Psychology and the web By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 7 mins read As the web proliferates and we interact with it in numerous ways, we need to be aware of the importance technology plays in satisfying human needs when interacting with a web application. There is another aspect that we perhaps do not pay as…
Continuous Delivery | A Guide By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read The pressure is on companies to become real-time businesses with a host of trends throughout the software industry focusing on the reaction capabilities of firms. This ranges from feedback and monitoring to built-in testing and continuous integration. Now, as organisations attempt to…
Fail Fast, Fail Often | Explained By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Described in The Globe and Mail as “the stupidest business concept of all time”, fail fast, fail often may be seen as a fast-track to bankruptcy among those who haven’t grasped the notion. However, among many leading start-ups and innovators, the…
Human Resource challenges in an Agile environment By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Agile is pretty much the way software is built and delivered today. Agile is about iterative development with quick feedback loops and making use of Agile engineering practices like Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Refactoring etc. Agile is also about…
The Importance Of Getting The Discovery Phase Right By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read Imagine starting a business without examining the market first; or hiring a new employee without carrying out an interview. Both scenarios seem almost unthinkable: yet, a host of organisations are still launching their digital projects while overlooking the discovery…
Test Driven Development | A Guide By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read Developed back in 2003, test driven development (TDD), also known as test design development, creates an evolutionary approach to development centring on test-first implementations in which you write the minimum amount of production code that will allow you to then fulfill…
Handling Non-Functional Requirements in Agile By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read During the days when waterfall methodology was in vogue, Non-functional Requirements (NFR) testing was generally the last step before application delivery. For the testers, the entire application offered a complete view of application to test NFRs elicited by the analysts from the…
Empowering the Agilist By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read The core elements of being Agile are the spirit of ongoing collaboration, self-management and empowerment of the team to achieve product development goals. The same can be derived from the lean philosophy of software development i.e. one of its seven principles (i.e. Empower the…
How safe is the cloud? Security in the cloud By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read It was back in September, 2014, when cloud security was placed under the microscope following a breach of Apple’s internet storage service. Many celebrities, including the likes of Jennifer Lawrence, had intimate photographs stolen from the iCloud, prompting…
Reasons to move away from legacy systems By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read There is a lot to be said for loyalty in life: but applying this loyalty to an outdated system could be holding your organisation back. A new term has been coined – legacy systems – which refers to systems that have…
