Bob Foster, Author at Coveros

Bob FosterSeptember 24, 2021Agile, Blogs, DevOps, Presentations, Project ManagementNo comments

Technical Manager Bob Foster discusses five similarities between a successful software product release and coaching lacrosse.

Keycloak Operator: Running Locally With Kind

Bob FosterJuly 8, 2021Blogs, Development, Open Source, Software Tools2 comments

Technical Manager Bob Foster provides a step-by-step example of running Keycloak Operator locally using kind.

Failure is Feedback: Unit Testing

Bob FosterMarch 26, 2020BlogsNo comments

“Failure is Feedback and Feedback is the breakfast of Champions” – fortune cookie Introduction This is the second blog in a series focused on software tools, processes and principles behind receiving feedback. In my first blog I discussed the importance of receiving feedback early and often throughout the software development lifecycle. Feedback is essential in […]

5 Tips to Turn Recorded JMeter Scripts into Reusable Tests

Bob FosterJanuary 2, 2020Blogs, Testing, Top PostsNo comments

Load and performance issues can be difficult to resolve when found late in the software development lifecycle, yet teams still often wait until the last minute to performance test their applications. This can be costly, especially if the problem ends up being an issue with the overall architecture of the application. Load and performance testing […]

The Agile Manifesto Principles: Deliver Working Software

A man talks to a woman in front of a Scrum board

Bob FosterSeptember 11, 2019Agile, BlogsNo comments

Bob Foster, technical manager at Coveros, chats with TechWell community manager Owen Gotimer about the Agile Manifesto principle of delivering working software: “Working software is the primary measure of progress.” Continue the conversation with Bob and Owen on the TechWell Hub. Originally posted on AgileConnection.

The Agile Manifesto Principles: Deliver Working Software

Bob FosterJune 19, 2019Agile, BlogsNo comments

There’s often a huge difference between working software and complete software. In agile, nothing is ever really complete, and working software doesn’t have to be fully finished to bring value to the end user.

Ansible privilege escalation using ‘sudo su -‘

Bob FosterMay 1, 2019Blogs, Top Posts3 comments

Recently I wrote an Ansible playbook to extract data from an Informatica PowerCenter repository. The data was then compressed and uploaded into Nexus Repository Manager. I used the command line utility, pmrep, to execute the commands needed to connect to the Informatica repository and to extract the data. A specific Informatica user had been given […]

Failure is Feedback

Bob FosterApril 11, 2019BlogsNo comments

“Failure is Feedback and Feedback is the breakfast of Champions” – fortune cookie Most everyone would agree that feedback is an essential ingredient to successful delivery. Feedback helps you to improve, whether you are a cashier, a coach, a teacher, or part of a software development team. So why is it so hard to accept […]

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