Business Intelligence as a Team Sport

Real insight! Real-time! Real decision-making power! For all these worthy pursuits, how will you ensure that your BI program can deliver on its promise? To succeed you’re going to need some muscle on your team.

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Maven & Gradle

Recently, a report came out “downgrading” Maven to “hold.”  Interestingly, the rationale is given as “Maven has long been a staple of build automation in the Java space. However, given its lack of flexibility and support…Read more

Getting Started With Web Testing

Dynacron Group staff started working with Selenium nearly four years ago. The biggest problem we had was execution time – we had a limited number of browsers, and during launches test & release jobs would…Read more

Test-Driven Development Myths

Our projects tend to run 85%-95% test coverage (using Cobertura integrated with Maven as our default reporting system). Once in a while we will run into teams that say that they do TDD, but also…Read more

Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment

We’ve been talking a lot internally about continuous deployment and continuous delivery. Jez Humble has posted a nice blog entry comparing the two.

Some of the key elements we use to keep our velocity up include:

Automated builds
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