Compuware has partnered with Spherion Corp. and Sogeti USA to advance its offering of QA tools and consulting packaged as the Compuware Application Reliability Solution, says Gery Plourde, CARS director.
Popkin Software has expanded its System Architect enterprise architecture and modeling toolset to include greater support for business-oriented process management, the company said at this week's DCI Meta Business Process Management conference in Boston. With the next version of System Architect (Version 10), due in July, the company will include integrated support for the XML-based Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).
After winning the early test tool battle, Mercury takes on industry giants in systems software. Can it maintain focus as it grows?
Agile modeling gained some prominence a few years ago, emerging in the wake of UML, RUP and Extreme Programming. Where is it now? Few are in a better position to answer that question than Jim Highsmith, author of Adaptive Software Development, Agile Software Development Ecosystems, and a founding member of the AgileAlliance.
In an effort to help application developers to "help themselves," Sun has released a free test kit designed to verify whether an application is J2EE-compatible.
Government regulations seek to enforce best practices, and IT development managers must respond. The Sarbanes-Oxley act is like sensible shoes -- with teeth. If corporate governance is here, will better IT governance follow?
With its ability to automatically generate relevant testing scenarios, SOAPtest is the perfect counterpart for developing enterprise-class Web service apps.
A sampling of recently released automated testing tools
For Charles Schwab, testing has long passed the "fad" stage to become convention in the IT unit; some observers caution users to beware of overpromises.
This is somewhat off the beaten Programmers Report track, but here are some thoughts on baking cakes and modeling software, with due respects to writer Ray Weiss.
Microsoft head Bill Gates, speaking at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2004, emphasized the role of visual modeling as the foundation for future software engineering advances.
Telelogic, expanding quickly beyond its embedded systems roots, plans to add C++ and Java support to tools for modeling, requirements and development, according to Per Blysa, vice president of product management for the company's Tau developer tools.
In which the intrepid reporter undertakes a few weeks of development using the .NET
Compact Framework, and lives to tell of it.
Sam Greenblatt, SVP and chief architect of CA's Linux Technology Group, says open software and modeling will push app server progress; Linux is seen as the inevitable platform of choice to run the corporate enterprise.
Increasingly, the barriers between development and data are blurring, and the designer often acts as the focal point of communication between the two camps. Useful tools are only part of the equation when pursuing success.
Many programmers feel that the Rational Unified Process (RUP) is too rigid and structured for small development projects. Proponents of agile and extreme programming have similar concerns. To answer these criticisms, we speak with Gary Pollice and Liz Augustine, two authors of the recently released book "Software Development for Small Teams: A RUP-Centric Approach."
What is Eclipse? Officially, Eclipse is defined as an "open universal platform for tools integration." But in talking to some software industry leaders at EclipseCon, the Eclipse organization's first technical conference held at the Disneyland Hotel last week, a larger vision emerged
Development managers must carefully implement design paradigms that can link all facets of a project; fundamental understanding of the core design is key.
When you first think of modeling, you might not think of .NET. But tools already support such methods, and a Microsoft design set alternative is brewing that will surely shake the software design tree.
Microsoft is set to update its modeling arsenal with software now known as "Whitehorse." It is oriented for "design for operations," allowing users to specify logical infrastructure
requirements early in the development process, and to verify application settings against logical infrastructure.