At SPK, we specialize in supporting companies to accelerate their product development. And, one key aspect of that is redefining the role of unit testing in the development process. Essentially, the way you approach testing can greatly impact the success of your...
The Electric Commander homepage allows you to bookmark links and job configurations for easy access. It’s easy to add one or two, but if you have a lot of links and you want to share them with other users so that they have the same links as well, its a lot of work to...
Video Transcript: Electric Command (now known as CloudBees CD) is amazing tool for streamlining and automating your build, test, and deploy software development cycle. But it's usefulness goes even further out-of-the-box. Commander generates a large pool of data...
Overview In this blog post and video, Carlos Almeida explains how to launch SilkTest Classic or Open Agent test cases from within PTC Integrity (now PTC Windchill RV&S). Pass/Fail verdicts are automatically captured and reported within Integrity Test Session.
Many of you are undoubtedly familiar with using Jira as an issue tracker. But for those of you who have been juggling issue tracking and meeting SLA requirements -- and for those of you who had the recently acquired VertygoSLA addon -- this article may be useful...
Let’s talk about refactoring—because, let’s be real, if you’ve been around software development for even five minutes, you’ve probably heard the term thrown around. But what is it really? And why does it matter? More importantly, how does it change when we’re dealing...
When I started my career at Cadence Design Systems, testing felt like a different universe. We were laser-focused on chip-level precision, simulation accuracy, and long regression cycles that could run for days. Developers wrote code; QA teams caught the bugs. It was...
At SPK and Associates we are often asked for direction with respect to versioning control systems. The management of software and related artifacts is core to your development process and a key factor in determining the operational productivity of your...