This document summarizes a presentation given by Soasta and Serena Software on accelerating application delivery through continuous testing. The presentation discusses Serena's deployment automation software and how it can increase deployment velocity. It also discusses Soasta's cloud-based testing platform and how it enables continuous testing of applications from development through production. Speakers from both companies provide examples of how their tools have helped customers reduce testing cycles and speed up time to market for applications. The presentation emphasizes the benefits of a continuous testing approach over a traditional linear development and testing model.
Automated Testing in Continuous Change ManagementPerforce
Marc Hornbeek is a senior solutions architect at Spirent Communications who has managed their transition to more agile testing practices. This presentation describes Spirent's journey from large, infrequent "freight train" releases to more modular, continuous "mover" releases enabled by test automation tools and DevOps practices. It discusses how Spirent moved from separate test environments and processes to a centralized, change-driven model with integrated development and testing. The goal was to allow more incremental and frequent releases to increase velocity while maintaining stability and coverage.
SoCal DevOps Meetup 1/26/2017 - Habitat by ChefTrevor Hess
The document discusses Habitat, a tool for building and managing applications. It provides an overview of Habitat and how it makes containers better by allowing applications to declare dependencies and resolve them from the application to infrastructure for a minimum viable OS. The document also demonstrates Habitat's approach through examples of building immutable infrastructure that allows last mile configuration changes, decoupling application builds from final containers, and orchestrating application launch order and topology.
As cloud computing becomes of strategic importance in the enterprise, part of the solution is no longer on-premise but in the cloud, adding a layer of complexity. Edwin Chan demystifies performance testing of cloud systems and applications by addressing the following key questions: Is performance testing of cloud systems fundamentally different from testing on-premises applications? What are the best practices for performance testing of both cloud and on-premises systems? Performance testing of cloud systems is essentially the same as that of its on-premises counterpart with the exception of the key consideration of network latency. After clearing common misconceptions, Edwin shares the hot topic best practices—adopting an agile/lean methodology, conducting early performance testing, and automating the injection of test data. Discuss the challenges the testing team faces in these days of disruptive and fast-paced technology changes. Take back and apply some of the best practices that fit your organization’s need.
In this webinar, Skytap and Sky IT Group share tips and advanced technology for how to build better software faster using cloud-based dev/test environments.
A CLI based tool that simplifies the task of apex code quality management. ApexUnit simplifies the challenges of code quality management in a multi-tenant architecture [Patent pending]
Webinar: Automating the Creation and Use of Virtual Testing Environments Skytap Cloud
Skytap provides on-demand cloud environments to help enterprises deliver better software faster by removing inefficiencies in the product development lifecycle. Traditional on-premise environments cause delays, restrict parallel development, and lead to defects due to inconsistent environments. Skytap's self-service cloud environments eliminate these problems by providing on-demand, pre-configured environments that developers can access immediately, reducing the time spent on environment management and reproducing defects.
The document discusses three companies - Orasi, Delphix, and Skytap - that provide services related to application testing, data management, and environments. Orasi provides testing tools and services to help with quality assurance. Delphix offers a data management platform that provides data services and virtual copies of production data for development and testing environments. Skytap provides cloud-based virtual testing environments that allow for rapid deployment and provisioning. The document discusses how these three companies can help organizations accelerate application delivery through more efficient testing, data management, and environment provisioning.
Webinar - Nuage Networks Integration with Check Point vSEC GatewayHussein Khazaal
This document discusses Check Point's protection capabilities for Nuage SDN datacenters. It provides an overview of Check Point's security solutions that can integrate with and protect Nuage virtualized networks, including firewall, VPN, endpoint protection, cloud security, and unified management capabilities. Check Point positions its software-defined security architecture as providing comprehensive protection across physical, virtual, private and public cloud environments through a single management console.
Automated Testing in Continuous Change ManagementPerforce
Marc Hornbeek is a senior solutions architect at Spirent Communications who has managed their transition to more agile testing practices. This presentation describes Spirent's journey from large, infrequent "freight train" releases to more modular, continuous "mover" releases enabled by test automation tools and DevOps practices. It discusses how Spirent moved from separate test environments and processes to a centralized, change-driven model with integrated development and testing. The goal was to allow more incremental and frequent releases to increase velocity while maintaining stability and coverage.
SoCal DevOps Meetup 1/26/2017 - Habitat by ChefTrevor Hess
The document discusses Habitat, a tool for building and managing applications. It provides an overview of Habitat and how it makes containers better by allowing applications to declare dependencies and resolve them from the application to infrastructure for a minimum viable OS. The document also demonstrates Habitat's approach through examples of building immutable infrastructure that allows last mile configuration changes, decoupling application builds from final containers, and orchestrating application launch order and topology.
As cloud computing becomes of strategic importance in the enterprise, part of the solution is no longer on-premise but in the cloud, adding a layer of complexity. Edwin Chan demystifies performance testing of cloud systems and applications by addressing the following key questions: Is performance testing of cloud systems fundamentally different from testing on-premises applications? What are the best practices for performance testing of both cloud and on-premises systems? Performance testing of cloud systems is essentially the same as that of its on-premises counterpart with the exception of the key consideration of network latency. After clearing common misconceptions, Edwin shares the hot topic best practices—adopting an agile/lean methodology, conducting early performance testing, and automating the injection of test data. Discuss the challenges the testing team faces in these days of disruptive and fast-paced technology changes. Take back and apply some of the best practices that fit your organization’s need.
In this webinar, Skytap and Sky IT Group share tips and advanced technology for how to build better software faster using cloud-based dev/test environments.
