define these terms. Verification Vs. Validation Verification is testing that your product meets the specifications / requirements you have written. "Did I build what I said I would?" Validation tests how well you addressed the business needs that caused you to write those requirements. It is also sometimes called acceptance or business testing. "Did I build what I need?" V&V; together make sure that your software has delivered on its purpose in an error-free (ideally) way. Using V&V; in Your Workflow In a more traditional Waterfall process, with Specifications and Requirements defined at the sta... (more)

Who Is Responsible for “Good Code”? By @daedtech | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps

Who Is Responsible for "Good Code"? by Erik Dietrich A few weeks back, I wrote a post about getting ready to address a coworker's bad code.  This sparked some conversation across various media, including the following interesting question: ...seems that there is a breakdown in managing the development process. Why is Bob allowed [to keep] writing bad code? Measuring Developers This feedback is interesting enough to merit a blog post in and of itself. I recognize a question that cuts to the heart of a software development conundrum when I see it.  The structure of most organization... (more)

iBeacon Protocol, #API and the #InternetOfThings | @ThingsExpo #IoT #M2M

How Beacons and the iBeacon Protocol Fit With the API and the Internet of Things By Jennifer Riggins Forbes called 2015, the Year of the Mobile Beacon.  AdWeek talks about how beacons are already influencing the way we network, get drunk, vacation, shop, and even how we buy sausage. Ten experts at Marketing Land predicted that this year the whole world of mobile marketing will become acutely location-aware. Plus, if Google, Apple, and Facebook are betting on it, shouldn't you? We'll dive in and learn how beacons interact with APIs, how the different beacon protocols work, and w... (more)

Nine Reasons Microservices Matter By @LWorley214 | @DevOpsSummit #Microservices

Nine Reasons Microservices Matter to Architects, Developers & Testers by Les Worley Several years ago, I was a developer in a travel reservation aggregator. Our mission was to pull flight and hotel data from a bunch of cryptic reservation platforms, and provide it to other companies via an API library - for a fee. That was before companies like Expedia standardized such things. We started with simple methods like getFlightLeg() or addPassengerName(), each performing a small, well-understood function. But our customers wanted bigger, more encompassing services that would "do it all.... (more)

IoT Is Busy Innovating, But Where’s the Integration? By @PaulSBruce | @ThingsExpo #IoT

IoT Is Busy Innovating, But Where's the Integration? Thoughts from O'Reilly Solid By Paul Bruce Last month, SmartBear was out in full form at O'Reilly Solid, a conference all about the Internet of Things (IoT) [this year]. We chatted with anyone and everyone who is building APIs to support their cool gadgets or back-end systems. What we found was...curious. What Is the Internet of Things to Everyone Else? The concept behind the Internet of Things has been around for a while now, ATMs being some of the first enterprise, hardened, network-connected, managed devices for mainstream c... (more)