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WildFly 32 Delivers Preview of Jakarta EE 11 and Final Version of WildFly Glow
The WildFly team has released WildFly 32, featuring WildFly Glow tools. These tools analyze application artifacts to determine necessary dependencies and suggest packaging layers. WildFly 32 supports Jakarta EE 10, MicroProfile, and JDK 11, 17, and 21. It also introduces a preview of Jakarta EE 11.
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The Impact of Testing in Software Teams
Communicating quality gaps, holding space for good testing, and writing automation are some of the ways that testers contribute to software teams. According to Maaret Pyhäjärvi, we need to think about testing, not testers. Collaboration and having conversations between team members can result in valuable impact that changes the product and the experiences of our users.
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Actionforge is a VS Code Extension to Build GitHub Workflows Visually
Actionforge provides a visual, node-based interface to create and maintain GitHub Action workflows masking their underlying YAML textual definition. Packaged as an extension for Visual Studio Code, the tool does not require any external services and is now available in beta.
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Making Software Development Boring to Deliver Business Value
Given there’s a limit to our cognitive abilities and our comprehension of complex systems, Corstian Boerman argues that software development should become boring. He suggests moving infrastructure out of the way so that it does not burden the day-to-day development process, and focusing on delivering business value in a predictable and repeatable way.
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What Software Developers Can Do to Prevent Forgetting or Overlooking Things
According to Ilian Iliev, software developers tend to forget to do things they do not have to think about every day, which can cause delays or impact the functionality of the product during a software project. To prevent overlooking something, he suggested starting early with automating deployment, setting up error logging, and using lists and reminders of things that were forgotten previously.
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Improve Logic Apps (Standard) Workflows Observability with Application Insights
Microsoft recently announced the release of the Public Preview Enhancements for Logic Apps Standard in Application Insights. These enhancements provide developers with more in-depth insights into the performance and health of their standard Logic Apps, making it easier to diagnose issues and optimize performance.
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Kubefirst Platform Improves Local Experience and Password Management
Kubefirst, an open-source infrastructure application platform, recently released version 1.11. This version adds improved support for their local installation including a new local DNS implementation, enables Traefik ingress controller for local installs, and adds trusted local TLS certificates.
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Test Automation Requires a Strategy and Clean Code
Having a good strategy for test automation can make it easier to implement test automation and reduce test maintenance costs. The test automation pyramid and automation test wheel can be of help when formulating a test automation strategy and plan. Test automation code should be clean code, and treated similarly to production code.
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GitHub Introduces go-gh to Simplify the Creation of GitHub CLI Extensions
Introduced in GitHub CLI 2.0, extensions allow developers to add new features by writing small Go programs. To make it easier to create extensions, GitHub is now releasing a new library, go-gh. Additionally, the latest version of GitHub CLI introduces two new commands to search and browse the catalog of available extensions.
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Scalable Automation Frameworks for Functional and Non-Functional Testing
Separating the capabilities of a testing framework from the actual tests can enable scaling automated testing for complex enterprise products. According to Alexander Velinov, we should agree on the types of tests to execute automatically during release and what should be kept as manually triggered tests.
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Reliable Continuous Testing Requires Automation
Automation makes it possible to build a reliable continuous testing process that covers the functional and non-functional requirements of the software. Preferably this automation should be done from the beginning of product development to enable quick release and delivery of software and early feedback from the users.
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GitHub Projects Now Generally Available
Announced in beta at GitHub Universe 2021, GitHub Projects is now generally available, including new features for issue grouping and pivoting, metadata customization, charting, and improved automation.
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JetBrains Launches Containerized Dev Env Space On-Premises In Feature-Constrained Beta
Space, JetBrains's take on containerized, remote development environments, is now available on-premises as a beta for all organizations that prefer to have full control over their tools instead of relying on third-party Cloud. The beta includes support for most of the features available in Space Cloud except for development environments, which will be included in the final release, says JetBrains.
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Amazon Released Incremental Training Feature in SageMaker JumpStart
AWS recently released a new feature in SageMaker (AWS Machine Learning Service) JumpStart to incrementally retrain machine-learning (ML) models trained with expanded datasets. By using this feature, developers could fine-tune their models for better performance in production with a couple of clicks. This recent feature is among the series of efforts to add more automation to SageMaker JumpStart.
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Making On-Call Less Painful for Developers by Using High-Quality Alerts
On-call is an increasing reality for developers. Improving alerts to reduce noise, automation, and removing warnings can help to make on-call work more humane. A driving force behind automation is Infrastructure as Code. Over time you can abstract that code so that it fits other use cases, which helps propagate best practices.