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There Is No Software Maintenance

Henrik Warne

Every time I hear about software maintenance as a distinct activity, I cringe. That’s because it is based on the outdated notion that first software is developed, then it is maintained. But that is not how software development works today. It is just software development.

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Addressing Software Supply Chain Security

DevOps.com

It’s essential for organizations to learn more about the software supply chains they rely on and the steps needed to secure them. However, it’s important to remember that these […] The post Addressing Software Supply Chain Security appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist

Erik Bernhardsson

Software infrastructure (by which I include everything ending with *aaS, or anything remotely similar to it) is an exciting field, in particular because (despite what the neo-luddites may say) it keeps getting better every year! So why is software still acting as if the cloud doesn't exist?

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DevOps Engineer vs Software Engineer

The Crazy Programmer

The maintenance and development of software involve many different areas. It is common for people to confuse these two prominent career options – DevOps Engineer and Software Engineer. Role of Software Engineer. There are many types of software engineers, such as.

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Modern Tech and More: Empowering Your Supply Chain for Success

Speaker: Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR

Ready to dive into new tech to protect your supply chain, but not sure where or how to start? In this webinar, Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR, will break down the new, innovative technologies and strategies that you can implement to mitigate historic challenges, and even teach you what NOT to do along the way!

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Software Developer Life Cycle

DevOps.com

The post Software Developer Life Cycle appeared first on DevOps.com. Blogs ROELBOB humor parody satire software development lifecycle the life of a programmer

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Software Testing Life Cycle

InnovationM

A process of testing the software to detect the differences between the existing and the expected requirements OR to find out that the existing features match the Expected requirements and to evaluate the features of the software. WHAT IS STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle)?

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Awareness of Software Supply Chain Security Issues Improves

DevOps.com

A global survey of 167 software professionals suggested that, while there is a lot more awareness of application security issues, the adoption of DevSecOps best practices is still not pervasive.

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Top 10 Essential Software Testing Metrics For Enterprises

Daffodil Software

Organizations whose bottom line depends on quality software development need a robust methodology in place to assure bug-free product delivery for their clients. Software Testing Software Development

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Software Testing Services: Understanding User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Daffodil Software

Software Testing Software DevelopmentIn an SDLC, there are several testing frameworks that help to assess if the application is progressing in the right direction. It could be in terms of usability, security, compatibility, performance, integrations, etc.

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Architect Your Organization for Effectiveness, Productivity, and Joy

Speaker: Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

As a senior software leader, you likely spend more time working on the architecture of your systems than the architecture of your organization. Yet, structuring our teams and organizations is a critical factor for success. In fact, the impact of software architecture parallels the impact of organizational structure. We are excited to welcome Ron Lichty, co-author of a seminal book on managing software teams and a well-known speaker, he’ll speak to organizing for effectiveness, productivity and joy.

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Report Identifies Top 10 Open Source Software Risks

DevOps.com

Endor Labs, a provider of a platform for managing open source software, published a report that classifies the top 10 open source software risks of 2023. That list includes: […] The post Report Identifies Top 10 Open Source Software Risks appeared first on DevOps.com.

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What Developers Need for Software Security Success

DevOps.com

Given today’s evolving threat landscape, organizations and businesses in every sector now have a critical need to produce secure software. The post What Developers Need for Software Security Success appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Innovation With Software Architectural Excellence

DevOps.com

Software architecture plays an irreplaceable role in enabling businesses to deliver value efficiently. The post Innovation With Software Architectural Excellence appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Software Craftsmanship

Agile Alliance

I had the great pleasure to interview Sandro Mancuso, one of the most prominent representatives of the Software Craftsmanship community. Sandro is the author of “The Software Craftsman”, one of the most read books in the field.

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Success Story: Swiss Insurtech Company Hires a Remote CTO from Ukraine

Read a story of a Swiss Insurtech startup which successfully extended their remote development team in Ukraine to 15 people and found their perfect CTO to manage their software development team.

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Solving the Culture Conundrum in Software Engineering

DevOps.com

The one crucial ingredient underpinning our transition to a digital-first economy, more than any other, is software. That’s why software engineering has become one of the world’s most in-demand professions.

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How To Develop Personal Financial Planning Software?

Daffodil Software

The personal financial planning software market is witnessing the entry of a new generation of planning software. While many existing clients of the leading financial advisory firms are reasonably satisfied, there is a need for software that helps serve more specific client needs.

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Adopting Shift Left Testing in Software QA

DevOps.com

I am often asked to recommend best practices for building software testing programs. What works for an innovative startup developing software and deploying agile development sprints is not necessarily going to suit an established public company launching a new web product.

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Recruiting Software Developers – Coding Tests

Henrik Warne

When I started out as a software developer, nobody did coding tests as far as I know. For the past few months, I have been interviewing with several companies. In all cases, one or more coding tests were included. I have also been on the interviewing side, evaluating a coding test.

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Building Evolvable Architectures

Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Parsons, CTO of ThoughtWorks

The software development ecosystem exists in a state of dynamic equilibrium, where any new tool, framework, or technique leads to disruption and the establishment of a new equilibrium. Predictability is impossible when the foundation architects plan against is constantly changing in unexpected ways. It’s no surprise many CIOs and CTOs are struggling to adapt, in part because their architecture isn’t equipped to evolve. This webinar will discuss what’s at stake if companies continue to use long term architecture plans.