A CLI based tool that simplifies the task of apex code quality management. ApexUnit simplifies the challenges of code quality management in a multi-tenant architecture [Patent pending]
Webinar: Automating the Creation and Use of Virtual Testing Environments Skytap Cloud
Skytap provides on-demand cloud environments to help enterprises deliver better software faster by removing inefficiencies in the product development lifecycle. Traditional on-premise environments cause delays, restrict parallel development, and lead to defects due to inconsistent environments. Skytap's self-service cloud environments eliminate these problems by providing on-demand, pre-configured environments that developers can access immediately, reducing the time spent on environment management and reproducing defects.
The document discusses three companies - Orasi, Delphix, and Skytap - that provide services related to application testing, data management, and environments. Orasi provides testing tools and services to help with quality assurance. Delphix offers a data management platform that provides data services and virtual copies of production data for development and testing environments. Skytap provides cloud-based virtual testing environments that allow for rapid deployment and provisioning. The document discusses how these three companies can help organizations accelerate application delivery through more efficient testing, data management, and environment provisioning.
Webinar - Nuage Networks Integration with Check Point vSEC GatewayHussein Khazaal
This document discusses Check Point's protection capabilities for Nuage SDN datacenters. It provides an overview of Check Point's security solutions that can integrate with and protect Nuage virtualized networks, including firewall, VPN, endpoint protection, cloud security, and unified management capabilities. Check Point positions its software-defined security architecture as providing comprehensive protection across physical, virtual, private and public cloud environments through a single management console.
Continuous Delivery in a Legacy Shop - One Step at a TimeGene Gotimer
Not every continuous delivery (CD) initiative starts with someone saying “Drop everything. We’re going to do DevOps.” Sometimes, you have to grow your process incrementally. And sometimes you don’t set out to grow at all—you are just fixing problems with your process, trying to make things better. Gene Gotimer discusses techniques and the chain of tools he has used to bring a DevOps mindset and CD practices into a legacy environment. Gene discusses how his team started fixing problems and making process improvements in development. From there, they tackled one problem after another, each time making the release a little better and a little less risky. They incrementally brought their practices through other environments until the project was confidently delivering working and tested releases every two weeks. Gene shares their journey and the tools they used to build quality into the product, the releases, and the release process.
Breaking the 2 Pizza Paradox with your Platform as an ApplicationMark Rendell
In my experience many large enterprises would love the adoption of DevOps to be as simple as bringing Development closer to Operations. In practice they need to consider many development teams, multiple suppliers, multiple service providers, not to mention multiple business divisions. I describe my experiences of implementing Continuous Delivery in large enterprises with heterogeneous technology stacks and share my belief that Platform Applications will be the saviour of enterprise DevOps.
Continuous Testing for Optimal Mobile Peroformance - STPCon Spring 2014SOASTA
The document discusses continuous integration and performance testing of mobile applications. It emphasizes using real mobile devices and cloud-based load testing to validate user experience under different conditions. Continuous integration practices like daily performance tests can help identify bottlenecks and keep development teams focused on performance.
Accelerate Web and Mobile Testing for Continuous Integration and DeliverySOASTA
Accelerating Web and Mobile Testing for Continuous Delivery
Automated load and performance testing of your web and mobile apps can ensure quality throughout the application lifecycle. Automated and continuous testing can increase the speed and accuracy of application readiness, and eliminate time-consuming, error-prone manual processes.
In this webinar, led by SOASTA experts, you will learn:
• How to create a continuous load and performance testing framework
• How to trigger testing every time code changes are delivered
• How to use TouchTest for mobile apps functional testing
• How to use CloudTest for load testing
Infrastructure Testing: The Ultimate “Shift Left”TechWell
Organizations worldwide are continually required to make significant investments in upgrading, re-engineering, and protecting their IT infrastructure. However, unlike application software development, many companies lack a structured quality assurance approach for infrastructure testing. Creating an infrastructure quality practice is an answer, but it's not without its challenges. However, if your company is interested in avoiding headline-grabbing outages, rooted in deployment problems with infrastructure—server, network, storage, middleware, telephony, hardware, IT security, cloud, virtual, and Data Center Ops—then come to this session. Carl Delmolino and Hitesh Patel explain how to identify and address infrastructure testing opportunities, how to build a diversely skilled infrastructure test team, and how to apply familiar SDLC testing process rigor to enterprise-level infrastructure change. When addressed effectively, infrastructure testing is risk mitigation at the far end of “left,” reduces organizational technical risk, and helps ensure higher system availability for employees and customers, alike.
Continuous Delivery for IT Operations TeamsMark Rendell
Mark Rendell leads the DevOps Control Services Centre at Accenture, which provides Continuous Delivery services to projects. He discusses how Continuous Delivery relies on operations teams to provide consistent environments and testing. It also teaches operations teams to adopt practices from developers like infrastructure as code and automated testing. This transition means operations teams focus more on delivering value through software and treating infrastructure like an application.
Skytap parasoft webinar new years resolution- accelerate sdlcSkytap Cloud
In this webinar, co-hosted by Parasoft and Skytap, find out how to get your software lifecycle in shape for the New Year. You'll learn strategies for helping DevOps and Test collaborate in ways that make your SDLC leaner and more scalable.
Code-to-Cloud Visibility: An Essential Framework for DevOps SuccessJadeCampbell13
In DevOps we are used to talking about application velocity. But velocity without a framework is short lived and potentially creates more risk than benefit.
Code-to-Cloud visibility is the practice of making sure engineering teams have visibility across the entire SDLC in depth and breadth. With code-to-cloud visibility organizations understand the impact of application development from feature definition to it running in production.
