This conference implements a new and revolutionary concept of interactive participation of conference attendees with you as submitting expert and among all participants of sessions. The feature of the conference is a Keynote with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland about Agile Development in the Enterprise: Transforming the Way of Work

Methods & Tools readers can register with the special price CHF 1’250 instead of regular price 1’500. Use the Aktionscode “MAT CHF 250” when you register.

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Newbury, England, 7th March 2011 — Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announced a new release of its market-leading Silk integrated testing suite. Micro Focus SilkPerformer, SilkTest and SilkCentral Test Manager (SCTM) 2010 R2 provide a range of new capabilities for software testers and QA professionals, including goal-based testing, configuration testing and extended support for an improved configuration suite, and support for additional development environments and web 2.0 applications.

MONROVIA, CA (March 7, 2011), Parasoft Corporation, a leading provider of automated solutions that improve software quality and the development process, today announced the release of Parasoft Test for Visual Studio 2010.

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.- (BUSINESS WIRE) - With more and more organizations applying Agile techniques in the management of successful projects, the Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading project management member association, today announces the launch of an Agile certification. A pilot of this new certification, which ensures the examination is suitably developed, will start in May 2011. Interested practitioners will be able to submit applications for this certification in May 2011, with examinations commencing in the third quarter, 2011.

BRISBANE, Calif., March 1, 2011 — CollabNet®, the leader in Agile development in the Cloud, announced today the general availability of CollabNet TeamForge Project™, an integrated suite of Web-based development and collaboration tools for Agile software development. The general availability release follows a four-month beta test by more than 100 organizations.

Vancouver, Canada and Beverly, MA, Feb. 22, 2011 Tasktop Technologies, creators of the Eclipse Mylyn project and a leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, and SmartBear Software today announced the Eclipse Mylyn Connector for SmartBear CodeCollaborator. Available in Tasktop Enterprise, the new connector brings task-focused interface technology to code reviews managed in CodeCollaborator, making code reviews a regular part of Eclipse-based development activities. The integrated Tasktop and CodeCollaborator offering helps development teams develop higher quality software that is delivered to market faster and more efficiently.

Monrovia CA. February 15, 2011 – Parasoft today announced the release of Parasoft Virtualize. A component of Parasoft’s Complete ALM platform, Parasoft Virtualize gives development, QA, and performance testing teams comprehensive access to resources that are commonly unavailable or inaccessible for development and testing. Parasoft Virtualize provides early, concurrent, 24/7 access to dependent test resources, significantly accelerating the testing effort. By virtualizing application behavior instead of an entire system, it substantially lowers the cost to maintain and manage the test infrastructure.

San Francisco, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) February 16, 2011 - Atlassian today announced the release of Bamboo 3.0, its continuous integration server software, introducing features to improve build speed and effectively implement continuous deployment into the build process for agile teams. Bamboo 3.0 also includes support for Git and Mercurial DVCS, a fresh UI, a new artifact sharing feature, tighter integration with JIRA, and dozens of new features, updates, and bug fixes.

We’ve just released Selenium 2.0b2. If you’re the impatient sort who loves to have the latest and greatest, head over to the download site and get it while it’s hot. If you’re a Python user, then all you need to do is a simple “pip install -U selenium”. Ruby users can, as ever, simply run “gem install selenium-webdriver”. Maven users need to wait just a little bit longer: we’re going to be checking the release in ASAP.

Sydney, NSW - February, 7 February 2011 2011 - BrixHQ is a new flexible, adaptable and cost effective agile project management and collaboration tool all in a web environment.