Agile Software Development

Coverity Architecture Analyzer to Deliver Advanced Visualization of Software Systems

devadmin — 2008-11-21T00:47:24-07:00

Embedded Technology 2008 - Yokohama, Japan – November 17, 2008 – Coverity, Inc., the leader in improving software quality and security automatically, today announced the availability of Coverity Architecture Analyzer. This new version of Coverity’s architecture product incorporates the company’s patented Software DNA Map analysis system to provide development teams with the ability to ensure the integrity of application architecture across development teams, analyze the complexity and dependencies of software systems, and identify errors that can create crash causing defects or security vulnerabilities. “Application architecture is a critical discipline for building effective application services and solutions that work with "common componentry" in a manner that satisfies the organization's requirements, while supporting its future evolution. It is nearly impossible to successfully build IT applications, or a portfolio of applications, without leveraging various patterns, practices and frameworks,” according to Gartner’s 2008 report ‘Defining the Discipline of Application Architecture’.

Introduction to Agile Day, December 16 2009, London, UK

devadmin — 2008-11-19T10:47:46-07:00

The growing evidence base that Agile project methods deliver value faster and with higher quality is all well and good. However, if you and/or your organisation have little or no Agile experience – deciding where to start can be quite daunting.

Jt - Java Pattern Oriented Framework (Jt 2.9)

devadmin — 2008-11-19T08:00:49-07:00

Jt2.9 has been released. Jt is a pattern oriented framework for the rapid implementation of Java applications. Jt has been utilized in several large mission critical systems. Jt implements many well-known patterns including Data Access Objects (DAO), GoF design patterns and J2EE patterns.

Rally Software Expands First Programmable Internet Platform for Agile Lifecycle Management

devadmin — 2008-11-12T03:04:49-07:00

ORLANDO and BOULDER, Colo., November 12, 2008 – Rally Software Development Corp.®, the Agile lifecycle management leader, today announced the latest releases of its applications and Platform-as-a-Service offerings for Agile lifecycle management. Rally releases 2008.5 (released Oct 25) and 2008.6 (available Dec 20) deliver new features to make development run faster, smoother and at far lower cost by unifying silos that typically span the software lifecycle. Major new capabilities include one-button install of community mashups from the Rally mashup catalog, new integrations for products from Microsoft, IBM and Jira, and the ability to plan and schedule regression tests within iterations and releases.

Terracotta and SpringSource Partner to Simplify Development and Deployment of Scalable Java Applications

devadmin — 2008-11-12T02:59:34-07:00

San Francisco—November 10, 2008 —Two leaders in open source and Java application development, SpringSource and Terracotta, today announced a comprehensive partnership to simplify the development and deployment of enterprise Java applications and reduce the costs of their scale-out, tuning, and ongoing operations. Under terms of the agreement, SpringSource and Terracotta are tightly integrating their products and providing organizations with key resources and tools for quickly building and supporting specific vertical applications and processes powered by Java infrastructure. For a live application demonstration, please visit: http://reference.terracotta.org/examinator.

Phurnace Announces Support for IBM® WebSphere® 7.0

devadmin — 2008-11-12T02:25:09-07:00

AUSTIN, Texas — November 4, 2008 — Phurnace Software, Inc., the Java application deployment company, today announced that its flagship product, Phurnace Deliver™, will support the new IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 7.0. All of the Phurnace Deliver capabilities that have been available for WebSphere 5.1, 6.0, and 6.1 will now also be available for the 7.0 release. Additionally, Phurnace Deliver will automate the migration of applications from any of the previous WebSphere versions to WebSphere 7.0 and support all of the new capabilities introduced in the new release. The 7.0 support from Phurnace is planned to ship to customers in early Q1, 2009.

iTKO Releases LISA Eclipse Edition for Complete Test Coverage within the Application Lifecycle

devadmin — 2008-11-12T01:57:03-07:00

DALLAS, TX, November 12, 2008 -- iTKO LISA, the leading provider of testing, validation and virtualization solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) and enterprise software, today announces an integrated edition of their LISA 4.5 software within Eclipse, offering unparalleled capabilities for automating unit, functional, regression, load and performance testing within the workflow of the world's leading development platform.

Stop testing so much!

devadmin — 2008-11-12T01:54:03-07:00

Automated testing is a great way of maintaining quality on a software project by providing quick feedback to developers when things break. Problem is, often teams find themselves with long-running suites of tests that become a time killer in the iterative development process. If the tests take too long to run, developers are less likely to run the full suite locally before a commit. Instead they commit their changes untested and rely on the Continuous Integration (CI) server to test it. In many teams this can mean the CI server gets quickly overloaded with changes to test, and developers wait hours to find out they broke the build.

