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The quality of your company’s data can have a major effect on the software deployment, new research has claimed.

According to a report by Delphix, poor data quality is to blame for roughly 15 percent of software defects, with higher-level data a major factor in faster application development.

The report, entitled State of Test Data Management, also says that many IT firms admitted to compromising data quality, despite the fact that the ability to bring high-quality software to market is considered “critical” to business success.

Businesses are adopting agile and DevOps methodologies to improve innovation, but when it comes to Test Data Management, things get a little tricky. TDM is “prohibitively slow” and constrains app development times.

It takes almost four days and four people to provision an environment for testing and development purposes. Data privacy is usually compromised, and three quarters of respondents said engineers are often allowed access to unprotected sensitive information.

“Application development teams need fast and reliable test data for their projects. Yet many are constrained by the speed, quality, security, and costs of moving data across environments,” explains Iain Chidgey, VP of Sales International at Delphix. “Since it takes significant time and effort to move and manage data, developer environments can take days or weeks to provision. In turn, this places a strain on operations teams and creates time sinks, ultimately slowing down the pace of application delivery.”

But it’s not all gloom and doom, though. Almost half (45 percent) reported working on improving TDM, and 43 percent are confident their organization will improve on its TDM practices in the next 12 months.

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Is our boring future going to be moving from software development to tools configuration in big companies with big projects? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.

Answer by Mario Peshev, CEO of DevriX, on Quora:

A certain portion of the software development industry will become automated and obsolete to some extent—opening jobs for configurators, site builders, and the like.

That’s always been the case whenever various elements are repetitive and could be bundled together in order to optimize the workload and increase the efficiency of a company—especially given the competitive market out there.

That said, the software development industry isn’t going anywhere. There’s plenty of innovation required and tons of custom work that isn’t available yet or is not efficient for various organizations.

There are three main aspects that would still be valid and in demand over the next thirty to fifty years:

1. Flexibility
2. Performance
3. Security

The flexibility aspect includes custom features, integrations, tailored admin, and user areas for better usability and adaptability for given industries. That covers both the front-facing part of software development, the engines running behind the scenes, and various tools interacting in between.

The performance problem is often valid whenever you try to bundle a few tools or solutions together for a high-scale solution. In order to cater for more markets, those aren’t flexible enough and load tons of data and code that slows the application drastically. That may also affect the stability of the application in the long run and be unbearable for solutions that handle a large volume of users or data.

In terms of security, there’s always been a misalignment between top-notch security and freedom of use and adjustability. The more secure an application is, the more steps or restrictions are introduced in the usability cycle. This means that an “off the shelf” solution will either be super secure, or usable and vulnerable (in general, that is). There are ways to work around those problems and build custom layers for backups, intrusion detection and prevention systems, proper logging, and adequate security without causing too much trouble for users while still being a preferred choice for them.

In addition to that, smart homes and new hardware requiring custom development are quite popular nowadays. This expands to robots, solutions requiring machine learning and artificial intelligence, enterprise solutions with custom programming languages for reporting, data management and profiling, analytics and statistics and whatnot.

Even if we consider a world with hundreds of thousands of tools, components, and libraries handling 90% of the development work out there, those would require millions of engineers who can support, extend, and integrate those solutions with others. Which is what software developers do. This will never be the case for large platforms used by many of the websites you visit on the daily basis (which are being continuously developed by millions of engineers as well).

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Explaining the reasons for the delay in announcing the results, Vice-Chancellor of the VTU Karisiddappa said the development of the university’s software took longer than expected. “Once the software was ready, teachers were unable to come for evaluation duty as classes for the next semester had started,” he said on Thursday.

Normally, the evaluation begins a week after the exams and the results are announced two weeks after the evaluation is completed.

Though the new examination system had led to confusion among students, the Vice-Chancellor said the system had helped the university to cut costs. “Each year, we would spend Rs. 14 crore on examination. This year, as we had our own infrastructure, we spent only Rs. 4.75 crore.”

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Microsoft announced today that its Xamarin University will start a free, five-part mobile development series on June 1. The best news? Charles Petzold will appear as a special guest.

“Join a new topic every Thursday,” Microsoft’s Mark Smith explains. “Topics range from learning how to get the most out of Visual Studio 2017’s latest features to building cloud-connected games to adding intelligence with Azure Machine Learning. You will get the training, samples, and advice you need to ship amazing apps using Visual Studio and C#. Every session is totally free, open to everyone, and Xamarin University experts will be on hand to answer all your questions live.”

The series breaks down like so:

Introduction to Xamarin.Forms for Visual Studio 2017. On June 1 at 9 am PDT/12 pm EDT, Xamarin University instructor Jesse Dietrichson will teach you how you can take your .NET skills mobile with Visual Studio 2017 and Xamarin.Forms.

