This isn’t a lead-in to a joke. In fact, it’s a very serious question that’s being debated across the software development community. Agile adoption has blurred the historical distinction between testers and developers, and that’s a good thing.

Mobile developers building apps for iOS and Android have some new tools from Microsoft designed to make their lives easier. On Thursday, the company unveiled a series of apps and services, including one that’s designed to let Windows-based developers ...

Starting next week, Android and Fire OS developers will be able to use a new cloud-based service from Amazon to test their apps on physical smartphones and tablets. The AWS Device Farm will allow developers to upload their apps and test them on “the ...

Apple today updated its developer news site to let developers know that TestFlight tester limits have been expanded. Starting today, developers can invite up to 10,000 users to beta test their iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and iMessage apps before the apps are ...

Microsoft Corp.’s developer platform GitHub Inc. today announced the limited public beta launch of GitHub Models, an interactive sandbox environment that will provide developers and engineers free access to industry-leading generative artificial ...

Software developers, sharpen those No. 2 pencils. A standardized test on your knowledge of secure programming may soon be coming your way. The Secure Programming Council unveiled Tuesday a proposed standard for companies to test their software developers ...

Google launched a new project at its I/O developer conference today that will make it easier for developers to check how their mobile apps work on twenty of the most popular Android devices from around the world. Sadly, the service will only roll out ...

HackerRank for Work, a service that helps businesses send assessment tests to developer job candidates, is today launching the Test Health Dashboard, a machine learning-enhanced tool that helps organizations identify ways to improve their developer ...

Last year, General Motors was the first automaker to roll out the ability to download apps in its vehicles through a centralized app store. Called CUE Collection in Cadillacs and AppShop in Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles, the functionality was ...

There are some good reasons that test-driven development isn’t as widely used as it is discussed. Everyone is talking about test-driven development. Is anyone actually doing it? TDD has been embraced by the developer-chattering class in social media and ...