The use of open-source software components continues to be the standard for development, with about seven out of every 10 lines of code in the average application coming from an open-source project, a ...

Software testing plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of applications. Two important testing approaches are component testing and end-to-end testing. Component testing focuses ...

An SBOM is a detailed guide to what's inside your software. It helps vendors and buyers alike keep track of software components for better software supply chain security. An SBOM is a formal, ...

Government agencies use SBOMs to expose hidden risks, govern artificial intelligence tools and speed response to software ...

Component-Based Software Performance Engineering (CBSPE) integrates the modularity of component-based software engineering with rigorous performance analysis, enabling the design and tuning of complex ...

What do Heartbleed, Shellshock and Poodle all have in common? Well, apart from being software vulnerabilities discovered in 2014, they were all found in pre-built software components, used by ...

Companies are moving toward a DevSecOps approach to application development, but problems remain with security testing ownership and open-source code vulnerabilities. Credit: kristina flour; modified ...

Every decade, a set of major forces work together to change the way we think about “applications.” Until now, those changes were principally evolutions of software programming, networked ...

The proportion of open source codebases with vulnerabilities has continued to remain level over the past two years, but the number of applications with high-risk vulnerabilities has dropped to its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Software builds applications. Some of those applications ...