Software Testing

Aternity, Inc. is the leader in Frontline Performance Intelligence for Global 1000 enterprises. Two of the biggest challenges Aternity faces as a software developer are: 1) testing its software in different IT environments; and 2) deploying its software at customer sites.  Fortunately, VMware software was able to address both these challenges.

Accurate communication is the key to the success of the bug tracking process. This communication takes the form of timely information flow between customers, QA and Development. Reducing the time spent on tasks that communicate bug information saves money.

Here’s a test: Can you list all the issues your software team is working on now? Can you sort them by severity, priority, features affected, and other criteria such as whether the issue is a bug, customer request, or product enhancement? Can you show the histories of all related comments and actions? Can you distribute this information easily to concerned individuals — showing only the information relevant to them?

Elementool, a leading provider of web-based project management tools for developers, including bug, defect, time-tracking and help desk tools, has announced the release of a bug tracking add-in tool for developers using the Visual Studio.NET 2005 platform. It is available free to Elementool’s community of project management solution subscribers.

Being the new person on a bug tracking team can be very intimidating. The other team members are likely very set in the process and know exactly what they are doing. They are used to working as a team and they understand what is expected of them. Being new, though, does not mean that a person can not fit in on the bug tracking team. All a person needs to do is learn a few beginner tips to using bug tracking software.

Do you have a software development metrics program? Does it work? SD Times, 6th Sense Analytics and Rally Software Development Corp. participate in this recorded Roundtable Discussion focused on developing a metrics program that gives you the information you need to make informed decisions regarding your software development efforts.

Software development projects have a long and storied history of failure. In fact, 82% of projects today run late, while errors cost 80% of the average project budget to fix (The Standish Group). Certainly no other business process today is allowed to endure this sort of failure. But software development is often left to chance, despite the significant cost and importance of the process.

This research brief details best practices for all organizations that would like to produce more secure applications.

Learn how to balance the positive and negative effects of memory utilization in virtual infrastructures to better handle system workload and priority--while improving server utilization

Offshoring Is a Cost Effective Solution to Your IT Needs

White Paper explaining the growing need for Digitally Signing Adobe AIR applications, and expanding the market reach of your application by distributing trusted code.

Peer reviews, or inspections of software source code, can significantly raise the quality of a software product by removing defects at an early stage.

New technologies emerge every day, but not all of them pay off, and adopting them too early might be risky for your organization.

White paper discussing the specific opportunities available to companies through the use of MTS; using different areas of activity to show how the introduction of MTS impacts on technology, processes and organisation

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How Quality can Accelerate "Speed-to-Market". Read this white paper to find out more.

This white paper examines the fresh techniques for assessing the effectiveness of QA organizations.

This webcast presents an easy to follow process that you can use to capture requirements and specify a system architecture.

This presentation will highlight the latest advances in applying SysML and UML to product line engineering, illustratinig best practices and commercial experiences using SysML, UML and the Rhapsody/Gears Bridge, an integration of Rhapsody into the Gears software product line lifecycle framework.

This webcast presents the IBM® Rational® HarmonyT for Systems Engineering process for the model-based systems development.

This white paper acts as a tool, for CEO's and Business and IT heads, helps reduce application deployment risks and costs. This paper attempts to establish how outsourcing test services to an independent domain-focused specialist company can substantially mitigate deployment risks. Business users are assured of receiving reliably better quality application well within cost and time budgets.

How SAP uses Shunra VE to keep production problems at bay with pre-production testing on the virtual WAN.  These testing approaches and methodologies  reached far beyond conventional application testing and have become the preferred approach to ensure success. SAP does it, so should you!

This guide/primer serve as an introductory how-to guide on outsourced software testing for business heads as well as software project managers. It first places testing within the content of total product life cycle and then describes the sequential stages within testing program, and how these stages can run parallel with the other development stages.

This short white paper discusses the common pitfalls and performance problems .NET developers come across when creating applications. The paper also presents several ways of getting around these issues, so that developers can make their .NET applications perform the way they should.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) promises significant benefits to today's organizations. Successfully delivering SOA benefits, especially Business Agility and Component Reuse, will be dependant on the Test Approach that your organization adopts to implement your SOA.