Xebia

JUNE 6, 2023

Sometimes, the coding task in front of you can be overwhelmingly complex. Armed with a few assumptions about how things should work, I embarked on developing an application with a graphical UI and a backend. To tackle each operation, I started with a small test, following the principles of Test-Driven Development (TDD).

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The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the fast-paced world of software development, writing clean and maintainable code is not just a good practice; it’s a crucial factor in determining the success of a project. Code Organization Modularization: Breaking down your code into small, manageable modules is akin to organizing a cluttered room.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

AI coding agents are poised to take over a large chunk of software development in coming years, but the change will come with intellectual property legal risk, some lawyers say. The same thing could happen with software code, even though companies don’t typically share their source code, he says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Specifically, organizations are contemplating Generative AI’s impact on software development. While the potential of Generative AI in software development is exciting, there are still risks and guardrails that need to be considered. Even with safeguards in place, AI might be capable of breaking security.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Coding assistants have been an obvious early use case in the generative AI gold rush, but promised productivity improvements are falling short of the mark — if they exist at all. Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Despite mixed early returns , the outcome appears evident: Generative AI coding assistants will remake how software development teams are assembled, with QA and junior developer jobs at risk. AI will handle the rest of the software development roles, including security and compliance reviews, he predicts. “At

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OverOps

JUNE 4, 2019

The following is a guest post from Herb Krasner, an Advisory Board Member for the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) and industry consultant for 5 decades. In a previous post , we looked at the magnitude and impact of the soaring cost of poor software quality in the US and where those hidden costs are typically found.

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OverOps

JULY 9, 2019

Software reliability is a big deal, especially at the enterprise level, but too often companies are flying blind when it comes to the overall quality and reliability of their applications. It seems like every week, there’s a new report in the news calling out another massive software failure. What is Continuous Reliability?

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Henrik Warne

JANUARY 10, 2024

“Software design is preparation for change; change of behavior” Tidy First? It is a short little book, only about 100 pages (and lots of white space on them), but it contains some deep insights about software development. I have noticed that many developers are reluctant to introduce explaining variables/constants.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Digital transformation is expected to be the top strategic priority for businesses of all sizes and industries, yet organisations find the transformation journey challenging due to digital skill gap, tight budget, or technology resource shortages. Amidst these challenges, organisations turn to low-code to remain competitive and agile.

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Martin Fowler

JANUARY 28, 2021

Tooling supports and encourages code review of the contribution before accepting the request. Pull requests have become widely used in software development, but critics are concerned by the addition of integration friction which can prevent continuous integration.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence. Image Credits: AppMap.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Socratic , an early-stage startup that wants to bring data to bear on a developer-focused task management system, announced a $3 million seed investment today from Unusual Ventures, Overtime.vc The company is also opening up public beta of the software starting today. and a couple of industry angels.

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Xebia

JANUARY 27, 2024

One such initiative involves developing a toolset for assessing a customer’s situation. This toolset (working title: Truffleswine) allows us to retrieve relevant data from systems quickly, which in turn helps us ask the right questions sooner and clarify business cases for improvement using actual data.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The promise the approach has for impacting business workflows has organizations such as Aflac, Atlantic Health System, Legendary Entertainment, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory already pursuing the technology. CRM leader Salesforce has since centered its strategy around agentic AI, with the announcement of Agentforce.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

QA Wolf , a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs in software, today exited stealth and announced a $20 million funding round led by Inspired Capital with participation from Notation Capital, Operator Partners and Thiel Capital and several angel investors (among them Peter Thiel). Neither, obviously, are very desirable scenarios.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A few years ago, when working as a software developer building and maintaining internal platform components for a cloud company, I deleted an application from production as part of a deprecation. I had double and triple-checked references and done my due diligence communicating with the company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Outsourcing engineering has become more common in recent years, so we’re starting a new initiative to profile the software consultants who startups love to work with the most. ” The software development agency has worked on more than 350 digital products since its founding in 2009, for startups of all sizes.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

AI-generated code promises to reshape cloud-native application development practices, offering unparalleled efficiency gains and fostering innovation at unprecedented levels. This dichotomy underscores the need for a nuanced understanding between AI-developed code and security within the cloud-native ecosystem.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

With less time lost due to confusion or misunderstandings, DevSecOps teams can devote more of their attention to strategic tasks such as vulnerability remediation. The technology can review code more thoroughly than humans can, identifying patterns that might not seem obvious. Incorporate genAI into existing workflows.

