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Dynatrace Observability for Developers saves time with real-time data

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Developers are key stakeholders in modern observability. In this blog post, we will see how Dynatrace harnesses the power of observability and analytics to tailor a new experience to easily extend to the left, allowing developers to solve issues faster, build more efficient software, and ultimately improve developer experience!

Development

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Turbocharge Dynatrace App development with the new Visual Studio Code extension `Dynatrace Apps`

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2024

As an app developer, you have many recurring tasks: starting the development server, creating app functions, querying data stored in Grail, managing app configurations, and building and deploying apps. The VS Code extension Dynatrace Apps is here to streamline your development process and simplify app building.

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How To Generate Code Coverage Report Using JaCoCo-Maven Plugin

DZone

JANUARY 18, 2023

Code coverage is a software quality metric commonly used during the development process that let’s you determine the degree of code that has been tested (or executed). To achieve optimal code coverage, it is essential that the test implementation (or test suites) tests a majority percent of the implemented code.

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Measuring Code Quality: Qualitative and Quantitative

DZone

JULY 19, 2021

Code Quality defines that the code is good, which means code is of high quality, and code is bad, which means code is of low quality. Code can be considered good quality if it is clear, simple, well tested, bug-free, refactored, documented, and performant.

Code

Code Metrics Testing Systems

Shift right in software development: Adapting observability for a seamless development experience

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2024

In all seriousness, the shift-left mantra has shaken things up quite a bit in the tech industry, bringing a paradigm shift in how we approach software development. Today, engineers are spending an increasing amount of time developing and testing code in production-like environments.

Development

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Testing Even Before a Line of Code Is Written: Is It Possible?

DZone

AUGUST 4, 2022

Testing is often viewed as a necessary evil in software development, in order to ensure the quality of applications. Most commonly, however, testing occurs after the coding process has been completed. In his book, he even wrote that testing should be done “even before a line of code is written.”

Code

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Unit Testing Log Messages Made Easy

DZone

MARCH 5, 2020

As a Java Developer, we need to cover a lot of scenarios to ensure the quality of our software and catch bugs as soon as possible when introducing a new code. For 99% of all my use cases AssertJ, Junit, Mockito, and Wiremock are sufficient enough do cover the test cases. So the LogCaptor library came into life.

Testing

Testing Java Code Software

Stop Being Afraid of Databases

DZone

JANUARY 2, 2025

Our goal is to speed up development and minimize rollbacks. We want developers to be able to work efficiently while taking ownership of their databases. To achieve this level of quality, they rely on a range of practices, including thorough testing, code reviews, automated CI/CD pipelines , and component monitoring.

Database

Database Speed Efficiency Monitoring

Rift Between Junior and Senior Developers

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By which I mean it can make developers produce more. The question is whether those developers are producing something good or not. The difference between an experienced developer and a junior is that an experienced developer knows: There’s more than one good solution to every problem. I want to be very clear here.

Development

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Observability throughout the software development lifecycle increases delivery performance

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Today, development teams suffer from a lack of automation for time-consuming tasks, the absence of standardization due to an overabundance of tool options, and insufficiently mature DevSecOps processes. This leads to frustrating bottlenecks for developers attempting to build and deliver software.

Software

Software Software Development Performance

What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

The IT world is rife with jargon — and “as code” is no exception. “As code” means simplifying complex and time-consuming tasks by automating some, or all, of their processes. Today, the composable nature of code enables skilled IT teams to create and customize automated solutions capable of improving efficiency.

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Find vulnerabilities in your code—don’t wait for someone to exploit them

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

However, organizations face several challenges with current security testing practices, including: Limited resources: Across the globe, it’s increasingly difficult to find and allocate the necessary personnel to do thorough security testing. High false-positive rates: Traditional security testing tools generate numerous findings.

Code

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‘Security as code’ demands proactive DevSecOps

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2021

The most forward-thinking teams want to take a “shift-left” approach to their security practices, engaging security practices and testing as early as possible in the software development life cycle. Willie Hicks discussed how Dynatrace Application Security helps organizations adopt a security-as-code approach.

