Quality Assurance White Papers

Quality Assurance (QA) covers all activities from design..., development, production, installation, servicing and documentation. It introduced the sayings "fit for purpose" and "do it right the first time". It includes the regulation of the quality of raw materials, assemblies, products and components; services related to production; and management, production, and inspection processes.
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By: IBM     Published Date: May 22, 2013

SOA appliances have matured considerably over the last few years. As they have established themselves more firmly in the SOA landscape, vendors have developed a better understanding of requirements, resulting in a level of commonality in some of the key underlying functions such as providing a secure gateway for accessing SOA services.

Tags : soa, ibm, soa appliances, software, requirements, quality assurance, service oriented architecture
    
By: CollabNet     Published Date: Jan 11, 2013

Read this paper to find out what is happening in the industry in regards to Agile ALM and what you can do to take your dev teams to the next level.

Tags : agile, software development, alm, application lifecycle management, best practices, business management, enterprise software, product lifecycle management
    
By: CollabNet     Published Date: Dec 20, 2011

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

Tags : cloud, development, alm, agile, software development, collaboration, dev team, production
    
By: CollabNet     Published Date: Dec 20, 2011

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.

Tags : agile, software development, continuous integration, alm, dev teams, accelerate delivery, developers, app dev
    
By: SAP     Published Date: Dec 08, 2011

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.

Tags : sap, kit-digital, technology, interactive, software solution, application integration, business intelligence, quality assurance
    
By: ActiveState     Published Date: Jul 27, 2011

Programs requiring an interpreter run--dynamic languages like Perl, Python, and Tcl--are often set up in an ad-hoc fashion, which can have consequences. Learn how to avoid these downfalls by using platform-independent language distributions.

Tags : cross-platform python, perl, tcl, .net, c++, database development, java, middleware
    
By: ActiveState     Published Date: Jul 27, 2011

Compare the risks of do-it-yourself software development versus off-the-shelf best-of-breed components and OEM solutions to reduce risk, speed up development, and increase quality and customer satisfaction with Perl, Python and Tcl.

Tags : perl, python, tcl, software development, .net, c++, database development, java
    
By: IBM     Published Date: Jul 05, 2011

The ubiquity of the web, both for business and for personal use, has created an ever-increasing pool of web-savvy users-customers, employees, partners and suppliers-who expect an exceptional online experience. An "exceptional" web experience is one that achieves a balance between function and form and is perceived as engaging while also delivering precisely the information, capabilities and resources wanted or needed at the time. Learn more about how you can achieve the status of an exceptional web experience for your business.

Tags : online experience, quality assurance, web services, colocation and web hosting
    
By: CA Service Assurance     Published Date: May 08, 2011

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.

Tags : application experience, application delivery, customer app experience, user satisfaction, application performance management, business activity monitoring, customer satisfaction, enterprise software
    
By: Coverity, Inc.     Published Date: Nov 01, 2010

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.

Tags : coverity, static analysis, dynamic analysis, software analysis, software defects, software bugs, product safety, software safety
    
By: Coverity, Inc.     Published Date: Aug 16, 2010

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.

Tags : coverity, static analysis, dynamic analysis, software analysis, software defects, software bugs, product safety, software safety
    
By: CA Technologies     Published Date: Jul 23, 2010

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.

Tags : ca technologies, performance metric, it service, monitoring, productivity, customer retention, service assurance, network performance
    
By: Coverity, Inc.     Published Date: Feb 26, 2010

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.

Tags : coverity, static analysis, dynamic analysis, software analysis, software defects, software bugs, product safety, software safety
    
By: Electric Cloud     Published Date: Oct 13, 2009

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.

Tags : electric cloud, agile development, coding, testing, code, software development, build, automation
    
By: Brocade     Published Date: Mar 26, 2009

Server virtualization is transforming the way IT delivers services back to the business. Companies are leveraging this technology to consolidate servers, increase utilization, and reduce costs. Before exploring the primary drivers of server virtualization, it is important to understand the role server virtualization plays in the data center. Learn more today!

