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SourceWarp: Make data-driven, agile DevSecOps decisions

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GitLab Vulnerability Research Team
Word Count
816
Company Posts That Month
10
Language
English
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Summary

GitLab employs strategies like staging environments, feature flags, and canary testing to assess feature stability, alongside A/B testing for user reactions, but its fast-paced release cycles necessitate rapid prototyping and benchmarking. To support data-driven decision-making in its DevSecOps context, GitLab developed SourceWarp, a record-and-replay framework designed to test features before they reach staging or production. SourceWarp uses Git repositories to extract and replay relevant commit sequences, allowing for effective feature testing and benchmarking. In a case study on advanced vulnerability tracking, SourceWarp demonstrated a 30% improvement in vulnerability detection over traditional methods and increased deduplication effectiveness as code evolved. This automated and reproducible approach informed decisions on product integration, showcasing SourceWarp's value in enhancing CI/CD tools and DevSecOps platforms. SourceWarp is open-source and detailed in a research paper to be presented at the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST 2023).

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