Low-code and no-code technologies are growing in popularity, so much that Gartner is predicting that 65% of application development by 2024 will be done using these tools. And why wouldn’t it be? Low-code/no-code platforms address...

When creating, testing, and deploying software, many development companies now use proprietary software and open source software (OSS).    Proprietary software, also known as closed-source or non-free software, includes applications for which the publisher or...

Half of organizations are still utilizing manual testing to validate applications, and the current testing techniques are unable to meet the quality engineering demands for their digital products and services. This is according to Applitools’...

Pipelines are an important part of the Jenkins ecosystem for CI/CD, and one important iteration of the pipeline concept is called the declarative pipeline. SD Times, in partnership with CloudBees, recently hosted a webinar called...

The team at Microsoft recently announced that the Windows Community Toolkit Labs is now the primary way that the company will be developing new features for Windows Community Toolkit. It is intended to act as...

Developers currently use dozens of tools that need integrating, cost a lot and are almost archaic. Major outages of companies like Atlassian and Cloudflare in early 2022 show that software reliability... ......

Amazon is hosting its Alexa Live 2022 conference for developers building skills, which are sort of like applications, for Alexa-powered smart home devices.  According to Amazon, there are hundreds of millions of Alexa-enabled devices in...

The productivity tools company, JetBrains, recently announced that its complete platform for software development, Space, is now available on-premises in beta. This offering comes with Docker Compose and Kuberntetes installation options.  Space brings users an...

Stytch, an API-first passwordless authentication company, introduced a new password-based authentication solution “rebooted for the modern era.”  The idea behind the solution is to create a way for companies to ease into passwordless by not...

Feedback is routinely requested and occasionally considered. Using feedback and doing something with it is nowhere near as routine, unfortunately. Perhaps this has been due to a lack of a practical application based on a...

This week, Microsoft announced Salus, an open-source software bill of materials (SBOM) tool, following the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity which made SBOMs a key requirement.  The tool generates SBOMs across Windows, Linux,...

Infragistics, the company that provides UI and UX solutions for enterprises, today announced that Infragistics Ultimate 22.1 is now available. This release is intended to improve, streamline, and modernize app building with added features, capabilities,...

Styra, creator and maintainer of Open Policy Agent (OPA), today announced Styra Run, an OPA-based authorization service that offers enterprise-grade authorization to developers via a drop-in API. With this, teams are enabled to accelerate time...

UserTesting announced new advanced Instant Insight features that are powered by machine learning to speed up human insights.  It also announced the UserTesting Human Insight Platform, which can detect patterns and anomalies within customer data...

Unit testing company Typemock has announced the release of the latest version of its unit testing solution for .NET: Isolator 9.1. This latest version includes support for .NET Core and .NET Framework. According to the...

Researchers at Meta AI have come up with a model that can help verify citations on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is often the first stop when someone is looking for information online, but the validity of that...

The 2022 tech event season started out with CES trying to overcome its disastrous 2021 remote conference by going back to the in-person model. The result was another disaster because attendance was extremely low. Dell...

As an industry, software development teams continue to embrace cloud-based toolchains. This trend makes a ton of sense for companies trying to drive development productivity, efficiency, and velocity in the era of hybrid and asynchronous...

Today’s application development is a complex landscape of services, integrations and architectures. In fact, most developers today spend more time writing API calls and finding open-source projects – and maintaining those applications once they’re created...

The challenge of moving data between platforms, between organizations, or even something as seemingly simple as onboarding a new customer, has been a pervasive one, especially considering how important accurate and available data is to...

Modern software development can often feel like a Catch-22: to keep customers happy, companies must deliver new features faster. But deliver too fast without enough testing and bugs can slip into production, frustrating the customers...

The ability to ensure applications deliver consistent, responsive performance at all times is critical for pretty much every organization, and is especially vital for retailers and other e-commerce providers.  Even if an app delivers the...

The following is a listing of CI/CD tool providers, along with a brief description of their offerings.  CloudBees provides the leading software delivery platform for enterprises, enabling them to continuously innovate in a world powered...

We asked Drew Piland, product manager at CloudBees, how the company’s solution helps organizations facilitate tasks that need to be done inside the CI/CD pipeline. This is what he had to say: There are a...