Marketing companies face a lot of pressure these days in delivering potential customers to their clients. With new laws restricting where data is stored and how it can be used, coupled with incomplete or inaccurate data being input into forms, the challenges are daunting. Recent laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) instituted … continue reading
This time of year, organizations take stock of the year that’s ending and then strategize about what they want to accomplish in the year ahead. Forrester research director for software development Chris Gardner spoke with SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein to talk about what they’re seeing for 2023. This is a transcript of that conversation, … continue reading
Security and value emerged as two important aspects of DevOps as 2022 unfolded. Yet, with as much success as organizations have achieved implementing their own DevOps strategies, many others struggled to make it work for them. Part of the struggle is an outgrowth of the “shift left” strategy advocated in the DevOps space, leaving developers … continue reading
Office closures and people starting to work from home became the new normal in 2022, creating both logistical problems and big opportunities for many software development organizations. In the fall of 2021, a Google study found that more than 75% of respondents said they expect hybrid work – splitting time between an office and working … continue reading
Atlassian today announced updates to its Open DevOps solution within Jira Software designed to bring better communication across teams and more visibility into the software development life cycle. Open DevOps was designed to help organizations deal with the ever-growing number of tools their teams use by bringing into a central location that allows them to … continue reading
The Automated Software Testing and Quality Summit, now in its third year, will focus on helping attendees gain insights on ways to automate and accelerate testing to deliver robust applications that users will love. The event is produced by leading testing solutions provider Parasoft. The half-day virtual summit, which kicks off Nov. 3 at 11 … continue reading
Complexity. That’s the word that comes to mind first when discussing modern software applications. Development teams have to innovate, and quickly, to keep pace with business needs, all while needing to ensure quality and security within those applications. It’s that word – complexity – that the companies below are addressing in their offerings. Whether in … continue reading
To help developers move from learning to applying that knowledge to make their code more secure, Secure Code Warrior today launched Coding Labs, to enable real-time coding in an in-browser IDE. “We found that 40% of developers don’t believe they’re receiving enough hands-on training from their current tools and resources. We’ve set out to fundamentally … continue reading
The release today of Android Studio Dolphin is focused on Jetpack Compose, the toolkit for native UI; Wear OS, the operating system for wearable devices; and on development productivity. The Jetpack Compose update includes a new Compose UI counter within the Layout Inspector to monitor when the UI recomposes during the debugging process. The release … continue reading
Recent studies show a divide between older workers – many in management positions – and the younger ones trying to get ahead. It’s a generation gap, for sure, exacerbated by the advances in technology that place a burden on both cohorts. This is because they view work differently. Many older executives (full disclosure: I am … continue reading
Service virtualization has helped countless organizations perform tests on application components that live outside their development organizations, or that are not available to the tester when needed to complete their tests. Virtualization enables organizations to put up a virtual service more easily than they can “yank a box on an Amazon server,” explained Shamim Ahmed, … continue reading
As important as it is for organizations to continue to innovate their software products quickly and with quality, that cannot be achieved in today’s world without ensuring “psychological safety” for its development teams. Ravi Tharisayi, senior director of product marketing at feature management software provider LaunchDarkly, defined the term as a strong interconnection between software … continue reading
