Runtime code review from AppMap enhances productivity
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 by Richard Harris
AppMap has announced its innovative Runtime Code Review solution that will transform software quality and the developer experience. AppMap's mission is to deliver actionable insights to developers where they work, and AppMap continues to deliver on the promise with its latest release for the GitHub Marketplace.
Unexpected runtime defects account fo...
App security testing platform lands from Oxeye
Monday, January 3, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Oxeye announced the company’s Cloud-Native Application Security Testing Platform (CNAST). The new platform identifies code vulnerabilities, open-source vulnerabilities, and secrets to highlight the most critical issues in the software development lifecycle, delivering clear guidance for fast and accurate remediation.
App security testing platform CNAST
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This machine learning analyzer will review your code for constancy
Monday, February 4, 2019 by Richard Harris
Lack of consistency in the development of source code has made maintaining code over time and making updates more time-consuming and costly. Source{d}, the company enabling machine learning for large-scale code analysis, solves this long-standing problem with Machine Learning assisted code review.
The new source{d} Lookout analyzer, which has learned to model s...
Even without Kubernetes Google dominates code commits across CNCF
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 by Richard Harris
Google dominates all code contributions made across projects of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), dwarfing all other contributors, according to the analysis done via Stackalytics, an open source code analysis framework hosted by the OpenStack Foundation. Google is not only the largest contributor with 52.9% of all code commits, but it has seven times more co...
Perforce to acquire Rogue Wave
Monday, January 28, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Perforce Software backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Rogue Wave Software, an independent provider of cross-platform software developer tools and embedded components.
The combination of Perforce and Rogue Wave delivers a full suite of solutions that measurably improves developer productivity while fuelin...
Kubernetes project showing strong signs of maturity
Wednesday, January 2, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
As the Kubernetes project nears 2 million lines of code (including all languages and generated files), the 4-year-old open source project is showing many signs of maturity, according to an analysis by source{d}, a company enabling Machine Learning for large-scale code analysis.
The velocity of commits for the core Kubernetes project seems to be slowing down as the co...
Checkmarx opens beta support for Scala programming language
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
Checkmarx, an application security testing company, has announced open beta support of the Scala programming language. The new capability adds the ability to analyze and remediate security risks and vulnerabilities exposed in projects written using Scala code.The added capability not only allows the detection of vulnerabilities within Scala code, but also the ability to...
3 approaches to end user experience monitoring
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 by Sridhar Iyengar
The volume of transactions running through websites and mobile apps make customer-facing applications crucial to online businesses. If these applications perform well for their users, they generate revenue for the business. If they don’t, they affect the credibility of the business, which in turn affects the overall revenue. It is therefore imperative that bus...
New VS plugin from Checkmarx lets DevOps teams to rapidly embed security
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Checkmarx just announced a new Checkmarx plugin for the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services platform. The new Checkmarx (CxSAST) Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services Plugin allows organizations with agile development practices to embed security into their software development lifecycle (SDLC) without the delays traditionally caused by application security t...
Centralized or Siloed Considering two test automation approaches
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 by Lubos Parobek
Today, software testing is undergoing a major shift. More and more teams are moving from a manual process to a fully automated approach that requires a more technical skill setNo two development environments are exactly alike and there is no cookie cutter approach to software delivery. But there are many standard approaches and methodologies to automated testing. ...
Think Your Mobile App is Hack Proof Think Again
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 by Sam Rehman
In today’s mobile app economy, time to market and quality are critical to stay competitive. Developers race against the clock to create amazing apps, and considerable time is spent to test it again and again; agile and automation plays a big part into this. The goal is a release that is user friendly and resilient as defect-free as possible, offering a product that deep...
Swift Programmers Using Checkmarx Can Now Detect Security and Code Flaws
Wednesday, September 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
Since launching publicly at Apple’s WWDC in 2014, Swift has soared in popularity amongst programmers and has caught the attention of other major technology players in the process. Google is now even considering implementing Swift as a “first class” language for Android. Facebook and Uber are exploring ways to make Swift more central to their operations, while IBM, ...
Twistlock Releases New Security Platform for Container Environments
Thursday, May 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Twistlock has announced the release of Twistlock Runtime, a set of automated capabilities that defend against active threats targeting container environments. The platform is designed specifically to detect and stop sophisticated runtime attacks – including APTs and zero-day exploits – against containerized applications. Twistlock Runtime is a component within the ...