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The Crazy Programmer

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Software Development Frameworks. In order to understand how development teams are changing the way they work remotely, it is important to first get an understanding of what a software development framework is and why it matters to an individual team who may be WFH. Read on to find out. How Have Teams Changed?

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The Crazy Programmer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

LambdaTest mainly addresses this challenge by offering a strong and user-friendly platform that enables developers to test their web applications and websites on real browsers and operating systems, allowing them to deliver a smooth user experience to their audience. What is LambdaTest?

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CIO

JUNE 18, 2024

The use of gen AI with ERP systems is still in its early days, but the combination is expected to provide several benefits, including helping employees create specialized ERP functionality on their own through code wizards, says Liz Herbert, a Forrester analyst and lead author of the report, “ How Generative AI Will Transform ERP.”

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

CIOs and other executives identified familiar IT roles that will need to evolve to stay relevant, including traditional software development, network and database management, and application testing. And while AI is already developing code, it serves mostly as a productivity enhancer today, Hafez says.

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TechEmpower CTO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If you're grappling with this issue, identifying the specific cause can be difficult, especially if you don’t have a software background. This is where a technical review can be useful!) Before we review the symptoms, though, please bear this in mind: If your team shows these signs, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re weak.

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Apiumhub

MARCH 7, 2024

In software development, dependency pruning typically refers to the process of identifying and eliminating unnecessary dependencies within a codebase. Key Aspects of Dependency Pruning in Software Development Reducing Coupling Dependency pruning aims to reduce coupling between different parts of a system.

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CIO

JULY 2, 2024

Provide more context to alerts Receiving an error text message that states nothing more than, “something went wrong,” typically requires IT staff members to review logs and identify the issue. Many AI systems use machine learning, constantly learning and adapting to become even more effective over time,” he says.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Shelley McKinley Contributor Share on Twitter Shelley McKinley is chief legal officer at GitHub, home to more than 100 million software developers. Supreme Court reviewed Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. That’s especially important when a platform has over 330 million software repositories.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Our clients are often very focused on the hardware side, which requires us to be more diligent when working on the software/firmware side of the project to ensure everything will work together smoothly. Help TechCrunch find the best software consultants for startups. Who owns the source code once the project is complete?

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Martin Fowler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In the software world, “waterfall” is commonly used to describe a style of software process, one that contrasts with the ideas of iterative, or agile styles. Royce’s paper describes his observations on the software development process of the time (late 60s) and how the usual implementation steps could be improved. [1]

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CIO

JULY 31, 2023

With all the articles about all the amazing AI developments, there’s plenty of hand-wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. The real problems are usually centered around what the software is supposed to do.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

AUGUST 22, 2024

Verisk’s Discovery Navigator product is a leading medical record review platform designed for property and casualty claims professionals, with applications to any industry that manages large volumes of medical records. This allows reviewers to access necessary information in minutes, compared to the hours spent doing this manually.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The need for efficient software development has taken on greater importance as enterprises introduce more and more digital services and add automation capabilities to enhance business processes. Managing software projects might not be at the top of CIOs’ priority lists , but it is something that IT leaders will have to master.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Meet Athenian , a new startup that analyzes your software delivery workflow and gives you insights. Athenian isn’t the first company trying to provide analytics for software development. But founder and CEO Eiso Kant told me that tools like Jellyfish and Code Climate focus too much on individual performance.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Chatbots may assign service tickets incorrectly, describe a problem inaccurately, or disrupt workflows and lead to significant systemic issues—causing data breaches or misallocation of vital resources—that then require human intervention. Software copilots are fantastic, but you want to read and understand what they give you,” Smith says.

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2022

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software In today’s volatile markets, agile and adaptable business operations have become a necessity to keep up with constantly evolving customer and industry demands. From there, development teams should look to automate as many testing processes as possible.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AI is the next leap forward beyond traditional AI to systems that are capable of handling complex, multi-step activities utilizing components called agents. He believes these agentic systems will make that possible, and he thinks 2025 will be the year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. They have no goal.

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