Kitty Hawk Venture (eBook)

A Novel About Continuous Testing in DevOps to Support Continuous Delivery and Business Success

Alex Martins, Aruna Ravichandran, Jeffrey Scheaffer (Autoren)

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2018 | 1st ed.
XXIII, 169 Seiten
Apress (Verlag)
978-1-4842-3661-1 (ISBN)

Infos

An airline is supposed to make the experience of booking a flight easy, trouble free, and reliable. But when scheduling software breaks down and flights get canceled, customers will walk, and heads will roll. That's what Leigh Freemark faces the day she and her team launch a software upgrade that fails spectacularly and hits the media immediately. As Senior Director of Quality Assurance, her job is to make sure that code is market ready. And she's the one who must face the music when it doesn't.

Tasked by senior management to find and fix the source of the failure, Leigh discovers just how essential it has become to radically improve the process of software development by introducing a concept called continuous testing. She must quickly learn what it means, how it works, and how to build it into her company's legacy system.

But she soon discovers that managing change is much more difficult than it first appears. The airline business is changing fast, yet old traditions and loyalties still dominate. As she fights to convince her team to change or perish, she discovers that obstructions and opportunities come in surprising forms.

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In The Kitty Hawk Venture, the authors deliver a sound lesson in the importance of continuous testing while taking the reader inside the world of commercial aviation. Each chapter delivers distinct and vital learning opportunities wrapped inside a fast-moving narrative complete with interesting characters, intriguing situations, and even some humor. The book concludes with a 'Flight Plan for Continuous Testing' that stands on its own as a valuable resource guide for digital leaders in their continuous testing journey. The story is immediately relatable to anyone who has worked in software development or for the companies that rely on it.

Who This Book Is For

C-level executives, VPs of apps and quality, VPs of DevOps, architecture and strategy managers, and SMB and enterprise professionals

Jeff Scheaffer is Senior Vice President and GM of the Continuous Delivery and DevOps Business Unit at CA Technologies. His specialties include: DevOps, mobility, SaaS, continuous delivery (CDCI), application performance management (APM), big data and operations analytics, hybrid cloud management, OpenStack, software defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), and server, storage, and network monitoring and management.

Aruna Ravichandran is Vice President of Global Marketing at CA Technologies. She is the author of DevOps for Digital Leaders (Apress) and a frequent keynote speaker on DevOps topics. She has over 20 years of experience in building and marketing products in various markets such as IT operations management (APM, infrastructure management, service management, cloud management, analytics, log management, and data center infrastructure management), continuous delivery, test automation, security, and SDN.

Aruna frequently blogs for various publications such as SYS-CON Media, Wired Insights, Tech Target, Information Week DevOpsDigest.com, DevOps.com  Cloud Tweaks, to name a few. She frequently presents at various industry conferences and has presented at Gartner Symposium 2016, Gartner ITOM 2014, Gartner Data Center 2014, DevOps Summit 2014, Cloud Expo 2014, CA World 2014, 2015, and HP Discover (2008-2012). She has authored several articles and other publications. Aruna earned a master's degree in computer engineering and an MBA from Santa Clara University. In 2016, Aruna was named one of Top 100 The Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley by the San Jose Business Journal, and received the 2016 Most Powerful and Influential Woman Award  by the National Diversity Council.

Alex Martins is CTO of Continuous Testing at CA Technologies. He has more than 18 years of experience in large-scale application design, development, and testing. For the last 13 years, Alex has been focused on software quality engineering and the testing discipline as the pillars for DevOps transformations. Going through all levels, from tester to practice leader in various technology companies such as EDS, IBM, HP, Cognizant Technology Solutions, and CA Technologies, he built and ran several enterprise testing organizations and centers of enablement in Latin America and the US for multiple clients. He led HP's global testing innovation capability, creating continuous testing offerings to support digital transformation initiatives and was one of the innovation leaders in Cognizant's mobile and IoT QA practice. Currently, he leads CA Technologies' continuous testing and quality solutions as he works with organizations to accelerate the time-to-value (TTV) from idea-to-release.

