When a software project stumbles—or ultimately fails—it can have a range of negative consequences, from lost and unrecoverable resources to a blow to team morale. It can be tempting to blame a failed ...

A real developer isn’t someone who has a full-time job in a development field, or even someone who has a side project at home, it’s just someone who enjoys programming and building apps. I haven’t had ...

You've probably never heard of the late Jim Weirich or his software. But you've almost certainly used apps built on his work. Weirich helped create several key tools for Ruby, the popular programming ...

A survey of 500 US and UK software developers conducted by J L Partners has found that 70% of software projects fail to be delivered on time, despite 83% of developers saying delivery performance is ...

Learn what a project manager to a software development team does, the different methodologies available, and the best tools to take a development project to completion with TechRepublic’s ...

Every developer is taught that development has clear stages, from identifying requirements to building the solution and testing. Traditionally, the requirement-setting stage is laborious and lengthy, ...

Explore how a strong unit testing strategy can reduce dependence on hardware and minimize costly context switching caused by ...

Okay, so I’m just going to go ahead and say it: It is impossible to accurately estimate a software project of any significance. Now, a non-trivial number of you are going to read that sentence and ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Elden Ring developer From Software is already hiring for "multiple" new games, as the company tweeted a link to a new recruitment site that includes ...

It’s time we officially bury the idea that AI means we won’t need software developers. For years, we’ve heard that generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are coming for our jobs. In software ...

It was just five years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source as a business model. The common thesis was that Red Hat was a snowflake and that ...