Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) provides Integration, coordination and management of the different phases of the software delivery process from the generation of an idea through the entire life of an application, As a set of processes and tools that include definition, design, development, testing, deployment and management, ALM has become critical for enterprises wishing to get ahead of the competition.
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Visual Studio 2010 has numerous tools available for testers to use, and this ebook from WROX covers all of them. The examination starts out with a look at Web performance and load testing followed by the new manual testing functionality, as well as the capability to automate user interface tests. The ebook concludes with a look the new lab management capabilities of Visual Studio 2010, which allow you to make use of virtual machines to automatically spin up test environments that can be used to execute tests.
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Discover the three aspects of ALM—governance, development, and operations—and how each is vital throughout the entire lifecycle of an application.
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By David Chappell
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? David Chappell shows that how well you execute your business strategies is inextricably tied to how good you will be at creating and running new applications. ...more |
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By Theresa Lanowitz, Lisa Dronzek, voke Research
This Market Mover Array Report examines the testing market and analyzes the vendors vying to move the market beyond status quo. The stakes of making sure that proper testing occurs at all levels of the application lifecycle are greater than ever. In this report youll learn the state of the testing market and see how the key vendors rate. ...more |
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IT executives are being asked to cut the costs of their companies computing systems—without affecting performance, availability, capacity, or other key metrics. Sounds impossible, but Microsoft has found a way to do just that for its popular CodePlex open-source development project.
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Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is based on the concept that all elements of an application's lifecycle must be managed as a single, ongoing process. A careful choice of ALM toolsets is vital to project success and must include elements to support every phase of application lifecycle, from requirements creation through deployment. Review what you need to be aware of to ensure your team's success.
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This complete guide, Visual Studio ALM: Solving Your Team Development Challenges, will provide insight from industry experts and teach you how to ensure ALM success for your organization. Get your copy today.
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By voke Research
Today's application lifecycle constituents must handle increasingly complex applications, over more target platforms, with shrinking resources. Explore how Microsoft Visual Studio 2010's Lab Management solution can transform an application lifecycle by leveraging virtualization and the central source code repository to provide lifecycle constituents a central hub that breaks down functional barrier, aligns, resources with business needs, provides unified visibility, into the lab, and enables optimized, strategic relationships across operations, development, and QA. ...more |
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This report from Nucleus Research outlines how Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 new functionality that enables organizations pursuing application lifecycle management (ALM) principles to shorten project cycle times by improving the productivity of architects, developers, and testers. Learn why companies seeking to better adopt ALM should consider using Visual Studio 2010.
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By Theresa Lanowitz, Lisa Dronzek, voke Research
This Market Mover Array Report examines the testing market and analyzes the vendors vying to move the market beyond status quo. The stakes of making sure that proper testing occurs at all levels of the application lifecycle are greater than ever. In this report, you'll learn the state of the testing market and see how the key vendors rate. ...more |
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Visual Studio 2010 offers a rich set of ALM tools and server infrastructure. It integrates key artifacts and provides full traceability and collaboration throughout the development process. In short, it gets things done.
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Most software development is done by teams of people. Yet even though tools to support team-based development have been available for some time, they weren't always as useful as they might have been. Today, the vendors who create those tools have reached a consensus on what the real problem is.
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To help you learn more about Microsoft's ALM solutions, we are offering an online series of free and interactive Live Workshops. Each workshop addresses a specific area of ALM implementation, laying out important principles of success, with the majority of workshop time dedicated to interactive discussion between you and the instructing trainer.
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The ALM Summit drew practitioners, managers, and IT professionals interested in learning best practices and insights into Application Lifecycle Management. While the cost to attend the summit was $1495 (US), if you are interested in ALM, then you have a chance to register and see the most popular sessions at no cost. You can register now to see any of the top ten sessions listed below. They are available now!