Code

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New continuous compliance requirements drive the need to converge observability and security

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2024

It continuously detects vulnerabilities, ensures compliance, provides real-time insights beyond logs, and automatically blocks code-level attacks, including zero-day exploits, with intelligent response automation. Runtime Security integrates seamlessly with static code analyzers, container scanners, and application security testing tools.

Analytics

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Testing Level Dynamics: Achieving Confidence From Testing

DZone

MARCH 23, 2023

All We Can Aim for Is Confidence Releasing features is all about confidence: confidence that features work as expected; confidence that our work is based on quality code; confidence that our code is easily maintainable and extendable; and confidence that our releases will make happy customers.

Testing

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Manage your monitoring as code with Dynatrace’s HashiCorp Terraform integration

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

HashiCorp’s Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. With this integration, Dynatrace customers can now leverage Terraform to manage their monitoring infrastructure as code,” said Asad Ali, Senior Director of Sales Engineering at Dynatrace.

Code

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How Dynatrace protects its software development and delivery life cycle against supply chain attacks

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Security controls in the software development life cycle (SDL). Typically, the attackers attempt to exploit some weakness in the vendor’s development or delivery life cycle and attempt to inject malicious code before an application is signed and certified. Security controls in the software development life cycle (SDL).

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Generative AI poised to have impact by automating software development, report says

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2024

According to recent research from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), generative AI will change software development activities, from quality assurance to debugging to CI/CD pipeline configuration. On the whole, survey respondents view AI as a way to accelerate software development and to improve software quality.

Software

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Dynatrace for Developers: Fixing memory leaks in our cloud-native services on k8s

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Today’s story is about how the Keptn development team is using Dynatrace during development and load-testing. We were in the process of developing a new feature and wanted to make sure it could handle the expected load behavior. Then we ran the load-tests again. Then we ran the load-tests again.

Cloud

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Significance of Scriptless Test Automation In The Automated Testing World

DZone

AUGUST 26, 2021

Software test has significantly changed to enable fast software launches of the superior quality. Many developers have accepted that the no-code/ low-code methods are an effective way to meet the rising demand for faster apps. What is Scriptless Test Automation?

Testing

Testing Scalability Code Software

What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Effective application development requires speed and specificity. Applications must work as intended and make their way through development pipelines as quickly as possible. FaaS enables enterprises to deliver on the evolving expectations of fast and furious app development. Increased testing complexity. But what is FaaS?

Development

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How platform engineering and IDP observability can accelerate developer velocity

Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

As organizations look to expand DevOps maturity, improve operational efficiency, and increase developer velocity, they are embracing platform engineering as a key driver. The goal is to abstract away the underlying infrastructure’s complexities while providing a streamlined and standardized environment for development teams.

Engineering

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Dynatrace to acquire Rookout to deliver code debugging in production environments

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2023

Developers are increasingly responsible for ensuring the quality and security of code throughout the software lifecycle. Developer-first observability Adding Rookout to the Dynatrace platform will provide developers with increased code-level observability of Kubernetes-hosted production environments.

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Application observability meets developer observability: Unlock a 360º view of your environment

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Application observability helps IT teams gain visibility in their highly distributed systems, but what is developer observability and why is it important? In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. Observability is about answering.”

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Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 3, Testing stage

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Having laid the foundation during the deployment stage, we’ll now explore the benefits of Dynatrace visibility and orchestration during the testing phase. T he testing stage plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality of newly built code through the execution of automated test cases.

Testing

Testing Best Practices Performance Testing Engineering

8 Types of Functional Testing

DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Functional and non-functional testing are the two types of software testing. There are various types of functional testing, that are as below: Unit Testing. Integration Testing. System Testing. Regression Testing. Smoke Testing. Sanity Testing. Acceptance Testing. Unit Testing.

