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Contents
ISSUE 288 • APRIL 2013
FROM THE EDITORS SPECIAL REPORT
10 Quality assurance is here to stay DevOps teams are on the move
10 IDEs in the browser are the future
12 Feedback
NEWS
14 RSA sticks with traditional security steps
15 Cryptography pioneers snag 2012 Turing Award
16 Browser-based IDE Codenvy catches investors’ eyes
19 Heirloom puts new look on legacy
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20 Crittercism bolsters APM monitoring
20 Apprenda adds Java to Platform-as-a-Service FEATURES
21 When good open-source projects go bad
Tailoring code for quality
23 FoundationDB takes transactional path
23 JNBridge now spans to Mono on Linux
24 MongoDB 2.4 addresses search concerns
26 Heroku shines light on Ruby 2.0
26 No jailbreaking needed for mobile device tests
29 Telerik wraps Kendo UI with PHP, Windows Phone 8
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57 CODE WATCHby Larry O’Brien
Your tests need to go faster
Avoiding the beginner’s reef
58 ANALYST VIEWby Michael Facemire
Take charge of your mobile strategy
61 GUEST VIEWby Peter Neubauer
Get your community involved
62 INDUSTRY WATCHby David Rubinstein
Back to best-of-breed
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OPINION
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SD Times April 2013 www.sdtimes.com
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Quality assurance is here to stay
The drive to agile methodologies has sophisticated software will require Hutcheson’s article, “Your tests need to
held out the promise of software sophisticated testing that goes beyond go faster,” on p. 47), involve increasing-
development teams without a dedicat- what developers can do. The role of the ly automated test suites. Some involve
ed quality-assurance specialist—or dedicated test professional or QA team leveraging the latest in DevOps and
organizations without test/QA depart- may be diminished, but it has not been Continuous Delivery products or serv-
ments. eliminated. ices. Some involve sophisticated collab-
Sorry, that’s not going to happen. That doesn’t mean that we should oration. And certainly with the latest in
Sure, dev teams can and should focus be satisfied with the speed of software tools, and with careful policies, a team
on building quality into the product. Of testing, either within the development can squeeze a lot of time out of the
course, code repositories can enforce team or in a dedicated quality-assur- process.
standards for unit testing. Certainly, ance group. There is a business imper- Not all of it, though. It’s our feeling
business stakeholders should regularly ative to release software as early as that while the goal may be to elimi-
review the software to ensure that it possible and to drive costs out of the nate the need for discrete, human-
meets their business requirements, just process. The QA function, which powered testing phases, we should
as architects should review against often comes at the end of the time- never expect to totally meet that goal.
technical requirements. line, is both squeezed by coding Unless you plan to turn your cus-
All of those trends will improve soft- delays, budget pressures and the tomers or end users into beta testers
ware quality by identifying defects CEO’s demand to “ship it faster, ship (and we acknowledge that this is
sooner so they can be fixed less expen- it now.” With no loss of quality, of trending), someone, somewhere,
sively. All of those trends will shorten course. needs to perform QA prior to release.
software release cycles and lower soft- What’s a development team lead or All the automation in the world can’t
ware costs. software development executive to do? eliminate the need for QA. Thank
However, no matter how you slice it, Some answers (as you’ll read in Marnie heavens. z
IDEs in the browser are the future
We have seen the future of the acceptable standard of code. installing Eclipse and all the stuff that
integrated development envi- Well, a cloud-based, browser-deliv- goes with it, you can clone and deploy a
ronment, and for development teams, ered IDE solves all of these issues. It’s development environment, exactly as
that means an IDE delivered from the something that’s been hinted at for some you would fork a project on GitHub, for
cloud into a browser. We’re already see- time. The Eclipse Foundation, for exam- example. Who wouldn’t want to be able
ing this move to the cloud happen with ple, has been working on the Orion proj- to share a fully configured IDE with
business and office productivity soft- ect, and on a headless Eclipse installa- their team?
ware (Salesforce, Microsoft’s Office tion that acts as a server for client-side And for ISVs with hosts of APIs, the
365, Adobe Photoshop), and for many developers. Both projects have been browser-based IDE model is a true
of the same reasons, IDEs will not be designed specifically to increase IDE administrative and productivity boost.
far behind. deployment velocity. And, on p. 16 Imagine if programmers don’t have to
To write software, a development (“Browser-based IDE Codenvy catches download anything to write software for
team’s IDE needs libraries, configura- investors’ eyes”), we spotlight a Java- your platform. They simply have to
tions, links into the continuous inte- based IDE startup that’s attracted seri- click on a link, enter security creden-
gration and build system, ties into the ous attention from investors. tials, open a template, click a few but-
testing environment, and whatever That is what the move to the brows- tons, associate a few variables, and then
extra plug-ins and add-ons are needed er is all about: velocity. Rather than hit “deploy.” The browser as IDE: It is
by the organization to produce its spending the first week with a new hire the future. z