In the “aught-world” of standards (2000 and beyond, that is), compliance is a moving target. Vendors are beginning to push UML 2.0 products, but some people wonder if today’s “standardization” is adequate.
Dan Romanchik asked Paul Raymond, VP in charge of requirements management products at Telelogic, to share his views on managing requirements.
Check out these publications, tools, and community sites for additional information about application lifecycle management (ALM).
News briefs for the week of Septemer 2, 2003.
Putting SOAP to the Web services test.
Oracle’s application business draws attention right now, but its evolving tools tactics are crucial to legions of developers grappling with data, Java and XML.
The concept of a self-healing infrastructure is great, but how does that help the developer? Zohar Gilad maintains that the notion of on-demand or utility computing is "a more beautiful name for outsourcing."
Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan provides readers with a unique look at modeling issues around the industry.
IBM calls it autonomic, Microsoft calls it dynamic, Hewlett-Packard calls it adaptive -- if it works, developers may someday deploy their apps on “crashless grids” of computers.
Compnay now shipping a new version of its TestTrack Pro, which is said to ease the effort required to bring process to software development projects.
Update tackles the problem of defining software requirements by outlining six key phases in defining a software system’s requirements.
Analysis of the recent wave of virus attacks.
One of the results of the growth in XP, said test expert Brad Pettichord, has been
an increased number of useful, free, open-source tools that developers may want to utilize.
Goals-based performance enterprise testing offering aimed at database tool users.
Software for automating financial controls required by the new federal regulations mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is the goal of a new Supervisory Control Application (SCA) developed by Fuego Inc., a Dallas-based
BPM software vendor, and Deloitte & Touche LLP based in suburban Plano, Texas.
Web Parts are probably not
the best known of Microsoft's .NET-based technologies, but they can make life easier for developers working to bring XML data from a variety of sources to a portal application.
Off-the-shelf software has changed the world of application integration. Top tool suppliers are forging hooks to ease the pain and to set the stage for better integration testing across the board.
A recent survey by the Cutter Consortium finds that ‘generally speaking, testing starts late.’
Company uses the Optane tools to alert them when SAP is unavailable to users.
A sampling of some available testing tools on the market today.