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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.

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Optimizing Software Quality: Unit Testing and Automation

DZone

AUGUST 4, 2024

Unit testing is the first line of defense against bugs. This level of protection is essential as it lays the foundation for the following testing processes: integration tests, acceptance testing, and finally manual testing, including exploratory testing.

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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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Low Code Platforms for Test Automation: A Benchmark

DZone

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

That also applies to end-to-end automated tests. Considering the trend toward low code solutions for test automation at the UI level, we wanted to run some experiments comparing the execution time of some of the most popular options.

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Dynatrace Observability for Developers saves time with real-time data

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

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!

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Mutation Testing With SonarQube

DZone

APRIL 13, 2020

In a previous post , we explored the PIT Mutation Testing Maven plugin. This time, we will take a look at how we can integrate the results with SonarQube, our favorite software analysis tool. Before reading this post, it is advised to revise our previous post about Mutation Testing. When tests fail, the mutants are killed.

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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.”

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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.

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7 Steps to Optimize the Cost of Software Testing

DZone

JANUARY 5, 2021

Why Software Testing Is Important. An average mobile app contains about 50,000 lines of code, Microsoft Windows operating system has about 50 million lines of code, while Google’s entire code base is estimated to contain 2 billion lines of code. So how does the software tester decide what to test?

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Six causes of major software outages–And how to avoid them

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

As recent events have demonstrated, major software outages are an ever-present threat in our increasingly digital world. From business operations to personal communication, the reliance on software and cloud infrastructure is only increasing. Software bugs Software bugs and bad code releases are common culprits behind tech outages.

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Fighting Fragility With Property-Based Testing

DZone

DECEMBER 24, 2021

However long you work in software, you always feel late to the party. Property-based testing (PBT) is such an established technology and it deserves more attention. You encounter some seemingly cutting-edge new tool only to learn it has been around for decades, sometimes inspired by research papers from 1970.

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Observability throughout the software development lifecycle increases delivery performance

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This leads to frustrating bottlenecks for developers attempting to build and deliver software. A central element of platform engineering teams is a robust Internal Developer Platform (IDP), which encompasses a set of tools, services, and infrastructure that enables developers to build, test, and deploy software applications.

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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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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. This has also somewhat shifted the burden of software quality, no longer confining it solely to the realm of QA teams.

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Building High-Quality Software

DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It sits at the very beginning of the process before the code is written and can save an immense amount of time down the road (of somebody spending tons of time just to get to a dead-end). I really like what one of the smartest people with whom I worked said: “A good design is a design where you can see the code”. Important note.

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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. The security challenges of DevOps.

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Bringing Software Engineering Rigor to Data

DZone

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In software engineering, we've learned that building robust and stable applications has a direct correlation with overall organization performance. The data community is striving to incorporate the core concepts of engineering rigor found in software communities but still has further to go. Posted with permission.

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5 powerful use cases beyond debugging for Dynatrace Live Debugger

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

White box testing The nicest thing about deploying UI changes to production is that you can immediately see the changes in action. You can see when a new version is deployed, test it to ensure everything works as expected, and youre done. On the other hand, deploying new code on the backend is complex and offers no such transparency.

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

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Recently, some organizations fell victim to a software supply chain attack, which led to loss of confidential data. This article explains what a software supply chain attack is, and how Dynatrace protects its customers against such attacks by applying: Risk management and business continuity planning. It all starts with the code.

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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.

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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?

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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. What is monitoring as code? Within the Terraform CLI, users can instrument code to build and run Dynatrace monitoring for the services they’ll deploy from the same CLI.

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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.

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The path to achieving unprecedented productivity and software innovation through ChatGPT and other generative AI

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

ChatGPT and generative AI: A new world of innovation Software development and delivery are key areas where GPT technology such as ChatGPT shows potential. For example, it can help DevOps and platform engineering teams write code snippets by drawing on information from software libraries.

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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.

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Why software supply chain attacks are increasing

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Software supply chain attacks emerge in full force. But today, software supply chain attacks are a key factor in the global movement of goods. Additionally, a global study of 1,000 CIOs indicated that 82% say their organizations are vulnerable to cyberattacks targeting software supply chains. Dynatrace news.

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What is software composition analysis? How SCA helps reduce risks associated with open source software

Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2022

The growing popularity of open source software presents new risks associated with vulnerable libraries. In response, organizations have adopted additional security tools, such as software composition analysis, that scan code libraries for vulnerabilities. What is software composition analysis?

