Atlassian, a leading provider of enterprise collaboration software for product development teams, announced major updates to its two distributed version control products: Bitbucket, a cloud-based hosting service for software development projects using distributed version control systems; and Stash, an on-premise distributed version control system for teams that manage their code on-site, running on their existing infrastructure and within the protection of a company firewall. Together, Atlassian's new software offerings enable users and teams to easily migrate their code development efforts to Git, a distributed version control system (DVCS), and enjoy the benefits of increased team collaboration, innovation and code development speed.

The Agile Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the advancement of Agile software development principles and practices, today announced the addition of a new board member and officers for the coming year. Declan Whelan, an Agile coach, was elected as a new Agile Alliance board member. Existing board members now serving as officers include Rebecca Parsons from ThoughtWorks, Ola Ellnestam from Agical, and Linda Cook from PayPal.

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.