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Software Project Management Tools & Techniques Today

Content Team — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:31:04 +0000

Efficient Software Project Management is an integral & important requirement for any successful software project execution. While many tools promise to deliver software project management capabilities, few tools & teams succeed. In the article ‘Visions for the Project Management Software Industry’, Stacy Goff looks at the state of software project management tools & techniques today. The harsh [...]

Programmer – Tester Collaboration Is The Key To Delivering Quality Software

Content Team — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:31:57 +0000

Janet Gregory in her article “What Programmers Have to Know About Testing” highlights the things that developers can do to greatly streamline software testing and deliver quality software. Developers can help testers to understand the need for independent tests, and show them how to organize the tests to take advantage of object-oriented principles…. Programmers also can help [...]

Call For Papers – 1st IndicThreads Software Testing & Quality Conference

Content Team — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:07:13 +0000

IndicThreads.com invites submissions for the 1st IndicThreads.com International Conference On Software Quality to be held on 5th and 6th March 2010 in Pune, India. The conference is an independent event on software quality & testing and is the place to be, to learn the latest in the software testing & software QA world while meeting [...]

Notes & Presentations From 4th IndicThreads.com Conference On Java 2009

Content Team — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:05:34 +0000

The 4th IndicThreads.com Conference On Java was held on 11-12 Dec 09 in Pune. While Java software today is being used more widely than ever before, there are also a number of questions that are being asked of Java. Inline with the state of Java today, the theme for conference 09 was “Turning The Corner”. [...]

Appmarq To Be World’s First Software Quality Benchmarking Database

Content Team — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:32:21 +0000

CAST has announced Appamarq which is claimed to be the software industry’s first application quality benchmarking repository. Designed to help organizations manage their application software quality to reach both operational and business goals, the Appmarq database contains software quality statistics, trend data and best practices collected from a number of industry sectors and geographies. The quality [...]

New Free Software Build Tool Claims 10x Faster Software Builds

Content Team — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:23:48 +0000

SparkBuild, a free software build tool claims to make developer builds up to ten times faster. SparkBuild helps developers overcome the challenges inherent in build avoidance techniques and makes debugging faster and easier. It is free for both commercial and non-commercial projects. SparkBuild includes build avoidance technology that enables the fast, frequent local builds that are [...]

Parasoft Releases SOAtest Full-Lifecycle Quality Platform

Content Team — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:41:16 +0000

Parasoft has released SOAtest, a full-lifecycle quality platform for ensuring secure, reliable, compliant business processes and understanding how tests pass through heterogeneous systems. SOAtest is built from the ground up to prevent errors involving the integrated components—as well as reduce the complexity of testing in today’s distributed, heterogeneous environments. Parasoft SOAtest continuously validates all critical aspects [...]

Twitter Integrated Test Management Software Released – Get Test Results As Tweets

Content Team — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:22:46 +0000

Testuff has released of a new version of its test management tool, with a special new Twitter integration feature called Twistuff. The new Twitter feature allows testers to receive automatic tweets about test results and testing progress directly to their Twitter accounts. Testuff SaaS (Software as a Service) suite includes: Requirements management, test cases, test planning and execution, defect reporting, [...]

Scala Testing Framework, ScalaTest Released

Content Team — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:29:30 +0000

ScalaTest is an open-source testing framework that aims to speed up tests by leveraging the Scala programming language. ScalaTest 1.0, released today claims to reduce the amount of test code lines required in testing. This reduction in code lines is a product of Scala, an object-oriented language that compiles to Java bytecode and runs on [...]

Web2Test 1.3 offers improved AJAX and support for FireFox 3.5

Content Team — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:35:28 +0000

Web2Test is a tool for functional system tests of web based applications, portals and complex websites. Tests are platform and browser independent and tolerant towards layout changes. In addition web2test offers a real user simulation for a 100 % AJAX support. The test tool can be used under Windows as well as under Linux. The [...]