JetBrains Has Released IntelliJ IDEA 8

devadmin — 2008-11-11T13:22:44-07:00

IntelliJ IDEA 8 supports the widest range of modern tools, frameworks and technologies, right out of the box. You can make it as lightweight as you want - it is easily tuned to your specific needs and does not overload you with what you don’t use at the moment.

More than 1000 tools registered at SoftDevTools.com

devadmin — 2008-11-04T06:24:12-07:00

SoftDevTools.com is a unique directory of software development tool where you can be informed on both commercial and open source solutions for your software development needs. It covers all software development activities: programming (java, .net, php, ruby, etc), testing, configuration management, databases, project management, etc. Tools can be classified using multiple criteria: licensing, running platforms and functionalities, etc. With 10′000 monthly visitors, SoftDevTools.com is proud to have registered its 1000 tool and looking forward to reaching the 2000 milestone.

If you are the editor of a commercial software development tool or contributing to an open source project, go to http://www.softdevtools.com/ to register your tool.

AccuRev and Coverity Help Developers Improve Code Quality and Security in Agile Environments

devadmin — 2008-11-04T02:21:17-07:00

SD Best Practices – Boston, MA – October 29, 2008 – AccuRev, Inc. and Coverity today announced a new technology partnership that will help software development teams to improve the quality and security of their applications in today’s fast paced agile development environments. Leading development organizations rely on Coverity’s advanced source code analysis products to ensure the integrity of their code and AccuRev’s process-centric software configuration management (SCM) products to automate and accelerate their development processes. A driving factor in partnership was the success that customers of both companies consistently realize through integrating products from AccuRev and Coverity. The new partnership will allow both companies to provide additional integration capabilities that help joint customers derive even greater value from their investment in technology from Coverity and AccuRev.

Parasoft Embedded showcases next-generation unit test framework

devadmin — 2008-11-04T02:15:24-07:00

MONROVIA, CA. (October 28, 2008) Parasoft Embedded, leading provider of solutions and services that deliver quality as a continuous process throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for embedded and real time systems, announced today the new release of Parasoft C++test, an integrated C/C++ toolkit for automating a broad range of best practices proven to improve software development team productivity and software quality.

Compuware DevPartner Studio Improves Microsoft .NET Framework Application Quality and Security

devadmin — 2008-11-04T01:56:23-07:00

LOS ANGELES--October 27, 2008--Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today announced at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 (booth #118), the latest version of its award-winning code quality solution, Compuware DevPartner Studio 9.0. This new version improves an IT organization’s ability to diagnose software security vulnerabilities, defects and performance problems early in the development process—when problem resolution is most cost-effective.

Electric Cloud Delivers 'Continuous Integration 2.0' to Eclipse Developers

devadmin — 2008-11-04T01:45:15-07:00

EclipseWorld 2008, Reston, VA., October 28, 2008 — Electric Cloud®, the leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions, today announced that a new version of its ElectricCommander® SPM automation software features an integration with the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment), enabling Eclipse and Java developers to make the agile best practice of "continuous integration" truly scalable and reliable. ElectricCommander 3.0, available today, features "preflight builds and tests" accessible from the Eclipse IDE that can virtually eliminate broken builds and make continuous integration a reality for Java development shops.

Deep Agile, November 8-9 2008, Cambridge, MA, USA

devadmin — 2008-10-30T01:39:00-07:00

A conference organized by the New England Agile Bazaar group with Jim Coplein and Bob Martin

tinyPM 1.2 released

devadmin — 2008-10-29T07:57:25-07:00

tinyPM is focused on supporting agile teams using iterative development, user stories, story points, task board.

Higher Adoption for TDD Approach

devadmin — 2008-10-28T06:19:48-07:00

A recent poll examined how organizations perform unit testing. Despite the fact that the number of TDD adopters has grown nicely since the previous similar survey, unit testing is still widely conducted in a informal manner, when it is not simply ignored by developers.

PureCM launches new Proxy Server to speed up distributed software configuration management

devadmin — 2008-10-27T03:26:06-07:00

PureCM today announced that it has launched its new Proxy Server, together with its latest PureCM 2008-3 release. The proxy server adds to PureCM’s product portfolio, which already includes a fully integrated software configuration management (SCM) and issue tracking solution.

TotalView Technologies Adds Batch and Remote Access Debugging to TotalView® 8.6

devadmin — 2008-10-27T03:18:12-07:00

Natick, MA- TotalView Technologies, a provider of dynamic software analysis tools for serial and parallel codes, today introduced the newest version of its award-winning source code analysis and error detection tool, TotalView 8.6. The new TotalView 8.6 release includes batch debugging with TVScript designed to automate test/verify/debug environments, and remote display debugging to enable developers to use TotalView across machines from any location.

Visual Paradigm Suite 3.4 Released

devadmin — 2008-10-27T02:47:42-07:00

October 20, 2008 - Visual Paradigm International Limited announced today the release of Visual Paradigm Suite 3.4 (VP Suite 3.4).