Continuous Testing
Synopsys Sets Course After Agreeing to Acquire WhiteHat Security
Synopsys, Inc. plans to add dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform in the wake of agreeing to acquire WhiteHat Security from NTT Security Corp. for approximately $330 ...
This is Not Just a Test: DevOps and the Need to Automate
Creating software is as much about the process as it is about the product. In recent years, we’ve seen the speed of innovation reach new heights due to more efficient development and ...
Applause Report Surfaces Functional Testing Issues
Mike Vizard | | accessibility testing, Applause, bugs, custom software development, functional testingAn analysis of more than 340,000 bugs collected by Applause, a provider of a testing platform designed to integrate with a range of DevOps platforms, found functional bugs accounted for 68% of ...
GitLab Adds Fourth DORA Metric API to CI/CD Platform
The latest update to GitLab's namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform has added support for the application programming interface (API) for measuring change failure rates. This addition supports the fourth metric as ...
SRE Vs. DevOps: The Wrong Question?
The age-old question about the competition between DevOps and SRE sets up a false dichotomy. DevOps is a methodology while SRE is a team within operations. Although the two are often pitted ...
mabl Makes Move to Automate Accessibility Testing
mabl today made available in beta an automated accessibility testing capability that it added to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for testing applications. Dan Belcher, mabl co-founder, said given the increased accessibility requirements ...
The Pros and Cons of Embedded SREs
To embed or not to embed: That is the question. At least, that’s one of the questions that companies have to answer as they decide how to implement site reliability engineering. They ...
What’s the Difference Between SLI, SLA and SLO?
If you're just getting into site reliability engineering (SRE) or platform engineering, you've probably come across a bunch of new terminologies, like SLI, SLA and SLO. These benchmarks are commonly referenced in ...
Shift Left is Only Part of Secure Software Delivery
We’re living in the age of accelerated consumption and delivery. You can get a seemingly infinite selection of products delivered to your door within two days, for free, from thousands of miles ...
How DevSecOps Teams Can Level Up
In 2019, I wrote a post detailing the traits of DevSecOps—the practice can be defined as the process of security automation in which IT and security are more de-siloed. DevSecOps introduces a ...
The Importance of Customer Experience Observability
Ask anyone to name their favorite brand, and they’ll often respond with minimal hesitation. Prod a little further and the importance of customer experience (CX) is sure to play a major role ...
Survey Sees Little Progress on Securing Software Supply Chains
A survey of 1,750 IT security decision-makers published today found that, despite a series of high-profile cybersecurity breaches, nearly two-thirds (62%) of respondents have done nothing to secure their software supply chain ...
