Red Hat announced a multi-stage alliance to offer customers a greater choice of operating systems to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that software quality is a top concern for organizations of all shapes and sizes. But heavy workloads, time constraints and lack of manpower plague many organizations. Despite the obstacles, however, with the right tools and best practices, teams can successfully and consistently peer review all code – leading to higher quality software in less time and at a reduced cost.
According to survey respondents in SmartBear Software's new report State of Code Quality 2016: Trends & Insights into Dev Collaboration, code review is looked at as the number one way to improve code quality.
However, ad-hoc or “over the shoulder” code review is the most commonly used type of code review within organizations with nearly three-quarters of respondents participating in ad-hoc reviews throughout the year.
Half of respondents are doing meeting based code review with 37 percent doing it as least once a month.
63 percent are doing tool-based code review with only 23 percent doing it on a daily basis.
Aside from code review, unit testing is considered to be the next most critical method for improving code quality.
Methodology: SmartBear surveyed 600 software developers, testers, IT/operations professionals and business leaders representing more than 30 different industries. The global online survey was conducted during December 2015. Participants in the survey work on software teams ranging from less than five employees up to more than 50 employees, and work for companies ranging from small businesses with less than 25 employees, to enterprise organizations with 10,000 employees or more.
Industry News
Snow Software announced a new global partner program designed to enable partners to support customers as they face complex market challenges around managing cost and mitigating risk, while delivering value more efficiently and effectively with Snow.
Contrast Security announced the launch of its new partner program, the Security Innovation Alliance (SIA), which is a global ecosystem of system integrators (SIs), cloud, channel and technology alliances.
Red Hat introduced new security and compliance capabilities for the Red Hat OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes platform.
Jetpack.io formally launched with Devbox Cloud, a managed service offering for Devbox.
Jellyfish launched Life Cycle Explorer, a new solution that identifies bottlenecks in the life cycle of engineering work to help teams adapt workflow processes and more effectively deliver value to customers.
Checkmarx announced the immediate availability of Supply Chain Threat Intelligence, which delivers detailed threat intelligence on hundreds of thousands of malicious packages, contributor reputation, malicious behavior and more.
Qualys announced its new GovCloud platform along with the achievement of FedRAMP Ready status at the High impact level, from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP).
F5 announced the general availability of F5 NGINXaaS for Azure, an integrated solution co-developed by F5 and Microsoft that empowers enterprises to deliver secure, high-performance applications in the cloud.
Tenable announced Tenable Ventures, a corporate investment program.
Ubuntu Pro, Canonical’s comprehensive subscription for secure open source and compliance, is now generally available.
Mirantis, freeing developers to create their most valuable code, today announced that it has acquired the Santa Clara, California-based Shipa to add automated application discovery, operations, security, and observability to the Lens Kubernetes Platform.
SmartBear has integrated the powerful contract testing capabilities of PactFlow with SwaggerHub.
Venafi introduced TLS Protect for Kubernetes.