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Who Needs GameDays? Resilience Testing Using Testcontainers

DZone

MARCH 25, 2022

As you may agree, it is important to test your code. The resilience patterns implemented in your application are code (even if they're just a bunch of annotations). Often I saw that this is not tested thoroughly or not at all. With Testcontainers , writing integration tests has become a commodity.

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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.,

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Understanding Black Box Testing - Types, Techniques, and Examples

DZone

DECEMBER 21, 2021

What comes to your mind when you hear the term Black box, specifically concerning testing? Well, it is something that is not very common to listen to but remains an essential form of software testing.

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs improve software quality. Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate additional processes and testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle. SLOs aid decision making. Availability.

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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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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced market, organizations must not only ensure that their digital infrastructure is functioning optimally but also that software deployments and updates are delivered rapidly and consistently. They help foster confidence and consistency throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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4 Software QA Metrics To Enhance Dev Quality and Speed

DZone

APRIL 16, 2021

Today, the demand for software is higher than ever. Lines of code govern almost everything we do in our day-to-day activities. Introduction. The way we buy, the way we sell, even the way we communicate. In 2019, according to Evans Data Corporation, there were 23.9 million developers worldwide.

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Dynatrace ensures continuous software quality by combining synthetic monitoring and automatic release validation

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. The ability to scale testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has proven difficult.

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Regression Testing: Significance, Challenges, Best Practices and Tools

DZone

JUNE 30, 2022

As the wants and choices of customers and markets are dynamic, so is expected the software to progress in parallel with the varying trends. To evade such anomalies in software, the QA specialist team performs regression tests (with the assistance of regression test tools).

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Monitoring-as-code through Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiative

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2021

Dynatrace’s OneAgent automatically captures PurePaths and analyzes transactions end-to-end across every tier of your application technology stack with no code changes, from the browser all the way down to the code and database level. Monitoring-as-code requirements at Dynatrace. Referencing other configurations by name.

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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. Check out our 5-step framework for identifying and optimizing slow tests if you’re not sure where to start.

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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. Microservices are flexible, lightweight, modular software services of limited scope that fit together with other services to deliver full applications. Dynatrace news. What are microservices?

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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. Microservices are flexible, lightweight, modular software services of limited scope that fit together with other services to deliver full applications. Dynatrace news. What are microservices?

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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.

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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.

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DevOps engineer tools: Deploy, test, evaluate, repeat

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

They are similar to site reliability engineers (SREs) who focus on creating scalable, highly reliable software systems. DevOps teams are responsible for all phases of the software development lifecycle, from code commit to the deployment of products and services. Open source automated browser and testing tool. Kubernetes.

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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?

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Software Testing: Essential 4 Levels

Optimizing Software Quality: Unit Testing and Automation

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How To Generate Code Coverage Report Using JaCoCo-Maven Plugin

Low Code Platforms for Test Automation: A Benchmark

Dynatrace Observability for Developers saves time with real-time data

Mutation Testing With SonarQube

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

Unit Testing Log Messages Made Easy

7 Steps to Optimize the Cost of Software Testing

Six causes of major software outages–And how to avoid them

Fighting Fragility With Property-Based Testing

Observability throughout the software development lifecycle increases delivery performance

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

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

Building High-Quality Software

‘Security as code’ demands proactive DevSecOps

Bringing Software Engineering Rigor to Data

5 powerful use cases beyond debugging for Dynatrace Live Debugger

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

Significance of Scriptless Test Automation In The Automated Testing World

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

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

The path to achieving unprecedented productivity and software innovation through ChatGPT and other generative AI

8 Types of Functional Testing

Why software supply chain attacks are increasing

What is software composition analysis? How SCA helps reduce risks associated with open source software

Who Needs GameDays? Resilience Testing Using Testcontainers

Complete Automation Testing — Is It Feasible?

Understanding Black Box Testing - Types, Techniques, and Examples

Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace to acquire Rookout to deliver code debugging in production environments

What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

4 Software QA Metrics To Enhance Dev Quality and Speed

Dynatrace ensures continuous software quality by combining synthetic monitoring and automatic release validation

Regression Testing: Significance, Challenges, Best Practices and Tools

Monitoring-as-code through Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiative

Tips for Optimizing Slow Tests

What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

What are microservices? An agile architecture for software development

Testing Perl: To Plan or Not to Plan

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

DevOps engineer tools: Deploy, test, evaluate, repeat

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

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