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Software development is typically a team endeavor. Developers may work on separate projects but many times their work intersects with modules others are building. Even individuals creating their own applications must refer back to prior work to track source-code changes and limit vulnerabilities. Creating proper documentation for teamwork and legacy code should be a top […]
Transforming business operations is a constant need, and the pandemic-prompted emphasis on modernizing legacy computing systems has forced organizations across industries to accelerate their modernization plans. The problem with mainframe modernization, however, is that today’s code search tools, linters, and program analysis tools are deficient when it comes to mitigating the risks associated with improving […]
The continuing departure of experienced mainframe legacy software engineers from the workforce is driving the potentially devastating lack of system knowledge and expertise now confronting businesses and governments around the world. These mainframes surreptitiously run the global building blocks of society, from government systems to banking and financial markets and healthcare and insurance industries. Phase […]
Tech media publisher readwrite recently published an article authored by Phase Change President Steve Brothers about how AI can be used to vastly improve a developer’s ability to efficiently identify code that requires modification or modernization. The article, Leveraging AI to Significantly Increase Software Developer Productivity, makes the case for thinking about codebases differently and […]
A technical paper co-authored by current and former Phase Change research scientists, and presented at the 2021 annual ICSME event, won a Distinguished Paper Award from the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE). The paper, “Contemporary COBOL: Developers’ Perspectives on Defects and Defect Location,” was co-authored by current Phase Change Senior Research […]
There’s a lot of great software-development humor out there, and we can all use a little more levity in our lives. So we are collecting some of the best programming and software-industry humor posts we find and posting them here, along with the original sources. @LaraNerdsom January 5, 2021 The very next PR… pic.twitter.com/ApAzozllVV — […]
