First it was Bank of America. Then Yahoo. And just this week, Comverse. What I’m talking about, of course, is the recent spat of major corporations banning the practice of telecommuting. No longer are employees from the above mentioned companies allowed to work from home. I could wax eloquent on the many virtues of telecommuting, [...]
When we first launched Testuff more than 5 years ago, our goal was simple - create an advanced software testing platform that customers could safely use anywhere in the world at any time. Although software-as-a-service (SaaS) was already a well established delivery system for many IT tools out there, the Internet of 2007 was poorly [...]
Hurricane Sandy will definitely be one for the books. It was a particularly brutal storm that strayed well beyond the traditional “hurricane region” of Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana. The storm also stands out because of the current election cycle in the US. For the past several months, both sides of the aisle have been waging [...]
I recently had lunch with a friend who isn’t directly connected with the test management world but who knows a great deal about both business and IT. He kept pressing me on how our own software testing management tools could continue to compete with open source alternatives. “Just look at the Encyclopedia Britannica compared to [...]
Today I wanted to touch on a pretty hot topic – an issue that has become quite relevant due to the current US presidential race in which jobs and outsourcing have taken center stage. When you typically think of outsourcing, you think of manufacturing jobs sent to China and virtual assistants in India – categories [...]
Over the past few weeks, we’ve explored some of the “perceived” failings of software-as-a-service (SaaS) as a replacement for traditional on-site debugging tools. Although the majority of concerns regarding quality, cost, and convenience don’t hold up under scrutiny, these common misperceptions are very rooted in many corporate environments. Nowhere is this “fear” of SaaS-based software [...]
In the previous post, I extolled the virtues of software as a service (SaaS) for testing and development. When compared with on-site solutions (i.e. internal servers), SaaS consistently wins for its greater convenience and lower cost. But the software testing process doesn’t thrive on convenience or cost alone. Security is equally (if not more) important. [...]
Last week, we looked at two very important criteria for selecting software application testing tools: Do you have the right tools for the job? Can these tools do the job well? Although such questions seem like a no-brainer, you’d be surprised how much more manageable your list of options becomes once you satisfy these two [...]
Written by Yoav Aner, April 9 2012 One of my primary aims when building a resillient cloud architecture, is being able to spawn instances quickly. Many cloud providers give you tools to create images or snapshots of existing cloud instances and launch them. This is great, but not particularly portable. If I have one instance [...]
Is there anybody out there? As a SaaS based test management software provider we face a few challenges, which are a result of the distance between us, as the vendor, and the customers out there. In distance we refer to the real actual distance, which is in many cases simply the other side of the [...]
