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 […]
Seeing the Bigger Picture With BizDevSecOps
Not long ago, if you can believe it, software was shipped on physical floppy disks and CDs. These physical relics contained dense paper instruction books that humans read diligently for hours on end (I guess they had more time to spare back then?). Complexity was a given for computer-based tasks. Fast forward past the consumerization […]
Survey Sees Application Testing Shifting Further Left
PractiTest, a test management platform provider, published a report today that suggests professional application testers have become more adept at working within DevOps workflows. The annual survey of more than 1,000 application testing professionals finds that 80% of all application testing within organizations is being done by test engineers, test leads, testers and automation testers. […]
DevOps Skills Increasing Among Salesforce Developers
A survey of 521 attendees at a recent online Future of Salesforce DevOps Summit event hosted by Gearset, a provider of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform for Salesforce developers, found just under half (47%) of respondents now release software at least multiple times a week, with another 29% releasing software weekly or biweekly. More […]
GitLab Survey Surfaces Advances in DevOps Education
As more organizations clamor for employees with some type of DevOps education, higher education is responding in kind, according to survey findings. A survey of 843 students and teachers at various academic institutions who have had some exposure to the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform suggests the number of individuals with DevOps skills graduating […]
CircleCI Previews Support for Arm Platforms
CircleCI today previewed the ability to deploy applications on platforms based on Arm processors in a forthcoming release of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Tom Trahan, vice president of business development for CircleCI, said that Arm processors are rapidly being embraced by DevOps teams seeking to take advantage of the price/performance advantages they […]
Harness Revamps User Interface for CI Platform
Harness today announced it has updated the community edition of its continuous integration (CI) platform with, among other updates, a revamped user interface. Formerly known as Drone.io, the latest release also adds pipeline execution visualizations, governance and security controls and live CI pipeline debugging capabilities. Harness last year acquired Drone.io, an open source CI project, […]
DevOps Myths Debunked
Leaders need not be DevOps experts, but they need to distinguish DevOps myths and realities to lead their digital transformation projects. As I indicated in a recent article, Engineering Practices Can Overcome DevOps Challenges, leaders need to set an inspiring DevOps directional vision for the organization, and proactively stimulate and sponsor team activities toward goals. […]
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 […]
Why Every DevOps Team Needs a Spot Instance Strategy
Most DevOps teams use the public cloud extensively and focus a lot of energy on reducing cloud costs. According to one estimate, U.S. businesses spent $14.1 billion in 2019 just on wasted, unused cloud resources. Spot instances are one of the most important ways to reduce the cost of public cloud services. Spot instances are […]
Sauce Labs Acquires AutonomIQ to Advance App Testing
Sauce Labs is acquiring AutonomIQ, a provider of a scriptless test automation platform based on machine learning (ML) algorithms. Matt Wyman, chief product officer for Sauce Labs, said the acquisition of AutonomIQ will play a critical role in enabling Sauce Labs to push testing further left toward developers and, ultimately, “citizen testers” that are becoming […]
Enterprise Software Development Will Break the Speed Limit in 2021
For some, 2020 was the year for software development speed … but not for everyone. Startups and SMEs climbed on board the CI/CD, shift-left and agile development train en masse – and reaped the benefits of faster iterations and tighter release schedules. But the “big kids” got left behind. Core enterprise applications – the legacy […]
Rookout Tool now Debugs Third-Party Code
Rookout revealed today it has extended its eponymous debugging tools to include third-party applications. Shahar Fogel, Rookout’s CEO, says most organizations today are building applications that rely heavily on code or modules developed by a third party. Rookout now makes it possible to analyze and debug that code before it is incorporated within a larger […]
A Security Vulnerability Management Guide
Living in a container-native world is not easy. Containers have a reputation for being a point of entry for security vulnerabilities for many organizations. In 2015, according to a research paper, over 40% of Docker images distributed through Docker Hub had high-risk vulnerabilities; at that time there were more than 95,000 container images hosted on […]
What Does the Future Hold for DevOps and CI/CD?
After such a challenging year, we have finally made it to 2021. Although a new year has started, we are still trying to figure out what the “new normal” will look like once the COVID-19 pandemic is finally over. While the pandemic has affected many businesses and our daily lives in general, it also had […]
DevOps for the Development and Delivery of High-Performance Applications
Engineering teams that successfully implement DevOps practices often deliver software with higher business value. These organizations can easily identify areas where problematic code exists, quickly eliminate issues and deliver high-performance applications more quickly than their competitors that use traditional delivery methodologies. DevOps practitioners understand that creating an efficient model for performance testing goes hand-in-hand with […]
What Is a CI/CD Pipeline? How to Improve CI/CD
The most effective way to ensure that your CI/CD pipeline is efficient is to use the right tool, like a static code analyzer. Here we explain what is a CI/CD pipeline and how a static analysis tool can help. What You Need to Know About CI/CD Pipelines The easiest way to understand a CI/CD pipeline […]
How Healthcare Companies Can Optimize Software for Improved Patient Outcomes
Healthcare companies are more reliant than ever on software to help them achieve good patient outcomes. Recent research reveals that the use of software as a service (SaaS) solutions is growing exponentially in health care, covering a wide range of areas including: Patient diagnosis Medical imaging Therapy and patient self-care Data collection and analysis Hospital […]
Unlocking Your DevOps Automation Mindset
In the new digital normal, where remote working has upended conventional software development cycles, the role of DevOps is central. Many enterprises have an accelerated digital agenda, but are often underinvested in rebooting DevOps for several reasons, including a lack of experience and insight into how it can help businesses recover from the new challenges […]
Developer Tooling for Emerging Technology
2020 has brought a seemingly endless amount of problems, but software developers have responded with solutions. Despite all of this year’s change, one thing remains true: Software is being used in a multitude of ways to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges. And developer creativity is helping to progress exciting new areas of […]
Continuous Delivery Without Exception
Continuous delivery (CD) and all the other continuous things—continuous integration (CI), continuous testing, continuous deployment—have become the new mantra of DevOps. CI/CD adoption typically starts with agile development teams working on new or well-funded systems. But what about the rest of the world and all of those “other” applications, under-funded IT teams are responsible for […]