Join Splunker Chris Riley as he explores:
The importance of aligning application visibility with your application tech stack
How to enable code-to-cloud visibility practices
Deeper understanding of DevSecOps, Pipeline Analytics, and Observability
Mobile Application Assessment - Don't Cheat YourselfDenim Group
The document summarizes the findings from mobile application security assessments conducted on 61 applications. It found a total of 957 vulnerabilities across the applications. The most prevalent types of vulnerabilities were related to SQL injection and information leaks. Most vulnerabilities were found in the corporate web services that supported the mobile applications, rather than in the mobile applications themselves or third party web services. Both automated and manual testing techniques identified vulnerabilities, but manual testing found more high-risk issues while automated tools identified more lower-risk vulnerabilities. The document provides recommendations for effective mobile application security assessment strategies.
Service Virtualization: Delivering Complex Test Environments on DemandErika Barron
This presentation explores the latest service virtualization research and shares firsthand best practices and benefits of service virtualization from Comcast’s Director of Performance Test. Discover how to: enable more complete testing earlier in each iteration, streamline lean processes with more reliable test environments, and manage complex tests in a dynamic development environment.
The Self Healing Cloud: Protecting Applications and Infrastructure with Autom...Denim Group
Organizations often have to deploy arbitrary applications on their infrastructure without thorough security testing. These applications can contain serious security vulnerabilities that can be detected and exploited remotely and in an automated manner. The applications themselves and the infrastructure they are deployed on are then at risk of exploitation. Configuration changes or vendor-provided software updates and patches are typically used to address infrastructure vulnerabilities. However, application-level vulnerabilities often require coding changes to be fully addressed.
Virtual patching is a technique where targeted rules are created for web application firewalls (WAFs) or other IDS/IPS technologies to help mitigate specific known application vulnerabilities. This allows applications to be “virtually” patched prior to actual code-level patches being applied. These virtual patches are most often applicable to vulnerabilities that have a strong detection signature such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) because the detection rules can be targeted to detect these signatures, but limited only to specific parts of the application attack surface where the application is known to be vulnerable.
This presentation examines the automatic creation of virtual patches from automated web application security scanner results and explores scenarios where this approach might be successfully employed. It discusses theoretical approaches to the problem and provides specific demonstrations using Open Source tools such as the skipfish and w3af scanners and Snort and mod_security protection technologies. Finally, it looks at opportunities to apply these techniques to protect arbitrary applications deployed into arbitrary infrastructures so that short-term protection against common web application attacks can be consistently applied while minimizing false blocking of legitimate traffic.
Running a Software Security Program with Open Source Tools (Course)Denim Group
Using the Software Assurance Maturity Model (OpenSAMM) as a framework, this course walks through the major components of a comprehensive software security program and highlights open source and other freely-available tools that can be used to help implement the activities involved in such a program. The focus of the course is on providing hands-on demonstrations of the tools with an emphasis on integrating tool results into the overall software security program. Featured tools include: ESAPI, Microsoft Web Protection Library, FindBugs, Brakeman, Agnitio, w3af, OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP), gauntlt, and ThreadFix as well as other educational resources from OWASP. Attendees should finish the course with a solid understanding of the various components of a comprehensive software security program as well as hands-on experience with a variety of freely-available tools that they can use to implement portions of these programs.
Today, organizations of all shapes and sizes depend on feature-packed application releases to keep end users productive and happy. In their new book, The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations, Gene Kim and his co-authors shared ways that high-performing organizations use DevOps principles to enable reliable deployments - and boring releases!
Gene Kim, CTO, DevOps researcher and co-author of the DevOps Handbook and The Phoenix Project, and Anders Wallgren, CTO of Electric Cloud shared their tips for overcoming the challenges of DevOps and Continuous Delivery at scale. During the webinar, they discussed:
- The business value of DevOps
- How to eliminate “deployment anxiety” and increase business agility
- Lessons learned from large scale DevOps transformations
- The advantages and disadvantages of practicing DevOps in large organizations
AppSec Survey 2.0 Fine-Tuning an AppSec Training Program Based on DataDenim Group
Measuring the effectiveness of any security activity is widely discussed – security leaders debate the topic with a religious fervor rivaling that of any other hot button issue. Virtually every organization has some sort of application security training effort, but data on training effectiveness remains scarce. Last year our research team delivered the first-ever survey that captured developer awareness of secure coding concepts and the impact of formal application security training on a developer’s ability to write secure code. We learned that most software developer were aware of certain application security concepts, yet when asked how to write more secure code, they faired poorly.
This year’s 600-developer survey provides more quantitative data on what software developers understand about application security, both concepts and practices. It dives most deeply into awareness of defensive coding practices, which most developers largely did not grasp in the 2013 survey. It also is separates respondents by roles, so we can better understand how architects, developers, and QA staff grasp key application security concepts and put them to work. It better captures how software developers learn in general, so one can tailor any security training effort to how software developers, in practice, actually learn. This information will provide data to application security managers responsible for corporate security training that should allow them them to make more fact-based decisions about security training.
Accelerate Cloud Migrations - Introduction to PaaSLaneBenjamin Grubin
Thinking about or in the process of migrating a Java or .NET application to the cloud? Whether you are considering public cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or private cloud, migrating applications can be trickier than it looks at first glance. Learn how PaaSLane from Cloud Technology Partners leverages the expertise of cloud experts and thousands of successful migrations to accelerate your migration and ensure the success of your project.
Evolving Devops: The Benefits of PaaS and Application Dial Tonecornelia davis
Differentiate between Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), enhanced IaaS (Iaas+) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). We define IaaS+, which remains an infrastructure virtualization solution, and make clear the benefits of providing making the application (instead of the virtual machine) the first class abstraction with which developers and operations teams interact. When enough functionality is available around the *application* devops practices provide greater value.
