Tricentis is attempting to meet the growing demand for high quality mobile applications by releasing Testim Mobile, a mobile extension to its testing platform Testim. According to Tricentis, testing for mobile applications can pose a lot of challenges, because unlike browsers, phones and tablets can vary widely in performance, size, and operating system. With Testim Mobile, testers can use … [Read more...]
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Prompt Engine
Microsoft’s prompt engine is a library for helping developers create prompts for Large Language Models (LLMs). Prompt engineering, a technique for enabling specific behavior out of LLMs like GPT-3 and Codex, involves crafting inputs that coax the model to produce certain kinds of outputs. Also, few-shot prompting is a discipline that provides examples of inputs and outputs, so the model has a … [Read more...]
Microsoft announces Visual Studio extension for upgrading .NET projects
The team at Microsoft has announced an extension in Visual Studio that allows users to upgrade their .NET Framework or .NET Core web and desktop applications directly within Visual Studio. According to the blog post, if a user’s application is built for .NET Framework or .NET Core, now is the time to upgrade to .NET 6 (Long Term Support version) or .NET 7 (Standard Term Support version) in … [Read more...]
Report: Many people interested in STEM career change, but not sure how to get there
While many people are interested in pursuing a career in STEM, a lot of them don’t feel super familiar with the career options in the field. According to a study based on 14,000 interviews conducted by IBM and Morning Consult, 40% of respondents stated they don’t know where to start to make this career change. More than half of the respondents said they were not aware of the careers … [Read more...]
GitHub Copilot for Business is now available
The AI developer tool GitHub for Copilot is now being offered to every developer, team, and organization through its Business subscription. GitHub Copilot draws context from a developer’s code to suggest new lines, entire functions, tests, and complex algorithms. The new subscription tier has a more advanced OpenAI model and new capabilities to improve the quality of GitHub … [Read more...]
Puppet Enterprise 2023.0 released with NIST compliance
Puppet Enterprise 2023.0 is the latest release following 2021.7 that includes NIST compliance, the ability to authenticate users in multiple Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) domains, adds a streamlined user interface, and more. With NIST compliance, Puppet Enterprise 2023.0 reduces compliance risk and the risk of sensitive information being accessed. Users can customize the … [Read more...]
2023 Call for Code has been announced, encouraging sustainable development
The 2023 Call for Code, a global program that invites developers around the world to contribute to open-source technology projects that address social and humanitarian issues, has recently been announced by creator David Clark, founding partner IBM, charitable partner United Nations Human Rights, and program affiliate the Linux Foundation. This year’s Call for Code is intended to encourage the … [Read more...]
Databricks announces Visual Studio Code extension
Databricks, provider of a cloud-based data engineering tool for processing and transforming large amounts of data, today announced the Visual Studio Code extension for Databricks. According to the company, this new extension will allow developers to write their code locally utilizing the editing capabilities of VS Code, connect to Databricks clusters and run code remotely, and use the software … [Read more...]
SmartBear releases new tool for detecting visual errors in applications
The testing company SmartBear announced a new tool that will help developers more easily discover visual bugs and defects so that they can deliver applications and websites with their intended look intact. VisualTest utilizes AI in its regression testing to discover these visual errors. It also provides visibility into development components across the software development life cycle. It … [Read more...]
Developers have to keep pace with the rise of data streaming
The rise of data streaming has forced developers to either adapt and learn new skills or be left behind. The data industry evolves at supersonic speed, and it can be challenging for developers to constantly keep up. SD Times recently had a chance to speak with Michael Drogalis, the principal technologist at Confluent, a company that provides a complete set of tools needed to connect and process … [Read more...]
With Interest in Cloud Repatriation on the Rise, Platform Engineering Eases Developers’ Pain of On-Prem Database Provisioning
Over the past decade or so, the public cloud has fundamentally reshaped virtually every aspect of enterprise operations. But, while plenty have benefited from this shift, perhaps none have enjoyed the convenience of cloud more than the enterprise “end user” — the software developers, data scientists, and other subject matter experts whose work has laid the foundation for much of our modern … [Read more...]
ChatGPT this week: ChatGPT + Bing | Google’s AI attempt doesn’t go as planned | Using ChatGPT in technical interviews?
You may be familiar with the quote “software is eating the world,” but as of late it seems more like “ChatGPT is eating the world.” Ever since its public debut, it’s dominated front pages of the news, sparked many conversations about how AI will shape the future, and if you look at the trending page of GitHub at any given moment, about half of the projects will be related to the tool. It’s a … [Read more...]
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: ToolJet
ToolJet is an open-source, low-code application development platform for building and deploying business applications. Users can use it to build complicated front ends without any experience in React, CSS, or event HTML. They can also drag and drop over 35 built-in UI components for more complicated frontends. With ToolJet, developers can also verify the current properties of … [Read more...]
ConnectALL 2.11 introduces Logic Flow Adapters
ConnectALL 2.11 is the latest release of the value stream management (VSM) company’s flagship VSM platform. ConnectALL is calling this release a “complete overhaul” of the platform, providing a more modern UI and stronger VSM capabilities. Logic Flow Adapters were added to the platform in this release. These allow users to incorporate business logic into their value streams, based on inputs … [Read more...]
Atlassian unveils Jira suite updates to ease collaboration for all involved in software development
Atlassian today fleshed out its Jira suite with a new product – Java Product Discovery – and the availability of other tools designed to more fully bring together all of the roles that are part of software development creation and delivery. At its first DevOps-focused event – Unleash – today in Berlin, the company unveiled Jira Product Discovery. The company also announced the free … [Read more...]
Zero-Copy Integration standard made available to public
The Digital Governance Council and Data Collaboration Alliance have announced the public release of Zero-Copy Integration, which is a Canadian standard that provides a framework for meeting strict data protection regulations and dealing with the risks related to data silos and copy-based data integration. The Zero-Copy Integration framework establishes the following principles: data … [Read more...]
Microsoft rolls out ChatGPT-enabled version of Bing
While it has been speculated for a few weeks that Microsoft had plans to integrate ChatGPT into its search engine Bing, the company has finally made it official. This comes shortly after the company had made a large multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Search rival Google also just announced its own conversation AI service called Bard that it plans to integrate … [Read more...]
The first developer preview of Android 14 now available
The Android development team today announced the general availability of the first preview version of Android 14. With this preview, developers gain access to several new features, such as more ways to build applications and take advantage of the full Android ecosystem. This brings alterations to API behaviors so users can have a more consistent app experience across devices. The preview … [Read more...]
Web 3: New scams for new kids on the blockchain
Over the last 5 years, galaxy-brained folks have had time, thanks in part to a pandemic, to dream big about Web 3 after catching some inspirational podcasts and YouTube gurus. Or maybe watching Gilfoyle pitch a “new internet” on the last season of “Silicon Valley.” What was so intriguing to so many about Web3 anyway? Since nobody could really agree on exactly what it was, it could literally be … [Read more...]
Oracle makes significant change to its Java license
Oracle in January announced a change to its Java license that bases pricing on the number of employees in an organization, rather than on instances in use like they have in the past. “The new Java SE Universal Subscription was developed based on feedback from our customers with Java workloads running in increasingly diverse environments. It no longer requires customers to count every single … [Read more...]