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• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  AWS CodeGuru uses machine learning to improve code quality

  With AWS CodeGuru now generally available, developers can write higher-quality, cost-efficient Java code. The service uses machine learning to find and fix bugs.

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  GitLab makes two acquisitions to shift fuzz testing left

  GitLab has scooped up fuzz testing startups Fuzzit and Peach Tech, a move that will shift fuzz testing left in the DevSecOps toolchain.

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Microsoft fuels 'developer velocity' with Azure, new tools

  Microsoft is pushing the theme of 'developer velocity,' or how coders can quickly transform an idea into viable business software. Experts vary on how new the concept really is.

• May 15, 2020 15 May'20

  Kite intros code completion for JavaScript developers

  Kite's AI-powered code completion technology helps make Python and JavaScript developers more productive with deep learning models that predict the next logical line of code in apps.

• May 08, 2020 08 May'20

  Collaboration, better coding themes dominate GitHub Satellite

  GitHub released two new tools at its GitHub Satellite virtual event: GitHub Codespaces and GitHub Discussions. Both are meant to help developers collaborate and code more effectively.

• April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20

  Node.js 14 delivers more enterprise-friendly features

  Node.js 14 is now available with new features aimed at the demands of enterprise developers, who have increasingly adopted the server-side runtime environment for JavaScript.

• April 14, 2020 14 Apr'20

  GitHub Free expanded to support teams

  The free tier of GitHub’s version control platform is now available to entire teams, after previously being limited to individuals and small groups.

• April 13, 2020 13 Apr'20

  Agiloft adds AI engine to its no-code CLM platform

  With a new AI engine for its contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform, Agiloft is giving developers assistance in building CLM applications using the company's no-code tech.

• April 10, 2020 10 Apr'20

  Atlassian taps AWS, Sentry and Snyk for Bitbucket Pipelines

  Atlassian has created a promotion around its Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD platform to help developers gain access to tools that will help them turn out error-free code.

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  IBM Call for Code unleashes developers on COVID-19

  IBM's Call for Code competition wants developers to create applications that help communities deal with and mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20

  GitHub for mobile brings dev platform to small screens

  GitHub for mobile delivers a fully native iOS and Android development experience of the popular GitHub source code version control service for developers.

• March 16, 2020 16 Mar'20

  Atlassian integrates Automation for Jira no-code tool

  Atlassian has integrated no-code technology gained from last year’'s acquisition of Automation for Jira by Code Barrel into its Jira Cloud issue-tracking service.

• March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20

  Docker targets cloud-native developers with tools, services

  With cloud-native development being key to application modernization and digital transformation efforts, Docker has refocused its strategy to empower developers with tools.

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Mendix expands support with private, dedicated cloud options

  Low-code platform provider Mendix has released Mendix for Private Cloud and Mendix Dedicated Cloud, new offerings aimed at enterprises with special security and compliance needs.

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Developers vie for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure certs

  Oracle hopes to attract new developers to its cloud platform with its new developer certification for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, as it trails AWS, Microsoft and Google in market share.

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  Apple subsidiary delivers Claris Connect no-code tool

  Claris Connect, the latest product from Claris, the enterprise software subsidiary of Apple, targets nonprogrammers at SMBs to help them build apps by stitching services together.

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Rapid7 adds Snyk security to its portfolio

  The Snyk security vulnerability database brings an extra layer of protection to Rapid7 by helping developers find and fix vulnerabilities early in the software development process.

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  Genuitec's CodeTogether helps developers collaborate on code

  CodeTogether, a new development tool from Genuitec, empowers developers to collaborate on writing and debugging code to build applications as part of development teams.

• February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20

  New tool fixes app accessibility glitches

  The new Applause Accessibility Tool helps developers write better apps for disabled users by automatically finding and fixing app accessibility issues in their code as they write it.

