At a keynote speech to Supercomputing 2005, Microsoft’s Bill Gates said Microsoft has released the beta 2 version of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, the company’s first high-performance computing OS, and is funding joint research projects at 10 academic centers worldwide.
Seapine Software announced last week the availability of TestTrack Pro 7.5, a new version of the defect tracking and issue management software, featuring cross-platform user and administrator clients, full Unicode character support and expanded workflow functionality.
Mergere gives businesses access to commercially supported open source solutions.
Rapidly increasing user loads, wildly complex software and
distributed development that includes worldwide outsourcing
all ratchet up the need for better application testing processes
and tools.
LogicLibrary and AgilePath announced on Monday that the two companies will incorporate AgilePath’s SOA Playbook methodology into Logidex’s metadata repository. The combined offering is intended to be an out-of-the-box solution for service identification and modeling combined with SOA governance and enablement.
Adobe Systems recently bulked up its LiveCycle server platform, providing a graphical interface for assembling business flows, components-based building blocks for analyzing business processes, and an enhanced process management server.
VMWare, which nearly single-handedly revived interest in technologies that provide a logical, rather than a physical view of computing resources, has plans to support paravirtualized Linux and Sun Microsystems’s Solaris x86 operating systems in future releases of its infrastructure platform products, Workstation, GSX Server and ESX Server.
Custom-built BI applications need tune-ups. And if the rate at which new features are added to shrink-wrapped BI releases from major vendors is any indication, BI consumers, in particular, aren’t shy about asking for more. As a result, there’s a good chance custom-built BI apps will require more attention than other kinds of homegrown software.
It is axiomatic to say that testing and QA are the ugly stepchildren of the software development process. Everyone knows code quality is important, but so are features and deadlines. And when it's crunch time, testing and QA get short shrift.
Exploited software flaws cost the U.S. financial services industry more than $3 billion per year, according to the National Institute of Standards & Technology.
The good thing about Web services is that they expose interfaces, streamline connections
and accelerate business processes. The bad thing about Web services is that they
expose interfaces, streamline connections and accelerate business processes.
Few software companies have beat the security-begins-in-the-application-development-process drum louder than automated software testing solutions vendor Parasoft Corporation. “Prevent errors as you write the code,” is the company mantra (if not exactly its slogan). The advent of service-oriented architectures that support wide-scale use of Web services makes that message even more urgent, says Wayne Ariola, Parasoft’s VP of corporate development.
IBM Rational has announced two new tools to bridge the traditional gap between enterprise IT operations and application development by integrating its testing and development tools with its Tivoli application management software.
Depending on whose statistics you believe, the number of non-technical users who use business intelligence and analytics applications is between a tenth and a third of the total of business users.
In an interview with Java Pro editors, Alan Brown, a distinguished engineer at IBM Rational software, discussed patterns, modeling, and focus areas for software development in 2005.
Parasoft Corp., the Monrovia, Calif., provider of solutions that automatically prevent software errors, announced the availability of Jtest 6.0 at LinuxWorld in Boston last week.
Compuware Corp. has launched two new products as part of its DevPartner product line -- Fault Simulator and SecurityChecker.
TestArchitect 2.0 is a product for organizing your testing efforts - but it's
also the embodiment of a philosophy of testing. I chatted for a while with the
folks at LogiGear about this release, and here's my take on what's going on.
Response time and scalability are key to optimal performance of your enterprise's applications. Set expectations and provide analysis tools to help you achieve performance goals.
How would you like to build full-fledged enterprise apps 10 times faster? That's a claim being made by Jeff Walker, founder, chairman and CTO of TenFold.