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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

TechCrunch

Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when it’s your turn? Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. Here’s the not-so-good news: Companies can pass the business test, but fail TDD.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Deep due diligence, early Q1 2023 VC results, flight lessons for angels

TechCrunch

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription Business schools teach the basics, but Mysty Rusk, who’s reviewed around 4,500 deals over the last 20 years, says the most important lessons she learned were the result of mistakes she made along the way.

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Close Brothers unlocks RPA with Document Understanding

CIO

But Stephen Durnin, the company’s head of operational excellence and automation, says the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic thrust automation around unstructured input, like email and documents, into the spotlight. “We So it onboarded OutSystems, an AI-powered low code platform, to help orchestrate end-to-end processes.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower CTO

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. What does a business leader do in this situation?

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Make writing documentation part of your pull request

Xebia

We changed something, and we forgot to update the documentation. When is the best time to update the documentation in this process? If you update the documentation while the pull request is open, the documentation is ahead. If you update the documentation while the pull request is open, the documentation is ahead.

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The early returns on gen AI for software development

CIO

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Early use cases include code generation and documentation, test case generation and test automation, as well as code optimization and refactoring, among others.

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TDD is not about testing

Xebia

Test-driven development (TDD) has been around for more than 20 years. Nearly all of the greats in software underline it as an important and valuable method. Many people think of TDD as a methodology for testing because of its name. You might see testing as something boring you have to do to prove that the code you wrote works.