Software Development Tools Reports

EGUIDE: For software developers, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offers clear advantages over managing your own development infrastructure and allows more time to focus on designing and coding. But is PaaS right for all development projects? Before you make the move to PaaS, there are several questions to ask yourself and your prospective vendors.

Posted: 25 Nov 2013 | Published: 25 Nov 2013

WHITE PAPER: To gain competitive advantage and keep up with the fast pace of business change, it's critical that your organization embrace mobile applications. In this helpful guide, discover how to transform your business into a mobile enterprise with the right technology.

Posted: 05 May 2014 | Published: 09 Oct 2013

WHITE PAPER: In this informative analyst paper, explore how to implement an Agile development and DevOps-based strategy in an IBM System Z environment. Discover the tools you'll need to foster automation, collaboration, quality, and testing, and the processes that will help you achieve continuous development.

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2013

CASE STUDY: View this case study to learn how the IT department of Germany's Federal Employment Agency implemented a suite of testing tools to test the Agency's applications and ensure flawless, defect-free performance.

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: Explore the following white paper to join analytics pioneer, Tom Davenport, as he reveals the findings of how big data fits into the data and analytics infrastructure of 20 large organizations. Find out how these companies are handling big data, the tools and skill sets used to maximize ROI, and what the future holds with analytics 3.0.

Posted: 17 Apr 2014 | Published: 21 Apr 2014

EGUIDE: In this Solution Spotlight, learn from experts about Agile development techniques such as continuous integration and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). Discover how they enable developers to achieve both speed and quality, as well as explore the benefits, trends and challenges of each technique.

Posted: 09 Apr 2014 | Published: 09 Apr 2014

WHITE PAPER: This resource describes how Design Management capabilities can help you reduce development timeframes, lower costs, and more. Discover common design challenges and see how Design Management can facilitate development success by reading on now.

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this resource, explore the bottlenecks that slow down software delivery and learn how you can overcome them by creating better collaboration through DevOps. Get an in-depth look at how to achieve the continuous release and deployment adoption path to DevOps, with specific examples of each step in the process.

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 | Published: 31 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: Access this informative white paper to explore the unique challenges of mobile app development, including usability and choice of implementation technology, and get a primer on the tools and processes that will help you achieve the five key themes of mobile app development.

Posted: 26 Mar 2014 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

EGUIDE: Much has been written about what DevOps is, however, this expert e-guide investigates DevOps by explaining what it is not. SearchSoftwareQuality.com editor Jennifer Lent asked software professionals to explain what DevOps isn't -- read now to explore five common answers.

Posted: 26 Mar 2014 | Published: 26 Mar 2014

WHITE PAPER: Is it better to wait for users to request, or "pull," the content they need, or to "push" content updates when you think users need them? This resource weighs in on the "push vs. pull" design model debate, describing key advantages of the push model in the mobile space.

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 | Published: 05 Dec 2013

WHITE PAPER: Software developers know that testing is often one of the greatest barriers to delivering software quickly. Unavailable or constrained systems can cause testing delays or make it altogether impossible. But you need testing to ensure your applications perform to the quality standards required -- so what can you do?

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 | Published: 12 Mar 2014

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Access this ROI calculator to see how your business could benefit from implementing the IBM Rational Solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management. By filling in the values based on your personal business environment, you'll get a high-level estimate of the economic impact you can expect from implementation.

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 | Published: 11 Mar 2014

VIDEO: This video covers the value of continuous delivery, which can eliminate bottlenecks and quality problems in your software development process.

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 | Premiered: 19 Nov 2012

EGUIDE: Continuous delivery is the automation of the software development and delivery cycle, and it offers a number of opportunities for organizations, including feature toggling, value analysis, and better quality. However, it also presents a number of challenges that must be overcome in order to reap those benefits.

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 | Published: 10 Mar 2014

EGUIDE: "Developers are always surprised when they see how [poorly] their applications perform under load," said J.P. Jackson, a project manager for the State of Michigan. Too often, performance testing happens after the fact, in response to user complaints that the software runs too slowly. So how can this be avoided?

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 | Published: 10 Mar 2014

WEBCAST: This on-demand webcast reveals how the right test automation and service virtualization strategy can help teams test applications earlier and accelerate software delivery.

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 | Premiered: Dec 31, 2013

EBOOK: Leaders in the software industry are using continuous integration and CI-based tools to make continuous delivery a reality throughout the application lifecycle, and not just at the development stage.

Posted: 05 Mar 2014 | Published: 05 Mar 2014

EBOOK: With the introduction of Hadoop 2, ending the reliance on MapReduce and introducing HDFS federation and high availability, this is a big step toward maturity for the technology. In this Hadoop 2 guide, explore new possibilities; determine how your business can take advantage of these increased options.

Posted: 05 Mar 2014 | Published: 05 Mar 2014

WHITE PAPER: To release new updates and features faster, savvy development teams have changed the way they deliver software with DevOps. In this report, get an in-depth look at DevOps and continuous delivery, and learn how it helps solve a variety of challenges facing modern IT organizations.

Posted: 19 Feb 2014 | Published: 02 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: Forward-thinking organizations have already hopped on the DevOps bandwagon for streamlined software development and delivery. A key aspect of successful DevOps is constant improvement of tools -- but improvement doesn't need to mean replacement. Are you overlooking some of the most valuable DevOps tools?

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 | Published: 31 Oct 2013

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn about how a quarterly rolling planning process, along with a planning tool, can yield better business forecasting results.

Posted: 12 Feb 2014 | Published: 31 Aug 2013

WEBCAST: This on-demand webcast discusses how to implement continuous testing in order to optimize mobile performance, and takes an inside look at the technologies and tools fueling mobile testing success.

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 | Premiered: Dec 11, 2013

WHITE PAPER: This resource counts down 10 issues that development and testing teams should consider in order to derive maximum performance from their Web applications.

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2013

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides a detailed description of injection vulnerabilities, discusses how they present themselves to both end users and software developers, and explains mitigation strategies to help resolve the various types of injection attacks.

Posted: 27 Dec 2013 | Published: 27 Dec 2013