Quality Assurance & Testing


VSLive! Day 2: ALM On Stage

Microsoft's Dave Mendlen announces release date for Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 during keynote address.

New Agile Project Management Tools Announced

Parasoft Corp. and TeamDynamixHE recently released new project management tools for Agile software development.

Study: App Maintenance Is Neglected -- at a Cost

Should you be paying more attention to application maintenance and less to application development?

MKS Adds Testing to ALM Platform

Application lifecycle management supplier MKS Inc. yesterday released a new version of its flagship ALM platform adding test-management capabilities to the suite.

Micro Focus Finalizes Borland Acquisition with Sweetened Deal

After upping its offer by 50 percent, Micro Focus closes Borland deal.

IBM Launches Enterprise Cloud Services

IBM today unveiled cloud-based services for enterprises that can be hosted or run on a customer's premises, or a hybrid of the two.

Skytap Adds Quota Management for Cloud Service

To add predictability to its offering, Skytap Inc., a start up cloud provider targeted at application developers and testers, this week added new capabilities to its cloud service.

Automation Design Canvas Boasts Advanced Web Testing

Run repeatable, automated tests of Web applications as you develop them with this high-end tool.

Coverity Prevent and Quince UX Patterns Explorer

Improved support for managed and native code in static-analysis software.

HP Ships Performance Center 9.5

Hewlett-Packard released HP Performance Center 9.5, the company's integrated application test and analysis suite.

Expressway or Dead End?

If your on a budget should you use Visual Studio Express Edition for a professional product development and release project?

Microsoft Rolls Out Web Platform Installer 1.0

Microsoft announced today the release of Web Platform Installer (Web PI) 1.0, a free downloadable tool designed to help install the Microsoft Web Platform or its components.

Coalition Agrees on Top 25 Software Security Errors

A coalition of government, academic and private-sector security organizations have announced a list of the top 25 programming errors that are responsible for the majority of security vulnerabilities plaguing applications.

Microsoft Releases CTP of VS Extensions for SharePoint

Microsoft today announced a community technology preview (CTP) release of Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint.

Understand What Your App Does

Peter takes a look at Compuware's DevPartner Studio.

First Look: Titanium Software Dev Kit

Appcelerator Inc. earlier this month released a public preview of Titanium SDK, an open source alternative to Adobe AIR.

New CA Modeling Tool Supports WCF

CA's latest release of its Plex rapid application development environment now lets developers model and generate Microsoft .NET-based services based on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

Microsoft Opens Its ODF Documentation for Office 2007 SP2

Microsoft released documentation on Tuesday designed to help developers create applications compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2, particularly if they need to understand how Office 2007 implements the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard.

Agile Solution Provider Rolls Out Java SDK

Agile project management tools provider VersionOne has updated its V1: Agile Enterprise product to include a Java software development kit (Java SDK).

Visual Studio's Future

Microsoft is attempting to address one of the biggest perennial problems with the application development process: communication among disparate roles in development.