Quality Assurance

If your current version control system is inadequate, and you have pushed it to its limits, you do have to ask yourself: do I want to migrate my problems? Or start anew? This white paper will communicates a comprehensive approach to determining a migration scope method that will maximize developer productivity during the transition.

Five powerful truths about Subversion

Software development should be a fast, repeatable process. The practices of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are starting to revolutionize application delivery, by instilling changes through the stages of build, deploy, test and release processes. Watch the short video (6 min).

You're invited to access an exclusive offering called "Interactive Industry Solution Portal for Small and Midsize Businesses" available now. Contained within this portal are 15 separate, industry-specific videos, each with free, downloadable solution offerings.

Why the Cloud Is Advantageous for Agile, and for Accelerating its Enterprise-wide Adoption

Transformation begins high in the organization with the decision to change -- to break out of the status quo and turn Application Lifecycle Management into a strategic advantage. A common Application Lifecycle Management platform provides the benefits enterprises need today-real time visibility and traceability, collaboration across stakeholders and process automation that leads to improved quality, time to market.

How leading firms are winning with strategies for efficient application development, without relying on co-location.

In this ever-changing world of software development, it's critical to keep up with technologies, methodologies and trends. Discover five tested and proven software development practices your team should be utilizing to accelerate software delivery.

The Kofax enterprise capture platform offers unmatched scalability from centralized to highly distributed environments, from individual desktops to enterprise deployments and from basic archival scanning to powerful document classification and separation and data extraction. The company's market leading technology supports a wide variety of input devices and line of business applications, providing a strong enterprise-wide platform on which to standardize document driven processes.

See how some retail banks have redirected their focus to a more customer -centric approach. This whitepaper includes success stories from Banco Inversis and GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corporation (now Ally Financial) which highlight how Kofax has helped them maintain and even increase their competitive edge.

While the rise of web-enabled applications and the zero latency customers expect from them has driven many enterprises to adopt performance management solutions, they are finding that basic understanding of how their overall user populations are being served is simply not enough.

This report is the result of the largest public-private sector research project focused on open source software integrity, originally initiated between Coverity and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2006. The results from the 2010 edition of the Coverity Scan Open Source Integrity Report detail the findings of analyzing more than 61 million lines of open source code from 291 popular and widely-used open source projects such as Android, Linux, Apache, Samba and PHP, among others.

voke Names Coverity as a Transformational Company in the Testing Market Coverity has been rated as a Transformational company in the voke, inc. Market Mover Array Report for Testing Platforms. Coverity's rating is recognition of the impact that Coverity's software integrity strategy is making in shaping the future of the testing market.

This white paper describes an approach that provides these performance metrics for specific IT stakeholders, all drawn from data collection and analytics that support a holistic, integrated approach to optimizing IT service delivery.

Find out how Coverity has helped Frequentis ensure a high level of software integrity to support its product mission of freedom from failure, while continually improving the productivity of its developers.

In this whitepaper I argue that the person most affected by the introduction of agile or extreme programming techniques is not the software or quality assurance engineer, but the build manager. And the build manager can no longer make do with home grown tools; software production automation tools are required to make agile development a build reality.

This white paper outlines some of the most salient challenges and demonstrates how technology managers can enable their development teams to streamline application development and troubleshooting, while keeping them current on emerging technology, new product versions, and changing market trends-allowing them to move right past the gotchas.

No question the UI in electronic devices today is playing a larger role in the success of a device. Get the UI wrong and your product will have little chance of surviving. And it isn’t enough to deliver a UI that is merely functional: it has to look good too. Studies have shown that a good cosmetic design can encourage users to explore the full range of features and often, can engender the perception that a product is easier to use, which can make consumers more tolerant of product deficiencies. Learn more today!

Moving to C++ presents opportunities for higher programmer productivity. The requirements of embedded systems, however, demand that the adoption of C++ be carefully measured for the performance impact of run-time costs present in C++, but not in C. This talk suggests strategies for developers who are starting their acquaintance with C++.

Since the SQL Access Group created the Call Level Interface, ODBC has become the most ubiquitous method for connecting to relational database sources. ODBC was developed to allow programmers to access relational data in a uniform manner, regardless of the database backend. ODBC translates those generic commands into the specific esoteric commands of the database backend, so the quality of the driver directly determines the performance of the database connectivity layer. Learn more today!

Connecting to a database requires a number of independent layers. The application needs to incorporate software that establishes the connection and calls to the database. A database connectivity layer needs to be in place to help manage security, communications, and data flow with the database. The database has a set of interfaces that help translate the client requests into actions within the database engine. And with the advent of .NET, the costs of managed versus non-managed code must also be considered.

Terry Bass, V Series and OpenVOS Product Manager, discusses the arsenal of industry standard and open source applications available today on OpenVOS that make UNIX and Linux programmers immediately productive on the world’s most reliable operating system. VOS is now OPEN.

Celina Insurance case study that shows cost reduction and increased productivity - faster, better service to agents and their customers due to integrated systems and real-time collaboration; being “easy to do business with” secures agent loyalty; 50 percent reduction in phone calls and costs due to instant messaging option, and 40 percent reduction in head count while maintaining the same volume of business due to streamlined processes.

Without a comprehensive management program in place IT assets can cost far more than necessary through waste and redundancy (direct costs) and overly complex management and maintenance (indirect costs). Implementing an effective IT asset management program is a first step for companies to deal with these issues. Learn more today!

Is building custom software a necessary evil, a process that’s divorced from the really important parts of a business? Or is the ability to do this well the underpinning of every successful organization? The truth is probably somewhere in between these two extremes. One thing is clear, however: In many organizations, how well a firm executes its business strategies is inextricably tied to how good it is at creating and running new applications.