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Styles of software architecture

Apiumhub

I recently started studying styles of software architecture in different ways: by reading books by renowned architects and by trying to go a step further in my professional career. In this article, I do not intend to describe what it means to be a software architect.

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Can Quality Hurt Software Projects?

Agile Alliance

Carlos is a software crafter with almost two decades of experience in software development and has been involved with the Software Craftsmanship community for more than a decade. Carlos is also a consultant and software mentor and has his own … Continued.

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Secure Software Summit: Applying Chaos Engineering to Software Security

DevOps.com

Today’s software systems are, essentially, controlled chaos—and lightly controlled chaos, at that. The post Secure Software Summit: Applying Chaos Engineering to Software Security appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Positioning Software in a Crowded Market

Successful Software

This is a guest post from serial software entrepreneur Dennis Gurock. What does successful positioning mean for software products? There are many benefits of coming up with and deciding on positioning for your new software product early on.

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More Effective Agile Leadership

Speaker: Steve McConnell, CEO, Construx Software

In this talk, Steve McConnell, CEO of Construx Software, distills hundreds of companies’-worth of real-world experience into the proven Agile leadership practices that work best. Steve will seamlessly thread together traditional approaches, early Agile approaches, modern Agile approaches, and the principles and context that underlie them all—creating an invaluable resource for Agile leaders, their teams, and their organizations.

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Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide

Henrik Warne

I recently finished Effective Software Testing – A Developer’s Guide by Maurício Aniche , and I really liked it. The author is an Assistant Professor in Software Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. The book apparently grew out of lecture notes from a course on software testing. Effective Software Testing is very well put together.

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15 Ways Software Becomes a Cyberthreat

DevOps.com

Software is an integral part of private and commercial life; there is no way around it. You need software to do your taxes, book a flight or browse the internet. Software has made our lives much easier in so many ways.

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Accelerating Software Testing

DevOps.com

Yves Junqueira is the CEO of YourBase, a software testing accelerator for large codebases. He talks with Alan Shimel about the company, accelerating software testing and the impact on developer productivity. The post Accelerating Software Testing appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Microsoft Tool Automatically Identifies Software Artifact Components

DevOps.com

Nell Shamrell-Harrington, a principal software engineer for Microsoft, told conference attendees via a video link that a GitBOM tool, based on a compact Artifact […]. The post Microsoft Tool Automatically Identifies Software Artifact Components appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Understanding Open Source Business Models for the C-Suite

Choosing software to bake into your architecture is a long-term decision and it is important to understand all the implications of your choice. Learn three key areas that should be considered when evaluating a particular open source project.

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Effective Product (Software) Teams

Agile Alliance

I had the pleasure to interview Eduardo Ferro from Madrid-Spain Eduardo is a software crafter with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations of different sizes to build good quality software products.

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JFrog Adds Module to Better Secure Software Supply Chains

DevOps.com

The post JFrog Adds Module to Better Secure Software Supply Chains appeared first on DevOps.com. Blogs Continuous Delivery Continuous Testing DevOps Practice DevOps Toolbox DevSecOps Features News Artifactory jfrog software security Software Supply Chain

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Securing Software with Intelligent Pipelines

DevOps.com

The post Securing Software with Intelligent Pipelines appeared first on DevOps.com. Blogs Continuous Delivery Continuous Testing DevOps Toolbox Doin' DevOps IT Security appsec tools DAST devops intelligent pipelines SAST SCA security software

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No-Code Automated Software Solves a Host of Problems

DevOps.com

The disconnect involves software testing, or, more precisely, the lack of it. More than nine out of 10 CEOs are confident that their company’s software is tested regularly, yet roughly eight out of 10 product testers reported that up to 40% of […].

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10 Rules for Managing Apache Kafka

Kafka is a powerful piece of software that can solve a lot of problems. Like most libraries and frameworks, you get out of it what you put into it. Learn ten rules that will help you perfect your Kafka system to get ahead.

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Harness Acquires Propelo to Surface Software Engineering Bottlenecks

DevOps.com

Harness this week announced it has acquired Propelo, a provider of an analytics tool that identifies bottlenecks in software engineering processes.

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Choosing the Right Software Testing Metrics

DevOps.com

A software testing metric is a criterion to track the effectiveness of quality assurance efforts. However, many software QA and test experts tend to focus on how the tests will be executed rather […].

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Software Startup Founders Academy

Successful Software

My friend Stuart Prestedge is launching his Software Startup Founders Academy next week. He is giving away a limited number of free 1:1 advisory sessions for software startup founders (and prospective founders). microISV news software

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Google Looks to Secure Software Supply Chains

DevOps.com

At the Google Cloud Next ’22 conference, Google today launched a managed Software Delivery Shield (SDS) service to enable DevOps team to store, manage and secure the build artifacts in Artifact Registry. The post Google Looks to Secure Software Supply Chains appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualization Will Never Be Enough

Five years ago, data visualizations were a powerful way to differentiate a software application. Today, free visualizations seem to be everywhere. Two trends are forcing application providers to rethink how they offer analytics in their products.