Methods & Tools – the free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Fall 2012 issue with the following articles:
* Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – 5 Method and Tool Tips
* Testing Performance of Mobile Apps – Part 1: How Fast Can Angry Birds Run?
* Test-driven Test Code Development – Unit testing Page Objects
* eFitNesse: A Java Testing Framework for Embedded OSGi Programming
* Flyway – Database Migration Framework for Java
* Findbugs – Static Code Analysis of Java
* PESTT – PESTT Educational Software Testing Tool
* Open Twebst – Web Automation for Internet Explorer

60 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?fall12

Digite, Inc., a provider of leading-edge Lean/Agile ALM Products Digité Enterprise and Swift-Kanban, announced a strategic partnership with OpsHub, a provider of application lifecycle management migration and integration solutions specifically designed for the needs of application development organizations. Using OpsHub’s technology, Digite plans to launch integrations between Digite’s tools and a wide range of other ALM, software engineering, ITSM and commercial tools that are typically used in the Enterprise.

Anaheim, CA (STARWEST), October 2, 2012 – Telerik, an end-to-end provider of software application lifecycle and content management solutions, today announced the availability of Test Studio R2 2012, the award-winning, all-in-one quality assurance solution for functional, performance and load testing. As part of the new release, Telerik has advanced Test Studio’s load and functional testing capabilities with features including goal setting, results analysis, automatic browser configuration and more. It is also among the first to add support for Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012.

Coverity, the development testing leader, today announced the next generation of its Coverity Development Testing Platform, an integrated suite of software testing technologies for identifying and remediating critical quality and security issues during development. Coverity's newest innovation, Coverity Test Advisor, includes patent pending innovations for change impact analysis to focus unit testing on high risk code, including changed code and code impacted by a change, alerting developers of code not covered by unit tests.

BlazeMeter, provider of the Apache JMeter(TM) based load testing cloud, today announced the release of its latest performance plugin, this time, for the open-source Jenkins software. Jenkins Continuous Integration (CI) is the de facto practice for enterprise software development and now Jenkins developers can engage in realistic cloud testing as part of the continuous integration process.

Typemock, the leading provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, announced today the release of three unique editions of Typemock Isolator. Typemock Isolator Basic, Essential, and Complete provide greater access to unit testing and enable developers at all stages of development to experience easy unit testing based on their needs and budgets.

IT agility allows a business to enhance its online systems much faster than the competition. Serena Software, the leader in Orchestrated IT solutions, today announced significant advancements to its Orchestrated IT solution set that was specially designed to help today's agile enterprise take full advantage of mobile, social and the cloud. Serena's solutions empower IT stakeholders to automate the continuous delivery of applications on-premise and to the cloud. What's more, the new solutions allow users to view release activity, analytics and key metrics from mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets.

Telerik, an end-to-end provider of software application, lifecycle and content management solutions, today announced the acquisition of the Fiddler Web Debugger, a popular tool created to inspect web traffic and ‘fiddle’ with incoming or outgoing data. As part of the acquisition, creator Eric Lawrence will join Telerik’s testing tools division, in Austin TX.

Tasktop Technologies and ThoughtWorks Studios announced the Tasktop Sync Mingle Connector for Agile projects and ALM. Tasktop Sync now allows Mingle customers to integrate HP Quality Center, IBM Rational Team Concert, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Atlassian JIRA and many other software delivery tools using a single platform. The result is improved collaboration among diverse teams and disciplines, and complete visibility, traceability and reporting across a broad range of ALM systems.

Frankfurt-based IT automation experts arago are now making the project management tool they have developed, Rike, available to the general public for free as open source software. arago has been using the tool in its internal product development since December 2010 – including in the development of arago AutoPilot for IT operations, for example. Rike’s special characteristics: the project management tool is based on the kanban principle and also embraces elements of other agile methods such as extreme programming and scrum. In kanban, employees select their own tasks according to a so-called “pull principle”. All employees are equally challenged as a consequence and can optimally contribute their individual strengths. By minimising the tasks to be completed simultaneously, Rike reduces the throughput times for individual tasks.