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August 2022
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NEWS WATCH Visual Studio update: Git branch switching, C++ experience Some users may have previously experienced delays when switching branches, or had to wait for projects to reload after switching branches. According to Microsoft, the process of switching between branches in Visual Studio using Git tooling requires the program to invoke the corresponding Git command for checking out the branch, as well as invoking applicable project and solution reloads, which can take a long time depending on what is required. One of the improvements
Microsoft is rolling out is to avoid having to reload for many scenarios. This is achieved by using targeted in place solution updates. The company also improved the solution and project reload time and reduced corresponding blocking operations. Microsoft claims that the number of needed branch switches have been reduced by about 80% and solution reloads have been improved by 30%, on average. The company also improved development speed when coding in C++. Improvements include reduced indexing time and an updated Go to All experience. According to the company,
People on the move
n Red Hat has announced that Matt Hicks will be taking over as president and chief executive officer, replacing Paul Cormier in the role. Hicks has been at Red Hat for 15 years and has worked in several different areas of the business. As CEO he will focus on scaling the company and accelerating the adoption of open source technology. n Alexandre Pinto is joining Signal AI as the company’s new SVP of data science. Pinto has over 20 years of experience in the industry and holds a PhD in artificial intelligence from the NOVA School of Science and Technology at NOVA University of Lisbon. He also has received an award for excellent innovation from the European Commission and is a guest lecturer at Imperial College London. n SD-WAN provider Aryaka has appointed Srini Addepalli as its new chief technology officer to drive the company’s existing platform into a next generation SASE platform. Previously he was a technology strategist and architect at Intel. n Network integration company LightRiver has announced the appointment of Scotty Benda as its new chief product officer. Prior to joining LightRiver, Benda held senior positions at Nortel, Lucient, ONI, and Ciena. n Contrast Security has named Ben Goodman senior vice president of corporate development and strategic alliances. He will be responsible for strengthening current partnerships and developing new ones, as well as building up the alliance team at the company. Before this role he held the same title at ForgeRock.
in Visual Studio 2019 16.11, it would take about 26 minutes for the Chromium repository to index fully, and with this latest update it should take about six minutes to do the same. The company also gave examples of coding in an Unreal Engine 5 solution, which has a 72 second improvement in Visual Studio 2022 17.3 over Visual Studio 2019 16.11, and a 4.3x faster time to colorization after a cold start. Go to All is a Visual Studio feature for moving around quickly in files. As of this release, results will show up as you type rather than after you stop typing. Go to All also now includes Contextual Code Previews, which allows developers to preview code search results and make edits within the code.
CodeLogic introduces Continuous Software Intelligence platform This new developer toolkit scans post-compile binaries, runtime app behavior, and database connections in order to offer a complete picture of infrastructure-wide software connections and dependencies. According to Stack Overflow, a lack of productivity is the top cause of unhappiness among developers and with this release, CodeLogic seeks to solve that complexity. The new Continuous Software Intelligence platform works to free developers from managing break/fix cycles, training new team members, chasing down vulnerabilities for security audits, evaluating technical debt, and other activities that don’t involve coding. According to CodeLogic, this new platform assists developers in ending break/fix cycles by exposing all software
connections and interdependencies by performing postcompile scans of binary code and scanning runtime environments. Additionally, users gain access to heightened visibility into software structures that are not present in the source code itself. This includes inserted third-party libraries, stored procedure calls, and database connections. The new platform also works to inform development strategy by helping to accurately predict and scope planned projects by fully understanding downstream impacts to reconsider proposed plans and roadmaps before the team begins heavily working on them.
SmartBear rolls out web testing on BitBar This comes as an answer to user requests for an all-in-one web and native mobile app testing solution. This release will bring users reliable and streamlined cloud-based testing available with instant access to all of the latest browsers and devices in order to support a consistent digital customer experience. According to the company, BitBar is highly scalable and performant, helping it to support the diversity of every test automation framework, environment, and language that software testers are already using. BitBar enables testing teams that are responsible for ensuring a consistent, highquality experience to quickly and securely test across real browsers and devices without needing to maintain those inhouse. In addition, new deploy-
