Test Automation for Software Development
The biggest challenge to test automation is no longer dealing with changing functionality but instead not having enough time to create and conduct tests.
Category: The New Stack
Lawrence started working with The New Stack in 2015. He was the research director for several ebooks about containers, Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem.
He highlighted a chart and findings from industry research in The New Stack’s weekly newsletter. This sampling of the over 400 articles and reports he has written.
More Organizations Report Benefits of Open Source Programs
Sixty-three percent of participants in a new survey said their OSPO is at least very business-critical to their IT teams, up from 54% in 2020’s study.
Google on the DevOps ‘Elite’ and Everyone Else
After two waves of DevOps adoption, some companies that have fully embraced DevOps best practices are achieving better software delivery and operational performance metrics than their peers.
Training: Hard Work Pays off for Data/AI Pros
Data and artificial intelligence (AI) professionals are not particularly worried about their jobs or money, but that hasn’t stopped them from learning new skills though.
Is Low-Code and No-Code Adoption too Good to Be True?
An incredibly large number of developers and companies already use low-code or no-code visual platforms, depending on your definition of ‘low-code’ and ‘no-code.’
Why Businesses Want to Enable ‘No-Code’ and ‘Low-Code’ Automation
Business technology pros have seen firsthand how business processes are managed, and 78% still allow end-users to build automations.
Fewer Rust Developers Target WebAssembly
While WebAssembly developers are extremely fond of Rust, there is a lot of room to grow among developers that want to compile other languages.
Web Developers Aren’t Pushing More Business Logic to the Client
Computationally intensive tasks are usually not done in-browser.
Google’s Flutter Rivals Facebook’s React Native in Dev Use
Twice as many professional developers extensively used Google’s open source cross-platform user interface toolkit Flutter in the last year.
Shadow, Zombie and Misconfigured APIs Are a Security Issue
Only 11% of people surveyed for Salt Security’s State of API Security Q3 2021 are greatly concerned about the security risks of shadow or unknown APIs.
Cloud Engineers Try Policy-as-Code to Cure Misconfiguration Woes
Cloud engineers are looking to policy-as-code to prevent cloud misconfigurations, according to “The State of Cloud Security 2021 Report,” which surveyed 300 US cloud engineering and security professionals.
Tech Employers Get Good News from Survey of Industry Workforce
88% of tech industry workers feel appreciated by their employer, according to a 750-person online survey conducted a few weeks ago for Protocol.