http://blog-outsourcing.altoros.com Blog on Software Product Development and Outsourcing Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:29:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In one of my previous postings, I wrote about some benefits test automation may bring to software development. Automating testing processes is among software development best practices that allow for shortening release cycles, achieving better efficiency, and lowering costs. So today, I’m going to say a couple of words about ... http://blog-outsourcing.altoros.com/software-development-best-practices-the-cons-of-test-automation.html Today, Ruby on Rails gains extreme popularity. According to Gartner, there’re about a million Ruby developers these days, and the amount will be close to four million by 2013. The success of Web 2.0 applications, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and the American Yellow Pages, has proven Ruby on Rails to ... http://blog-outsourcing.altoros.com/ensure-ruby-on-rails-outsourcing-is-done-right.html Today, as the complexity of the software increases, the complexity of software testing increases, as well. Underestimating this fact is quite unwise. Manual testing is no more enough; moreover, it often slows down the software development life-cycle.  Test automation is one of the software development best practices that help cope ... http://blog-outsourcing.altoros.com/software-development-best-practices-the-pros-of-automated-testing.html When it comes to the development of rich Internet applications, Flex outsourcing is a great way to significantly reduce the development costs, and benefit from the profound experience and technical expertise a good Flex outsourcing provider may offer. However, when developing AIR applications, Flex/ Adobe AIR developers often forget about ... http://blog-outsourcing.altoros.com/flex-outsourcing-avoid-costly-interoperability-mistake.html Recently, I’ve stumbled upon an article by Joe McKendrick (an information technology analyst) at ZDNet.com dwelling on “big software glitches” and their consequences we observe today. There were mentioned the latest Toyota’s troubles, the failed attempt of TD Bank to integrate two IT systems after a merge, and more. Joe ... http://blog-outsourcing.altoros.com/it-best-practices-what-failed-qa-may-come.html In software development outsourcing management is a driver of sound, productive relationship. Good management of an outsourced project can help find out and solve any issues as soon as they evolve, talk over with the outsourcer the ways and possibilities of improvements, etc. However, it’s very often a situation (and ... http://blog-outsourcing.altoros.com/managing-software-development-outsourcing-find-a-balance.html I’ve written about some of the misconceptions about Flex development in one of my previous postings. However, I seem to forget about, probably, the most common misconception – confusing Flex and Flash. Though they are both Adobe technologies, and are pretty similar, in fact, the way the applications are done ... http://blog-outsourcing.altoros.com/outsourcing-flex-development-on-the-difference-between-flex-and-flash.html Today, I’d like to continue an overview of issues with outsourced software development.  Many companies often underestimate the importance of incentives. However, they may become a catalyst for the increase efficiency of outsourced software development, and probably, for innovation. The thing is that when software development outsourcing is of a transactional ... http://blog-outsourcing.altoros.com/outsourced-software-development-mistakes-that-drive-to-failure-ii.html In a software development lifecycle testing is a critical part, on which the success of the software product depends greatly. Software development best practices recommend implementation of quality assurance as early as possible. There is a difference between finding a bug right as it appears and discovering it just before ... http://blog-outsourcing.altoros.com/software-development-best-practices-quality-assurance.html Flex is one of the powerful technologies for rich internet applications development and web development; however, it’s often misconceived as something for those flash-banners, videos, and annoying pop-ups and pop-unders. If you are about to outsource development of rich internet applications and are in two minds in terms of technology ... http://blog-outsourcing.altoros.com/outsourcing-flex-development-where-you-might-be-wrong-about-flex.html