Articles about quality

Using AI can increase the speed of code development, but it comes with an increased risk of bad code seeping into codebases.

Clean code solutions company Sonar is releasing two new features, Sonar AI Code Assurance and Sonar AI CodeFix. These deepen Sonar's commitment to improving the developer experience and increasing developer productivity to support the delivery of better code.

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The use of automated security technology is growing rapidly according to the latest edition of the annual Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) report from Synopsys.

The research also shows that there's a move towards a 'shift everywhere' culture -- which means performing security tests throughout the entire software development life cycle -- across more organizations.

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A new survey of 1,300 CIOs and senior DevOps managers in large organizations finds it's getting harder for IT teams to maintain software reliability and security amid the rapid acceleration of digital transformation and rising complexity of cloud-native environments.

The study from Dynatrace finds 90 percent of organizations say their digital transformation has accelerated in the past 12 months. 78 percent of organizations deploy software updates into production every 12 hours or less, and 54 percent say they do so at least once every two hours.

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Customer expectations have dramatically shortened the software development cycle. The question now for development teams is how to ensure quality assurance and innovation.

Traditionally, QA was a major step in the process. Developers would create the software. Quality assurance engineers would test it. But customers now want new versions and features more quickly, and the traditional approach to QA simply takes too much time.

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