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Generative AI poised to have impact by automating software development, report says

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2024

According to recent research from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), generative AI will change software development activities, from quality assurance to debugging to CI/CD pipeline configuration. On the whole, survey respondents view AI as a way to accelerate software development and to improve software quality.

Software

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What is System Testing? – Getting Started, Tips, and Tools

Testlodge

MARCH 12, 2024

System testing involves analyzing the behavior and functionality of a fully integrated application. It is the third of the four levels of testing, performed after unit and integration testing but before user acceptance testing. While being integrated with the system, each component is analyzed individually.

Systems

Systems Testing Open Source Hardware

Building High-Quality Software

DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It sits at the very beginning of the process before the code is written and can save an immense amount of time down the road (of somebody spending tons of time just to get to a dead-end). I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. Important note.

Software

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7 Steps to Optimize the Cost of Software Testing

DZone

JANUARY 5, 2021

Why Software Testing Is Important. An average mobile app contains about 50,000 lines of code, Microsoft Windows operating system has about 50 million lines of code, while Google’s entire code base is estimated to contain 2 billion lines of code. So how does the software tester decide what to test?

Software

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced market, organizations must not only ensure that their digital infrastructure is functioning optimally but also that software deployments and updates are delivered rapidly and consistently. They help foster confidence and consistency throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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Speed Software Software Latency

What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

The IT world is rife with jargon — and “as code” is no exception. “As code” means simplifying complex and time-consuming tasks by automating some, or all, of their processes. Today, the composable nature of code enables skilled IT teams to create and customize automated solutions capable of improving efficiency.

Best Practices

Best Practices Infrastructure Code Speed

Essentials of User Acceptance Testing

DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

In the dynamic realm of software development, ensuring that a product not only meets but exceeds user expectations is paramount. Enter User Acceptance Testing (UAT), a pivotal phase that serves as the final frontier before software is unleashed into the hands of end-users.

Testing

Testing Strategy Software Software

Basis Path Testing in Software Testing

Testlodge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Basis path testing in software testing is a white box method where the tester examines the codebase to identify all possible paths that could be taken by the user to achieve their aims. These paths are then written as test cases to ensure all the different identified scenarios in the main branches are covered.

Testing

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8 Types of Functional Testing

DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Functional and non-functional testing are the two types of software testing. There are various types of functional testing, that are as below: Unit Testing. Integration Testing. System Testing. Regression Testing. Smoke Testing. Sanity Testing. Acceptance Testing.

Testing

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Understanding Black Box Testing - Types, Techniques, and Examples

DZone

DECEMBER 21, 2021

What comes to your mind when you hear the term Black box, specifically concerning testing? Well, it is something that is not very common to listen to but remains an essential form of software testing.

Testing

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Smoke Testing and the Spaceship Analogy

DZone

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Smoke testing, often referred to as "build verification testing" or "sanity testing," is a powerful tool that brings unique advantages to software development teams. Smoke Testing vs. Regression Testing Smoke testing is a subset of regression testing. You've got yourself a smoke test suite now!

Testing

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Why software supply chain attacks are increasing

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Software supply chain attacks emerge in full force. But today, software supply chain attacks are a key factor in the global movement of goods. Additionally, a global study of 1,000 CIOs indicated that 82% say their organizations are vulnerable to cyberattacks targeting software supply chains. Dynatrace news.

Software

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Software Testing Tutorial: A Comprehensive Guide With Examples And Best Practices

DZone

MARCH 9, 2023

Software testing is the process of verifying the working of the software system or application. In other words, it ensures the software application is bug-free and addresses the technical and user requirements. Suppose you are building a software application that involves writing a bunch of codes and fixing bugs.

Best Practices

Best Practices Software Software Testing

Benefits of Using an Online Bug Tracking System

DZone

MAY 19, 2020

When a software program or an application does not work the way it is created or designed to perform, it is called a software bug. The software testing team uses bug tracking software's to keep a track of bugs and to report them as the program is being tested.

Systems

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Best Practices for Developing High-Quality Software

DZone

JULY 5, 2023

As a developer, one of your greatest fears is likely to develop software with bugs. This fear results from the knowledge that even a minor error or oversight in the code could have serious repercussions, causing system failures, data loss, or security breaches. Well, Yes, you can!

Best Practices

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The path to achieving unprecedented productivity and software innovation through ChatGPT and other generative AI

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) technology and the LLM-based AI systems that drive it have huge implications and potential advantages for many tasks, from improving customer service to increasing employee productivity. GPTs can also help quickly onboard team members to new development platforms and toolsets.

Innovation

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What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. Microservices are flexible, lightweight, modular software services of limited scope that fit together with other services to deliver full applications. Dynatrace news. What are microservices?

Architecture

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What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. Microservices are flexible, lightweight, modular software services of limited scope that fit together with other services to deliver full applications. Dynatrace news. What are microservices?

