Overcome the data challenges of cloud adoption
Cloud adoption is at an all-time high, and an overwhelming majority of organizations run at least part of their business in the cloud. A 2020 report from IDG found that only 8% of respondents claimed their total IT environment was on-premises, meaning that for 92% of companies, part of their infrastructure or applications are hosted …
SD Times news digest: Parasoft adds pen testing to its testing platform, LEADTOOLS V22, and Progress to acquire application experience company Kemp
Parasoft has expanded its API and SAST testing with enhanced OWASP support. The upgrade features penetration testing, which shifts security testing into developer workflows. This shift will address API security issues by identifying vulnerabilities in APIs. The platform integrates Parasoft SOAtest and Smart API Test Generator with OWASP ZAP to build security into development workflows. …
Microsoft shares info on developing for Surface Duo 2
Microsoft yesterday announced its new Microsoft Surface Duo and is now inviting developers to start building or enhancing apps for dual-screen devices. The best way to start is by using Jetpack Window Manager, according to Guy Merin, the senior director of engineering at Microsoft, in a blog post. It has a FoldingFeature class providing device-specific …
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenVSCode
OpenVSCode provides a version of VS Code that runs on a server on a remote machine and allows access through a modern web browser. It’s based on the same infrastructure used by Gitpod or GitHub Codespaces at scale. According to the project’s GitHub page, in 2019 the VS Code team began refactoring its architecture in …
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Google Cloud announces managed continuous delivery service
Google today announced Google Cloud Deploy, a managed, opinionated continuous delivery service that makes continuous delivery to GKE easier, faster, and more reliable. Deploying container image artifacts into various environments remains a difficult task to many, and there are still no agreed-upon best practices. “Google Cloud Deploy is the product of discussions with more than …
Report: Over half of developers feel that current security policies stifle innovation
Just over half of developers feel that security policies stifle their innovation and only about a third of developers reported that they are thoroughly educated on the security procedures they are expected to execute, according to a new report by VMware and Forrester. Forrester conducted a VMware-commissioned survey called “Bridging the Developer and Security Divide” …
SD Times news digest: GitLab 14.3, Improved Google Play Console user management, and Informatica and Snowflake announces on-prem to cloud modernization program,
GitLab announced the release of GitLab 14.3 with project-level security scan execution policies, next generation SAST to reduce Ruby false positives, group level permissions for protected environments and group access for the GitLab Kubernetes Agent. The project-level DAST and secret detection scan execution policies allow users to require DAST and secret detection scans to run …
DevOps: Still in early days?
DevOps has been a talking point in the development space for about a decade, but despite its age, some feel it’s still in its early days. One such person with that belief is Steve Kearns, the vice president of product management at Elastic, who joined SD Times podcast “What the Dev?” to explain his reasoning. …
SD Times news digest: Google Cloud adds ability to run code directly from documentation, Apache Kafka 3.0.0, Django 4.0 first alpha released
Recently, Google added a Cloud Shell integration within each documentation page. This allows users to test code in a virtual machine instance directly from the documentation, cutting down on shifting between the documentation and a terminal window to run commands in a tutorial. Google Shell also comes already installed with common command-line tools, programming languages, …
Netlify launches Enterprise Grid, availability on AWS Marketplace
Netlify introduced new features, workflow, and automation for enterprises building modern web applications at scale. The new team governance features and Jira integration make it easier for large-scale enterprises to benefit from the Jamstack ecosystem and best practices. The company added a new integration with Jira to accelerate feedback on web projects, and availability of …
Data is leaking as employees leave in “Great Resignation”
New data shows a direct correlation between resignations, departing employees, and data exposure events. This is of particular interest to organizations currently as companies experience what’s been called “the Great Resignation.” As employees leave their companies, they oftentimes — intentionally or otherwise — take valuable source code, patent applications, and customer lists with them. Code42, …
SD Times news digest: Apple releases new marketing tools for App Store, Android to expand permissions auto-reset, Swift 5.5 released
Apple announced that users can now easily create custom marketing assets such as banners and images to promote their apps on social media and more. One just needs to select their app, choose a template, customize their design, and add preset messages in multiple languages. The new App Store marketing tools can also be used …
The road to fully autonomous testing
I’m often asked if and when fully autonomous testing could become a reality. That’s a topic I love to discuss. But, before delving into that, let’s take a closer look at the two words that make up that term. Autonomous, meaning “without human intervention,” is pretty simple. Testing is more difficult because the investigative, inquisitive …
Wind River acquires Particle Design
Wind River has announced that it completed the acquisition of the UI/UX design company Particle Design which brings UI/UX capabilities to the new Wind River Studio offering. Particle Design offers end-to-end UX research services that employ a range of methodologies from ethnographic research to user evaluations and usability testing; its design services include prototyping, interaction …
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Test Management in an Agile Reality
LIVE! October 21, 2021 @ 11AM ET | 10AM PT | For successful product testing, your test teams must be aligned with business criteria. A clearly articulated definition of “done” must be established and communicated to your testing teams. While these statements seem obvious, they are challenges that product development teams routinely struggle to solve, …
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The Cloud Developer – Generation DevOps
LIVE! October 26, 2021 @ 1PM ET | 10AM PT | Requirements on developers have shifted over the last 5 years. Team sizes are shrinking but responsibilities are growing with DevOps and accelerated SDLC. A developer must become fluent in software architecture, testing, deployment, telemetry, and even security. It is less about multi-layer and more …
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UPCOMING VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: VSMcon 2021
DAY 1 – November 3, 2021 – EXPO DAY, DAY 2 – November 4, 2021 – WORKSHOP DAY | This year’s TWO-DAY digital conference examines the benefits of creating and managing value streams in your development organization. As software development, delivery and performance become more complex due to modern architectures, value streams can help organizations unlock the bottlenecks and eliminate process waste to …
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Modern Mobile App Testing
LIVE October 7, 2021 @ 1PM ET | 10AM PT | Delightful user experiences start with visual perfection. With over half of website traffic coming from mobile, the need for faster and higher-quality apps is paramount. Not only that, but Mobile QA teams have to account for visual consistency across the thousands of devices. Join …
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UPCOMING VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: Low Code/No Code Developer Day
ALL DAY EVENT: OCTOBER 13, 2021 | Organizations requiring a faster digital transformation are turning to low-code development solutions, empowering IT and non-IT personnel to use drag-and-drop tooling to quickly create necessary business applications. At Low Code/No Code Developer Day, you will learn about low-code and no-code tools, where they are appropriate to use, and what …
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The broad responsibilities of the expanding developer domain
AVAILABLE NOW What developers do and how they do it continues to change dramatically. Developers have had to take on additional responsibilities as organizations have cut back or disbanded specialist teams focused on software QA, security and governance. Once primarily originators of code, many developers now assemble software by combining hundreds or thousands of pre-built …
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