How does your company help customers with their automated testing initiatives?
Kevin Surace, co-founder and CTO of Appvance Appvance makes a platform called Appvance IQ, or AIQ for short. The platform is all-encompassing – web, API and native mobile, functional, compatibility, performance, load, security tests. It becomes a centerpiece of your quality initiative. We break test creation into two buckets. Low code/no code ML-driven Test Designer … continue reading
Automated testing is a must in CI/CD pipelines
As the software development industry has seen unprecedented levels of digital transformation, the demand for automated testing in the CI/CD pipeline has taken on greater urgency, especially at the early stages. Also, new advancements in AI are helping developers with some of the biggest challenges in testing: test creation, maintenance and many of the manual … continue reading
A guide to low-code platforms
HCL Volt MX: HCL Volt MX is an industry-leading low-code app-dev platform that powers developer productivity, agility, and speed to build apps that transform the business. HCL Volt MX makes it easy to deliver amazing apps across all digital touchpoints, integrate diverse and complex systems, and add innovative experiences such as VR and AR to meet ever-evolving customer expectations. Quickbase: Quickbase provides a no-code operational agility … continue reading
How do you help customers with their low-code initiatives?
Andrew Manby, the vice president of product management for HCL Software’s low-code platform, Volt MX. Businesses everywhere need to deliver exceptional ways to engage customers, partners, and employees — and transform systems and automate business-critical processes — into easy-to-use mobile apps and multi-channel experiences. Low code offers the opportunity to be more responsive and innovate … continue reading
Businesses in 2021 think high for low code
The use of low-code tooling is rapidly growing and provides tremendous opportunities for organizations to speed up their development process while saving on cost to build those applications — and the reason that the editors of SD Times declared 2021 “The Year of Low Code.” A February report from Gartner found that the market for … continue reading
A guide to data integration tools
CData Software is a leader in data access and connectivity solutions. It specializes in the development of data drivers and data access technologies for real-time access to online or on-premise applications, databases and web APIs. The company is focused on bringing data connectivity capabilities natively into tools organizations already use. It also features ETL/ELT solutions, … continue reading
How does your solution help customers with their data integration initiatives?
Eric Madariaga, chief marketing officer at CData Software “Ultimately, we solve data connectivity challenges through standardization — providing a common layer for accessing different data and systems. We then combine that with tooling to solve specific problems within messaging, data pipeline connectivity, and data management. While APIs have become the standard for integration, varying applications … continue reading
Data without integration is just data
As digital transformation initiatives have picked up steam due to the coronavirus pandemic, companies are getting a lot more disparate data that needs to be put together. They’re looking towards data integration solutions to streamline that process. A survey conducted by IDC in December last year found that 94% of data engineers, data integration specialists, … continue reading
A guide to value stream management solutions
ConnectALL is a value stream management company dedicated to helping customers achieve higher levels of agility, traceability, predictability and velocity. We do this by connecting people, processes and technology across the software development and delivery value stream, enabling companies to align digital initiatives to business outcomes and improve the speed at which they deliver software. … continue reading
What do you need to be successful at value stream management, and how can you help?
Lance Knight, COO for the value stream integration platform ConnectALL The goal is to help you understand software delivery, to look at things through the lens of a value stream, to look for ways to remove dependencies, understand where your bottlenecks are, and do that from a business value mindset. If I can bring in … continue reading
Value stream management will be a driving force behind successful businesses in 2021
If 2020 taught businesses anything, it is that they need to be able to adapt at any moment if they want to stay competitive and be successful. But in order to do that, they need actionable insight into what is going on throughout the entire organization and how that is translating into business value. Mik … continue reading
A guide to automated testing tools
Parasoft: Parasoft helps organizations continuously deliver quality software with its market-proven, integrated suite of automated software testing tools. Supporting the embedded, enterprise, and IoT markets, Parasoft’s technologies reduce the time, effort, and cost of delivering secure, reliable, and compliant software by integrating everything from deep code analysis and unit testing to web UI and API … continue reading
How does your solution help organizations implement automated testing?
Artem Golubev, co-founder and CEO of testRigor TestRigor is a functional end-to-end testing tool for web and mobile designed to automate away the work of manual testers. With testRigor, organizations can expect up to 200 times less test maintenance as well as up to 20 times faster speed and ease of test creation. As an … continue reading
Test automation does away with the mundane, and frees up testers for the creative domain
The drastic increase in volume of tests and the speed of software production has necessitated more efficient automated testing to handle repetitive tasks. The growing “shift-left” approach in Agile development processes has also pushed testing much earlier in the application life cycle. “There is a challenge to testing in the sense that we need to … continue reading
A guide to release management tools
Digital.ai Release is a release orchestration tool specifically for continuous delivery. It enables teams across an organization to model and monitor releases, automate tasks within IT infrastructure, and cut release times by analyzing and improving release processes. It provides the backbone for DevOps release automation, integrates existing tools, and enables full visibility across the entire … continue reading
How does your company help organizations with software release management?