Testing

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Unit Testing Console Output Made Easy

DZone

JULY 16, 2021

Testing the console output, why even bother? Some developers don't care and some do care. I think any test which asserts some output based on the same action for your target class is useful as it validates the behavior of your service when it is called. Introduction. It is actually very easy but verbose.

Testing

Testing Java Code Development

Software Testing: Essential 4 Levels

DZone

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The goal of Levels of Testing is to make software testing more structured and efficient, as well as to make it easier to identify all available test cases and test scenarios at a given level. All of these steps go through the software testing process's tiers of testing.

Software

Software Software Testing Efficiency

Complete Automation Testing — Is It Feasible?

DZone

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It is a fact that software testing is time and resources consuming. Testing the software can be observed from different perspectives. It can be divided based on what we are testing. For example, each deliverable in the project, like the requirements, design, code, documents, user interface, etc., should be tested.

Testing

Testing Programming Design Code

Testing Perl: To Plan or Not to Plan

DZone

MAY 11, 2021

You'd like to maintain some level of software quality (or kwalitee ), so you're writing a suite of test scripts. Whether you're writing them first (good for you for practicing test-driven development !) When you first start, you probably have no idea how many tests your scripts will contain.

Testing

Testing Code Design Software

Introducing Configurable Metaflow

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Many of these projects are under constant development by dedicated teams with their own business goals and development best practices, such as the system that supports our content decision makers , or the system that ranks which language subtitles are most valuable for a specific piece ofcontent.

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Code-level observability for Flutter apps drives great user experience

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Flutter offers a mobile development model that allows you to do just that. Today, the production apps of many big companies use Flutter, which has a steadily growing community of developers. ” As a developer, you might want to quickly find and analyze errors and crashes to make sure they don’t recur.

Code

Code Mobile Monitoring Infrastructure

Testing Challenges Related to Microservice Architecture

DZone

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If you are living in the same world as I am, you must have heard the latest coding buzzer termed “ microservices ”—a lifeline for developers and enterprise-scale businesses. Enough to make the business more scalable in a fly-by paralleling development, testing, and maintenance across various independent teams.

Architecture

Architecture Testing Strategy Scalability

Tips for Optimizing Slow Tests

DZone

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

From developers to testers, from business analysts to management, everyone in your organization must be committed to keeping tests in top condition. If you have an extensive test suite, you’ll need a plan to focus the effort. Software development is modulated by the tools supporting it.

Testing

Testing Code Software Software

Automating Success: Building a better developer experience with platform engineering

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At the 2024 Dynatrace Perform conference in Las Vegas, Michael Winkler, senior principal product management at Dynatrace, ran a technical session exploring just some of the many ways in which Dynatrace helps to automate the processes around development, releases, and operation. Configuration as code is easy to use, update, and understand.

Engineering

Engineering Development Infrastructure Cloud

What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. This method of structuring, developing, and operating complex, multi-function software as a collection of smaller independent services is known as microservice architecture. Dynatrace news.

Architecture

Architecture Software Software Development

What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

2020 cemented the reality that modern software development practices require rapid, scalable delivery in response to unpredictable conditions. This method of structuring, developing, and operating complex, multi-function software as a collection of smaller independent services is known as microservice architecture. Dynatrace news.

Architecture

Architecture Software Software Development

Enhancing Testing Efficiency: Transitioning From Traditional Code Coverage to Code Change Coverage

DZone

JUNE 21, 2024

In software development, maintaining high code quality and reliability is crucial for building robust applications. A key metric for gauging testing effectiveness is code coverage, which measures the percentage of code executed during automated tests.

Code

Code Efficiency Testing Infrastructure

DevOps engineer tools: Deploy, test, evaluate, repeat

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Rob Jahn, Dynatrace senior technical partner manager, and Andreas Grabner, Dynatrace DevOps activist discussed the role of platform engineers in the video “ Deploy, Test, Evaluate, Repeat : The Power of Webhooks for DevOps Platforms Engineers.” Issue tracking system to manage issues, trigger workflows, and track code changes.

