Connecting the ALM Processes

Application Performance Management

Nastel AutoPilot, an application performance management software solution, reduces the cost of ensuring peak performance of your business applications. Using a complex event processing engine for predictive alerting, it provides real-time 360° situational awareness of your applications, middleware including message payloads, transactions and their relationships with the underlying infrastructure. AutoPilot enables you to resolve issues when they first show up and not wait till they blow up.

Data Subsetting

Database subsetting is an innovative way to create referentially correct, business intact, cut-down versions of your production database. Once a cut-down version is made, one or many smaller copies of that database are created for use in development or testing, saving you disk space and effectively offering more efficient testing.

GT Datamaker™ contains a powerful database subsetting tool. Data Subset™ allows you to define sets of tables to be extracted, add in your own relationships and define selection criteria. Grid-Tools database subsetting software uses native database utilities to migrate the data, allowing you to incorporate the generated scripts into your existing test data management framework.

FOSS Management and Control

Black Duck helps you manage and control open source use while improving productivity, security and quality.

• Manage and control use of multi-source code. Strengthen your installed development tools and manage multi-source code use throughout the software lifecycle. The Black Duck Suite streamlines search, selection, approval, validation and tracking of both externally sourced as well as internally developed software components across geographically dispersed organizations and complex software development supply chains.
• Collaborate and inform. Provide developers, managers, security personnel, legal counsel and executives with timely information and a framework for collaboration. Dashboards, detailed reports, full licensing text and real-time alerts provide role-specific data views and increased visibility, promoting efficient coordination and communication.
• Promote standardization & code re-use. Centralize and standardize with a comprehensive collection of re-usable open source and third-party code. Enable contributions to your internal catalog of approved code. Accelerate code vetting with an interactive framework that captures policies over time.

Secure and Reliable Code

Parasoft provides developers technologies for:
Practices:

• Static analysis
  • Pattern-based static analysis
  • Data flow static analysis
  • Code metrics analysis
• Peer code review
• Unit testing
• Regression testing
• Memory error detection
• Software development management

Languages:

• Java
• .NET
• C
• C++
• XML and Web

Initiatives:

• Application security
• Embedded development
• Regulatory compliance
• Geographically-distributed development

Test Data Management

With testing procedures accounting for as much as 60% of the application lifecycle, test data management has never been more important. The term "test data management" suggests we need to find methods to manage, edit and enhance test data, not just test scenarios. Test data management does not deal with specific test cases, but rather the data going into specific test cases, for specific test scenarios.

Most organizations find the hardest part of testing is finding the initial test data to use for these cases. As a manual process, this can be incredibly time consuming and tedious. Likewise, the end result is so rarely effective, as it is next to impossible to create high-quality test data from a large and unwieldy production database. So, how can you acquire good quality test data, and how can it be managed effectively? This is where test data management becomes an important part of your overall testing strategy.