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Perforce Aims to Embed AI-Driven Testing at Every Stage of the Lifecycle

Taylor Graham — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:00:25 +0000

Perforce Software unveiled its AI-driven testing strategy at the DevOps + Data Impact event, focusing on four key pillars throughout the testing lifecycle: creation, execution, analysis, and maintenance. This approach spans major environments, including web, mobile, and packaged applications. The goal is to eliminate traditional testing challenges, enabling teams to achieve greater agility, reliability, and significant breakthroughs.

The amount of talent in the testing space as well as the overall continued practice of manual testing — according to Forrester’s Developer Survey, 2023, 43% of testing is still done with manual practices – cannot keep pace with the quality and security needed in the testing space. To compound this, by 2028 IDC predicts that there will be over one billion new logical applications*.

Perforce’s vision for AI in software testing aims to democratize software testing by enabling testers of every skill level on every team. It will lead to simplified test creation, faster debugging, enhanced collaboration, and the elimination of test maintenance.

“What we aim to deliver is not just leveraging AI to augment and improve the way testers work today, but we are implementing AI testing that completely changes the way testing works within a business,” said Stephen Feloney, Vice President of Product Management at Perforce. “There are two core areas that we are revolutionizing in testing that we know teams will find immediate value in. First, is the reduction of the traditional tools and elimination of frameworks to make testing infinitely more flexible. Secondly, we want to create full automation of test maintenance, which continues to be a blocker to efficient testing and faster releases. Testers should focus on developing test cases instead of worrying about creating and maintaining automated scripts.”

This vision for continuous testing by Perforce will be comprised of four key pillars:

AI-Driven Testing Creation: Eliminates the need for traditional testing frameworks and empowers every team member to contribute seamlessly, accelerating test creation timelines.
AI-Driven Test Execution: AI autonomously adapts to real-time changes, ensuring resilience and consistency across all platforms without manual intervention.
AI-Driven Test Analysis: Provides immediate insights into test failures, pinpointing the root cause to enable faster resolution and continuous optimization.
AI-Driven Test Maintenance: Eliminates manual test maintenance by continuously adapting to UI, data, or logic changes, ensuring your testing suite is resilient and future-proof.

Perforce’s continuous testing suite offers AI currently with Test Data Pro, which provides test data generation powered by AI.

Learn more about Perforce’s current AI-driven testing at the website here.

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Source:*IDC, 1 Billion New Logical Applications: More Background, doc #US51953724, April 2024

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Puppet Joins CISQ and Adds Chris Ganacoplos to Governing Board

Taylor Graham — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:00:12 +0000

Puppet by Perforce announced it joined CISQ as cornerstone sponsors. Puppet’s Chris Ganacoplos, AVP of North America East and Federal Sales, joins as a governing board member. Ganacoplos is a thought leader in the DevOps, DevSecOps, and Continuous Compliance space.

As a governing board member with experience helping government agencies use CIS, DISA STIG, NIST, and CMMC to reduce compliance risk in public and private cloud infrastructure, Ganacoplos will provide valuable contributions to the CISQ roadmap.

“Agencies and companies want to deploy once and scale endlessly with continuous compliance across their environments,” said Ganacoplos. “To scale across multiple public and private cloud environments, they need a programmable infrastructure that includes policy as code to protect against critical vulnerabilities and weakness enumerations. Organizations are looking for ways to leverage frameworks that can automate and harden their servers to achieve continuous compliance in their infrastructure. The industry is long overdue for more and better standardization in this area, which is why we’re excited to leverage Puppet’s long history in software quality and deep understanding of the power of shared standards to improve security and innovation – not only for our customers, but the industry at large – through our sponsorship and my direct involvement with CISQ.”

“CISQ is delighted to welcome Puppet as a sponsor of the CISQ Governing Board,” said Dr. Bill Curtis, Executive Director, CISQ. “Their proficiency in helping technology teams solve the hardest problems in DevOps and reducing CVE’s will play a crucial role in the global deployment of CISQ standards.”

For more information about CISQ sponsorship, please visit the website HERE.

Learn more about Puppet by Perforce HERE and Perforce HERE.

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Perforce’s Survey Reveals Nearly 50% Are Developing Electric, Autonomous, and Connected Vehicles

Leigh Porter — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 18:45:36 +0000

Perforce Software, a provider of solutions for enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, at scale within the SDLC, released the results of a global survey of automotive technology professionals today. Key findings suggest ongoing concerns with software safety, security, and quality; the growing effects of electric and autonomous/connected vehicles on development, and the continuing focus on standards compliance.

Perforce Static Code Analysis Automotive Survey

With the growing prevalence of electric and autonomous/connected vehicles, software is even more central to automotive development. Increasing the extent of software in vehicles, however, leads to many safety considerations during the development process. Our survey found that automotive software developers’ top three leading concerns are safety (43%), security (22%), and quality (21%).

“Electric, autonomous, and connected vehicles are the future of the industry,” said Stuart Foster, Product Manager for Klocwork and Helix QAC at Perforce. “With more software components being added to these vehicles, ensuring the safety and security of that software will remain a top concern for automotive teams.”

For those most concerned with safety, 40% said their biggest concern is meeting customer expectations of compliance with safe coding standards, such as MISRA.

“MISRA has been a cornerstone of automotive software development for many years, but ensuring that software is compliant can be a time-consuming endeavor without the right tools, such as a static code analyzer,” said Jill Britton, Director of Compliance at Perforce.

Electric, autonomous, and connected vehicle development is also impacting development teams. Most teams are working on some electric components (48%), connectivity components (49%), and autonomous components (44%) to some degree.

The survey found that 88% use a coding standard to ensure safe, secure, and reliable code — with 86% using MISRA and AUTOSAR. In addition, 39% of those surveyed use a static code analysis tool to aid in compliance and 44% use a SAST tool to ensure secure software.

As more software is being added to vehicles, roughly 70% of teams are leveraging game development technology. The most common uses of game development technology are product testing (34%), digital twins (29%), and prototyping (19%).

“Game development technologies including Unreal and Unity are poised to become an essential driver in the automotive vertical. Development teams within that segment are already utilizing these technologies as part of their prototyping and testing activities to reduce development costs,” said Katie Cole, Gaming and Virtual Production Evangelist, Director of Product Marketing at Perforce.

The results of the survey are available in the 2021 State of Automotive Software Development Survey Results.

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