• February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20

  Synopsys Code Sight combines SAST, SCA testing in the IDE

  Synopsys' Code Sight IDE plug-in provides capabilities for simultaneous static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA).

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  Pegasystems' Pega Express empowers citizen developers

  Pegasystems' new Pega Express low-code application development methodology helps business users and citizen developers to quickly create applications.

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  LightStep targets developers with new observability tool

  LightStep hones its observability software with its new Service Health for Deployments feature, which helps developers find and fix service health issues.

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  Iowa caucus app fiasco a cautionary tale for all enterprises

  App testing is crucial to ensuring that mobile apps are ready for mission-critical systems such as the mobile app that failed during the Iowa caucuses.

• January 29, 2020 29 Jan'20

  Google App Maker to shut down in wake of AppSheet buy

  Google App Maker, the company's low-code development tool, will be shut down in January 2021. Google offers users alternative options for users to switch to as App Maker sunsets.

• January 27, 2020 27 Jan'20

  RapidAPI, MongoDB answer the call for GraphQL support

  As developer demand for GraphQL continues to grow, vendors such as MongoDB and RapidAPI are adding support for the API query language in their core products.

• January 23, 2020 23 Jan'20

  Developers could ease DevOps deployment with CircleCI Orbs

  With a new suite of 20 CircleCI integrations known as Orbs, CircleCI targets developers who wish to simplify the automation of their deployments from their CI/CD pipelines.

• January 23, 2020 23 Jan'20

  Jira Roadmaps connect to Confluence, await Code Barrel

  Atlassian rolled out fresh updates to its Jira Roadmaps feature and set the stage for further workflow refinements and integrations with other Atlassian software in 2020.

• January 16, 2020 16 Jan'20

  IBM expands patent troll fight with its massive IP portfolio

  IBM has contributed more than 80,000 patents to the LOT Network, a group of more than 600 companies that IBM has joined to fight patent trolls and their often frivolous lawsuits.

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  Google buys AppSheet for low-code app development

  Google has bought AppSheet, maker of a low-code platform that line-of-business employees can use to create cross-platform mobile applications.

• January 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  Appian buys robotic process automation tools platform

  With its acquisition of Novayre Solutions SL, Appian brings robotic process automation (RPA) to its customer base of enterprise low-code app developers.

• December 23, 2019 23 Dec'19

  5 can't-miss software development news stories of 2019

  Before you finalize your 2020 plans, take a minute to catch up on app-dev news stories that will shape the next year. Here are the five top news stories for 2019, with analysis.

• December 20, 2019 20 Dec'19

  Manual mainframe testing persists in the age of automation

  Mainframe testing is still done manually by many IT shops, despite mainframe modernization and digitization efforts that benefit from automated software testing methods.

• December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19

  Azure confidential computing, AWS aim to better secure cloud data

  Microsoft's confidential computing for Kubernetes and AWS' upcoming Nitro Enclaves both aim to give IT pros ways to create isolated compute environments for sensitive data.

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Kubernetes tools vendors vie for developer mindshare

  Developers in the cloud-native industry running Kubernetes environments say they need more and better Kubernetes tools to get around some of the complexity of the platform.

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  IBM's latest Kubernetes tools ease use for cloud developers

  IBM's new open-source Kubernetes tools help lower the barrier to entry for developers to use Kubernetes to build, deploy, manage and move workloads to the cloud.

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Atlassian products aid BizDevOps, but integration work remains

  IT pros have found Atlassian tools useful for BizDevOps initiatives but would like more integration and consolidated points of management among them in the future.

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  Atlassian CISO Adrian Ludwig shares DevOps security outlook

  Atlassian's CISO believes that eventually, application security mechanisms will be absorbed completely into Agile and DevOps tools -- including his own company's products.

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Mobile Labs adds GigaFox Red, Silver to mobile device cloud suite

  The new GigaFox platforms enable users to create a pool of shareable mobile devices; remotely add, disable, reboot and unlock devices; control and monitor device usage and more.