These slides were presented as a part a Pivotal webinar - a replay can be accessed here: http://www.pivotal.io/platform-as-a-service/evolving-devops-the-benefits-of-paas-and-application-dial-tone
Mobile Application Assessment By the Numbers: a Whole-istic ViewDenim Group
Typically, mobile application assessments myopically test only the software living on the device. However, the code deployed on the device, the corporate web services backing the device and any third party supporting services must be “whole-isticly” tested AS WELL AS testing the interactions between these components to reach an acceptable level of software assurance for mobile applications.
You Build It, You Secure It: Higher Velocity and Better Security with DevSecOpsDevOps.com
It’s 30 times cheaper to fix a security defect in Development vs. Production, yet Security is often treated as an afterthought and a bottleneck. It doesn’t have to be that way. DevSecOps practices build security and quality into the software delivery process by making EVERYONE responsible for security at every stage.
Join John Willis, Electric Cloud advisor, co-author of “The DevOps Handbook” and Vice President of DevOps and Digital Practices at SJ Technologies, and Anders Wallgren, Electric Cloud CTO, as they share tips to allow developers and operators to increase delivery velocity and harden their pipelines by including security earlier in the delivery process.
You will learn:
How development teams can help secure applications by injecting failure earlier
The role the delivery pipeline plays in Integrating new technology and security controls into the process
How self-service access to approved automation speeds velocity without sacrificing compliance or security
Leverage DevOps & Agile Development to Transform Your Application Testing Pro...Deborah Schalm
Discover how Sona Srinivasan, Senior Architect of Cisco IT’s Global Architecture and Technology Services group, helps transform an IT DevOps strategy to a Security DevOps strategy, with IBM Security's assistance. Cisco is presently implementing continuous security and agile methods throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), and specific examples of current initiatives will be reviewed in this session.
Middle-market private equity firm HGGC acquired Serena Software, an IT company that emerged from restructuring in 2013. Serena has around 2,500 customers, over 1 million users, and achieved over $200 million in annual revenue, focusing on release management, IT service management, and application lifecycle management solutions. HGGC purchased Serena in conjunction with its founder Doug Troxel, who has invested in the company since it began in 1980, predicting future success.
Serena Software is the largest independent provider of business mashups and application lifecycle management solutions. It has a 27-year operating history, 29 offices worldwide, over 800 employees, and nine consecutive years of profit growth. Serena's software is used by 96 of the Fortune 100 companies across industries like healthcare, finance, government, and technology. Analysts have praised Serena for its business process focus for enterprise mashups and for providing a fully functional yet simple project and portfolio management solution.
Continuous Delivery in a Legacy Shop - One Step at a TimeGene Gotimer
Not every continuous delivery (CD) initiative starts with someone saying “Drop everything. We’re going to do DevOps.” Sometimes, you have to grow your process incrementally. And sometimes you don’t set out to grow at all—you are just fixing problems with your process, trying to make things better. Gene Gotimer discusses techniques and the chain of tools he has used to bring a DevOps mindset and CD practices into a legacy environment. Gene discusses how his team started fixing problems and making process improvements in development. From there, they tackled one problem after another, each time making the release a little better and a little less risky. They incrementally brought their practices through other environments until the project was confidently delivering working and tested releases every two weeks. Gene shares their journey and the tools they used to build quality into the product, the releases, and the release process.
Breaking the 2 Pizza Paradox with your Platform as an ApplicationMark Rendell
In my experience many large enterprises would love the adoption of DevOps to be as simple as bringing Development closer to Operations. In practice they need to consider many development teams, multiple suppliers, multiple service providers, not to mention multiple business divisions. I describe my experiences of implementing Continuous Delivery in large enterprises with heterogeneous technology stacks and share my belief that Platform Applications will be the saviour of enterprise DevOps.
Continuous Testing for Optimal Mobile Peroformance - STPCon Spring 2014SOASTA
The document discusses continuous integration and performance testing of mobile applications. It emphasizes using real mobile devices and cloud-based load testing to validate user experience under different conditions. Continuous integration practices like daily performance tests can help identify bottlenecks and keep development teams focused on performance.
Accelerate Web and Mobile Testing for Continuous Integration and DeliverySOASTA
Accelerating Web and Mobile Testing for Continuous Delivery
Automated load and performance testing of your web and mobile apps can ensure quality throughout the application lifecycle. Automated and continuous testing can increase the speed and accuracy of application readiness, and eliminate time-consuming, error-prone manual processes.
In this webinar, led by SOASTA experts, you will learn:
• How to create a continuous load and performance testing framework
• How to trigger testing every time code changes are delivered
• How to use TouchTest for mobile apps functional testing
• How to use CloudTest for load testing
Infrastructure Testing: The Ultimate “Shift Left”TechWell
Organizations worldwide are continually required to make significant investments in upgrading, re-engineering, and protecting their IT infrastructure. However, unlike application software development, many companies lack a structured quality assurance approach for infrastructure testing. Creating an infrastructure quality practice is an answer, but it's not without its challenges. However, if your company is interested in avoiding headline-grabbing outages, rooted in deployment problems with infrastructure—server, network, storage, middleware, telephony, hardware, IT security, cloud, virtual, and Data Center Ops—then come to this session. Carl Delmolino and Hitesh Patel explain how to identify and address infrastructure testing opportunities, how to build a diversely skilled infrastructure test team, and how to apply familiar SDLC testing process rigor to enterprise-level infrastructure change. When addressed effectively, infrastructure testing is risk mitigation at the far end of “left,” reduces organizational technical risk, and helps ensure higher system availability for employees and customers, alike.
Continuous Delivery for IT Operations TeamsMark Rendell
Mark Rendell leads the DevOps Control Services Centre at Accenture, which provides Continuous Delivery services to projects. He discusses how Continuous Delivery relies on operations teams to provide consistent environments and testing. It also teaches operations teams to adopt practices from developers like infrastructure as code and automated testing. This transition means operations teams focus more on delivering value through software and treating infrastructure like an application.
