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Missing dimensions in development ops & productivity metrics
Velocity
April 1, 2024

Missing dimensions in development ops & productivity metrics

Engineering Managers have a variety of metrics they can draw from to assist in understanding their teams' efficiency & operational performance. What’s missing is a precise measurement of risk (i.e. complexity) and Resilience (i.e. mitigation effort).
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Inside the prediction of a bug that led to a CVE in Redis
Resilience
March 14, 2024

Inside the prediction of a bug that led to a CVE in Redis

Our predictive model highlighted the risks leading to a CVE in Redis, showing the importance of objective risk assessment over traditional methods. This blog delves into the misconceptions about small pull requests and conventional mitigation's limitations
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Go deeper on Cycle Time with Risk & Resilience
Resilience
February 16, 2024

Go deeper on Cycle Time with Risk & Resilience

Engineers experience cycle time through risk and complexity trade-offs. Shepherdly helps teams measure this and codify their risk tolerance.
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Benchmarking Risk & Quality KPIs in Popular Open Source Projects
Resilience
August 7, 2023

Benchmarking Risk & Quality KPIs in Popular Open Source Projects

Analyzing six popular open-source repositories, Shepherdly examined how various established and novel quality KPIs are reflected in some of the most extensively used software tools.
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Why it’s time for devs to focus on AI bug detection
Velocity
July 12, 2023

Why it’s time for devs to focus on AI bug detection

From ChatGPT to GitHub Copilot, generative AI is here, and with it has come scores of new technology that’s making it easier than ever for developers to complete coding tasks faster, innovate, and create better software.
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AutoReviewer: Bug History-Guided Code Review
Hotspots
June 23, 2023

AutoReviewer: Bug History-Guided Code Review

In addition to predicting the likelihood of a PR causing a bug, Shepherdly adds even more context to the bug hotspots in your code when modified.
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Why Software Engineers Need Better Risk Assessment Tools for Pull Requests
Triage
May 10, 2023

Why Software Engineers Need Better Risk Assessment Tools for Pull Requests

As a software engineer, you may have shipped something that you and the reviewers knew was risky, but it was too expensive to investigate the issue further. You may have added remediation steps, but time pressure may have prevented you from doing so.
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Code Reviews Are Not Effective At Finding Bugs
Triage
July 23, 2024

Code Reviews Are Not Effective At Finding Bugs

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Missing dimensions in development ops & productivity metrics
Velocity
April 1, 2024

Missing dimensions in development ops & productivity metrics

Engineering Managers have a variety of metrics they can draw from to assist in understanding their teams' efficiency & operational performance. What’s missing is a precise measurement of risk (i.e. complexity) and Resilience (i.e. mitigation effort).
Read More
Arrow Right
Inside the prediction of a bug that led to a CVE in Redis
Resilience
March 14, 2024

Inside the prediction of a bug that led to a CVE in Redis

Our predictive model highlighted the risks leading to a CVE in Redis, showing the importance of objective risk assessment over traditional methods. This blog delves into the misconceptions about small pull requests and conventional mitigation's limitations
Read More
Arrow Right
Go deeper on Cycle Time with Risk & Resilience
Resilience
February 16, 2024

Go deeper on Cycle Time with Risk & Resilience

Engineers experience cycle time through risk and complexity trade-offs. Shepherdly helps teams measure this and codify their risk tolerance.
Read More
Arrow Right
Benchmarking Risk & Quality KPIs in Popular Open Source Projects
Resilience
August 7, 2023

Benchmarking Risk & Quality KPIs in Popular Open Source Projects

Analyzing six popular open-source repositories, Shepherdly examined how various established and novel quality KPIs are reflected in some of the most extensively used software tools.
Read More
Arrow Right
Why it’s time for devs to focus on AI bug detection
Velocity
July 12, 2023

Why it’s time for devs to focus on AI bug detection

From ChatGPT to GitHub Copilot, generative AI is here, and with it has come scores of new technology that’s making it easier than ever for developers to complete coding tasks faster, innovate, and create better software.
Read More
Arrow Right
AutoReviewer: Bug History-Guided Code Review
Hotspots
June 23, 2023

AutoReviewer: Bug History-Guided Code Review

In addition to predicting the likelihood of a PR causing a bug, Shepherdly adds even more context to the bug hotspots in your code when modified.
Read More
Arrow Right
Why Software Engineers Need Better Risk Assessment Tools for Pull Requests
Triage
May 10, 2023

Why Software Engineers Need Better Risk Assessment Tools for Pull Requests

As a software engineer, you may have shipped something that you and the reviewers knew was risky, but it was too expensive to investigate the issue further. You may have added remediation steps, but time pressure may have prevented you from doing so.
Read More
Arrow Right