The desire to work from home or from anywhere has only increased as the COVID-19 pandemic lingers. Employees cite a number of reasons why they prefer to skip the office, including cutting commuting times, being more productive, caring for family members and exploring new locations. People are increasingly comfortable with remote interactions and the new […]
Google Makes Fuzz Testing Integration Tool Available
Google today made available a ClusterFuzzLite tool that makes it simpler to incorporate fuzz testing into a DevOps workflow. Fuzz testing refers to an automated software testing technique that involves providing invalid, unexpected or random data as inputs to an application to discover issues such as potential memory leaks. Jonathan Metzman, a senior software engineer […]
Automated Refactoring with Moderne
Jonathan Schneider and Olga Kundzich are co-founders of Moderne, a Seattle-based startup. Moderne received $4.7 million in seed funding in July 2021 to commercialize OpenRewrite, an open source automated refactoring tool for code (initially Java) that Schneider started while at Netflix. Moderne’s technology reduces the tedium and time it takes for software remediation; a big […]
AWS BugBust Challenges Developers to Set World Record for Bug Busting at re:Invent 2021
Software bugs are irksome, time-consuming and can be one of the most expensive software development costs for any company on an ongoing basis. Software Testing News cited a study that found the cost of poor software quality in the United States alone was estimated to be $2.8 trillion dollars. Let that sink in. $2.8 trillion […]
GitHub Expands Developer Productivity Tools Portfolio
During the online GitHub Universe 2021 conference, GitHub today unveiled a bevy of updates intended to boost developer productivity by making it easier for developers to write code faster and collaborate more easily. The GitHub Copilot tool that GitHub developed in collaboration with OpenAI, a research and development lab, to help developers write better code […]
Managing Technical Debt is a Balancing Act
Technical debt is a nightmare for product managers. It can slow down teams and inhibit response time for delivering quality products to market. Yet, there are times when technical debt can be beneficial; but turning it from a headache to a positive is a balancing act. Nimble project managers and developers should strive to develop […]
A Blueprint for Securing Software Development
Software development has changed dramatically in recent years, as technologies like DevOps, application containers, and cloud-native transform how software is built and distributed. Unfortunately, attackers have been paying close attention to these changes, and have retooled their attack strategies to take advantage of relatively weak security controls in software development and build environments. Attackers recognize […]
Building DevSecOps With Value Stream Management
As teams develop software, testing for potential security risks and flaws is mission-critical, just as it has always been. Yet, cyberattackers continue to exploit code vulnerabilities as open source code remains the foundation for the majority of commercial applications across all industries. Security firms are churning out solutions at an aggressive rate, and both project […]
How to Optimize Data in Software Development
Data can drive significant business value for every company. Globally, we are collecting more of it than ever before, and it keeps growing—from 45 zettabytes in 2019 to a projected 175 zettabytes by 2025, according to IDC. However, companies are struggling to monetize all the personal, behavioral, engagement and transactional data from customers and operations […]
Measuring Value Streams by Analyzing Flow Metrics
There is increasing pressure and demand for IT administrators to bring software to market quickly and cost-effectively. To achieve that goal, IT departments frequently compile various metrics that measure specific development processes. Data and metrics are important tools, but administrators sometimes don’t think to look at projects through a wider lens—by measuring total production workflows. […]