Explore the ways in which IBM Rational can make distributed development a reality in your organization. This one minute flash video and accompanying interactive pdf will introduce you to the concept of a virtual software factory. Check out the interactive pdf for information and links to the solutions behind the factory, including links to some of our newest ROI calculators.
Download a copy of the HP Quality Center Agile Accelerator – a tool designed to help you manage Agile development using HP Quality Center. The HP Quality Center Agile Accelerator comes with:
• Pre-defined Agile process workflows, configurations and rules
• Pre-built Agile user roles and related privileges
Speed of business and growing competition requires IT organizations to deliver mission-critical enterprise applications in-time, with high predictability. To achieve this, QA organizations need to create a reliable testing process that improves application quality, reduces time-to-market and minimizes the cost of development and testing. Availability of the right data during testing is crucial for ensuring high quality of testing. Using a comprehensive Test Data Management strategy, QA organizations are able to provide a consistent and standardized approach to ensuring high quality and reliability of large enterprise applications and systems.
Our guest speaker Greg Sittler will discuss a case study about how Boston Scientific optimizes its production test software development with an integrated process and platform for meeting demands within an integrated application lifecycle management suite.
The software industry is constantly evolving to meet new challenges. Today, organizations are searching for efficient, repeatable ways to produce software - for many, the goal is to create a "software and systems delivery factory". Learn how team collaboration, task automation, and extensive measurement and analysis can benefit your organization in this white paper, which can help you automate many of your software production and creation activities.
With embedded product designs becoming more complex and product lifecycles shrinking, development efficiencies are essential. Fortunately, emergence of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Systems Modeling Language (SysML) standards has provided the opportunity for breakthrough gains in streamlining the development process. These standards enable engineers and software designers to significantly improve their productivity by transitioning from a code-based development process to model-driven development (MDD).
Success in ever more competitive worldwide marketplaces demands continually smarter products and systems, which in turn lead to compounding complexity. Furthermore, while advanced functionality is an important competitive differentiator, quality has become part of the “price of entry” into the marketplace. Quality can no longer be considered an attribute that can be added into systems at the end of the development lifecycle. Controlling risks and costs needs to be a guiding principle that drives virtually all stages of the lifecycle, starting at the concept stage; building during analysis, design, deployment and acceptance; and continuing through service until end-of-life retirement.
Are we on target? Are we within budget? Are my projects contributing effectively to my operational objectives? How well are these operational objectives helping to satisfy our business goals? Can we easily demonstrate compliance to customer requirements or industry standards? Are we ready to ship?
This paper details the challenges and solutions available for organizations wishing to improve their software development process, reduce costs, improve quality and increase reliability of planning. It also presents examples of companies that have successfully implemented strategic QA and, as a result, have become more competitive.
In today's fast-paced, highly competitive world, change is inevitable. Organizations must respond to change to remain competitive and customer-focused. Change is not only driven by forces outside the company, from enhancement requests to bug reports, it is also driven by economic, organizational and regulatory changes. Internal enterprise IT systems also need to meet service level agreements (SLAs), and provide the level of flexibility and adaptability to change that was promised by the implementation of service oriented architectures (SOAs). This white paper addresses five of the foremost change management challenges that CIOs have to meet and how organizations can turn these challenges into a business advantage.
With an increase in enterprises across the world focusing on developing web-based applications for their businesses, there is also an increase in the number of attacks on information which is confidential and business critical. It is a growing necessity for organizations to integrate their software development with robust security measures to cut down the risk tremendously. This White Paper concentrates primarily on web application security along with various myths that accompany it. The White Paper gives an understanding of the ‘W’ model and best practices that encompass the entire security of Software Development Life Cycle. As part of the best practices, the White Paper gives an overview of addressing OWASP top 10 threats and ensuring PCI DSS compliance.
Join this exclusive webcast hosted by Micro Focus, featuring Forrester Research Inc., where we will discuss the current challenges faced by QA and testing teams in software development organizations and new ways to address them.
When increasing the speed of delivery, controlling costs, and mitigating an ever increasing set of risks, how can teams improve the value of QA and testing as part of the process? Which best practices are needed to achieve this?
With insight from Forrester and practical solutions from Micro Focus, this webcast promises to deliver value that can be immediately applied to your software development organization.
Aberdeen reports that successful product development projects share three common traits in the requirements management process. Download this report to learn about these traits and a case study on how Jama Contour can streamline your requirements management process.
New technology breeds new vulnerabilities, which in turn offer attackers new vectors for infiltrating Web application for nefarious purposes. Yet many of the application security issues organizations face can be mitigated through the proper integration of SaaS solutions. The ease of SaaS adoption in combination with the simplicity of configuration, management and maintenance make SaaS solutions an ideal fit for security organizations that are already stretched thin by continual assessments at multiple levels.
Enterprises understand the importance of securing web applications to protect critical corporate and customer data. What many don’t understand, however, is how to implement a robust process for integrating security and risk management throughout the web application software development lifecycle. Poorly implemented processes are, at best, ineffective for managing web application risk and, at worst, lead to data loss and unacceptable slow-downs in delivery times.
Any initiative a business undertakes depends on its applications. And with your performance testing applications on the critical path for every new business innovation, you need a straightforward, accurate accounting of the progress and performance of your projects.
HP Software & Solutions ensures teams can adhere to the principles of Agile without sacrifice to application functionality, performance, and security. In this way, HP helps organizations successfully implement their Agile strategy to align application behavior to business need, rather than chaos by another name.
Achieving the goals of agile development can be tricky. Development teams must manage increasing application complexity, Business Analysts need to learn how to capture requirements in higher level user stories which are both more flexible and can be easily interpreted by test and development teams, and finally the QA organization needs to ensure they are prepared to test the multi-layered applications delivered by development and that their test plans are flexible enough to accommodate the changes occurring per iteration.
To make sure these challenges are overcome, organizations need to not only look at agile tools but if they want agile to successfully scale they must put in place best practices and process support. Without this, agile projects will be inefficient, expensive and most likely fail.