Skytap parasoft webinar new years resolution- accelerate sdlcSkytap Cloud
In this webinar, co-hosted by Parasoft and Skytap, find out how to get your software lifecycle in shape for the New Year. You'll learn strategies for helping DevOps and Test collaborate in ways that make your SDLC leaner and more scalable.
Code-to-Cloud Visibility: An Essential Framework for DevOps SuccessJadeCampbell13
In DevOps we are used to talking about application velocity. But velocity without a framework is short lived and potentially creates more risk than benefit.
Code-to-Cloud visibility is the practice of making sure engineering teams have visibility across the entire SDLC in depth and breadth. With code-to-cloud visibility organizations understand the impact of application development from feature definition to it running in production.
Join Splunker Chris Riley as he explores:
The importance of aligning application visibility with your application tech stack
How to enable code-to-cloud visibility practices
Deeper understanding of DevSecOps, Pipeline Analytics, and Observability
Mobile Application Assessment - Don't Cheat YourselfDenim Group
The document summarizes the findings from mobile application security assessments conducted on 61 applications. It found a total of 957 vulnerabilities across the applications. The most prevalent types of vulnerabilities were related to SQL injection and information leaks. Most vulnerabilities were found in the corporate web services that supported the mobile applications, rather than in the mobile applications themselves or third party web services. Both automated and manual testing techniques identified vulnerabilities, but manual testing found more high-risk issues while automated tools identified more lower-risk vulnerabilities. The document provides recommendations for effective mobile application security assessment strategies.
Service Virtualization: Delivering Complex Test Environments on DemandErika Barron
This presentation explores the latest service virtualization research and shares firsthand best practices and benefits of service virtualization from Comcast’s Director of Performance Test. Discover how to: enable more complete testing earlier in each iteration, streamline lean processes with more reliable test environments, and manage complex tests in a dynamic development environment.
The Self Healing Cloud: Protecting Applications and Infrastructure with Autom...Denim Group
Organizations often have to deploy arbitrary applications on their infrastructure without thorough security testing. These applications can contain serious security vulnerabilities that can be detected and exploited remotely and in an automated manner. The applications themselves and the infrastructure they are deployed on are then at risk of exploitation. Configuration changes or vendor-provided software updates and patches are typically used to address infrastructure vulnerabilities. However, application-level vulnerabilities often require coding changes to be fully addressed.
Virtual patching is a technique where targeted rules are created for web application firewalls (WAFs) or other IDS/IPS technologies to help mitigate specific known application vulnerabilities. This allows applications to be “virtually” patched prior to actual code-level patches being applied. These virtual patches are most often applicable to vulnerabilities that have a strong detection signature such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) because the detection rules can be targeted to detect these signatures, but limited only to specific parts of the application attack surface where the application is known to be vulnerable.
This presentation examines the automatic creation of virtual patches from automated web application security scanner results and explores scenarios where this approach might be successfully employed. It discusses theoretical approaches to the problem and provides specific demonstrations using Open Source tools such as the skipfish and w3af scanners and Snort and mod_security protection technologies. Finally, it looks at opportunities to apply these techniques to protect arbitrary applications deployed into arbitrary infrastructures so that short-term protection against common web application attacks can be consistently applied while minimizing false blocking of legitimate traffic.
Running a Software Security Program with Open Source Tools (Course)Denim Group
Using the Software Assurance Maturity Model (OpenSAMM) as a framework, this course walks through the major components of a comprehensive software security program and highlights open source and other freely-available tools that can be used to help implement the activities involved in such a program. The focus of the course is on providing hands-on demonstrations of the tools with an emphasis on integrating tool results into the overall software security program. Featured tools include: ESAPI, Microsoft Web Protection Library, FindBugs, Brakeman, Agnitio, w3af, OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP), gauntlt, and ThreadFix as well as other educational resources from OWASP. Attendees should finish the course with a solid understanding of the various components of a comprehensive software security program as well as hands-on experience with a variety of freely-available tools that they can use to implement portions of these programs.
Today, organizations of all shapes and sizes depend on feature-packed application releases to keep end users productive and happy. In their new book, The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations, Gene Kim and his co-authors shared ways that high-performing organizations use DevOps principles to enable reliable deployments - and boring releases!
Gene Kim, CTO, DevOps researcher and co-author of the DevOps Handbook and The Phoenix Project, and Anders Wallgren, CTO of Electric Cloud shared their tips for overcoming the challenges of DevOps and Continuous Delivery at scale. During the webinar, they discussed:
- The business value of DevOps
- How to eliminate “deployment anxiety” and increase business agility
- Lessons learned from large scale DevOps transformations
- The advantages and disadvantages of practicing DevOps in large organizations
AppSec Survey 2.0 Fine-Tuning an AppSec Training Program Based on DataDenim Group
Measuring the effectiveness of any security activity is widely discussed – security leaders debate the topic with a religious fervor rivaling that of any other hot button issue. Virtually every organization has some sort of application security training effort, but data on training effectiveness remains scarce. Last year our research team delivered the first-ever survey that captured developer awareness of secure coding concepts and the impact of formal application security training on a developer’s ability to write secure code. We learned that most software developer were aware of certain application security concepts, yet when asked how to write more secure code, they faired poorly.
This year’s 600-developer survey provides more quantitative data on what software developers understand about application security, both concepts and practices. It dives most deeply into awareness of defensive coding practices, which most developers largely did not grasp in the 2013 survey. It also is separates respondents by roles, so we can better understand how architects, developers, and QA staff grasp key application security concepts and put them to work. It better captures how software developers learn in general, so one can tailor any security training effort to how software developers, in practice, actually learn. This information will provide data to application security managers responsible for corporate security training that should allow them them to make more fact-based decisions about security training.
