Sonatype announced the availability of Sonatype Insight for Continuous Integration (CI), the company's latest addition to its Insight line of intelligent tools for component-based software development. With Insight for CI, software developers can surface quality, security, and licensing problems and enforce open-source policy at build time, before fixes become costly and time consuming. Insight for CI supports agile development processes with analysis of every component in every build, alerting developers immediately of any changes or policy violations that put their project at risk.

Electric Cloud®, a leading DevOps automation company, today announced that it has teamed with Perforce, the premier provider of enterprise version management products, to enable the delivery of working software faster than ever before. The integration between Electric Cloud and Perforce has integrated and optimized the two solutions to streamline a widely used agile development methodology known as Continuous Integration (CI), which is implemented by application development organizations to iteratively build and test their code, thus improving application quality while simultaneously speeding its delivery.

WANdisco, a leading provider of Apache Subversion-based software and services for the enterprise, and a major corporate contributor to the Subversion project, has announced that the latest release of Apache Subversion is available for free download from www.wandisco.com/subversion/download, and also through uberSVN, the award-winning platform that recently came out of beta testing.

In a move that removes the limits from free load testing, Web Performance, Inc. has released Load Tester LITE™, a free version of its popular Load Tester PRO™ 5 software. This new version can run test cases with up to 1,000,000 virtual users at no cost from user-hosted servers, or from cloud servers starting at just $1 per hour.

LeanKit, recognized as the leader in electronic Lean/Kanban software, and Focused Objective, makers of the most powerful risk management solution for Lean-Agile management, today announce a partnership to provide customers with an integrated product offering. The combined solution will bring industry leading quantitative analysis to LeanKit’s and Focused Objective’s customer base in an easy to use and immediately available way. This analysis includes forecasting project delivery dates, pinpointing what factors such as staffing, quality, scope change, etc. are having the greatest impact on delivery dates, and the ability to find what staff skill additions will have the most impact.

BRISBANE, Calif., May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- CollabNet® , a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services, today announced the latest version of CollabNet Lab Management for automated provisioning of build, test and release resources for improved DevOps in the cloud. Available with TeamForge®, Lab Management leverages the Apache Libcloud® open source library to enable integration with more than 25 popular cloud services, such as Amazon EC2. It also integrates tightly with CollabNet's recently launched CloudForge(TM) cloud development platform and leading build tools Hudson and Jenkins. For improved management and efficiency, Lab Management enables dynamic creation of new profiles and leverages Windows 7 profile support.

PORTLAND, Ore., May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Agile Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the advancement of Agile software development principles and practices, today announced its full conference program for Agile2012. The finalized schedule is available for review at (http://agile2012.agilealliance.org/program/schedule/). Agile2012, the world's largest conference for Agile teams, developers, managers and executives, will take place Aug. 13-17 in Grapevine (Dallas area), Texas (www.agile2012.com).

SonarSource has announced a major new version of its platform for continuous inspection of code quality. Sonar 3.0 is the most stable and complete release to date, focused on taking ongoing code-quality management to the enterprise. Extended functionality includes real-time detection of quality issues introduced with new code and a related review process as well as personalized dashboards configurable through widgets. SonarSource now offers supported commercial editions with added functionality and a new plugin which allows identification of each developer's contribution.

XebiaLabs, the leading provider of enterprise-class application release automation (www.xebialabs.com), today announced the addition of new features to its Deployit product. The new features include enhanced enterprise-class security in the GUI, application release pipeline reporting and the addition of Microsoft .Net integration. The new features further enhance the usability, security and scalability of the product. The Microsoft .Net plugin confirms Deployit as the most scalable deployment automation solution on the market and the product's fit for large enterprise deployments.

PARIS--(Marketwire - Apr 17, 2012) - Jenkins User Conference -- Jenkins, the world's most popular open source Continuous Integration server, and JFrog, the creator of Artifactory Binary Repository, announce the Jenkins CI Artifactory-Online repository service, a new joint collaboration around an advanced Artifact Repository solution for the Jenkins community.