Mike O’Rourke Chief of R&D at Digital.ai: Digital.ai Release provides release orchestration capabilities that enable organizations to achieve continuous delivery. Teams across an organization can automate and monitor the stages of the most complex software deliveries, cutting release times by identifying bottlenecks and improving processes. Digital.ai Release provides the backbone for release automation by integrating … continue reading
It’s not all about deployment with software release management
Today’s software release methodology involves multiple aspects of the SDLC: planning, scheduling, and managing a software build through the stages of developing, testing, deploying, and supporting the release. Release automation, as well as methodologies like Agile development, continuous delivery, and DevOps have greatly contributed to the evolution of release management. It is a core function … continue reading
APIs are turbo-charging ‘snail mail’ for businesses
When it comes to the mail, the snails fail. How do organizations, like the postal service, keep up the pace in a world where software, and technology are speeding up our lives? With more eyes on the postal service now than ever, how do they ensure they deliver on time sensitive tasks like test results, … continue reading
A guide to API management solutions
Akana by Perforce provides an end-to-end API management solution for designing, implementing, securing, managing, monitoring, and publishing APIs. Akana has proven tools to take your APIs from strategy and design to deployment and optimization. The Akana API Platform helps you create and publish secure, reliable APIs that are elegant, easy to consume, built the right … continue reading
How API management can fuel your digital business
While APIs are the building blocks of digital transformation, a recent survey found that API management solutions are not part of everyone’s digital strategies. SmartBear’s 2020 State of API Report found 24% of respondents aren’t using an API management tool. This is worrisome because in order for APIs to drive businesses forward, they need to … continue reading
A guide to security tools
Sonatype: The company’s Nexus Platform automatically enforces open-source governance and controls risk across every phase of the SDLC. Fueled by Nexus Intelligence which includes in-depth security, license, and quality information on millions of open-source components across dozens of ecosystems, the platform precisely identifies open-source risk and provides expert remediation guidance, empowering developers to innovate faster. … continue reading
How does your company help make applications more secure?
Brian Fox, CTO of Sonatype: Today, more than 1,200 companies rely on the Nexus platform to unite software developers, security professionals, and IT operations on the same team so they can continuously identify and remediate open-source risk, without slowing down innovation. When speed is critical, Nexus ensures that controls keep pace and that innovation prospers. … continue reading
Closing the (back) door on supply chain attacks
Security has become ever more important in the development process, as vulnerabilities last year caused the 2nd, 3rd and 7th biggest breaches of all time measured by the number of people that were affected. This has exposed the industry’s need for more effective use of security tooling within software development as well as the need … continue reading
A guide to Agile development tools
Broadcom: Rally Software is an enterprise-class agile management platform purpose built for scaling agile across the enterprise. It enables businesses to make faster and smarter decisions by aligning work with business objectives. Rally provides a central hub for teams across the organization to collaborate, plan, prioritize and track work, and continuously improve. Rally also enables … continue reading
How these companies are solving the pain points of Agile
Agile tools are only meant to support development tools, not drive the process. According to Nick Muldoon, co-founder and co-CEO of Easy Agile, instead, development teams should have an evolving set of practices in place that enables them to continuously deliver value to customers. “That means they may start with a whiteboard, and in the … continue reading
What’s standing in the way of achieving “true agility”
Digital transformation is now more important than ever. It’s a statement that has continued to be stressed and echoed throughout the industry for years, but with organizations now forced to deal with distributed and remote work, there is a new need to reexamine business models, according to Nick Muldoon, co-founder and co-CEO of Easy Agile. … continue reading
A guide to monitoring tools
Catchpoint offers innovative, real-time analytics across its Digital Experience Monitoring solution through the use of synthetic monitoring and user sentiment tools, which provide an outside-in view of user experiences. The tools work together to give a clear assessment of performance, as users can either contact Catchpoint directly through its portal, or Catchpoint can learn of … continue reading
An issue of ‘understandability’
This word understandability is starting to be heard, as the next evolutionary step beyond observability. And understandability is key to finding problems more quickly. Mehdi Daoudi, CEO at digital experience monitoring solution provider Catchpoint, recalled an effort when he was running monitoring at DoubleClick years ago. “I sat down with a bunch of engineers and … continue reading
