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A1QA is a fairly small but fast-growing testing-related specialist services subsidiary of Itransition, a larger services business. Many organisations are blighted by poor testing capabilities, and yet quality assurance of software is a key need in times when business processes are so integrated with software and dependent on it. Ovum believes A1QA’s experience and expertise gained across a variety of industries is highly valuable, and its strong testing automation playbook has the promise of readily achi…
Technology Audits - published 10/02/2010 - Alan Rodger
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Microsoft Silverlight, currently in version 3 (and 4 beta), is Microsoft’s Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform. It is installed as a Web browser plug-in to offer a rich user experience and enterprise-strength capability from small to large-scale commercial applications. Supported on Windows, Mac OS-X, and some Linux operating systems, the technologies behind the tool are XAML, the XML application mark-up language, and .NET. XAML is used for defining the UI, and .NET is used to program the applicatio…
Technology Audits - published 01/02/2010 - Michael Azoff
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Original Software provides Qualify, an application quality management solution that adapts to the way QA teams work and helps centralise the software quality and quality management processes within an organisation. Qualify is currently in version 1.5. The product takes a holistic view of the software quality lifecycle, covering requirements management, resource and task planning, scheduling, automated test execution, manual test monitoring, defect and issue management, and reporting. The product also off…
Technology Audits - published 01/02/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
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CollabNet TeamForge is a Web-based application-lifecycle management (ALM) platform suited to globally distributed development activities. Key functionality includes project management, Software Change and Configuration Management (SCCM) through the embedded CollabNet Subversion, and defect management. TeamForge integrates with the Hudson open-source platform for Web-based build and test-management functionality. CollabNet also offers an optional separately priced module for lab management in virtual and …
Technology Audits - published 26/01/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
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IBM Rational’s Rational Quality Management suite contains products to manage all aspects of software quality management. The solution set includes products for centralised test management, test lab management for physical as well as virtual environments, test data management, functional testing automation, performance testing automation, Web Services and SOA testing automation, dynamic source code analysis, and embedded systems testing. Rational Quality Manager (RQM), Rational Functional Tester, and Rati…
Technology Audits - published 21/01/2010 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
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Silk Suite from Micro Focus is a suite of testing products that provides QA and development teams with a comprehensive approach to software application testing. It allows organizations to centrally manage manual testing and automated functional and performance testing of a wide variety of applications including Web-based, Java, Microsoft .NET, and native GUIs. Silk Suite comprises SilkCentral Test Manager (SCTM) for test management, SilkTest for automated functional and regression testing, and SilkPerfor…
Technology Audits - published 13/01/2010 - Michael Azoff
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Green Hat provides GH Tester, a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) lifecycle quality-management toolset that performs code-free end-to-end testing for complex and heterogeneous SOA and Enterprise Architecture Integration (EAI) deployments. GH Tester automates the visualisation, verification, and virtualisation of unit, functional, regression, system, simulation, performance, and integration testing, as well as production performance-monitoring, and is suitable for automating testing in Agile processes. …
Technology Audits - published 08/12/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
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The Thinkmap SDK is a Java-based platform for developing applications that aid organisations in visualising sets of dynamic, complex, structured data. The solution offers native support for relational databases, XML, and flat files, and ships with a flexible data source API that lets organisations integrate the application with any underlying source data set. Once developed, Thinkmap applications can be embedded as a Java applet and published via any standard Web browser, or can be embedded within Java-b…
Technology Audits - published 25/11/2009 - Balachandar Ganesh, Richard Edwards
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Adobe Flex version 4.0 is a framework for developing rich internet applications (RIAs) based on the Flash Player. The development framework can lower costs and shorten time to market by enabling applications to be deployed identically across a variety of platforms and browsers. Flex comprises an open source software development kit that provides a compiler, a code debugger, the development languages MXML and ActionScript 3.0, and a component library. Separately licensable components are Flash Builder 4, …
Technology Audits - published 20/11/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
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A scenario typical across many office environments is when a user rings the help desk to say that their software application is running slow.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 30/10/2009 - Michael Azoff
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The momentum in cloud computing continues as key players such as Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and numerous others build up services, for example VMware/SpringSource Cloud Foundry. The cost benefit in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is attractive compared to traditional on-premise solutions, for example in collaboration and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) – see Ovum Papers “The Impact of Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing on Enterprise Collaboration” by Richard Edwards, and “ALM and SaaS: should developer…
OpinionWire Articles - published 29/10/2009 - Michael Azoff
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eoLogic’s eoSense is a dynamic application architecture analyser for Java Enterprise Edition environments that helps uncover architectural issues likely to cause application failure during load testing or in production environments that could lower the cost of quality over the development lifecycle. The solution supports various commonly used Java EE frameworks and also provides a best-practice-based knowledge base for addressing the issues identified during the analysis phase. eoSense comprises a client…
Technology Audits - published 20/10/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