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An airline is supposed to make the experience of booking a flight easy, trouble free, and reliable. But when scheduling software breaks down and flights get canceled, customers will walk, and heads will roll. That's what Leigh Freemark faces the day she and her team launch a software upgrade that fails spectacularly and hits the media immediately. As Senior Director of Quality Assurance, her job is to make sure that code is market ready. And she's the one who must face the music when it doesn't.Tasked by senior management to find and fix the source of the failure, Leigh discovers just how essential it has become to radically improve the process of software development by introducing a concept called continuous testing. She must quickly learn what it means, how it works, and how to build it into her company's legacy system.But she soon discovers that managing change is much more difficult than it first appears. The airline business is changing fast, yet old traditions and loyalties still dominate. As she fights to convince her team to change or perish, she discovers that obstructions and opportunities come in surprising forms.***In The Kitty Hawk Venture, the authors deliver a sound lesson in the importance of continuous testing while taking the reader inside the world of commercial aviation. Each chapter delivers distinct and vital learning opportunities wrapped inside a fast-moving narrative complete with interesting characters, intriguing situations, and even some humor. The book concludes with a "e;Flight Plan for Continuous Testing"e; that stands on its own as a valuable resource guide for digital leaders in their continuous testing journey. The story is immediately relatable to anyone who has worked in software development or for the companies that rely on it.Who This Book Is For C-level executives, VPs of apps and quality, VPs of DevOps, architecture and strategy managers, and SMB and enterprise professionals

Inhalt

Contents 8
About the Authors 9
About the Contributor 12
About the Technical Reviewers 13
Foreword by Adam Auerbach 15
Acknowledgments 17
Introduction 18
Chapter 1: Cutover 21
Chapter 2: Why Testing Is Imperative Now 25
Chapter 3: Challenges to Achieving Quality 39
Chapter 4: What Constitutes Continuous Testing? 57
Chapter 5: Taking It to 11 74
Where to Start? 80
1. Virtualize Environments 80
2. Test Data Management 82
3. Test Automation 85
4. Pipeline Orchestration 87
5. API Testing 89
6. Performance/Load Testing 90
7. Acceptance Test-Driven Development and Behavior-Driven Development 93
8. Automated Test Generation 93
9. Requirements Engineering 94
10. Feedback Loops 96
11. Security Testing 96
Chapter 6: Accelerate into the Curves 101
Chapter 7: Where Am I? 113
Chapter 8: The Value of Metrics 129
Chapter 9: The Security Perspective 141
Chapter 10: Future Proof 153
Chapter 11: Epilogue 167
Appendix A: Flight Plan for Your Continuous Testing Journey 169
Resource Guide 169
Why Continuous Testing is Imperative Now 169
What is a Continuous Testing journey? 171
Challenges to Achieving Quality 171
What Constitutes Continuous Testing 174
The 11 Disciplines of Continuous Testing 175
Accelerate Into the Curves 179
Where Am I in my Continuous Testing Journey? 180
Metrics – Nothing’s Worth Doing That Isn’t Worth Measuring 182
Security – Do Developers Unknowingly Create Security Vulnerabilities? 183
Future Proof – How To Bullet Proof Your Continuous Testing Journey 185
Summary: Planning Every Step of the Way and Learning from Setbacks 187

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2018
• Zusatzinfo: XXIII, 169 p. 10 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berkeley
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Projektmanagement
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: Acceptance Test Driven Development • API testing • Aruna Ravichandran • Automated test script generation • CA Technologies • Composite User • Continuous Integration • Continuous Testing • CT • DevOps • Performance • Pipeline orchestration • Requirements Engineering • security • test automation • Test data management • Virtual Environments
• ISBN-10: 1-4842-3661-0 / 1484236610
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4842-3661-1 / 9781484236611