A report published by JFrog finds that cybercriminals are now increasingly targeting the artificial intelligence (AI) tools and platforms used by application development teams. Based on an analysis of 18.2 billion artifacts managed via the JFrog Platform, security researchers discovered 969 AI agent skills carrying high-impact payloads in addition to 495 malicious AI models on […]
Sonar Surfaces Multiple Caveats When Relying on LLMs to Write Code
New SonarSource research shows LLMs like GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 4, and Llama-3.2 produce highly functional yet risky code — with frequent high-severity vulnerabilities, hard-coded credentials, and messy “code smells” that raise long-term tech debt.
Global Survey Finds Testing as the Most Valuable AI Investment Across the Software Development Lifecycle
Tricentis report reveals AI-augmented DevOps tools will save teams over an estimated 40 hours per month—equivalent to an entire workweek AUSTIN, TEXAS – August 6th, 2024 – Tricentis, a global leader in continuous testing and quality engineering, today released the findings of its most recent AI report, “AI-augmented DevOps: Trends Shaping the Future.” This year’s research aims to understand […]
Survey Surfaces Widespread Reliance on Generative AI Among Developers
Two thirds of developers are using AI in product development, primarily for coding, documentation, and conducting research.
The State of Commercial and Retail App Testing 2020
When the folks at Testlio approached me to review their “State of App Testing 2020″ report, I had some mixed feelings. These reports can sometimes be too broad; they can say what is not, but not help a team decide where to go. Still, it would only cost me five minutes of my time to […]
Synopsys Report Shows DevSecOps Progress
A report based on analysis of the software security initiatives of 130 organizations conducted by Synopsys, a provider of static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis tools, suggests progress in terms of DevSecOps adoption is being made but there is still a long journey ahead. According to the survey results, 121 organizations now […]
Continuous Testing in the ‘2018 Accelerate State of DevOps’ Report
Here’s a peek into what continuous testing means to DevOps today The “2018 Accelerate State of DevOps” report is the brainchild of Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Gene Kim and Jez Humble at DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment). Based on five years of research, with more than 30,000 data points from thousands of companies, the project aims […]
OECD Report Shows U.S. Leads in IoT, Lags in Robotics
A newly published report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reveals the state of digital technology adoption, development and related research when it comes to digital transformation, manufacturing automation and providing skill sets for workers that will help carry them in the future. The “OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2017” found […]
SlashData Report: Developers Influence Tool Selection
SlashData has just released its “State of The Developer Nation Report for Q3 2017.” Here at Heavybit, a program that helps developer and infrastructure startups take their product to market, we look forward to SlashData’s reports that allow us to keep up to date on the shifts in the developer landscape. In 2013, Stephen O’Grady […]
Sonatype Report Spotlights Software Supply Chain Issues
Most application developers today don’t write much raw code. Rather, applications developed today are created mostly by combing various modules and widgets to create a custom application. But currently there is little oversight being applied to the provenance of application components, especially when it comes to open-source software. The third annual State of the Software […]