Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) News & Articles


Bug-tracking service

Company offers a new way to catch bugs.

Software gives view of development assets

Tools can now be sought in a visual interface.

CA, Pinkerton take on security cases

Venerable security takes on high-tech crime.

Hype or hyper-active? A review of 'Questioning Extreme Programming'

A review of Pete McBreens’s book “Questioning Extreme Programming”

OMG to meet in Paris on UML 2.0

Setting new standards in the city of lights.

Preventing programming errors: An interview with Brian Hawkins

Author explains how to avoid some of the pitfalls of programming.

Pervasive buys security software firm

Database maker adds security function to its BI software.

WebMethods, Informatica team up on business monitor

New product combines integration and analysis functions.

Rule of secure coding: 'See input as evil'

We recently asked security maven Steve Orrin to tell us some of the tenets of secure coding today.

Standards fights slow Web services

Wrangling among vendors seeking competitive advantage is slowing the adoption of protocols to support commercially viable Web services, contends Ray Valdes, research director at Gartner Inc., a Stamford, Conn.-based consulting firm.

New Java environment focuses on up-front modeling

Compuware seeks to reduce development time.

OMG task force OKs UML 2.0

New modeling language set for release this spring.

Merant, Mercury link PVCS and TestDirector

Two firms integrate their change and test management tools.

SOAP interoperability testing coming along

The Web Services Interoperability Organization is working on interoperability among different SOAP-based applications for Web services.

Parasoft previews SOAPtest 2.0

First look at a new testing product.

Tool aimed at boosting 'untapped' ATM

Mining for gold in underused bandwidth.

Project management tools: A new look

A new generation of tools takes on portfolio management, best practices, collaborative development and other tasks.

XP lessons learned

Extreme Programming veterans share their experiences using the 'lightweight' methodology to build applications for a client.

SEI talks up Team Software Process at Boston event

A discussion of a new way to create and test software.