Andy Nguyen

Virtualization Track at Cloud Expo Any die-hard software geek tends to be fascinated with solving the biggest, most complex IT problems enterprises face. In terms of testers, this means moving away from manual testing and getting teams to "go agile" with early development testing, or looking "between the boxes" into validating complex middle-tier technologies. In today's enterprise, most of the business logic happens deeper within the applications where services communicate transactions through an ESB and other messaging and data layers, both within the company's IT environment and with third-party systems such as Cloud-and SaaS-based services. In these environments, concerns over manual testing can often get left behind as it is hard to validate a multi-tier SOA or BPMS-based app by testing at the user interface. Root causes of software issues are difficult to diag... (more)