Technical Debt Management with Feature Flags: Strategy & Best Practices
Technical debt is accumulated as unmanaged flags accrue in an application’s code. And the associated marginal gain (i.e. each unmanaged flag added) directly impacts the amount of time and resources needed for testing. This can lead to more serious issues with the affected development, performance/testing and product processes becoming more expensive. As software teams grow …
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Recommended Application Security Testing (AST) Techniques
There are some very interesting takeaways from Gartner’s recent report “How to Deploy and Perform Application Security Testing” (published March 20, 2020, Gartner subscription required). Primarily, “application security testing (AST) is a critical practice within the software development life cycle (SDLC) and covers multiple techniques, from early development stages through to, and including, production.” Clearly, …
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10 Visual Studio Navigation Productivity Tips
A large code base is a complex asset. Visual Studio is a complex environment. In this context developers spend a significant part of their time searching and navigating across code elements and the multiple IDE tools and options. Fortunately Visual Studio proposes many features to simplify navigation that I am going to present. Note that …
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Cybersecurity Predictions for 2020
Just like New Year’s resolutions, a lot of people make predictions — but not everyone follows up on them. Last year, we looked into the 2019 crystal ball and tried to predict the trends concerning cybersecurity for that year. Now that it’s 2020, let’s review those predictions to see how well we did, and make some new …
Testing with Feature Flags to Improve Developer Productivity
Feature Flags can improve your continuous integration process in a number of ways. This post will focus on how CloudBees Feature Flags can help improve your developer productivity and shorten the feedback loop with the Flag Override view for frontend validation. It includes Javascript in examples, but the override view can be used in all available platforms. The flag …
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Latest Version of CodeSonar Improves on Functional Safety, MISRA Support, C++ Parsing and Visualization
The latest version of GrammaTech CodeSonar, Version 5.3, continues our commitment to being the go-to provider for static application security testing (SAST) and the static analysis tool of choice for improving software safety, security and quality. This release has several new features as well as compatibility updates, and other improvements. This release of CodeSonar includes improvements …
API Performance Testing with LoadUI Pro: The Why, the How, and the Measures of Success
This post is the first in a series on API performance testing, and covers why performance testing is critical to API and company success Speed. Performance. Reliability. These are the characteristics we strive for when developing a truly powerful application. These are also the characteristics our customers use to judge that application. But in today’s …
Case Study : Complex UI Testing
This post was originally posted at https://blog.ndepend.com/case-study-complex-ui-testing/. Author: Patrick Smacchia In the previous post Case Study: 2 Simple Principles to achieve High Code Maintainability I explained that the principles layered code + high coverage ratio by test are 2 simple principles that can be objectively applied, validated and measured. When these 2 principles are applied they lead to High …
Cybersecurity: How Safe are Voice Assistants?
This new age in Artificial Intelligence is fascinating- and terrifying too. From ubiquitous digital assistants like Siri and Alexa to usage on factory floors, the impact of AI is by all means dizzying. Your cell phone mostly features a voice assistant. At best, Apple’s Siri- for instance- may seem like a “naïve” helper that can check weather …
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Kiuwan Release Announcement – May 12, 2020
We are pleased to announce that on May 12, 2020 we rolled out a new Kiuwan release! We have made some changes in the way Kiuwan handles delivery analyses, we have added some REST API enhancements, and rolled out all of the latest changes to Kiuwan On-Premises. Read more details about this Kiuwan release below. …
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