Copado Acquires Qentinel to Gain AI Testing Tools
Copado has acquired Qentinel as part of an effort to incorporate AI-infused application testing within a DevOps platform and build applications using low-code tools across multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. The Copado continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform was originally created to accelerate the development of low-code applications on top of the Salesforce platform. Now, however, Copado […]
Big Gains Are Made In The ‘Last Mile’ of DevOps
A new study by mabl found a correlation between complete, fully automated test coverage and a significant increase in customer happiness and DevOps maturity. In contrast, those with moderate DevOps maturity and nearly automated testing coverage tend to experience a sharp decline in end-user satisfaction. Mabl recently released its 2021 State of Testing in DevOps […]
Bringing Continuous Testing Into the Software Delivery Pipeline
For any highly competitive industry that relies on a smooth and stable user experience, it is vital that their development teams accelerate release cycles, lower operating costs and ultimately reduce risks. Continuous testing is one way companies can achieve these objectives. As a subset of software testing, continuous testing (CT) is valuable because it uncovers […]
Survey Finds Biggest DevOps Obstacles are Organizational
A survey of 600 IT professionals published this week by mabl, a provider of a test automation platform, finds the biggest barriers to adopting DevOps practices are more closely related to organizational issues rather than any technology. The survey identified non-technological issues as the main inhibitor to DevOps by a wide margin (82%). Only 11% […]
The State of Continuous Delivery in 2021
One of the hallmarks of DevOps is to improve the delivery of software. Therefore, mature DevOps systems employ continuous delivery (CD), the process of releasing bite-sized software changes on a regular basis. Amid high demand for digital innovation, streamlining this release pipeline is becoming more and more crucial for enabling overall software fluidity. So, what […]
How Containers Simplify DevOps Workflows and CI/CD Pipelines
DevOps enables organizations to capitalize on the flexibility of cloud resources in real-time, which is a huge game changer. Just as the adoption of Agile methodology can make a development team more responsive, DevOps revolutionizes implementation of IT objectives from end to end, from a waterfall-style process gating company productivity to a dynamic process that […]
GitLab Releases Updates to CI/CD Platform
GitLab this week made available a 13.9 update that adds more than 60 new features and updated capabilities to its namesake open source continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Brian Glanz, a product marketing manager for GitLab, said chief among those capabilities is a Security Alert Dashboard that enables DevOps teams to triage high-priority alerts more […]