A Brief Introduction to the Test Pyramid
Oct 25, 2024
The Testing Pyramid1 is a conceptual framework that helps software developers and quality assurance (QA) teams optimize the process of ensuring software quality. By structuring different types of automated tests into a pyramid, it emphasizes focusing on fast, low-level tests like unit tests at the base, progressing to more comprehensive but slower integration tests, and finally minimal end-to-end tests at the top. This approach reduces the time needed to identify issues in the code and enhances the reliability of the test suite by offering rapid feedback on code changes, ensuring that new features don’t break existing functionality.…
Cloud Deployment Models
Oct 20, 2024
What is Cloud computing? Cloud computing may be desribed as the on-demand availability of IT resources via the internet, with a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Instead of purchasing, owning, and managing physical data centers and servers, you can use technology services like computing power, storage, and databases as needed from a cloud provider. This approach allows educational institutions to avoid tasks such as hardware procurement, maintenance, and capacity planning. When adopting cloud solutions, organizations can choose between several models: single cloud, hybrid cloud, and multicloud.…
Common Deployment Strategies
Jul 14, 2024
Once we have the our code ready to be deployed, there are multiple ways that we could proceed with the deployment. This post looks into some of the most common deployment strategies. Big Bang Deployment This is one of the earliest methods of deployments, where we deploy all our changes at once, causing some downtime while we transition from the old system to the new. While usually short, the downtime depends on the scale of the system.…