Accelerate Cloud Migrations - Introduction to PaaSLaneBenjamin Grubin
Thinking about or in the process of migrating a Java or .NET application to the cloud? Whether you are considering public cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or private cloud, migrating applications can be trickier than it looks at first glance. Learn how PaaSLane from Cloud Technology Partners leverages the expertise of cloud experts and thousands of successful migrations to accelerate your migration and ensure the success of your project.
Evolving Devops: The Benefits of PaaS and Application Dial Tonecornelia davis
Differentiate between Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), enhanced IaaS (Iaas+) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). We define IaaS+, which remains an infrastructure virtualization solution, and make clear the benefits of providing making the application (instead of the virtual machine) the first class abstraction with which developers and operations teams interact. When enough functionality is available around the *application* devops practices provide greater value.
These slides were presented as a part a Pivotal webinar - a replay can be accessed here: http://www.pivotal.io/platform-as-a-service/evolving-devops-the-benefits-of-paas-and-application-dial-tone
Mobile Application Assessment By the Numbers: a Whole-istic ViewDenim Group
Typically, mobile application assessments myopically test only the software living on the device. However, the code deployed on the device, the corporate web services backing the device and any third party supporting services must be “whole-isticly” tested AS WELL AS testing the interactions between these components to reach an acceptable level of software assurance for mobile applications.
You Build It, You Secure It: Higher Velocity and Better Security with DevSecOpsDevOps.com
It’s 30 times cheaper to fix a security defect in Development vs. Production, yet Security is often treated as an afterthought and a bottleneck. It doesn’t have to be that way. DevSecOps practices build security and quality into the software delivery process by making EVERYONE responsible for security at every stage.
Join John Willis, Electric Cloud advisor, co-author of “The DevOps Handbook” and Vice President of DevOps and Digital Practices at SJ Technologies, and Anders Wallgren, Electric Cloud CTO, as they share tips to allow developers and operators to increase delivery velocity and harden their pipelines by including security earlier in the delivery process.
You will learn:
How development teams can help secure applications by injecting failure earlier
The role the delivery pipeline plays in Integrating new technology and security controls into the process
How self-service access to approved automation speeds velocity without sacrificing compliance or security
Leverage DevOps & Agile Development to Transform Your Application Testing Pro...Deborah Schalm
Discover how Sona Srinivasan, Senior Architect of Cisco IT’s Global Architecture and Technology Services group, helps transform an IT DevOps strategy to a Security DevOps strategy, with IBM Security's assistance. Cisco is presently implementing continuous security and agile methods throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), and specific examples of current initiatives will be reviewed in this session.
Middle-market private equity firm HGGC acquired Serena Software, an IT company that emerged from restructuring in 2013. Serena has around 2,500 customers, over 1 million users, and achieved over $200 million in annual revenue, focusing on release management, IT service management, and application lifecycle management solutions. HGGC purchased Serena in conjunction with its founder Doug Troxel, who has invested in the company since it began in 1980, predicting future success.
Serena Software is the largest independent provider of business mashups and application lifecycle management solutions. It has a 27-year operating history, 29 offices worldwide, over 800 employees, and nine consecutive years of profit growth. Serena's software is used by 96 of the Fortune 100 companies across industries like healthcare, finance, government, and technology. Analysts have praised Serena for its business process focus for enterprise mashups and for providing a fully functional yet simple project and portfolio management solution.
Serena Software Overview - Orchestrating the Release ProcessSerena Software
Serena Software helps enterprise IT organizations orchestrate key processes, including release management (part of DevOps), application development (aka ALM), IT service management (ITSM), and more.
Watch this short introduction to the company and how we help our customers achieve amazing application success.
DevOps Frequently Asked Questions of 2013 with Gene Kim and Jonathan Thorpe (...Serena Software
Gene Kim, award winning CTO and author of The Phoenix Project joins Jonathan Thorpe, DevOps evangelist at Serena Software to discuss the top DevOps FAQ of 2013. They discuss DevOps for both horses and unicorns and how DevOps can make a difference even in the enterprise with legacy software.
Continuous Delivery in the enterprise and DevOps foundations with Analyst Bol...Serena Software
Bola Rotibi, Research Director at CIC joins Greg Sikes, VP Serena Software to discuss the realization of continuous delivery in the enterprise. Together they discuss the foundations for continuous delivery, attributes supporting it and the most common inhibitors. They discuss the impact of process quality and level of automation and the 10 key guide points to adopting continuous delivery in the Enterprise.
This document introduces Serena Software's Orchestrated ALM solutions for application delivery. It discusses the challenges of today's application delivery landscape, including manual processes that create errors, poor collaboration across teams, and a lack of end-to-end traceability. Serena's Orchestrated ALM solutions address these challenges by providing integrated tools for demand management, development management, release management, and process intelligence to improve delivery performance, lower costs, and drive accountability. The solutions include components for request management, portfolio analysis, requirements management, change management, release control, and more.
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- A native developer experience with support for mobile IDEs and integrations.
On December 4, 2013, Serena Software introduced new versions of Serena Release Manager, Serena Service Manager and SBM. This presentation is a brief introduction to the announcements with detail on how Serena Release Manager v5 addresses both the automation and people coordination and collaboration of a successful application release lifecycle. More detail is at http://www.serena.com/release
Join us for the Summer 2015 VUG on August 19th, in which we will present, discuss and demonstrate how to optimize your development and delivery toolchain. In addition to shift-left, we will show how you can increase deployment automation and collaboration across Development and Release Operations.
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Accelerate Web and Mobile Testing for Continuous Integration and DeliverySOASTA
Accelerating Web and Mobile Testing for Continuous Delivery
Automated load and performance testing of your web and mobile apps can ensure quality throughout the application lifecycle. Automated and continuous testing can increase the speed and accuracy of application readiness, and eliminate time-consuming, error-prone manual processes.
