In this current era of digital innovation, making an application inclusive for the differently abled should be considered paramount. Global regulatory compliances for accessibility ensure that standards are followed when making applications accessible to one and all. Accessible applications obviously establish themselves firmly into the market and often have wider reach in comparison to an […]
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DevOps is no longer a buzzword with more and more companies starting to practise it. So, what is DevOps? Like any new and popular term, people have somewhat confused and sometimes contradictory impressions of what it exactly is. DevOps was coined by Patrick Debois in 2009 to describe a culture of collaboration between the Development […]
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“Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!” – Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist. The importance of software testing is well recognized and acknowledged. However, what to test, when to test and how to test; has kept evolving over time as we walk the progressive path […]
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Traditional software development methods don’t suggest how frequently or regularly you integrate the entire source on a project. Programmers can work separately for hours, days, or even weeks on the same source without realizing how many conflicts / defects they have introduced. However, in today’s world of agile adaptations for software delivery, Continuous Integration (CI) […]
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Traditionally, companies have designed products based on what we feel people will like / want to use, spending months, sometimes years listing down features and articulating needs that have not yet been field verified. Over the years, even successful products have prioritized complex features that hardly anybody uses over features that are more popular and […]
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You’re sitting on the 22nd floor of a high-rise blankly staring out the window at the Los Angeles skyline. You anxiously tap your feet to the rhythm of the setting sun. In front of you sits a 2.7Ghz i7 MacBook pro (1TB SSD and 16GB of RAM) that’s docked to dual 27 inch Thunderbolt displays; you […]
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We all know that the Digital world is not only more demanding, but also faces volatile market conditions. In order to survive in such a climate, organizations like Ness are building their strategies focused on changes demonstrated by Customers and Competition. And these strategies are carried out by Extended Development Centers spread across the world. […]
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A CIO once asked ‘how can you quickly transform my company into an Agile development outfit?’ I said I would answer after studying the key motivation to getting transformed to Agile development, deficiencies in the current process and the expectations from the new process. It didn’t take long to realise that this was not the […]
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The digital economy is not a place, thing or destination. It’s a way of conducting business that’s largely virtual and electronic. It’s e-commerce, federated access to an ecosystem of sites, sensors in cars detecting maintenance issues, or wearable technologies to improve health. In the midst of this year’s holiday shopping season, it’s continuing growth of […]
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We live in a world where ‘product engineering’ holds sway over much of our lives. But it’s not a recent phenomenon. Early adoption was years ago and primarily by large engineering companies like Sun Microsystems, Motorola, Texus Instruments etc. I remember them setting up offshore centres in Bangalore and Hyderabad to leverage the capability and […]
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