Tag: shift left

How Shift-Left Testing Improves DevOps Efficiency and Software Quality
Shift-left testing is the key to deliver quality software at speed. Developers shift testing left to shorten long test cycles, prevent defects and mitigate risk earlier in the development cycle, rather than ...

Code Security: SAST, Shift-Left, DevSecOps and Beyond
Automation is the key to pushing code security beyond DevSecOps In virtually every industry, developers are dealing with ensuring the safety of their code. Regardless of whether it's enterprise or applications for ...
Why It’s Time for Site Reliability Engineering to Shift Left
By adopting a multilevel approach to site reliability engineering and arming your team with the right tools, you can unleash benefits that impact the entire service-delivery continuum In today’s application-driven economy, the ...

GitLab Adds Fuzz Testing to DevSecOps Toolbox
GitLab today announced it has acquired Peach Tech, a provider of protocol fuzz testing and dynamic application security testing (DAST) API testing tools, and Fuzzit, a continuous fuzz testing tool, as part ...

Using this Time to Optimize Your Dev Team’s Workflow
As Andy Warhol once said, “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” This more than ever resonates with the change that companies have found themselves ...

Who’s Responsible for Security? Apparently, It Depends
More than 10 years after organizations began implementing DevOps, responsibility for security still resembles the proverbial chicken and egg dilemma. GitLab's 2020 Global DevSecOps Survey asked developers, security team members, operations pros and ...

The DevOps Sweet Spot: Inserting Security at Pull Requests (Part 2)
In part one of this two-part series, I explored how organizations can more effectively automate security quality decisions and discard doing automation for automation’s sake. I shared why security scans need to ...

Better Apps and Better Security When You Shift Left
Tens of thousands of people and hundreds of cybersecurity vendors descended on San Francisco at the end of April. While the RSA Conference was the primary draw, there are a number of ...

Survey Sees Little Progress in Drive to Shift Testing Left
It looks like the drive to shift testing left toward developers to accelerate the development and deployment of applications has stalled. A survey of 102 IT professionals involved in application testing published ...

Shifting Left – But How Far Left Do Companies Need to Go?
For developers, there's nothing more satisfying than looking at a web app or service and being able to say “I made that.” Or at least part of that. Being able to develop ...

Practical Approaches to Long-Term Cloud-Native Security
There is no shortage of advice out there about how to secure modern, cloud-native workloads. By now, most developers and IT engineers who work with cloud-native deployments have heard all of the ...