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• How to create a continuous load and performance testing framework
• How to trigger testing every time code changes are delivered
• How to use TouchTest for mobile apps functional testing
• How to use CloudTest for load testing
Continuous Testing for Optimal Mobile Peroformance - STPCon Spring 2014SOASTA
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An increased number of dependencies
Parallel development roadblocks
Impacts to the traditional methods of testing
More potential points of failure
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For those of you that could not attend the South Florida Agile Summit last week due to some other event, here's one of the presentations that you missed.
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By utilizing virtualization technology in the SDLC, specifically service virtualization and virtual dev/test labs, companies can increase test coverage in less time and ultimately produce better software faster.
Download this complimentary webinar from Skytap and Parasoft now and learn how to to combine service virtualization with cloud-based dev/test environments.
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Two key challenges to continuous load testing are provisioning a test system to handle the load and accessing load generators to drive the traffic.
In this webinar from SOASTA & CloudBees, you will learn how to:
Build realistic automated web performance tests and run them in Jenkins
Architect and launch a test environment that auto-provisions in the cloud
Manage a load generation grid to drive load tests in a lights-out mode
Establish a performance baseline in your daily Jenkins reports
DevTest solutions is a suite of applications focused on shortening dev/test cycles, improving quality, reducing infrastructure spend and speeding time-to-market. DevTest Solutions help you on the path towards enterprise DevOps. The Application Economy is here. You’ll need solid tools to take your place in it.
For more information on DevOps solutions from CA Technologies, please visit: http://bit.ly/1wbjjqX
Service Virtualization: What Testers Need to KnowTechWell
Unrestrained access to a trustworthy and realistic test environment—including the application under test and all of its dependent components—is essential for achieving “quality @ speed” with agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery. Service virtualization is an emerging technology that provides teams access to a complete test environment by simulating the dependent components that are beyond their control, still evolving, or too complex to configure in a test lab. Arthur Hicken covers the ABCs of service virtualization—what it is and how it impacts Access, Behavior, Cost, and Speed. Learn how it can help you test more rigorously, avoid parallel development bottlenecks, and isolate application layers for debugging and performance testing in two ways—first, by providing access to dependent system components that would otherwise delay development and testing tasks; and second, by allowing you to alter the behavior of those dependent components in ways that would be impossible with a staged test environment.
With most organizations now using agile software development methodologies, the software development focus has changed to deliver faster releases—and this affects the way we test within the sprint. We largely develop applications using cloud and mobile technologies with short release cycles. Our challenges include frequent changes in requirements, the addition of incremental features to the product, and release at any point of time. Ganesh Iyer has found that continuous testing can seamlessly address most of these challenges. Continuous testing is the ability to run tests continuously in a particular environment, irrespective of product upgrades and dependent third-party systems. Ganesh highlights some continuous test approaches in practice including 24/7 reliability testing and continuous integration. Key takeaways include understanding the importance of endurance testing, practical considerations when we perform such durability testing, framework design elements for running tests continuously, and finally—what to look for in the results.
Continuous Load Testing with CloudTest and JenkinsSOASTA
Two key challenges to continuous load testing are provisioning a test system to handle the load and accessing load generators to drive the traffic.
In this webinar from SOASTA & CloudBees, you will learn how to:
Build realistic automated web performance tests and run them in Jenkins
Architect and launch a test environment that auto-provisions in the cloud
Manage a load generation grid to drive load tests in a lights-out mode
Establish a performance baseline in your daily Jenkins reports
Why do we need to have software testing happen in a continuous manner? This deck explains the importance of Continuous Integration and a case study of 24x7 Testing.
Unrestrained access to a trustworthy and realistic test environment—including the application under test (AUT) and all of its dependent components—is essential for achieving "quality@speed" with Agile, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery.
Service Virtualization is an emerging technology that provides DevTest teams access to a complete test environment by simulating the dependent components that are beyond your control, still evolving, or too complex to configure in a test lab.
Join us for a live webinar on Service Virtualization and how it impacts software testing Access, Behavior, Cost, and Speed.
Learn the basics of Service Virtualization, including how it can help your organization:
Provide access to a complete test environment including all critical dependent system components
Alter the behavior of those dependent components in ways that would be impossible with a staged test environment—enabling you to test earlier, faster, and more completely
Isolate different layers of the application for debugging and performance testing
A top focus for application development today is on acceleration, but faster is not always equal to better. The bigger challenge is to improve both the speed and quality of software releases. By utilizing virtualization technology, specifically service virtualization and virtual dev/test labs, in software development lifecycles, companies can increase test coverage in less time and ultimately produce better software faster.
HP Service Virtualization software allows development and testing teams to access limited or unavailable services in a simulated, virtual environment. This easy-to-use solution speeds application delivery, eliminates risks and reduces cost by virtualizing services within existing environments. By enabling parallel development and early functional testing, it eliminates wait times. HP Service Virtualization also reduces the use of high-cost, business-critical infrastructure or pay-per-use components for testing.
Integrating Cloud-based performance test in VSTS with SOASTA CloudTestJennifer Finney
Being ready for peak traffic requires testing at scale, and there is no better place to do that than from the cloud. With the Azure cloud's worldwide network of data centers, and CloudTest from SOASTA, you can generate realistic load against your site to ensure that it can handle expected traffic, and beyond, and perform well. Learn how to move your performance testing to CloudTest and test at scale in the Azure cloud with the virtual machine from the Azure Marketplace.
