Digital.ai Deepens Value Stream Management Integration
Digital.ai announced today it has expanded usage of machine learning algorithms within its namesake value stream management (VSM) platform to include modules to optimize flow and improve application quality in addition to enhancing its risk prediction and process optimization modules. In addition, Digital.ai has expanded the number of pre-built integrations it now provides for hundreds […]
Automation is Needed for Reliable Cloud Platforms
From six to 1,400 microservices in less than five years? At first glance, that sounds like overwhelming complexity. Can you actually see the entire system across all of the microservices? This is the key to highly available and reliable SaaS cloud platforms. But what does this mean, and how can SaaS providers achieve it? Over […]
Three Ways Machine Learning Can Change Incident Management
Incident management for important applications has many connotations, many of them negative. Most are well-deserved. Stress, panic, hurry, urgent, drop-everything, all-hands-on-deck, emergency, to name a few. Typically, there is a critical problem, ranging from complete failure to loss of certain functionality or performance. The problem or outage potentially means loss of revenue, loss of customers, […]
Prevent False Positives From Derailing Shift Left
Static application security testing (SAST) tools are designed to balance false positives (incorrect warnings) with false negatives (missed vulnerabilities) primarily because deeper analysis requires more time and computing resources. Both of these are in short supply among developers that are tasked with meeting shorter and shorter product delivery milestones. So, while SAST vendors consider a […]
Perforce Acquires 21 Labs to Advance Mobile App Testing
Perforce Software announced today is has acquired 21 Labs, a provider of a suite of tools that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to provide a no-code approach to testing mobile applications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tim Russell, chief product officer for Perforce Software, said the 21 Labs tools complement a set of similar […]
Why QA and Monitoring Need to Merge
Customer expectations for speed and reliability have upended the software development life cycle. Whereas developers used to develop a product and send it to quality assurance engineers for testing before widespread release, customers now demand new versions and features on a quicker timeline. In an era with little available time to run QA in the […]
Empowering BizDevOps Teams With SLOs
When BizDevOps teams are drowning in logs and false alerts and are spending more time on manual processes than on building and deploying new applications and features, the work suffers, morale suffers and the organization as a whole suffers. Releasing better and more secure software, faster and with real business impacts starts with a robust […]
CircleCI Acquires Vamp to Apply AI to CD
CircleCI today announced it has acquired Vamp, a provider of an orchestration platform for automating application releases. CircleCI at the same time revealed it has garnered an additional $100 million in financing to attain a $1.7 billion valuation. Jim Rose, CircleCI CEO, said Vamp will play a significant role in advancing the capabilities of the […]
Why Browser and API Testing is Shifting Left
For developers working with cloud-native technologies, software testing and quality assurance is a key part of product development. For most teams, testing has “shifted left,” so the quality of the code can be assessed as it moves through the CI/CD pipeline. This approach to quality assurance reflects the rise of DevOps and other modern development […]
ServiceNow Acquires Lightstep to Gain Observability Platform
ServiceNow today announced it has acquired Lightstep as part of an effort to add an observability platform to its IT operations portfolio. Terms of the deal, expected to close this quarter, were not disclosed. The Change Intelligence observability platform from Lightstep is based on a time-series database that is capable of processing a trillion events […]
SAST, DAST, SCA: What’s Best For AppSec Testing?
According to the most recent Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, almost 90% of data breaches are driven by financial gain, up from 71% in last year’s report. Most noteworthy, however, is that cloud platforms are particularly at risk, with web application attacks increasing by 43%. As more information is stored within cloud infrastructures, and as […]
Using RPA for DevOps Process Automation
Modern operations teams today are at the cutting edge of automation. DevOps and SRE practices are entirely based on an automation-first philosophy. CI/CD is fully automated and the next generation of automated testing is now being adopted. However, these same teams are still running their human processes based on hastily thrown-together wiki pages. The increase […]
Splunk Unveils Unified Observability Platform
Splunk today unveiled an observability platform delivered as a cloud service that captures all metrics, traces and logs in real-time without relying on sampling. Spiros Xanthos, vice president of product management for observability and IT Ops at Splunk, said Splunk Observability Cloud collects all that data via a single agent based on open source OpenTelemetry […]
Debugging is Broken – Here’s How To Fix It
Let’s face it, debugging is broken. Whether you wholeheartedly agree or vehemently disagree with that statement, I think we can all agree that debugging, at the very least, has room for improvement. In fact, the way software developers debug their code hasn’t changed much. Of course, there are now a wide array of observability and […]
Blips and Downtime: Incident Management 101
Nothing gets the blood pumping like seeing an IT incident alert flash across the screen. Is the network traffic anomaly a potential intrusion? Are we about to have an outage? Is it just a random blip on the radar? The implications of these different potential incidents vary wildly, and each requires a different set of […]
JFrog Tightens Integration with Cloud Edition of Jira
JFrog this week announced that its DevOps platform, delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS), can now be integrated with the Jira project tracking and management application, delivered as a cloud service, from Atlassian. Casey O’Mara, vice president of worldwide business development for JFrog, said this bidirectional integration makes it possible to link a Jira issue, such […]
WhiteSource Acquires Diffend to Secure Open Source Supply Chains
WhiteSource this week announced it has acquired Diffend as part of an expended effort to discover malware that has been deliberately injected into open source software by a contributor acting in bad faith. Company CEO Rami Sass said cybercriminals are increasingly trying to compromise software supply chains that today depend heavily on open source projects. […]
Three Manual Accessibility Testing Pain Points
According to industry research, the vast majority of IT leaders view test automation as the single most important factor in accelerating software innovation. This also applies to automated accessibility testing – a great first step for making websites accessible to persons with disabilities. The new breed of automated tools can catch nearly 83% of all […]
How Shifting Testing Left Can Boost DevOps Velocity
DevOps is all about balance: How can speed and quality be balanced to best meet the demands of customers who want exceptional digital experiences as fast as possible? DevOps looks to meet these expectations head-on by helping to deliver a faster cadence of new builds to customers while keeping quality high. What’s more, quality should […]
Applause Delivers Testing Integration Tool
Applause today made a bi-directional integration capability that simplifies requesting application code tests of, dubbed Applause In-Sprint Testing, generally available. Kristin Simonini, vice president of product for Applause, said application owners will be able to, for example, use a Jira project management application to create a ticket that requests a specific piece of code be […]
AI Reimagines Computation and Improves Software Development
While modern business software solutions unlock organizational efficiencies, agility and the ability to deliver new value to customers, such tools were not available when applications deployed on mainframe systems were being developed. Today, many of the Fortune 500 companies, the world’s largest banks and insurance companies and several of the largest retailers in the U.S. […]
Perforce Adds Synchronization Tool for Cross-Functional Teams
Perforce Software has added a graphical tool, dubbed Helix Sync, that enables individuals, such as artists, to take advantage of the version control capabilities provided by its software development life cycle (SDLC) platform. Gerhard Krüger, cloud architect and product manager at Perforce, said that as DevOps workflows continue to evolve in the gaming and automotive […]
Low-Code Automated Software Testing Drives DevOps
The DevOps world has quietly turned its focus to solving an essential challenge: enabling software teams to innovate quickly while meeting high customer expectations for quality. In other words, to build useful things faster with fewer mistakes. This tension has been growing for years, but 2020 added the challenges of remote work and accelerated digital […]