Perforce Software announced the completion of its acquisition of the continuous testing platform, BlazeMeter from Broadcom. This acquisition is Perforce’s twelfth one to date. This acquisition will grow and strengthen Perforce’s application quality portfolio, allowing users to achieve AI-driven, complete shift-left testing quickly and easily. With BlazeMeter, Perforce users gain access to unified functionality like … continue reading
The November 2021 issue of SD Times is now available. This issue features insights into how to manage remote teams, impediments to effective product management, and a guide to cloud-native security tools. … continue reading
The various trends around software development: small team sizes, faster velocity and the styles of building software are here to stay and organizations will need a new way in which to train their developers. This is according to Pete Chestna, CISO of North America at Checkmarx, in the SD Times Live! on-demand webinar “Cloud Engineering … continue reading
JetBrains recently announced that Compose Multiplatform, the declarative UI framework for Kotlin, has reached beta. This brings Compose Desktop and Compose for the Web another step closer to their final release in 2022. The highlights of this beta release include The beginning of the stabilization of APIs in preparation for the 1.0 release, as well … continue reading
The Eclipse Foundation yesterday announced an open invitation for technology leaders to help define a new working group focused specifically on the Software-Defined Vehicle. Software-defined vehicles enable vehicle manufacturers as well as automotive suppliers to put software at the very center of vehicle development, with hardware considerations to follow. The aim behind the project using … continue reading
It’s hard not to mention “Accelerate” when writing about DevOps; rarely does such a seminal piece of work provide an equally well-defined set of practical applications. It was a landmark engineering and business handbook that, through outlining what we now refer to as the DORA metrics, kick-started a DevOps metrics gold rush. Lead Time is … continue reading
Digital.ai has announced several releases across its portfolio of Agile and DevOps products. Updates include Digital.ai Agility 21.3, Digital.ai Release 10.3, and Digital.ai Deploy 10.3. Digital.ai Agility 21.3 includes usability improvements, such as checking that required fields in tasks are completed before a story or defect is closed, and columns that auto-collapse if empty in … continue reading
The accelerated CI/CD practices that cloud environments have enabled has led many developer teams to create automated script tools that replace the manual configuration and provisioning of apps by communicating directly with the cloud provider’s API. This approach to software production is known as Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and essentially forms the building blocks upon which the … continue reading
Google recently announced Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, the most secure Pixel phones yet. These new smartphones will bring users security updates for the next five years along with additional layers of hardware security. The Pixel 6 phones take a layered approach to security, with innovations reaching across the Google Tensor system on a … continue reading
The Android Developer Summit is happening today and tomorrow, giving developers a glimpse into some of the new changes coming to Android development. Some of the key highlights from this year’s summit include a developer preview for 12L, the introduction of Material You to Jetpack Compose, and a new Google Play certification. 12L is an … continue reading
As an industry we’ve been talking about platforms for a very long time. Everyone thinks they need one but many people don’t know why. Perhaps more concerning, many organizations build them and then don’t realize the value they expected. This trend was reinforced by the recently published Technology Radar — Thoughtworks’ biannual look at the tech … continue reading
Opsera today announced that it is working with AWS to streamline and automate software delivery management across containers, virtual machines, serverless and Kubernetes. In addition, Opsera is also now available in AWS Marketplace, allowing AWS users to leverage their no-code DevOps orchestration platform for software release and IaC automation. With native AWS integrations, Opsera customers … continue reading
Driven by COVID-19, everything from digital transformation initiatives to customer expectations have accelerated. As consumers reflect on how much they have come to rely on websites and apps over the last 18 months, they have deep firsthand experience with how technology can make their lives simpler and easier. It’s now up to companies to effectively … continue reading
CircleCI today announced Test Insights, the latest feature added to its Insights dashboard. With this release, users can analyze their test performance and identify opportunities for optimization. With Test Insights, CircleCI users can now save time by addressing code failures faster. In addition, Test Insights brings users new features and benefits, including Flaky test detection … continue reading
