Android Enterprise Essentials is a secure, mobile management service built by the Android team to protect business devices and data. It requires a lock screen and encryption on devices to prevent unauthorized access to company data, enforces mandatory malware protection by ensuring that Google Play Protect is always on and employees can’t download apps outside … continue reading
Two motivations drove the update to the Scrum Guide, which was delivered last month. The original creators of Scrum — Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland — described their goals: To provide better support for the growing number of teams using Scrum outside of Software Development. Scrum is being used by product teams working on problems … continue reading
There has been a resurgence of enterprise architecture practices, and Gartner wants to make sure enterprises get it right this time. According to the research firm, enterprise architecture previously didn’t provide any business value and “crashed and burned” in 2012 is because organizations were not looking at the bigger picture. “Despite best efforts, many EA … continue reading
Enterprise architecture (EA) is making a comeback. While the method for understanding and visualizing all of the business processes within an organization has been around for decades, recent changes and current trends in the industry is making organizations take a second look at how they do things. According to Saul Brand, senior director analyst at … continue reading
Salesforce has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the communications platform Slack for approximately $27.7 billion. The company hopes together they can create a new operating system for the digital world of work. “As software plays a more and more critical role in the performance of every organization, we share a vision of reduced … continue reading
It’s time to get honest with ourselves about velocity. Or is it Velocity? Capital-V “Velocity” has been trumpeted for nearly two decades as one of, if not THE most, important ways to measure success on the engineering team [it’s also been criticized as dangerous]. The idea here is that by tracking Velocity, we can better … continue reading
Parasoft: Parasoft helps organizations continuously deliver quality software with its market-proven, integrated suite of automated software testing tools. Supporting the embedded, enterprise, and IoT markets, Parasoft’s technologies reduce the time, effort, and cost of delivering secure, reliable, and compliant software by integrating everything from deep code analysis and unit testing to web UI and API … continue reading
Artem Golubev, co-founder and CEO of testRigor TestRigor is a functional end-to-end testing tool for web and mobile designed to automate away the work of manual testers. With testRigor, organizations can expect up to 200 times less test maintenance as well as up to 20 times faster speed and ease of test creation. As an … continue reading
The drastic increase in volume of tests and the speed of software production has necessitated more efficient automated testing to handle repetitive tasks. The growing “shift-left” approach in Agile development processes has also pushed testing much earlier in the application life cycle. “There is a challenge to testing in the sense that we need to … continue reading
This latest release of JetBrains’ JavaScript IDE is packed with many long-awaited enhancements, including support for Tailwind CSS, the ability to sync one’s IDE theme with their OS settings, and Git staging. WebStorm 2020.3 also includes a new welcome screen, the ability to sync the IDE theme with your OS settings, improvements for working with … continue reading
Testing is a crucial piece of the software life cycle but QA teams often can’t produce enough test coverage quickly enough because they are bogged down by test maintenance. Test maintenance often takes more than 50% of a QA team’s time. testRigor, a plain English-based testing system, is easing the pain points of QA teams … continue reading
The latest issue of SD Times is now available. The December issue features an in-depth looks at test automation, GitOps, and the resurgence of enterprise architecture. … continue reading
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced Apache TVM is now a Top-Level Project. Apache TVM is an end-to-end open deep learning compiler stack for CPUs, GPUs and specialized accelerators. Reaching top-level status means the project has graduated from Apache’s incubation program and meets specific ASF requirements. Apache TVM started as a research project at … continue reading
GitHub has announced it is teaming up with fastai to develop a literate programming environment for Python, nbdev. Computer scientist Donald Knuth defined literate programming as a way of programming that allows developers to work in the order demanded by the logic and flow of their thoughts rather than an order dictated by the computer. … continue reading