• September 05, 2019 05 Sep'19

  DevOps tools market shrinks with SmartBear, TPG Capital moves

  The DevOps tools space has seen a steady stream of mergers and acquisitions, as private equity investors and larger companies see money in software development and delivery tools.

• August 30, 2019 30 Aug'19

  Low-code goes mainstream to ease app dev woes

  Enterprises are after low-code/no-code platforms to help with developer productivity, as they find themselves under increased pressure to produce apps with fewer skilled developers.

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  Atomist adds drift management feature to pare technical debt

  Atomist has added a feature to its software delivery automation platform to help enterprises visualize, identify and fix the problem of technology drift.

• August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

  Consortium taps Linux group, IT vendors to encrypt data in use

  The Confidential Computing Consortium mobilizes hardware vendors, cloud providers, developers and open source experts with the Linux Foundation to find ways to secure data in use.

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  IBM, VMware ease Kubernetes complexity with Kabanero, Octant

  Tools from IBM and VMware help developers build apps that are deployed on Kubernetes clusters, as well as handle complex Kubernetes workloads.

• August 08, 2019 08 Aug'19

  GitHub shakes up DevOps space, adds CI/CD to GitHub Actions

  GitHub has added support for CI/CD to its source code management platform, based on developer feedback for deeper CI/CD integration.

• July 31, 2019 31 Jul'19

  IBM Garage tunes up clients for multi-cloud projects

  IBM's Garage methodology, which has helped more than 500 customers move to the cloud, modernize legacy apps and create new ones, has expanded its language support and internal use.

• July 26, 2019 26 Jul'19

  Mendix tweaks low-code, no-code platform with AI, mobile

  The latest version of Mendix's low-code platform aims to empower both professional developers and citizen developers to build apps easily.

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  Salesforce seeks DevOps street cred with CD Foundation

  Salesforce recently joined the Linux Foundation's Continuous Delivery Foundation to help grow the CI/CD ecosystem. This move seems to have gone unnoticed by many, but two things stood out to me ...

• June 27, 2019 27 Jun'19

  SmartBear acquires Cucumber to bolster its testing tool set

  SmartBear adds Cucumber's behavior-driven development tools in a bid to pad its lead in software testing, but must also balance the needs of open source and paid tool audiences.

• June 27, 2019 27 Jun'19

  CollabNet, Icon Agility team up for value stream management

  The companies are combining CollabNet's value stream management platform with Icon's agility strategy consulting to help enterprises adopt value stream management and DevOps.

• June 25, 2019 25 Jun'19

  What's shaping the future of UI and UX design

  UI/UX designers serve as the voice of users, so it's crucial that they're tuned into their needs. Aaron Fazulak of Flatiron School disseminates UI/UX advice in this podcast.

• June 24, 2019 24 Jun'19

  Eggplant adds new features to AI test automation suite

  Eggplant has added customer experience-focused upgrades to its Digital Automation Intelligence Suite that aim to make the testing process faster and easier.

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  Appery.io integrates Ionic 4 support for mobile app development

  Exadel's low-code platform, Appery.io, added Ionic 4 support that enables developers to create high-performing web and mobile apps, according to the vendor.

• June 11, 2019 11 Jun'19

  CloudBees Rollout buy may herald a future of feature flags

  Feature flags can be a powerful tool to test code in production, and that spurred Cloudbees' acquisition of Rollout -- but as always, with great power comes great responsibility.

• May 28, 2019 28 May'19

  GitHub Enterprise security, monitoring tools target large orgs

  Additional tools and services in GitHub Enterprise, such as security vulnerability alerts and auditing for open source dependencies, seek to satisfy the company's large customers.

• May 24, 2019 24 May'19

  GitHub Sponsors pledge to OSS developers sparks debate

  GitHub has created a way to empower and financially compensate open source developers, and it could reshape the open source software development model – for better or worse. The version control ...

