Decades ago, we abandoned the practice of measuring developers for the number of lines of code they developed. We realized it was too easy to game the system by writing bloated code that reduced value rather than increased it. The best developers, who made code smaller, faster, and easier to maintain, were penalized, because they …
OpenClaw is an AI agent designed to act like a personal assistant, managing your email, calendar, social media accounts, and more, all from a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. While it has amassed a great deal of popularity — at the time of this writing it has over 180,000 stars on GitHub — many …
Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) provider Planview today announced the launch of its Connected Work Graph, which provides software development leaders with insights into how work connects across OKRs, initiatives, teams, and resources so they can make better decisions and remove bottlenecks. “This isn’t just another dashboard, it’s an active participant in your strategic execution that …
Over the past year, I’ve watched teams roll out increasingly capable AI systems, tooling, and agents, and then struggle to trust, adopt, or scale them. I’d argue that a lot of today’s AI adoption problem starts with how we are framing the shift. “Human-in-the-loop” (often shortened to HITL) has become one of today’s most overhyped …
Too often, software engineering organizations evolve reactively and are shaped by precedent or internal politics in a volatile and rapidly changing business environment, hindering intentional design. To deliver real business value, software engineering leaders should proactively optimize their organizational structures and delivery models to achieve both digital optimization and digital transformation. Evaluate Alternatives to Design …
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.6 Claude Opus 4.6 is the latest version of the company’s most powerful class of AI models. Anthropic says that this release improves on Opus’ coding skills, and it now plans more carefully, sustains agent tasks for longer, can run more reliably in larger codebases, and has better code review and …
Google is attempting to make it easier for developers to access its documentation by creating the Developer Knowledge API and corresponding MCP server, both now in public preview. The Developer Knowledge API allows developers to search and retrieve documentation for Google’s services in Markdown. This includes documentation from firebase.google.com, developer.android.com, docs.cloud.google.com, and more. The two …
Apple is enabling agentic coding within Xcode in the latest version of the development platform (version 26.3). Developers will now be able to use Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex directly in Xcode. “With seamless access to Claude Agent and Codex, developers can bring the advanced reasoning of these models directly into their app-building workflow. …
Chaos engineering, the practice of proactively injecting failure to test system resilience, has evolved. For enterprises today, the focus has shifted from chaos to reliability testing at scale. “Chaos testing, chaos engineering is a little bit of misnomer,” Kolton Andrus, founder and CEO of Gremlin, told SD Times about the term with which he launched …
Opsera is releasing several new agents as a part of its Agentic DevOps offering that proactively manage DevOps workflows in an attempt to address some of the bottlenecks introduced by AI-assisted coding. According to a recent report from the company, AI-assisted coding can speed up metrics like Time-to-Pull Request or test pass rate, but it …
Snowflake and OpenAI announce $200 million partnership The two companies will work on building customized AI solutions for their joint customers. Additionally, OpenAI’s models will be natively available on Snowflake Cortex AI across the three major cloud providers, and will also be accessible through Snowflake Intelligence. “By bringing OpenAI models to enterprise data, Snowflake enables …
Container security incidents are becoming more common, with nearly one in four respondents to a new survey from BellSoft saying they have experienced a security incident. The survey concluded that questions about security practices remain unresolved. According to the survey by OpenJDK provider BellSoft, 62% of participating developers reported that human errors were the biggest …
No industry is immune to the need for high-quality software. Recently, automaker Ford recalled more than 355,000 trucks due to an instrument panel display issue; a flaw that risked hiding critical information like speed and, in turn, increasing the likelihood of car crashes. While not every software failure has such dramatic consequences, many organizations are …
Coder creates AI Maturity Self-Assessment and AI Maturity Curve These new tools will enable software development teams to assess how effectively they have adopted AI. The assessment asks teams questions like how standardized their developer environment is, what their governance approach for AI is, how they handle risks like sensitive data exposure, and more. “As …
Join the premier event series to uncover the latest in AI in Test trends related to MCP, Agents, and AI driven automation. Speakers will present solutions you to learn how to deliver value for your organizations. …
Your engineering team is using AI coding tools, but when the CEO, CFO, or board asks, “What’s the actual ROI?”, you’re stuck between “It feels faster” and “I can’t actually prove it.” License counts are useless, and velocity metrics can’t isolate the AI variable. Join GitKraken’s VP of Engineering, Stasia Zamyshlyaeva, as she shares her …
LIVE: Thursday, Nov 20 2025 @ 1PM ET As AI agents become increasingly capable, we’re stepping into a new era where a single agent may not hold all the domain knowledge needed for a complex task. That’s where Agent-to-Agent (A2A) collaboration comes in, which is agents reaching out to other agents, sharing abilities, and combining strengths. …
When tests scale to thousands, who’s in charge? In this session, we’ll explore six breakthrough areas where artificial intelligence now leads in QA—where AI doesn’t just assist, it performs. These advances represent not incremental improvement but a paradigm shift. QA has entered the generative era, where AI models can reason about user flows, infer data relationships, and produce …
Not sure how QA survives the AI wave? This session gives you a practical playbook. AI platforms that generate, execute, and heal tests are already running thousands of tests in hours – and that means the old tester-as-scripter playbook is obsolete. This webinar shows QA leaders and senior testers how to move from being automated-out …
Join Kevin Surace in this SD Times Live! Microwebinar series with Appvance. Learn how plain-language requirements can be turned into test cases, automatically converted into executable scripts, and more. …
Join the premier event series to uncover the latest in AI in Test trends related to MCP, Agents, and AI driven automation. Speakers will present solutions you to learn how to deliver value for your organizations. …
Your engineering team is using AI coding tools, but when the CEO, CFO, or board asks, “What’s the actual ROI?”, you’re stuck between “It feels faster” and “I can’t actually prove it.” License counts are useless, and velocity metrics can’t isolate the AI variable. Join GitKraken’s VP of Engineering, Stasia Zamyshlyaeva, as she shares her …
LIVE: Thursday, Nov 20 2025 @ 1PM ET As AI agents become increasingly capable, we’re stepping into a new era where a single agent may not hold all the domain knowledge needed for a complex task. That’s where Agent-to-Agent (A2A) collaboration comes in, which is agents reaching out to other agents, sharing abilities, and combining strengths. …
When tests scale to thousands, who’s in charge? In this session, we’ll explore six breakthrough areas where artificial intelligence now leads in QA—where AI doesn’t just assist, it performs. These advances represent not incremental improvement but a paradigm shift. QA has entered the generative era, where AI models can reason about user flows, infer data relationships, and produce …
Not sure how QA survives the AI wave? This session gives you a practical playbook. AI platforms that generate, execute, and heal tests are already running thousands of tests in hours – and that means the old tester-as-scripter playbook is obsolete. This webinar shows QA leaders and senior testers how to move from being automated-out …
Join Kevin Surace in this SD Times Live! Microwebinar series with Appvance. Learn how plain-language requirements can be turned into test cases, automatically converted into executable scripts, and more. …
