Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) News & Articles


Achieve Useful Requirements Processes

Aligning IT and business is more than a marketing slogan. Learn best practices that let IT teams share requirements that align IT priorities with business needs more effectively.

Borland Advances Eclipse-Based Modeling Platform

Borland Software Corporation on Friday announced a major upgrade of its Together 2006 for Eclipse, an enterprise-modeling platform designed to support architects, Java and C++ developers, Unified Modeling Language (UML) designers, business process analysts, and data modelers.

Profile: Telelogic and Enterprise Lifecycle Management

Telelogic seeks to define how enterprises manage innovative processes.

Best Practices: Building a Test-Driven Development Team

Thanks to the rise of agile software development, more and more code jockeys are embracing software testing as a means to accelerate development and improve overall quality levels.

Developers: Think Like a Hacker to Beat a Hacker

Like a game of chess, app security boils down to a series of attacks and countermoves, and developers need to do what they can during production before they become another hacker’s pawn. But one expert says that's easier said than done.

Python planning new beta release

Promising speed, new language features and upgrades, Python is just weeks away from releasing the final version of its 2.5 software.

Security 101 for Web 2.0

Experts have long said that AJAX, used to increase and speed site interactivity, could also be used to amplify attacks against outward facing Web apps—particularly against providers of Software-as-a-Service.

Data modeling eases systems integration

When it comes to integrating biz and manufacturing systems, some say data modeling makes the best sense. And new software is said to develop models that can represent any plant, production facility or manufacturing operation.

AOL takes aim with security software

This summer AOL plans to add two tools to its repertoire to provide users with firewall, antivirus and antispyware security—tools that will likely rival similar products from Symantec, McAfee and Microsoft.

Testing in Application Lifecycle Management

Understand the five phases of the application lifecycle, and learn which tests to perform in each of them.

This is your brain on HPC

For about 2 years now, server vendors have been flogging the idea that high-performance computing is spreading beyond traditional academic and government environments, and is emerging as a serious option for enterprise IT.

Debugging Quality Control

Business execs, shadowed by electronic and paper trails, are demanding better software quality assurance. The challenge is defining quality metrics that developers and enterprise users can agree on.

Rx for dashboard-driven analysis

Last month, business intelligence start-up AppFusion announced Advanced Modeling, the newest deliverable for its BI & Collaboration platform.

Cognos gets at Domino data

Cognos beefed up its support for IBM's Lotus Notes/Domino messaging platform, announcing a Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Data Modeler for Domino.

Compuware seeks to secure Web apps with tool upgrade

Compuware is announcing the general availability of a new version of its security analysis tool DevPartner SecurityChecker.

TRUSTe relies on AppLabs for download program

TRUSTe said this week it has chosen AppLabs Technologies to test the technical operation of software applicants to its Trusted Download beta program launching early this year.

Compuware releases upgrades to its enterprise-wide quality-management software

Compuware released on Tuesday enhancements to its app, The Compuware Application Reliability Solution, and Compuware QACenter Enterprise Edition.

Fujitsu introduces Interstage Business Process Manager Studio

On Tuesday, Fujitsu Software announced the release of Interstage Business Process Manager Studio (IBPMS), a graphical process modeling studio.

I, Smartapp

Many of the problem-solving techniques such as adaptive learning and rule-based inferencing that power artificial intelligences and expert systems have gone mainstream.

App performance troubleshooting is in reactive mode

When it comes to troubleshooting application performance problems, most organizations are still stuck in reactive mode.