Survey: Organizations Knowingly Deploy Vulnerabilities
A survey published today by Synopsys, a provider of electronic design automation (EDA) and application security tools, finds nearly half (48%) of respondents admit they consciously push code with known vulnerabilities into production because of time constraints. Based on a survey of 378 cybersecurity professionals conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) on behalf of Synopsys, […]
Automation: The Human-Free Zone Approach to Software
Humans hate repetitive manual tasks. We suck at them—we make mistakes, lose concentration, get bored. Throughout history, humans have instinctually developed automation to keep us away from the hazard-prone, tedious work of these tasks. In software, we use configuration management, deployment tools and lean/agile processes born out of factories and the automation principles established there […]
Vercel Makes Front End Applications Faster
Vercel this week extended its effort to redefine how front-end applications are developed to reduce dependencies on backend systems. The company has created Next.js, which makes it possible to build web applications using a framework based on the React library for creating user interfaces that enable both static generation (SSG) and server-side rendering (SSR). The […]
How to Source Vulnerability Data for True DevSecOps
Open source comes with code vulnerabilities that must be considered in the DevOps process The war between open source and “only proprietary code” is long over. Open source won the day by convincing the opposition of the benefits of joining the open source community. “Vulnerabilities in the Core,” a report published by the Linux Foundation […]
Features or Quality? App Survey Shows Surprising Results
Software is an essential part of our everyday lives, but that doesn’t mean that people are always happy with the app experiences that they’re having. We at DeepCode conducted a survey to learn more about what people really think about software quality today. Is it getting better or worse? How important are bugs and security […]
Product vs. Project: Balancing Management Roles for Success
Many businesses today rely on project management to ensure that all the activities that are required to help the business function are able to do so efficiently. The importance of project management is ingrained into many businesses, and doesn’t need to be justified—or does it? For software development companies, product management also needs to be […]
How No-Code Software Development Speeds Digital Transformation
More organizations are democratizing software development through no-code solutions that empower anyone to write applications In today’s fast-paced and digital business world, organizations must revise their goals and processes to achieve digital transformation and remain a viable business. However, most transformation efforts fail. Recent McKinsey research shows that 70% of complex, large-scale change programs don’t […]
Businesses Modernizing Apps in Wake of Pandemic
A survey of 5,000 business decision-makers, IT decision-makers and app developers published suggests organizations are taking advantage of the crisis created by the global COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate the modernizing of apps using DevOps practices. Conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne, the survey finds 80% of respondents said organizations must modernize the technologies […]
Snyk Report Finds Decline in Open Source Vulnerabilities
Snyk, a provider of tools for discovering and remediating vulnerabilities in open source code, today published a report that finds the number of new vulnerabilities discovered in open source software packages has declined 20% on a year-over-year basis. However, the bulk of the vulnerabilities being discovered are considered to be high severity, the report finds. […]
3 Reasons Why Traceability Should Be a DevOps Priority
Traceability in DevOps is about ensuring clarity, accountability and the best possible end product for customers There’s a lot to think about when it comes to mobile DevOps. For a start, there’s the need for effective cooperation between members of different teams, perhaps even via team collaboration software for remote workers. With so many people […]
SolarWinds Extends APM Reach to Infrastructure
SolarWinds has updated its application performance management (APM) platform to provide more visibility into the IT infrastructure on which applications depend. Jim Hansen, vice president of products for application management at SolarWinds, said the AppOptics service map within SolarWinds APM Suite now enables DevOps teams to visualize dynamic relationships between services and their dependencies. IT […]
Pinpoint Dives Deeper into Software Delivery Analytics
Pinpoint has extended its platform for managing software delivery to include the ability to analyze historical events to facility team reviews as well as more accurately predict where bottlenecks are likely to emerge based on the past performance of the DevOps team. Company CEO Jeff Haynie said the company’s namesake software is employed today mainly […]
Rookout Extends Reach of Debugging Platform to On-Prem
Rookout, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to simplify the debugging of applications, has extended the reach of its tools into on-premises IT environments. Company CTO Liran Haimovitch said its new Data On-Prem capability extends the reach of a bytecode manipulation capability developed by Rookout to insert a snapshot capture of a specific […]
Eggplant Injects AI Into Application Testing
Eggplant has infused its automated testing platform with deep learning algorithms that automatically identify and classify user interface (UI) elements such as buttons and text fields across any platform and then generate all the automation assets needed to instantly run a test. In addition, Eggplant has made it easier to visualize the overlap between common […]
Appian Infuses Low-Code Platform With AI
Appian this week released an update to its low-code application development and deployment platform that employs artificial intelligence (AI) to recommend best next steps, including how to address cybersecurity issues. In addition, the latest version of Appian also makes it easier to incorporate robotic process automation (RPA) modules to automate rote tasks in addition to […]
Logi Analytics Simplifies Dashboard Development
Logi Analytics launched a tool that promises to make it easier to design, build and embed interactive dashboards and data visualization within applications. Company CEO Steven Schneider said Logi Composer helps ease the task of creating data visualizations within the context of a DevOps workflow. Based on technology Logi Analytics gained via its acquisition of […]
5 Reasons Why Your App Needs an Error Monitoring System
All software applications have errors. Bugs are simply part of software development. That’s why engineering organizations need to know exactly what errors are occurring so decisions can be made around which bugs to fix. The fastest way to identify and fix application errors is to implement error monitoring software. However, not all solutions are created […]
Report: Debugging Efforts Cost Companies $61B Annually
Undo, a provider of a software failure replay platform, this week published a report in collaboration with a Cambridge Judge Business School MBA project that estimates 620 million developer hours a year are wasted on debugging software failures, at a cost of roughly $61 billion. The report also notes software engineers spend on average of […]
Survey Sees Increased Agile Adoption During COVID-19
A report published by Digital.ai, the parent company of CollabNet VersionOne, finds 43% of organizations have increased their reliance on agile application development methodologies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 15% saying it has increased significantly in the last 90 days. The report also notes 33% of respondents say they have increased or […]
CTO.ai Launches SlackOps Tool for DevOps
CTO.ai has launched SlackOps, a platform for managing DevOps workflows in real-time via the Slack communications and collaboration service. Company CEO Kyle Campbell said many DevOps teams are embracing Slack to share updates with one another. SlackOps takes that preference for DevOps a step further to enable complex DevOps processes, also known as ChatOps, to […]
CloudBees Extends SDM Service Reach
CloudBees has extended the integrations embedded within its software delivery management (SDM) platform to add support for additional services provided by Google. Moritz Plassnig, senior vice president cloud and general manager for SDM at CloudBees, said these integrations with Google Cloud Build and Tekton pipelines are being provided as part of a long-standing alliance between […]
Rubrik Looks to Meld Data Management and DevOps
During its FORWARD Digital Summit event last week, Rubrik made a case for the melding of DevOps and data management. The company announced that its Polaris Data Management Platform, delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, has added the ability to protect workloads running on virtual machines on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Rubrik already provides […]
Low-Code and RPA With Appian CTO Michael Beckley
On the eve of the first virtual Appian World, we caught up with Appian founder and CTO Michael Beckley. Michael spoke to us about low-code and RPA as well as AI and robotics, all being leveraged to help organizations during the COVID-19 crisis. Obviously, given the current situation, developing applications quickly with a minimum of […]