Parasoft, a leading provider of Automated Error Prevention (AEP) software
solutions, recently had the opportunity to work closely with leading game
development organizations. Since game development differs from "standard"
development, we worked with game development organizations to develop
technical and process improvement strategies to suit the industry's unique
development needs. This article explores the challenges of developing
software for the game development industry, and describes the strategies used
to overcome them. The challenges and strategies discussed apply not only to
game development, but also to most high-resolution graphic development, which
is increasingly being performed on Linux.
Challenges of Game Development
Although game development seems like a dream job to many developers,
developing solid games is far from child's play. Like other C/C++ de... (more)
With the need for speed driving continuous integration, continuous delivery,
and continuous release, organizations across industries are experiencing a
rising rate of regressions, integration errors, and other defects.
Accelerated delivery is great—unless you end up placing the business at
risk because your testing efforts just can't keep pace.
Watch the on-demand How to Avoid Continuously Delivering Faulty Software
webinar (co-hosted by Perforce and Parasoft) to explore best practices for
reducing the risks associated with Continuous Delivery. The webinar covers:
The top 4 best... (more)
Parasoft's business partner Skytap recently invited Wayne Ariola (Parasoft
Chief Strategy Officer) to be a guest on their DevHops podcast. With Skytap's
Noel Wurst moderating, Wayne and Skytap's Jason English chatted about
continuous testing, service virtualization, and how SDLC acceleration is
impacting quality—all while sipping and reviewing three beers of their
choice.
Listen to the 30-minute podcast to hear about:
How quality and speed are no longer in a "host/parasite" relationship
What's being overlooked in the user-story focused testing common with Agile
What the business ... (more)
One of the business benefits organizations strive to achieve by implementing
a service-oriented architecture (SOA) or in utilizing Web services is the
opportunity to reuse business components. Asset reuse is one of the core
drivers of the SOA or Web service ROI calculation. Although leveraging the
service concept provides an avenue for application consolidation and reuse,
these same efficiencies also introduce a distinct level of business risk.
For example, in an architecture where multiple distributed applications
provide a business with a specific operation, should a single appl... (more)
Service-oriented architectures are much different than our traditional siloed
applications. SOAs span multiple tiers and multiple applications, their
development lifecycles are multi-staged and highly iterative, and there are
multiple parties impacted by both internal and perhaps external changes to
the organization.
Delivering a secure, reliable, compliant SOA, given these complexities,
requires a different approach to quality. In a complex system, quality
measures must permeate every aspect to translate into a quality deliverable.
Architecture & Interface Consistency
For exampl... (more)
Wayne Ariola is Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at Parasoft, a leading provider of integrated software development management, quality lifecycle management, and dev/test environment management solutions. He leverages customer input and fosters partnerships with industry leaders to ensure that Parasoft solutions continuously evolve to support the ever-changing complexities of real-world business processes and systems. Ariola has more than 15 years of strategic consulting experience within the technology and software development industries. He holds a BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA from Indiana University.
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