Software Quality Assurance White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This buyer's guide describes the key criteria for application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions for today's high-performance teams. It includes key considerations for enhancing your single- or multi-vendor ALM environment.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: IBM Rational Team Concert software can help simplify, automate and govern the delivery process. Based on the open standards Jazz platform, it offers a lean collaborative application life cycle management (ALM) solution with integrated planning, work-item tracking, version control, build management and reporting.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: The common thread of successful software development is enabling collaboration in context - making the process transparent so stakeholders remain informed and empowered to contribute. Once this thread is established, technology can be implemented that provides the glue for stakeholders to collaborate and meet their time to market or goals.

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 | Published: 10 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper breaks load testing down into the following key activities: planning, configuration, scripting, execution, and analysis.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how properly managing continued data growth can drive business results.

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 | Published: 07 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Companies developing complex product offerings need to make sure that all components work together to deliver the desired result. Download the paper to learn how IBM Rational solutions can help companies achieve these results.

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 | Published: 02 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Improve time to value and quality by reducing rework and cost through faster stakeholder consensus, increased productivity, better process automation, and anytime-anywhere decision support for application software. Download the paper for more information on delivering high quality applications faster with reduced risk & cost.

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 | Published: 02 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Take a moment to see how many of these top 10 benefits you’re realizing with your HP Software solutions. And then remember: With IBM, you can achieve them all.

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 | Published: 02 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Software code governance is a large part of mitigating risks. Discover how this strategy can proactively establish policies or thresholds around code quality and security, test against these policies early in the project lifecycle, and control risk through better visibility into areas of risk in the project or in the supply chain.

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 | Published: 26 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Centralization Checklist: Lower costs and improve productivity and quality for your software development processes. Here's how to start, by centralizing you assets.

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 | Published: 14 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discussed the origins of the solution and examines its key features which provide compelling benefits such as improving time-to-market by up to 30% and reducing testing costs by 40%.

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 | Published: 09 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: The repercussions of releasing unsecure software in today’s markets are severe – due in large part to the proliferation of constantly-connected, mobile devices. This white paper provides an overview of these challenges, and demonstrates the steps you can take to arm your developers against the risks of modern application development.

Posted: 16 May 2011 | Published: 16 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: The CollabNet Agile Coaches have observed patterns and key milestones in the way organizations adopt and scale Agile. "Agile Transformation Strategy," by Angela Druckman, CollabNet Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Transformational Coach, outlines a sound strategy and transformational "blueprint" to help guide organizations on the path to Agility.

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 | Published: 08 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Many seemingly innocent coding practices can cause code to execute slowly. It’s far better for software quality, and less costly for the business, to find slow code before it becomes a business problem. This white paper examines the main causes and provides a practical guide to identifying them.

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 | Published: 07 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: IBM Rational offers a life-cycle approach to managing quality through quality management solutions, test integration, integrated requirements management and lean collaborative development to help you achieve greater consistency, efficiency and predictability in your delivered solutions. Download this paper to learn more. 

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 23 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper shows you how a combined IBM and Wind River quality management solution can help you deliver higher-quality products to the marketplace faster.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 21 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Effective governance for lean development isn’t about command and control. Instead, the focus is on enabling the right behaviors and practices through collaborative and supportive techniques. Learn how to form a lightweight, collaboration-based framework that reflects the realities of modern IT organizations.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 21 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Basis path testing, also known as Structured Testing, is the primary code-based testing strategy recommended by McCabe Software and supported by McCabe IQ. The main idea behind this testing is that decision outcomes within a software function should be tested independently. This article provides an overview of the benefits of basis path testing.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Agitator helps you debug your code while you write it - a benefit that no other existing Java Testing tool can claim. Agitator can also be extremely beneficial when run on legacy code - even code that has been reviewed by other developers and deemed to be “sufficient” and “properly written.” Learn how Agitar can be your own personal code reviewer.

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Businesses are struggling to keep up with the massive amount of change to their software applications. By strategically automating release management, companies can create a crisp, accurate Release Management function that dramatically boosts the competitive edge gained from application change. Control application change or let it control you.

Posted: 18 Jan 2011 | Published: 18 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Agile makes teams responsive to the needs of the business and empowers them to be adaptable and flexible. Agile processes help to break down barriers between development and production, allowing teams to work together to meet stakeholder expectations. Agile and Cloud free developers to innovate and to ultimately bring value to the business.

Posted: 13 Jan 2011 | Published: 13 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This executive brief will illustrate the progression of service management since the 1990s, illuminate the hidden service life cycles and discuss how, once they are visible, we can start to make them work — to improve services and better align IT with business objectives.

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 | Published: 03 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: The paper discusses how path coverage is better than branch or statement coverage in testing to uncover security vulnerabilities, including showing how several CWE vulnerabilities could be undetected by branch coverage but detected by path coverage. Download this paper and find out how Cyclomatic Path Analysis can uncover these vulnerabilities.

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 | Published: 10 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at quality strategies which deliver a positive operational return on investment, improving quality whilst reducing cost and risk. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 08 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Your customers expect the highest quality in the products you deliver. Discover how a comprehensive, integrated, automated requirements centric model and code based test environment managed with an extensible quality management system can increase market acceptance, ensure customer loyalty and deliver superior outcomes.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009