Building games for iOS, macOS, and tvOS with Visual Studio and Azure. On June 8 at 9 am PDT/12 pm EDT, Xamarin University instructor René Ruppert will teach you how to create multiplayer games for the latest Apple devices, from iPhone to tvOS. Topics include SpriteKit basics, integrating with cloud back-end services, and best practices for sharing C# game logic, UI, and infrastructure code across platforms.

SkiaSharp Graphics for Xamarin.Forms. On June 15 at 9 am PDT/12 pm EDT, special guest and author Charles Petzold will teach you how to use SkiaSharp, which is powered by Google’s Skia graphics library, to extend your Xamarin.Forms apps with compelling 2D graphics.

Customizing Xamarin.Forms UI. On June 22 at 9 am PDT/12 pm EDT, Join Xamarin University training manager Rob Gibbens will teach you how to embed native Android and iOS controls into your Xamarin.Forms apps, while still sharing the majority of your code.

Introduction to Azure Machine Learning. On June 29 at 9 am PDT/12 pm EDT, Xamarin University instructor Jason DeBoever will teach you how to start integrating intelligence and predictive analytics into your apps. This session includes a look at Machine Learning fundamentals, Azure Machine Learning Studio, and how easily you can build your first “smart” mobile app.

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The Wall Street Journal claims that The Legend of Zelda will follow in the footsteps of Animal Crossing, Super Mario and Fire Emblem as the next big name Nintendo franchise heading to your mobile device. Although not much information was proffered, TWS said the Zelda mobile game would follow the Animal Crossing app that is reportedly being released in the latter half of 2017 after several delays. The Legend of Zelda on mobile will be developed with DeNA.

Nintendo originally promised it would launch 5 mobile games by March 2017, however only three came to fruition before that date: Miitomo, Super Mario Run, and Fire Emblem Heroes. Shigeru Miyamoto said that while the plan was to release 5 games all along, “market conditions and the development process for each title” has removed one unknown game – in all likelihood this Zelda title – from the release window.

Mysteriously, the report also mentioned that Pokemon Co. was planning a new Pokemon ‘card-game app’, with no further detail.

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We often talk about Android Studio here at XDA because it’s a powerful IDE made with Android application development in mind. Google is the company behind Android Studio and they’re constantly adding new features that make developing Android applications easier with it. The company also just announced support for Kotlin in Android Studio, and you can download the first canary build of Android Studio 3.0 that now includes this.

Android Studio isn’t the only way that you can develop Android applications though. There are a lot of Android application developers who opt for C++ for various reasons, using tools like the Native Development Kit. If your application or game is computationally intensive, or even has a lot of physics simulations, then there is a performance benefit to using C++ due to the amount of performance that you can squeeze out of it. Others may opt for C++ because so many other platforms support it, or to use specific libraries.

There’s even a number of C and C++ libraries that can help to make your application or game easier to develop. So because there are many reasons to use C++, Microsoft is doing what they can to ease you into the process of using Visual Studio for your mobile application development needs. The company recently had their Visual C++ team publish a blog post of a guide that walks you through how to get started with your Android or iOS development.

This guide starts from the beginning and shows you how to install it, and get the right components setup. It then continues from there by suggesting project templates to get you started, shows how to leverage OpenGLES, and then building the application so you can run it. They remind you that Visual Studio can build your application or game for all mobile platforms, that it has tools to debug your code, and even suggests using Xamarin if you want to build native Android applications.

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Getting comfortable with the low-code development platform :-

Mobile application development: Those three words strike fear in the heart of, well, just about anyone, because mobile is difficult. The pace is fast; the unknowns, like user experience, are many; and the technology advances so rapidly it can be hard to keep up.

That’s where a low-code development platform comes in. These solutions — offered by big name brands and niche players, in and out of the cloud — make it easy to pull the building blocks of mobile together without any coding background required. Business analysts, office administrators, small business owners or really anyone with an idea and a low-code development platform can create apps by doing nothing more than drag and drop objects. These so-called citizen developers are solving problems quickly and delivering fully functional apps to both internal users and external customers. And most of the time, they’re able to do so without the help of traditional IT departments.

But this capability isn’t about replacing software developers. They’re in short supply around the world, and hiring them requires a combination of salary and perks that can be difficult or impossible for many companies to manage. The growing number of low-code development platforms allows organizations to extend their mobile (and web) app development efforts without hiring new developers. But these tools will work for developers, too. Many of these tools let developers “get under the hood,” and some tools are sufficiently robust, so a developer can streamline delivery of a simple request.

This handbook examines how the low-code development platform is becoming more prevalent in organizations looking to expand their mobile development options. And citizen developers aren’t going anywhere.

