Engineering@Microsoft
How Microsoft empowers its developers to deliver at massive scale
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Improving developer productivity via flaky test management
Flaky tests are a well-known problem across the industry and Microsoft is no exception. In this post, Suresh Thummalapenta walks us through the team's comprehensive flaky test management system that helps to infer, triage, and quarantine those tests.
Accessibility Insights for Windows
In this post, John Alkire walks through the features of Accessibility Insights for Windows, which enables users to inspect and test Windows applications to find and fix accessibility issues.
CloudTest: A multi-tenant, scalable, performant and extensible verification service
In this post, Sina Jafari discusses key characteristics of the CloudTest infrastructure used at Microsoft and why similar characteristics should be considered in all large-scale test infrastructures to improve engineers’ productivity and help them ship high-quality software.
Generating Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) with SPDX at Microsoft
In this post, Adrian Diglio walks us through how Microsoft is planning to generate SBOMs not just to meet the U.S. Presidential Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity, but for all software that Microsoft produces.
Caesar, standards, and SAST: The road to SARIF
In this post, Michael Fanning gives us a short history on standards (think Julius Caesar), how consensus on something very small can enable something very large, and how all of it relates to the design of the ‘Static Analysis Results Interchange Format’ (SARIF).
You can’t have security for DevOps until you have DevOps for security
The faster we iterate on refining secure development practices, the faster our developers can address security pain points, and the better we protect our customers. In this post, Bryan Sullivan walks through key learnings from the 1ES Security team.
Large-scale distributed builds with Microsoft Build Accelerator
Learn how Microsoft evolved it’s build caching algorithm with BuildXL to support large-scale distributed builds.
Shifting accessibility left with Accessibility Insights
We believe that we can only solve the problem of inaccessible software by shifting accessibility left into the software design and development cycle. In this post, Mark Reay describes how our open-source offering, Accessibility Insights, can help.
Separating the signal from the noise
If a security tool catches a critical vulnerability, but also reports 99 other findings that turn out to be false positives, developers are going to ignore everything that the tool reports and then miss the important issues. Bryan Sullivan talks through how you can hone your tooling to separate the signal from the noise.