Application programming interfaces (APIs) are everywhere. They enable the developer of an application to exchange data with other applications without knowing the inner workings of those other ...

Cyclomatic complexity is a quantitative measure of the linearly independent paths in source code that can help you understand the complexity of your program and improve code coverage There are various ...

Sourcegraph, a company specializing in universal code search, polled more than 500 North American software developers to identify issues in code complexity and management. Its general findings are ...

Technologies mentioned in this article include the Entity Framework, ADO.NET, VB.NET, and C#. Q I'd like to use the Code Metrics of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) to explain to management the degree ...

When Murray Gell-Mann was asked how Richard Feynman managed to solve so many hard problems Gell-Mann responded that Feynman had an algorithm: Write down the problem. Think real hard. Write down the ...

In last week's column, I talked to Bruce Schneier about complexity, one of the main reasons it will be hard for computer security to improve in the future. As software becomes more complex, in terms ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in ...

Cloud-native application development has become one of the fastest-growing technology trends today and is continuing to make gains in popularity. So much so that Gartner and IDC predict that 90-95% of ...

Developers are leaning more heavily on AI for code generation, but in 2026, the development pipeline and security need to be ...