Five Common Mobile App Security Vulnerabilities And How to Fix Them
Saturday, April 30, 2016 by Seth Jaslow
Mobile app security leaves much to be desired. That was the conclusion of a 2016 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) study which found that a staggering 96 percent of 36,000 mobile apps failed at least one of 10 privacy checks. Three years ago, a similar HPE study found that 97 percent of 2,000 apps reviewed held insecure private information. As mobile app usage conti...
Android Studio 2.0 Now Available
Monday, April 11, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Android Studio 2.0 has been released allowing developers to build apps for the Android platform, including phones and tablets, Android Auto, Android Wear, and Android TV. It is the official IDE from Google including a code editor, code analysis tools, emulators and more. Android Studio 2.0 includes the following new features for Android developers:- Instant Run: De...
3 Steps to Successful Web App Performance Tuning
Monday, June 15, 2015 by Kaushal Amin
Far too many companies still don't test web apps for performance or so-called response time. Time and budget constraints are typically used to justify putting performance testing off. “We’ll get to it later,” is the common stance. A few months later, as the user base swells, performance issues start to pop up in some of the most business critical areas. End users b...
An Analysis of the Starbucks Cyber Attack and How To Stay Protected
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 by Amit Ashbel
How much is a cup of coffee really worth? Several weeks ago, many Starbucks customers began reporting their Starbucks card balance emptied and then topped again. On May 13th, Starbucks released a written statement denying the un-authorized activity was a result of a hack or an intrusion to its servers or mobile app. But the hard facts show that indeed customers ha...
Embarcadero Releases Major Updates for Its RAD Studio XE8 Connected App Platform
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies has released a major update to its RAD Studio XE8 connected app platform. Included in this new release is the ability for Delphi/Object Pascal and C++ developers to leverage their Windows VCL applications and build expanded, innovative solutions for mobile, cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT).RAD Studio XE8 delivers connectivi...
Embarcadero Technologies Grows its RAD Studio Platform with Acquisition of Castalia for Delphi and Usertility from TwoDesk Software
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies is expanding its suite of software solutions for application and database development by acquiring Castalia for Delphi and Usertility from TwoDesk Software. Embarcadero will incorporate the productivity features of Castalia into its RAD Studio integrated development environment (IDE) to enhance and optimize the coding experience for both Ob...
Your App is Compromised Thanks to Your Friendly Neighborhood App Hacker
Monday, August 4, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The advent of smart devices introduced a brave new world of opportunities for developers who hopped on the train and created mobile apps for iOS, Android and the other app markets. It was and is a great opportunity for developers. Of course humans being human, where an opportunity to make money exists, the more nefarious want to get their hands in the pot. And so, ...
Mozilla’s WebIDE Offers Developers In Browser Building and Editing Features to Create HTML5 Apps
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Mozilla is adding in-browser editing features across devices with WebIDE, built directly into Firefox, providing a functioning blueprint app and tools needed create, edit, and test a new Web application right from a browser. WebIDE provides the ability to install and test apps on Firefox OS devices and simulators and integrates the Firefox Developer Tools...
NT OBJECTives Offers New On Demand Mobile Security Testing
Friday, April 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
NT OBJECTives, a provider of automated web application security solutions, is now offering the NTOMobile On-Demand platform powered by NTOSpider, a new security service specifically designed for mobile application testing, including mobile client native code and back-end web services. The platform delivers a way for security teams to complete comprehensive mobile a...
Coverity Releases New Version of Enterprise Development Testing Platform
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
Coverity has announced the availability of the Coverity Development Testing Platform 7.0, the next-generation of its software testing platform.The platform enables testing for cloud, mobile and web-based application development in Enterprise IT organizations. The new version of the Coverity Development Testing Platform is an enterprise-scale solution which combines...
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Monday, March 25, 2013 by Richard Harris
Programming is more of an art than a skill anymore. Between learning multiple languages and platforms it can be dizzying. I came across a list of "97 things a programmer should know" and I find it quite useful because each item on the list is from a different author and offers a different perspective on each topic.Though this is in no way intended to be a "end all" auth...
Microsoft Visual Studio Update ready
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, which provides improvements for Windows 8 app development and more.Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, the first official update for Visual Studio 2012.The update is now available for developers to install. Microsoft said updates to Visual Studio 2012 will be released regularly, on a shorter i...