DevOps

DevOps Engineering Testing Open Source

Predictable costs for Log Management & Analytics with new simplified licensing plan

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Once you develop best practices and are confident with your consumption patterns, you can switch to usage-based pricing to maximize the value of your DPS investment. Disclaimer: This publication may include references to the planned testing, release, and/or availability of Dynatrace products and services.

Analytics

Analytics Best Practices Efficiency Storage

Top Benefits of Automation Testing for a Successful Product Release

DZone

MARCH 21, 2022

Businesses rely on automation testing to keep up with faster and higher-quality processes that agile development demands. There are many benefits of automation testing, such as reducing costs, avoiding delays, and helping to create a great customer experience. Introduction.

Testing

Testing Efficiency Software Software

Path to NoOps part 2: How infrastructure as code makes cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Infrastructure as code is a way to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. In this blog, I explore how Dynatrace has made cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale by embracing the principles of infrastructure as code. Infrastructure-as-code. But how does it work in practice? Transparency and scalability.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps

TestNG vs. JUnit Testing Framework: Which One Is Better?

DZone

AUGUST 12, 2021

Software Development goes through many phases like requirement gathering & analysis, communication, design, code building, testing, and release. Testing is an indispensable part of the SDLC and can be achieved either manually or automatically. What is Unit Testing?

Testing

Testing Mobile Design Software

How Dynatrace empowers performance engineering teams to test at scale

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). How can organizations address this process bottleneck and run more tests in less time?

Engineering

Engineering Testing Performance Performance Testing

Dynatrace Observability for Developers saves time with real-time data

Turbocharge Dynatrace App development with the new Visual Studio Code extension `Dynatrace Apps`

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How To Generate Code Coverage Report Using JaCoCo-Maven Plugin

Measuring Code Quality: Qualitative and Quantitative

Shift right in software development: Adapting observability for a seamless development experience

Testing Even Before a Line of Code Is Written: Is It Possible?

Unit Testing Log Messages Made Easy

Stop Being Afraid of Databases

Rift Between Junior and Senior Developers

Observability throughout the software development lifecycle increases delivery performance

What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

Find vulnerabilities in your code—don’t wait for someone to exploit them

‘Security as code’ demands proactive DevSecOps

New continuous compliance requirements drive the need to converge observability and security

Testing Level Dynamics: Achieving Confidence From Testing

Manage your monitoring as code with Dynatrace’s HashiCorp Terraform integration

How Dynatrace protects its software development and delivery life cycle against supply chain attacks

Generative AI poised to have impact by automating software development, report says

Dynatrace for Developers: Fixing memory leaks in our cloud-native services on k8s

Significance of Scriptless Test Automation In The Automated Testing World

What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

How platform engineering and IDP observability can accelerate developer velocity

Dynatrace to acquire Rookout to deliver code debugging in production environments

Application observability meets developer observability: Unlock a 360º view of your environment

Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 3, Testing stage

8 Types of Functional Testing

Unit Testing Console Output Made Easy

Software Testing: Essential 4 Levels

Complete Automation Testing — Is It Feasible?

Testing Perl: To Plan or Not to Plan

Introducing Configurable Metaflow

Code-level observability for Flutter apps drives great user experience

Testing Challenges Related to Microservice Architecture

Tips for Optimizing Slow Tests

Automating Success: Building a better developer experience with platform engineering

What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

Enhancing Testing Efficiency: Transitioning From Traditional Code Coverage to Code Change Coverage

DevOps engineer tools: Deploy, test, evaluate, repeat

Predictable costs for Log Management & Analytics with new simplified licensing plan

Top Benefits of Automation Testing for a Successful Product Release

Path to NoOps part 2: How infrastructure as code makes cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale

TestNG vs. JUnit Testing Framework: Which One Is Better?

How Dynatrace empowers performance engineering teams to test at scale

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