Cedrick W. Johnson

In this new era of rapid application development (RAD), there's an ever-increasing push to get applications into production without adequate testing. This methodology does meet deadlines, but it can also lead to serious implications for your business's future. For example, many Internet companies deploy applications that lack the ability to handle high loads, or their applications aren't scalable enough to grow with the increasing demands of the business. With a little testing these simple mistakes can be caught before an application goes into production. I've been developing applications since 1996 and have seen an increasing trend within many development teams to rush a product out the door without adequate testing. Recently I reviewed a new version of a testing tool named Bean-test from Empirix, Inc. Bean-test is an application tool built from the ground up to t... (more)