Top Software Company South Africa: Sustained Solutions with Saratoga
Software Development Principle: Tell, don’t ask
By Willo van der Merwe | Technical Competency Lead A key consideration when building or enhancing custom software is the total cost of maintenance and enhancement over time. As business focus shifts, new products are taken to market and customer engagement changes. There are some simple approaches and principles to software...
Supporting a culture of continuous learning through training
Following our article, ‘The value of leadership training for professionals’, where we share a short overview of the leadership training our Saratogans complete – we take a closer look at the experiences and lessons learnt by our staff from the 2022 Leader Within programme. Beyond the valuable programme material and leadership theory...
The value of leadership training for professionals
Annually, Saratoga identifies a number of our staff to attend a training programme that shares with them the skills and knowledge needed to develop their leadership skills. The Leader Within training spans across 5 months, and has been presented to Saratogans in partnership with experienced facilitators from the T Room for...
Insights into a software testing career
By Shinaaz Osman, Senior Quality Assurance Consultant My role as a Software Testing consultant is to evaluate if the system we’re testing meets the quality standards and all major project requirements to ensure the successful delivery of the solution. Testing is one of the most critical processes of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). It helps companies to...
Common misconceptions about software testing
By Shinaaz Osman, Senior Quality Assurance Consultant While software testing is an important part of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), and a competency we believe needs to form part of solution delivery from the start of a project, there remains common misconceptions about the role, skills and importance of software testing. Shinaaz Osman, Senior Quality Assurance Consultant...
Devconf 2022 lessons and highlights
‘Insightful, stimulating, diverse, inspirational and exciting’ are just some of the words used by our Saratogans to describe the recent Devconf events. Devconf is a community-driven, professional software developer focused series of conferences, which bring together the South African developer community to network and share insights. A number of our Saratoga developers...
Our DevOps automation journey
By Daniel Barrett, Lead Technical Consultant at Saratoga A few years back I started my DevOps journey at a company that owned its own product. As is often the case with products, we were presented with many challenges, most notably the inconsistency in our deployments and processes in going from development to production. While I’ve...
Mob programming | Collaborative coding as a remote team
Stephan Bester, Senior Developer at Saratoga, shares his team's experience of successfully mob programming as a remote team.
Developing leaders within Saratoga
Zelanda van Drünick, Marketing Assistant at Saratoga, was one of a number of Saratogans who completed the Leader Within training over the course of a few months earlier this year. When asked whether I would like to join this year’s Leader Within training programme, I leaped at the opportunity to develop my soft skills and myself...