Architecture

Architecture Software Software Development

DevOps engineer tools: Deploy, test, evaluate, repeat

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

They are similar to site reliability engineers (SREs) who focus on creating scalable, highly reliable software systems. Belgian engineer Patrick Debois coined the term “DevOps” in 2009 when he needed a Twitter hashtag for DevOpsDays, an agile systems administrators conference in Europe. Atlassian Jira.

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TestNG vs. JUnit Testing Framework: Which One Is Better?

DZone

AUGUST 12, 2021

Software Development goes through many phases like requirement gathering & analysis, communication, design, code building, testing, and release. Testing is an indispensable part of the SDLC and can be achieved either manually or automatically. What is Unit Testing?

Testing

Testing Mobile Design Software

Destructive Testing – How to Tear Apart a System

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A central goal of software testing is to find issues, especially critical ones, before they cause a problem in production. For example, it’s usual for software to have been designed with a specific use in mind, but the user doesn’t always understand the same way as the developers and testers. Tools for Testing.

Systems

Systems Testing Software Software

Dynatrace ensures continuous software quality by combining synthetic monitoring and automatic release validation

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. The ability to scale testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has proven difficult.

Monitoring

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs improve software quality. Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate additional processes and testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle. SLOs aid decision making. Availability.

Software

Software Software Benchmarking Latency

Path to NoOps part 2: How infrastructure as code makes cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Infrastructure as code is a way to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. In this blog, I explore how Dynatrace has made cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale by embracing the principles of infrastructure as code. And it’s a crucial step toward achieving cloud automation on the path to NoOps.

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Part 1: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Many software delivery teams share the same pain points as they’re asked to support cloud adoption and modernization initiatives. Key ingredients required to deliver better software faster. Automating lifecycle orchestration including monitoring, remediation, and testing across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Software

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Role Of A Software Tester In Code Reviews

Testsigma

OCTOBER 30, 2020

If you are working in an agile environment, you may have come across the term ‘code review’. It is a strategic operation where you break the source code into snippets in order to audit the code before it is moved to the testing phase. What Is Code Review? The Need For Code Review.

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5 Types of Tests To Perform On Your APIs

DZone

JANUARY 29, 2021

API Test is crucial for the software systems to function at high quality. Application Programming Interface acts as the center level between the database and presentation layer in the software development procedure. They allow data exchange and communication from one to another software system.

Testing

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How Dynatrace protects its software development and delivery life cycle against supply chain attacks

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Recently, some organizations fell victim to a software supply chain attack, which led to loss of confidential data. This article explains what a software supply chain attack is, and how Dynatrace protects its customers against such attacks by applying: Risk management and business continuity planning. It all starts with the code.

Software

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This approach has a handful of benefits. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

Traffic

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems

No code automation testing: When to use and when not to use

Testsigma

JULY 6, 2021

Having a coded approach to test automation has its benefits. It certainly does give you the power to be extra flexible in terms of test case creation. No code automation testing is an alternate approach that might be suitable for you and give you ROI sooner, providing few conditions are met. When to use.

Code

Code Testing Testing Tools Mobile

Monitoring-as-code through Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiative

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2021

Dynatrace’s OneAgent automatically captures PurePaths and analyzes transactions end-to-end across every tier of your application technology stack with no code changes, from the browser all the way down to the code and database level. Monitoring-as-code requirements at Dynatrace. Referencing other configurations by name.

Open Source

Open Source Code Monitoring Azure

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software

The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software , Lou et al., Partial failures ( gray failures ) occur when some but not all of the functionalities of a system are broken. Overall, our study reveals that partial failure is a common and severe problem in large software systems.

Systems

Systems Software Software Programming

Fast memcpy, A System Design

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We look here at a Gedankenexperiment: move 16 bytes per cycle , addressing not just the CPU movement, but also the surrounding system design. To move 16 bytes per cycle requires at least four instructions per cycle: load, store, test-done, and branch. The standard short move code tests that len is small, say < 16, and then does.

Design

Design Systems Cache Network

The Quality of Auto-Generated Code

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Kevlin Henney and I were riffing on some ideas about GitHub Copilot , the tool for automatically generating code base on GPT-3’s language model, trained on the body of code that’s in GitHub. First, we wondered about code quality. We know how to test whether or not code is correct (at least up to a certain limit).

Code

Code Programming C++ Testing

What Is The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)? Exploring Phases, Processes, and Models!

Official Blog - World Web Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

You cannot leave SDLC unnoticed when you are into software development. How does it contribute to the software development process ? This article will explain why most companies and their software developers use SDLC to manage their development process. SDLC means Software Development Life Cycle. What is SDLC?