Tags : brocade, server virtualization, storage networking, soa, service oriented architectures, composite applications, networked storage, critical applications
    
By: CA Mainframe     Published Date: Sep 12, 2008

This paper describes the approaches in MDD, explains how CA Gen fits into the larger picture of application development, and relates customer experiences to underpin the quiet success. Access this White Paper now to learn how to CA Gen goes one step further!

Tags : model, application development, software development, ca mainframe, mainframe, quality assurance
    
By: IBM     Published Date: Jun 11, 2008

IBM Rational Testing Solutions for SOA help software delivery and QA teams to improve the quality of SOA solutions, by automating the creation, execution and analysis of functional, regression and performance tests of non-GUI business processes and services. In this webcast, we will demonstrate the benefits of IBM Rational Testing Solutions for SOA.

Tags : ibm, ebf, ibm ebf, soa, quality assurance, quality control, business process automation, product lifecycle management
    
By: Elementool Inc.     Published Date: Jan 28, 2008

Accurate communication is the key to the success of the bug tracking process. This communication takes the form of timely information flow between customers, QA and Development. Reducing the time spent on tasks that communicate bug information saves money.

Tags : bug tracking, project management, software development, effective management process, defect tracking, software testing, elementool, quality assurance
    
By: Elementool Inc.     Published Date: Jan 28, 2008

Here’s a test: Can you list all the issues your software team is working on now? Can you sort them by severity, priority, features affected, and other criteria such as whether the issue is a bug, customer request, or product enhancement? Can you show the histories of all related comments and actions? Can you distribute this information easily to concerned individuals — showing only the information relevant to them?

Tags : bug tracking, project management, software development, effective management process, defect tracking, software testing, quality assurance, quality control
    
By: Elementool Inc.     Published Date: Jan 28, 2008

Elementool, a leading provider of web-based project management tools for developers, including bug, defect, time-tracking and help desk tools, has announced the release of a bug tracking add-in tool for developers using the Visual Studio.NET 2005 platform. It is available free to Elementool’s community of project management solution subscribers.

Tags : bug tracking, project management, software development, effective management process, defect tracking, dot net, .net, software testing
    
By: Elementool Inc.     Published Date: Jan 28, 2008

Being the new person on a bug tracking team can be very intimidating. The other team members are likely very set in the process and know exactly what they are doing. They are used to working as a team and they understand what is expected of them. Being new, though, does not mean that a person can not fit in on the bug tracking team. All a person needs to do is learn a few beginner tips to using bug tracking software.

Tags : bug tracking, project management, software development, effective management process, defect tracking, software testing, quality assurance, quality control
    
By: 6th Sense Analytics     Published Date: Sep 19, 2007

Do you have a software development metrics program? Does it work? SD Times, 6th Sense Analytics and Rally Software Development Corp. participate in this recorded Roundtable Discussion focused on developing a metrics program that gives you the information you need to make informed decisions regarding your software development efforts.

Tags : productivity, software development, quality assurance, quality control, metrics, 6th sense, 6th sense analytics, business metrics
    
By: 6th Sense Analytics     Published Date: Sep 18, 2007

Software development projects have a long and storied history of failure. In fact, 82% of projects today run late, while errors cost 80% of the average project budget to fix (The Standish Group). Certainly no other business process today is allowed to endure this sort of failure. But software development is often left to chance, despite the significant cost and importance of the process.

Tags : software development, development, programming, programmer, quality assurance, quality control, software testing, cost
    
By: HP - Enterprise     Published Date: Jan 24, 2013

This research brief details best practices for all organizations that would like to produce more secure applications.

Tags : research, security, application security, vulnerability testing, software development, auditing, security management, security policies
    
By: IFS     Published Date: Aug 15, 2011

Learn to use IFS Applications to achieve ISO/TS 16949, the global standard for quality control in the automotive industry.

Tags : ifs applications, iso/ts 16949, event management, quality control, automotive industry, quality assurance, document management, tqm
    
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