Introducing our architecture approach and principles
James Stewart shares the thinking behind the technical architecture team's working principles and the need to keep developing "services so good people prefer to use them".
Central Architecture
Guest post: how automation and testing reduce risk in moving cloud vendors
Choosing and building a production environment for a large transactional service can be difficult and time-consuming.
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Central Architecture, Common technology services, D5, Open standards, Reform, Security, Technology Leaders, Technology Transformation
As this Parliament draws to a close, in the Office of the CTO we have been looking back at the past four years. Our mission was to clear away the obstacles that prevented us and our colleagues in departments from …
Making your case for quality assurance
People often question the value of quality assurance.
Guest post: testing tools principles
...testing tools are the most effective. Open tools also avoid vendor lock-in and are cheaper than proprietary alternatives. The Government IT Strategy and Technology Code of Practice [https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/making-software/open-source.html] says open...
The big 4 quality assurance mistakes
...time and won’t work, e.g. a multi-supplier programme of work will likely have very different needs to a small single supplier project. (Think centralised online issue management tools, vs Post-Its...
Proposing the GDS Agile Testing Manifesto
When talking to clients about what agile means, I refer to values outlined in the often-cited Agile Manifesto. The manifesto uses paired statements as a basis for describing the core...
Top 10 tips to exploratory testing
...work for their users. Exploratory testing is often misunderstood as an approach but there a number of pointers you can follow to ensure you’re on the right track. Here are...
Central government architecture: an update
We announced the architecture function this year and have been busy ever since with discovery work.