Quality Assurance

Read this paper to find out what is happening in the industry in regards to Agile ALM and what you can do to take your dev teams to the next level.

Why the Cloud Is Advantageous for Agile, and for Accelerating its Enterprise-wide Adoption

In this ever-changing world of software development, it's critical to keep up with technologies, methodologies and trends. Discover five tested and proven software development practices your team should be utilizing to accelerate software delivery.

You're invited to access an exclusive offering called "Interactive Industry Solution Portal for Small and Midsize Businesses" available now. Contained within this portal are 15 separate, industry-specific videos, each with free, downloadable solution offerings.

While the rise of web-enabled applications and the zero latency customers expect from them has driven many enterprises to adopt performance management solutions, they are finding that basic understanding of how their overall user populations are being served is simply not enough.

This report is the result of the largest public-private sector research project focused on open source software integrity, originally initiated between Coverity and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2006. The results from the 2010 edition of the Coverity Scan Open Source Integrity Report detail the findings of analyzing more than 61 million lines of open source code from 291 popular and widely-used open source projects such as Android, Linux, Apache, Samba and PHP, among others.

voke Names Coverity as a Transformational Company in the Testing Market Coverity has been rated as a Transformational company in the voke, inc. Market Mover Array Report for Testing Platforms. Coverity's rating is recognition of the impact that Coverity's software integrity strategy is making in shaping the future of the testing market.

This white paper describes an approach that provides these performance metrics for specific IT stakeholders, all drawn from data collection and analytics that support a holistic, integrated approach to optimizing IT service delivery.

Find out how Coverity has helped Frequentis ensure a high level of software integrity to support its product mission of freedom from failure, while continually improving the productivity of its developers.

In this whitepaper I argue that the person most affected by the introduction of agile or extreme programming techniques is not the software or quality assurance engineer, but the build manager. And the build manager can no longer make do with home grown tools; software production automation tools are required to make agile development a build reality.

This paper describes the approaches in MDD, explains how CA Gen fits into the larger picture of application development, and relates customer experiences to underpin the quiet success. Access this White Paper now to learn how to CA Gen goes one step further!

IBM Rational Testing Solutions for SOA help software delivery and QA teams to improve the quality of SOA solutions, by automating the creation, execution and analysis of functional, regression and performance tests of non-GUI business processes and services. In this webcast, we will demonstrate the benefits of IBM Rational Testing Solutions for SOA.

Accurate communication is the key to the success of the bug tracking process. This communication takes the form of timely information flow between customers, QA and Development. Reducing the time spent on tasks that communicate bug information saves money.

Here’s a test: Can you list all the issues your software team is working on now? Can you sort them by severity, priority, features affected, and other criteria such as whether the issue is a bug, customer request, or product enhancement? Can you show the histories of all related comments and actions? Can you distribute this information easily to concerned individuals — showing only the information relevant to them?

Elementool, a leading provider of web-based project management tools for developers, including bug, defect, time-tracking and help desk tools, has announced the release of a bug tracking add-in tool for developers using the Visual Studio.NET 2005 platform. It is available free to Elementool’s community of project management solution subscribers.

Being the new person on a bug tracking team can be very intimidating. The other team members are likely very set in the process and know exactly what they are doing. They are used to working as a team and they understand what is expected of them. Being new, though, does not mean that a person can not fit in on the bug tracking team. All a person needs to do is learn a few beginner tips to using bug tracking software.

Do you have a software development metrics program? Does it work? SD Times, 6th Sense Analytics and Rally Software Development Corp. participate in this recorded Roundtable Discussion focused on developing a metrics program that gives you the information you need to make informed decisions regarding your software development efforts.

Software development projects have a long and storied history of failure. In fact, 82% of projects today run late, while errors cost 80% of the average project budget to fix (The Standish Group). Certainly no other business process today is allowed to endure this sort of failure. But software development is often left to chance, despite the significant cost and importance of the process.

This research brief details best practices for all organizations that would like to produce more secure applications.

Learn to use IFS Applications to achieve ISO/TS 16949, the global standard for quality control in the automotive industry.

Learn how to balance the positive and negative effects of memory utilization in virtual infrastructures to better handle system workload and priority--while improving server utilization

Offshoring Is a Cost Effective Solution to Your IT Needs

White Paper explaining the growing need for Digitally Signing Adobe AIR applications, and expanding the market reach of your application by distributing trusted code.

New technologies emerge every day, but not all of them pay off, and adopting them too early might be risky for your organization.

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