Processing

Processing Software Software Development

What they don't tell you about migrating a message-based system to the cloud

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Migrating a message-based system from on-premises to the cloud is a colossal undertaking. If you search for “how to migrate to the cloud”, there are reams of articles that encourage you to understand your system, evaluate cloud providers, choose the right messaging service, and manage security and compliance.

Cloud

Cloud Systems Azure Airlines

It’s time to upgrade the PTC System Monitor (PSM)!

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As a PSM system administrator, you’ve relied on AppMon as a preconfigured APM tool for detecting, diagnosing, and repairing problems that impact the operational health of your Windchill application suite. The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform provides you with so much more monitoring functionality. Dynatrace news.

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Monitoring Systems Infrastructure Cloud

How observability, application security, and AI enhance DevOps and platform engineering maturity

Dynatrace

APRIL 18, 2024

DevOps and platform engineering are essential disciplines that provide immense value in the realm of cloud-native technology and software delivery. Observability of applications and infrastructure serves as a critical foundation for DevOps and platform engineering, offering a comprehensive view into system performance and behavior.

DevOps

DevOps Engineering Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure

Manual vs. Automated Software Testing

Apica

JUNE 22, 2022

Software testing is a huge domain, but it can be broadly categorized into two areas: manual testing and automated testing. Both manual and automated testing offer benefits and disadvantages. But with automated testing, test cases are executed with the assistance of tools, scripts, and software.

Software

Software Software Testing Best Practices

Why love software testing? Hear from the experts

Testsigma

JULY 22, 2021

You try to break anything you try new, you are skeptical and perform some testing yourself to see if anything new works fine! You chuckle when you learn that there is a silly missed negative testing! Jokes apart, Testing is never an easy job! You love testing. He’s the BossBoss at Ministry Of Testing.

Software

Software Software Testing Energy

Open Source Software Security: Is Open Source Software Safe?

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Even though open source software is firmly in the mainstream, used widely by businesses, governments, and everyone who owns a cell phone or computer, the question repeatedly arises: “Is open source software safe?” Is open source software as stable as other software? Is open source software secure?

Open Source

Open Source Software Software Social Media

Common Software Testing Mistakes Beginners Make & How To Avoid

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Software testing is the process of finding bugs or discrepancies in a software. Even though the job of a software tester is to catch errors committed by developers, software testers themselves are not immune to errors. Few Common Testing Mistakes. Starting without a Defined Scope of Testing.

Software

Software Software Testing Open Source

The Different Software Testing Types Explained

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to IEEE Std 829-1998, Software Testing is defined as “the process of analyzing a software item to detect the differences between existing and required conditions (i.e. defects) and evaluating the features of the software items.” Today, testing is imperative and there is no way we can skip it.

Software

Software Software Testing Scalability

Accelerate and empower Site Reliability Engineering with Dynatrace observability

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient. SREs invest significant effort in enhancing software reliability, scalability, and dependability.

Engineering

Engineering DevOps Innovation Strategy

Generative AI poised to have impact by automating software development, report says

What is System Testing? – Getting Started, Tips, and Tools

Trending Sources

Building High-Quality Software

7 Steps to Optimize the Cost of Software Testing

What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

Essentials of User Acceptance Testing

Basis Path Testing in Software Testing

8 Types of Functional Testing

Understanding Black Box Testing - Types, Techniques, and Examples

Smoke Testing and the Spaceship Analogy

Why software supply chain attacks are increasing

Software Testing Tutorial: A Comprehensive Guide With Examples And Best Practices

Benefits of Using an Online Bug Tracking System

Best Practices for Developing High-Quality Software

The path to achieving unprecedented productivity and software innovation through ChatGPT and other generative AI

What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

DevOps engineer tools: Deploy, test, evaluate, repeat

TestNG vs. JUnit Testing Framework: Which One Is Better?

Destructive Testing – How to Tear Apart a System

Dynatrace ensures continuous software quality by combining synthetic monitoring and automatic release validation

Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Path to NoOps part 2: How infrastructure as code makes cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale

Part 1: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster

Role Of A Software Tester In Code Reviews

5 Types of Tests To Perform On Your APIs

How Dynatrace protects its software development and delivery life cycle against supply chain attacks

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

No code automation testing: When to use and when not to use

Monitoring-as-code through Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiative

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software

Fast memcpy, A System Design

The Quality of Auto-Generated Code

What Is The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)? Exploring Phases, Processes, and Models!

What they don't tell you about migrating a message-based system to the cloud

It’s time to upgrade the PTC System Monitor (PSM)!

How observability, application security, and AI enhance DevOps and platform engineering maturity

Manual vs. Automated Software Testing

Why love software testing? Hear from the experts

Open Source Software Security: Is Open Source Software Safe?

Common Software Testing Mistakes Beginners Make & How To Avoid

The Different Software Testing Types Explained

Accelerate and empower Site Reliability Engineering with Dynatrace observability

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