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The Software development black-box focus on development activities code commits, pushes, pull/merge requests, and code review cycles actionable insights identify bottlenecks, reduce lead time, increase development efficiency Check out and tools such as Git analytics pull request analytics QA Dashboard , Pluralsight Flow, and GitHub Insight. 2. Analyze Source Code Quality You can consider code quality as the cornerstone of software quality. Check out the below to enable of code quality. action plan continuous inspection Enable by using IDE extensions. on-the-fly code analysis Analyze your code pipeline. as a part of the CI/CD Set and break the builds. quality gates and make them . Track all issues visible to talk about clean code principles, coding standards, etc. Encourage developers Plan code quality tasks for . each sprint Check out the code analysis tools such as and try to integrate them into your CI/CD pipeline. SonarQube, CAST, Fortify, etc. 3. Care About Code Vulnerabilities You probably have some in your codebase, but you don’t care about them until they have discovered by attackers. Employ a Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tool in order to analyze your code, and . security-related issues detect issues, own them to solve Check out the SAST tools like and try to integrate them on your CI/CD pipelines. SonarQube, Checkmarx, WhiteSource and Fortify, 4. Test What You Code It’s not possible to know that if your software is working properly without testing it. Consider increasing your by enabling various test types such as test coverage unit testing, integration testing, API testing, UI testing, and functional testing. Check out the testing practices, frameworks, and tools to test what you code. Furthermore, consider using test management tools such as to monitor test execution results. Testinium , Zephyr, TestRail, etc. 5. 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