If you write software, chances are you’ve come across Continuous Integration, or CI. You might never have heard of it – but you wonder what all the ticks, badges and mysterious status icons are on ...

When teams build software, different developers make changes to the same codebase at the same time. Version control software solves issues like merge conflicts, but how can you ensure one change doesn ...

In this article, I tackle the classic question engineers developing software for custom integrated circuits (ICs) grapple with constantly: How do I test my software before the hardware team gets me a ...

The following is an excerpt from Continuous integration: Improving software quality and reducing risk, by Paul Duvall, Steve Matyas and Andrew Glover. Read the complete chapter about the value of ...

Hardware is only as good as the software that runs on it, and as system complexity grows that software is lagging behind. The way to close that gap is to improve the methodology for developing that ...

Most software development today is done in teams working on one or more code repositories managed in a version-control system. Individual developers work on the areas of code that require changes and ...