• 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.

• May 14, 2019 14 May'19

  Software tester roles must embrace code focus

  IT gives testers license to voice contrarian opinions about software. But, as pressure to deploy intensifies, they might not be able to ignore code responsibilities anymore.

• May 13, 2019 13 May'19

  Microsoft gets its dev mojo back with Linux, .NET 5, web IDE

  Microsoft enticed developers at Build 2019 with a bevy of tools and services that focus on open source, open standards and innovation, including a new release of .NET.

• 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.

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Modest Visual Studio 2019 advances target productivity

  The latest version of Microsoft's Visual Studio tool set is no big bang, though it does add incremental and useful features for developers to build apps on any platform.

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  Continuous Delivery Foundation seeks smoother CI/CD paths

  The Linux Foundation's latest project aims to connect CI/CD toolmakers, users and open source projects to establish technical specs for continuous delivery.

• 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.

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  Automate, customize CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket Pipes

  Atlassian's new Bitbucket Pipes helps developers automate and customize DevOps pipelines to boost developer productivity.

• 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.

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  GitHub security bug bounty program stretches to enterprise cloud

  GitHub's bug bounty program for 2019 increases the reward money for researchers who find security vulnerabilities in the company's code.

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  TensorFlow.js brings machine learning to JavaScript

  Google has delivered a version of its TensorFlow machine learning library to support JavaScript developers, and the technology has proved to be a hit with users.

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  Mendix deepens native integration with IBM Cloud, Watson AI

  IBM cloud users gain low-code options, as Mendix's re-engineered platform natively integrates with IBM Cloud services, particularly Watson AI and Kubernetes container orchestration.

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  IBM renews code challenge to stress-test open source projects

  IBM's Code and Response challenge builds on last year's Call for Code to apply open source development efforts to actual natural disasters.

• February 08, 2019 08 Feb'19

  Ionic 4 taps Web Components for mobile app development

  Ionic 4, a rebuilt version of Ionic's web and mobile development platform, conforms to the Web Components standard and expands support to all popular JavaScript frameworks.

• February 04, 2019 04 Feb'19

  Kite boosts Python code completion with machine learning

  Software development tools startup Kite applies machine learning models to help developers automate the process of completing lines of code in real time.

• February 01, 2019 01 Feb'19

  IBM, CTA: Apprenticeships key to bridging IT skills gap

  Apprenticeships might help to cut the shortage of skilled IT workers and help companies keep pace with demands for new apps and services for their employees and customers.

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  GitHub Enterprise upgrade eases team development

  Enhancements to GitHub Enterprise help enterprise developers schedule, automate and administrate tasks, as the company adjusts course under Microsoft's watch.

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  IBM touts quantum to build AI applications

  Though quantum computing is still in its early phase, IBM developed technology to help organizations build quantum apps, particularly AI programs.

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  GitHub courts devs with unified GitHub Enterprise, free repos

  GitHub wants to grow its base with its offer of unlimited free private repositories for users of GitHub's free plan and enhancements to the enterprise version of its hosting service.

• 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.

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Electric Cloud boosts DevOps orchestration, visibility

  As enterprises increase their DevOps tooling investments, Electric Cloud aims to position itself as an orchestrator for the disparate teams and technologies within an organization.

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  IBM-Red Hat open source culture clash worries some insiders

  IBM's acquisition of Red Hat could threaten the Linux leader's open source culture of allowing developers to work on any open source projects.

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  For developers, GitHub Actions takes automation a step forward

  The GitHub Actions tool lets developers automate their software development workflows with containers in the GitHub environment without the need to run code themselves.

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Jira update flexes cloud collaboration features

  Atlassian's Jira rework adds collaborative UI updates on the front end and ports Jira Software Cloud to AWS-based microservices on the back end.

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Sympli pushes DesignOps model for more team collaboration

  Designers now can collaborate on and check in design files with software that helps to smooth the designer-developer handoff.