Case Study: Datalink—Manage IT monitoring the MSP wayCA Technologies
Increasing infrastructure complexity is causing IT operations teams to re-think their monitoring approach. In this presentation with Datalink, learn how to build and evolve a proactive IT monitoring strategy geared towards the modern, dynamic IT landscape. Learn how Datalink proactively manages IT environments of leading Fortune 500 companies by leveraging analytics, intelligent alarms, a unified architecture and advanced process automation to achieve operational efficiencies. You will also learn how to make monitoring look easy to your end users while delivering the flexibility required to monitor just about anything they throw at you.
For more information on DevOps solutions from CA Technologies, please visit: http://bit.ly/1wbjjqX
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In-app control
Measure impact of the app on the device – CPU, Battery, Memory, signal strength
SOASTA’s new approach embeds a small library inside the object repository of the application allowing the developer to have complete control over the test process. In particular this approach lends itself to a much more stable Test Platform that captures with precision all forms of movement associated to the use of gestures. It also enables a mobile developer to test applications without jail breaking a device. This is a huge issue today in the iOS environment. SOASTA TouchTest as an example I “ still” the only test automation platform that can test an app on the iPad mini. This new approach invented by SOASTA’s Advanced Laboratories we believe will become the standard approach to testing mobile apps in the future.
All in all, there can be several environments that you have to manage or that your team has to be aware of, and your teams are probably distributed across the world and from all different timezones.
So with that baseline, it’s important to performance test your application from end-to-end; starting from your test lab to production. As you view this chart, you can see the potential issues that can arise in your application. Real problems like 3rd party services, CDNs, bandwidth will only manifest itself in production; typically not in your test lab or your staging environment. By building a test plan that includes production, you are more likely to discover issues that can only show up in production - an environment that matters the most for your company and customers. An environment that drives business value, revenue, and brand awareness and impressions.
All in all, there can be several environments that you have to manage or that your team has to be aware of, and your teams are probably distributed across the world and from all different timezones.
So with that baseline, it’s important to performance test your application from end-to-end; starting from your test lab to production. As you view this chart, you can see the potential issues that can arise in your application. Real problems like 3rd party services, CDNs, bandwidth will only manifest itself in production; typically not in your test lab or your staging environment. By building a test plan that includes production, you are more likely to discover issues that can only show up in production - an environment that matters the most for your company and customers. An environment that drives business value, revenue, and brand awareness and impressions.
All in all, there can be several environments that you have to manage or that your team has to be aware of, and your teams are probably distributed across the world and from all different timezones.
So with that baseline, it’s important to performance test your application from end-to-end; starting from your test lab to production. As you view this chart, you can see the potential issues that can arise in your application. Real problems like 3rd party services, CDNs, bandwidth will only manifest itself in production; typically not in your test lab or your staging environment. By building a test plan that includes production, you are more likely to discover issues that can only show up in production - an environment that matters the most for your company and customers. An environment that drives business value, revenue, and brand awareness and impressions.
All in all, there can be several environments that you have to manage or that your team has to be aware of, and your teams are probably distributed across the world and from all different timezones.
So with that baseline, it’s important to performance test your application from end-to-end; starting from your test lab to production. As you view this chart, you can see the potential issues that can arise in your application. Real problems like 3rd party services, CDNs, bandwidth will only manifest itself in production; typically not in your test lab or your staging environment. By building a test plan that includes production, you are more likely to discover issues that can only show up in production - an environment that matters the most for your company and customers. An environment that drives business value, revenue, and brand awareness and impressions.
Key Messages:
The Market: Mobile App Performance (Predictive, Contextual, and Actionable Analytics)
Market Size: $10B (10M Apps, 3.5M Users, Trillions of User Experiences, $200B Mobile economy by 2017)
Why SOASTA is the The Winner in Mobile Performance
Technology: Leadership (Cloud, Performance Analytics, Test Automation) - Patents
People: Clear Leadership (Yahoo, Walmart, Intuit, Experiean, Mercury, Gomez, Keynote)
Customers: Enterprise and Global
Global Customers: Offices, Customers
Competition: NewRelic, AppDynamics,and PerfectoMobile
Partnership: Dev (Appcellerator-OEM), Deploy (AWS & 17 others), Monitor (NewRelic and 15 others)
Business Model: SaaS
Customers Deal Size: $5K - $2.5M TCV
Focus on $100M in Sales by 2015
FIS
World’s largest banking and Payments provider
Nation’s largest Mobile Banking and Payments provider
+1,200 banks, +25MM end-users
Most successful mPayments app
Most successful mBanking app
Award winning Mobile Wallet
CI is absolutely necessary to compete in time-to-market and scalability
CI in mobile is a big paradigm shift
Faster and more specific test results to developers so they can work smarter
Identify integration issues sooner
Enables Continual Quality
Paychex
Delivering Payroll, Time and Labor, 401K and Benefits packages for over 500,000 small and medium businesses is resource intensive. Setting an ambitious goal in 2011 to grow their business by 50% over three years, Paychex knew that achieving it would require serving existing customers at a lower cost, reducing the cost of customer acquisition, and finding new ways to grow – that meant moving applications to the web and creating a SaaS model. Doing that meant changing the way they approached application development, quality, and customer experience. They turned to SOASTA to enable them to test internally and externally, test applications concurrently, reduce defect rates and test earlier in the life-cycle, improve mobile quality, and understand user experience.
Paychex
Delivering Payroll, Time and Labor, 401K and Benefits packages for over 500,000 small and medium businesses is resource intensive. Setting an ambitious goal in 2011 to grow their business by 50% over three years, Paychex knew that achieving it would require serving existing customers at a lower cost, reducing the cost of customer acquisition, and finding new ways to grow – that meant moving applications to the web and creating a SaaS model. Doing that meant changing the way they approached application development, quality, and customer experience. They turned to SOASTA to enable them to test internally and externally, test applications concurrently, reduce defect rates and test earlier in the life-cycle, improve mobile quality, and understand user experience.