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The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is at the frontline of developments to push computation capability, of interest to the High Performance Computing (HPC) community and also predicted to filter down to generic, next generation PCs. The transformation of GPUs into microchips designed for General-Purpose computation on GPUs (GPGPU) is the result of a desire to tap into their Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) unit architecture. Now NVIDIA has announced a significant raising of the bar with the Fermi GPU a…
OpinionWire Articles - published 12/10/2009 - Michael Azoff
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Organisations of all sizes are under mounting pressure to ensure that the applications that they deploy fulfil all required compliance, user safety, and threat protection demands. It is increasingly clear that software testing facilities that have been designed to identify and remediate against security vulnerabilities need to start their work at the earliest stage possible of the technology lifecycle.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 28/09/2009 - Andy Kellett
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The ideas of Lean Thinking originated within the car manufacturer Toyota, where it was called the Toyota Production System. The approach was popularised outside Japan in a book called The Machine That Changed The World by James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos, who carried out research at MIT’s International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) group. A follow up book was called Lean Thinking. The term ‘Lean’ itself was first coined by John Krafcik, also from IMVP, in a 1988 paper “Triumph of the Lean Production System”.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 28/09/2009 - Michael Azoff
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Oracle JDeveloper is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Java platform, supporting Java SE and Java EE. The product includes the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF), a Model-View-Controller framework for Java EE development offering features for reducing coding efforts, promoting code reuse, and offering template-based reusable components. The IDE also includes an instance of the WebLogic Server, and Oracle Team Productivity Center (TPC). TPC is significant for being Oracle’s e…
Technology Audits - published 22/09/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
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Those within the ‘ecosystem’ around legacy code or applications (most commonly those whose jobs are closely related to the status quo) often repeat defensively the adage that ‘legacy’ indicates something that actually works reliably. This is often true in the sense that such software has probably long passed the teething problems that can beset some new applications for long periods, but although it is initially amusing, it is far too glib an assessment – there are undeniably real problems, at operationa…
OpinionWire Articles - published 04/09/2009 - Alan Rodger
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Rich Internet Applications (RIA) are now in mainstream development, with key IT vendors such as Adobe, Microsoft, and Oracle (Sun), plus a host of smaller players and open source software projects, offering browser-based platforms for developers. Furthermore, there is the option of extending RIA beyond the browser and on to the desktop, with products like Adobe AIR, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, and Sun JavaFX. Innovation in frameworks for ease-of-use and high performance for enterprise appl…
OpinionWire Articles - published 27/08/2009 - Michael Azoff
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Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style making a large impact in the development community. For example, IBM Rational Jazz.net, the new Application Lifecycle Management system, is built using REST, and Google applications like GData, Blogger, and Picasa all use REST.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 24/08/2009 - Michael Azoff
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The benefits of reuse is one tag that tends to be added to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), perhaps too unquestioningly, for it is obvious surely that re-building wheels is not a productive activity?
Butler Group Review Articles - published 24/08/2009 - Michael Azoff
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Fujitsu in Europe offers application development services based on an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) system named Apt. Apt is available in Java or .NET editions: the former edition is Eclipse based, leverages open source software and licenses a number of tools, particularly from Atlassian, whilst the latter edition is based on Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. Apt offers an integrated ALM solution that is process driven, with process and methodology guidelines available through the EssWork pra…
Technology Audits - published 21/08/2009 - Michael Azoff
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Valtech Software onDemandTM enables customers to outsource software development projects or enhance internal development capacity, combining a predictable pricing model with the proven flexibility of Agile delivery. Valtech undertakes new application development, enhancement, maintenance, and testing projects as well as providing Agile assessment, audit, enablement and transformation consulting, process engineering, and training services. The company has close to 90 customers overall from various industr…
Technology Audits - published 18/08/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
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dynaTrace Continuous APM is an Application Performance Management solution that enables organisations to isolate and fix application performance and scalability issues before they affect production environments. Also, a highly significant differentiator is its ability to operate in the live environment without significant overhead, aiding developers in tracing the causes of problems without having to recreate a case. The costs and delays brought about by software performance difficulties can be a signifi…
Technology Audits - published 11/08/2009 - Alan Rodger
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Reliable industry estimates indicate the highest growth in spending on enterprise IT during the next few years will be in the area of cloud computing. Outstripping growth in spending on on-premise IT fivefold, the majority of this spending is forecast to be on business applications. This White Paper outlines how Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can readily benefit from this major opportunity for revenue growth.
White Papers - published 10/08/2009 - Alan Rodger
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Visual Numerics IMSL Libraries are a collection of mathematical and statistical functions available for a variety of programming environments such as C, C#.NET, Java, FORTRAN, and Python. The libraries enable developers to directly embed various numerical analysis algorithms in their applications. The PV-WAVE family of products provides a toolset for large-scale data visualisation and analysis. The PV-WAVE family of products offers users numerical analysis, time-series data analysis, image processing, ad…
Technology Audits - published 17/07/2009 - Chandranshu Singh, Michael Azoff
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