Using Data To Drive Your Development Process

William Josephson

Lightning Talk: 10 minutes

Summary

Many software teams think of testing as a simple “smoke test” or perhaps an automated GO/NO GO for a release . In actual fact, even simple software test suites are a much richer data source. Simple time series of commit history, test results, and performance results, even for non-performance tests, can provide deeper insight for the release manager. This talk will discuss our experience at Solano Labs with a few of these alternate data sources.

Short Bio

William Josephson is a co-founder of Solano Labs, a hosted CI solution. William is an entrepreneur and engineer with deep experience building and delivering high-performance storage systems and with applications of cryptography and computer security to real-world systems. He has a PhD in computer science from Princeton University where his academic focus was on solving big data and high-performance storage problems.