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Application Lifecycle Management

May 17, 2019 17 May'19
Microsoft tunes Power Platform for pros, citizen developers

Microsoft's PowerApps low-code app dev environment has quietly crept into a leadership position among low-code tools with its ties to Microsoft Office and Dynamics platforms.
April 05, 2019 05 Apr'19
SmartBear LoadNinja API automates performance testing for CI/CD

A REST API for SmartBear LoadNinja enables development teams to add load testing directly into their CI/CD workflows to automate performance testing for developers.
March 21, 2019 21 Mar'19
Atlassian, AgileCraft join to scale Agile development

With its acquisition of AgileCraft, Atlassian aims to help developers work better together, but also scale their Agile practices across an entire enterprise.
March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19
Microsoft, Deque open up accessibility software tools

Microsoft will release the source code to its core accessibility software testing tools and join forces with Deque to help developers find and fix accessibility issues.
February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19
DevOps consolidation continues with JFrog and Shippable

JFrog's acquisition of Shippable gives JFrog another arrow in its DevOps quiver and enables its customers to use an integrated DevOps platform that includes CI/CD.
November 09, 2018 09 Nov'18
Enterprise devs win with Veracode's SaaS security spinout

Independent once again, Veracode will focus on its cloud-based test services that enable developers to add security to the software development lifecycle.
December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15
Time to share an Hour of Code

With all the talk about the ongoing worldwide software developer shortage, it's encouraging to see the grass roots efforts by the non-profit Code.org to bring coding to everyone. In fact, the group ...
November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15
The evolution of the software developer

It’s tempting to think of the worldwide software developer shortage as a chicken and egg problem. Is there too much demand? Are there too few people? It doesn’t matter which came first because of ...
October 28, 2015 28 Oct'15
Testing what's appropriate

It's a fine line between appropriate, and not. But in today's open society, how do you draw that line? After all, what is funny to one person is offensive to another. I was talking to our testing ...
September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15
Today's software developer -- happy, self-reliant and maybe even female

A brand new report from the Application Developers Alliance (and conducted by IDC) showcases some very encouraging news about the software development profession. A healthy 68% of today’s software ...
September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15
This mob might be the answer

I've been talking to a lot of stressed out testers recently. These are people who take their profession seriously but don't always think anyone else does, particularly when they're told time and ...
August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15
It's a small world, right?

In all of the Agile talk last week at Agile2015, there were lots of good, insightful observations, a ton of interesting, useful and actionable data and a few downright jaw-droppers. The ...
August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15
While walking the halls of Agile2015...

this is what I overheard on Day One of this very popular conference in Washington, D.C.: “We submitted a paper and we heard back 20 days later. Normally you submit a paper and you hear back six ...
August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15
A quick peek at new products from Agile2015

Get ready for new products, upgrades and features this week at Agile 2015. Here’s a brief round up of what you’ll see featured in booths at the show: ThoughtWorks’ Mingle Plus 2.0 Aimed at the ...
July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15
Navigating your way through Agile2015

Is this your first time going to Agile2015? You’re not alone – it’s my first time too – but from what I understand this isn’t your mother’s tech conference. So I asked Agile consultant and author ...