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Premature optimization may be the root of all evil, but these tools will make sure your code is clear, clean and secure. Testing your application before shipping is an important part of the ...

Software security is no longer just anti-virus and firewalls. The cloud today offers plenty of excellent options for software developers to increase user reach and availability, yet while these ...

Back in the day, we'd write some code, compile, execute, see what happened and repeat. That was testing. (Sometimes that's still what testing looks like, for better or worse.) Today, we can do a lot ...

Coverity this week released a new version of its namesake software development testing platform with expanded Java and C# testing capabilities and 17 new and enhanced analysis algorithms for Java and ...

Microsoft's Application Consulting & Engineering (ACE Team) has shipped XSSDetect, a free Visual Studio plug-in capable of flagging potential cross-site scripting issues in managed code. The tool, ...

Large-scale software systems are staggeringly complex works of engineering. Bugs inevitably come with the territory and for decades, the software profession has looked for ways to fight them. We may ...

Splunk, the framework for analyzing logs that’s grown into a broad-scale data analytics platform, has gained a new array of tools for .Net developers. A blog post by the Splunk team team describes the ...