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Kendo UI helps devs build accessibility into apps, websites

  Progress Software updated its UI-building toolkit to enable developers to comply with the latest standards for website and application accessibility.

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  IBM hopes Domino version 10 gives the platform new life

  IBM looks to improve its position in the collaboration software market with a buffed-up version of its venerable Domino platform that supports mobile applications.

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  PyTorch 1.0 brings developers closer to cloud services

  The release candidate version 1.0 of Facebook's PyTorch deep learning framework enables developers to more easily include machine learning in their applications.

• October 09, 2018 09 Oct'18

  CI/CD workflows, IT roles lead to organizational disharmony

  Divides between IT teams and roles in an organization can impede software delivery, even if they use the right tools. Some companies have chipped away at those barriers.

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  Jenkins Configuration as Code eases dev and admin woes

  Version 1.0 of a CloudBees plug-in aims to help developers and administrators advance CI/CD while saving time and effort with Jenkins configuration tasks.

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  Low-code platforms are more useful than you think

  Although low-code software development platforms are a hot area of software development, many pro developers and enterprise development shops eschew these tools. John Rymer, an analyst at Forrester ...

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  Chaos engineering enters mainstream QA, drills down to apps

  Add a bit of chaos to predeployment application testing to gain resilience. Gremlin CEO Kolton Andrus discussed the value of breaking apps to fix them.

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  DevOps on-premises opportunities spur CloudBees-Lenovo pact

  IT teams get a leg up in DevOps initiatives in data centers, as Lenovo enhances its server-side DevOps with OpenShift Solution with CloudBees Core, a CI/CD automation platform.

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  OutSystems 11 buffs up low-code options -- with a ceiling

  Version 11 of OutSystems' low-code platform takes aim at troublesome legacy apps. Some developers see low-code benefits, but other shops remain skeptical.

• September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

  Sumo Logic breaks security data silos with cloud SIEM

  Sumo Logic has added cloud security monitoring features that put security in context with business intelligence analytics.

• September 17, 2018 17 Sep'18

  Microsoft seeks broader developer appeal with Azure DevOps

  Azure DevOps, which replaces Visual Studio Team Services, offers a suite of five services to help developers plan, build and deploy software, even across platforms.

• September 14, 2018 14 Sep'18

  Mature DevSecOps orgs refine developer security skills training

  Some advanced organizations tackle DevSecOps with automated security for CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure, and will complete the picture with developer security skills training.

• September 13, 2018 13 Sep'18

  Julia 1.0 brings API stability to machine learning language

  The Julia programming language is catching on with enterprise developers, particularly to create data science and AI apps, or in other situations that require computational applications.

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  SmartBear-Zephyr deal spotlights software quality tools shake-up

  Competition has tightened in the software test market as vendors strategically acquire additional tools and align with developer ecosystem players.

• August 13, 2018 13 Aug'18

  Low-code platform leaders for business users push usability, AI

  One research house identified the top low-code development platforms that target business users who want to build mobile apps without coding.

• August 03, 2018 03 Aug'18

  Siemens boosts low-code development play with Mendix buy

  Siemens' acquisition of Mendix will add low-code capabilities to its industrial IoT strategy and help create a raft of SaaS applications.

• July 13, 2018 13 Jul'18

  IBM blockchain apps starter pack targets developer disparity

  With demand high for blockchain development expertise, IBM has delivered a new blockchain-as-a-service offering that helps developers learn the basics of the database ledger.

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  Jaguar Land Rover, BI Worldwide share GitLab migration pros and cons

  Enterprise DevOps pros that switched to GitLab from GitHub and Atlassian tools share their experiences as Microsoft refugees eye GitHub competitors post acquisition.

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  5 reasons the Microsoft, GitHub acquisition makes sense

  Microsoft has acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion, but some devs see risk in the Microsoft/GitHub deal. This post looks at why the deal makes sense.