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How mergers and acquisitions can cement IT as a strategic business partner

Project Accelerator News

By the time the IT teams had been called in, the senior executives who had brokered the deal had long since taken their fountain pens off into the sunset. The problem comes when a major issue develops with your routine operation and the support that previously underpinned it is deployed elsewhere. This stands to reason.

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Continuous Unit Checking:Part Two

Leading Agile

Both autotest and guard are configurable to filter files by filename and to control whether the full test suite is executed after a failed test has been corrected. ZenTest and guard are specifically intended to support Ruby application development. We use bundler to define the dependencies for our application.

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Build a CI/CD Pipeline in the Cloud: Part Three

Leading Agile

The specs are executable, and they will “fail” (display error messages) when the application does not behave according to expectations. Those test cases may have some external dependencies, and they exercise a larger chunk of the application than the microtests do. Re Question #2: Yes. Try this command: rake.

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Unit Testing Shell Scripts:Part Four

Leading Agile

You can execute Powershell commands and scripts against remote machines. This may be an unfamiliar approach for readers who don’t come from an application development background. Pester can calculate code coverage metrics, much like a testing framework for application programming languages. A Word on Documentation.

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A Minimal Development Environment: Part Two

Leading Agile

You may have seen and worked with similar setups using autotest for Ruby or Infinitest for Java, or even a command-line script executing in a loop on a timer. Here are a few that I recognized in the course of this exercise. 5] Developer work flow is good (in my opinion). [2] R — recommend RStudio. 3] Vim plugin seems to work. [4]

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Unit Testing Shell Scripts:Part One

Leading Agile

The pioneers of software development in that era were proponents of various levels of testing; some advocated “unit” testing and some didn’t, but all recognized the importance of testing code. By 1970, people had largely forgotten about executable testing. A Script to Test. Pass, Fail, and Error.

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Integrated Master Plan - Revisited

Herding Cats

This document outlines an approach to support program and project teams in developing effective integrated execution plans for weapons systems and subsystems and component acquisition, modification, and sustainment. This plan, the IMP, is placed on contract and becomes the baseline execution plan for the program/project.