• How low-code development makes building mobile apps easier

  Low-code tools let nearly anyone build mobile applications quickly and efficiently. Here’s why these development tools will continue to grow in popularity.

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  Why (and how) the citizen developer is going to be your new BFF

  Low-code/no-code platforms are making it easier for nontraditional developers to create applications for internal and external use. And they’re helping lessen the backlog, too.

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  Here’s why low-code/no-code software development isn’t a fad

  Developers, meet your new teammates: citizen developers. Here’s how low-code/no-code platforms are changing the way companies of all sizes develop software.

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MobileMonday is here again with your top mobile headlines. Kicking things off is the struggle faced by DevOps developers, followed by AI’s alluring outlook for job hunters. Also, mobile deployment is growing due to doctor demand, while Facebook’s F8 conference pushes the boundaries of mobile development.

Siloed operations holding back DevOps development

DevOps remains an intrinsically useful yet somewhat mysterious technology, according to a recent survey. Case in point, of the executives taking part in the study, 59 percent didn’t have a firm grasp on what DevOps was or what it could do for their organization. Though 41 percent of organizations were leveraging DevOps to some degree, only 17 percent had data that was openly accessible to cross-functional teams. With mobile development ready to take DevOps to the next level, enterprise data needs to catch up.

AI development salary investments exceed $650 million

Looking for a new job? AI might be worth a look, if new research from Paysa has anything to say about it. Pumping some $650 million into AI employees, companies have opened up more than 10,000 positions in the US alone. Amazon and Google are setting the tone with an impressive $357 million in combined money spent on luring prospective AI candidates.

Hospitals embrace mobile strategy thanks to demand from doctors

They say the easiest way to gain traction in a given market is through product demand. At least in the case of mobile technology in healthcare, this wisdom holds true. Doctor demand has led almost two-thirds of hospital organizations to implement mobile device strategies. Despite concerns over Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations, these organizations have seen steady growth in mobile policy adoption, from 34 percent in 2012 to 39 percent today.

Facebook’s developer conference focuses on AR and AI

Facebook’s F8 conference has always been a wealth of innovation for mobile development, and this year’s edition did not disappoint. Headlining the list of announcements was an increased investment in VR and AI. On the VR front, Facebook Spaces lets users interact in a completely digital world. Championing the cause of AI to its 1.2 billion monthly Messenger users, Facebook will be adding innovative bots and features, thanks to the efforts of its 100,000 developers.

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Developing mobile applications is not yet a pain-free process for IT shops. Red Hat Summit session speakers and attendees sound off on some of the challenges.

BOSTON — App development is changing along with the mobile landscape. And for organizations that want to develop their own apps, challenges remain.

Speakers and attendees at last week’s Red Hat Summit addressed some of those challenges. Here is what they had to say about designing apps with the user experience in mind, getting ROI from mobility and more.

“App development is being driven by mobile; modern application development is mobile.”
Steve O’Keefe, product line director, Red Hat

Today, mobility and the app development process go hand in hand. A modern application now means agile apps that translate seamlessly from desktops to smartphones and tablets, O’Keefe said.

IT shops delving into mobile application development have options — from shifting legacy desktop apps to the cloud or building native in-house apps. But no matter the method, developers have to keep the mobile user experience in mind.

“There is no way you can be doing modern app development without considering the screen real estate for smartphones and tablets,” O’Keefe said.

“Mobile apps can take off or totally flop.”
Chad Holmes, senior mobile solutions architect, Red Hat

For organizations that are trying to modernize apps for employees or customers, there are costs to consider — from mobile app development to deployment and lifecycle management.

These costs can be difficult to measure and are often retrospective, but “get more accurate over time,” Holmes said in a session on the ROI of enterprise mobility.

Chief components of mobile ROI include increased productivity and time to market. Companies looking to save money on the mobile application development process would do better launching a set of the five or six business apps the workforce needs versus one big, “killer app,” Holmes said. Otherwise, it can be expensive to build in-house and not worth the time and effort.

“There is no easy answer,” Holmes said.

“Mobile has created a demand for streamlining.”
Joe Stanganelli, enterprise technology consultant, attorney and writer

The advent of mobility has fueled the user’s need for instant gratification. Due to this expectation, “data needs to be more instantaneously and ubiquitously accessible,” Stanganelli said.

Another need that has arisen in the mobile age is enterprise adoption of flexible software to help meet user demands. To keep up with user demand, IT admins must push out apps and their updates more quickly. Because of this, some organizations are beginning to adopt a more continuous delivery model, Stanganelli said.

One thing that can stymie app developers, on the other hand, is if they get hammered with bad reviews in the app store, for instance, he added.

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