Datadog announced an integration with Nessus from Tenable.
30 Must-Have Tools to Support DevOps - Part 4
March 17, 2016
DEVOPSdigest asked experts from across the industry for their recommendation on a key technology required for DevOps. Part 4 of the list covers QA and testing.
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21. QA AUTOMATION
There are many tools to ensure DevOps success. But probably the most forgotten is QA automation that is wicked fast. Fast creation, parallel runs, unit, functional, performance, security, compatibility etc. DevOps should not be a call to lower quality.
Kevin Surace
CEO, Appvance
22. LOAD TESTING
Load Test Tools are instrumental. sLoadTest by itself deserves a place as the tool to identify the gap between Dev and Ops when it comes to scalability and stability during load. The tool / SaaS service need to both deliver easy-to-run script as well as being able to scale to massive load. It is worth it to point out that the deployment aspect of DevOps typically includes concepts like continuous integration and deployment. The missing part is often an API driven loadtest validation of performance for every deployment, not just for the big releases.
Sven Hammar
Founder and CEO, Apica
23. PERFORMANCE TESTING
A delivery pipeline-friendly performance testing tool is absolutely critical to ensure DevOps success. This confirms that each check-in, integration build, staging deployment and production deployment does not introduce performance issues into the application or site, and that if performance issues do arise, the team is able to get feedback quickly, in under 24 hours, so they can fix the performance issues with the fresh knowledge of the changes that were made. Performance testing as part of the delivery pipeline simultaneously reduces time to test while increasing test coverage. The end result is greater confidence that customer experience will not be impacted by performance issues as new releases are deployed.
Dave Karow
Director of Product Marketing, BlazeMeter
24. SERVICE VIRTUALIZATION AND VIRTUAL TEST NETWORK
An increasing number of reviews of Service Virtualization software state that service virtualization is a must-have tool to ensure DevOps success. As one reviewer writes "...our service virtualization software enables us to run more tests and find more defects before going into production.
Russell Rothstein
Founder and CEO, IT Central Station
The adoption of DevOps has shortened and simplified the application development lifecycle. But with an increased focus on speed to market comes an even greater risk that the application will fall short against its objectives. This risk is further accentuated when the application relies - as most do these days - on distributed networks. To mitigate this, DevOps teams need a means of verifying, at every stage of the development process, how the application performs in the real world network environment. This capability is provided by using a Virtual Test Network (Network Emulator) which recreates, on demand, a wide range of adverse network conditions, often encountered in real world networks, in which to test application behaviors.
Frank Puranik
Senior Technical Specialist, iTrinegy
25. LOG ANALYTICS
One of the most important tools to enable DevOps is log search and analysis across domains for faster root cause analysis. This ensures application problems are detected and diagnosed quickly thereby enabling faster time to market
Payal Chakravarty
Sr. Product Manager - APM, IBM
26. ON-DEMAND APP ENVIRONMENT
On-demand fully provisioned application environments are essential to eliminating bottlenecks and reducing contention between development and test teams.
Kelly Looney
Regional Consulting Manager, DevOps Strategy, Skytap
Industry News
February 26, 2020
Perforce Software released a free tool for organizations considering open source software - OpenLogic Stack Builder.
February 26, 2020
Applause announced a new partnership with Infosys to provide broader end-to-end digital experience testing services to clients.
February 26, 2020
RapidMiner announced the release of its platform enhancement, RapidMiner 9.6. This update prioritizes people – not technology – at the center of the enterprise AI journey, providing new, unique experiences to empower users of varying backgrounds and abilities.
February 25, 2020
JFrog announced the availability of the "JFrog Platform," a hybrid, multi-cloud, universal DevOps platform.
February 25, 2020
Nureva added new agile canvas templates to Span Workspace, including a heat map developed by Jeff Sutherland, the co-creator of Scrum and founder of Scrum Inc. and Scrum@Scale.
February 25, 2020
Agiloft announced the addition of its new Agiloft AI Engine, complete with prebuilt AI Capabilities for contract management and an open AI integration that allows customers to incorporate custom-built AI tools into the no-code platform.
February 24, 2020
Cloudify announced that its latest product update - Cloudify version 5 - features an Environment as a Service component, designed to achieve consistent delivery and management of hybrid-cloud services and network infrastructures across CI/CD pipelines - at scale.
February 24, 2020
Checkmarx announced new enhancements to its Software Security Platform to empower more seamless implementation and automation of application security testing (AST) in modern development and DevOps environments.
February 24, 2020
Rapid7 and Snyk announced a strategic partnership to deliver end-to-end application security to organizations developing cloud native applications.
February 20, 2020
The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC), the premier public-private partnership dedicated to advancing government through the application of information technology, officially announced the release of the DevOps Primer.
It was produced through a collaborative, volunteer effort by a working group from government and industry, hosted by the ACT-IAC Emerging Technology Community of Interest (COI).
February 20, 2020
DLT Solutions, a subsidiary of Tech Data, launched the Secure Software Factory (SSF), a framework that provides the U.S. public sector with consistent development and deployment of high-quality, scalable, resilient and secure software throughout an application’s lifecycle.
February 20, 2020
Netography announced the general availability of the company’s Security Operations Platform.
February 19, 2020
Perfecto by Perforce announced its integration with Katalon Studio.
February 19, 2020
Radware announced the Alteon Cloud Control as part of its Alteon Multi-Cloud Solution designed to simplify the deployment of secured application delivery services across public and private cloud environments.
