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Product Announcements Klocwork Insight BURLINGTON, MA—Klocwork Inc. announces the availability of Klocwork Insight. Klocwork Insight combines the productivity benefits of fast, local desktop source code analysis with the accuracy of system-wide analysis, transforming source code analysis from a build audit report to a true, developer-support tool. Klocwork Insight enables organizations to find the most complex cross-system bugs within a developer’s local build, ensuring vulnerabilities and defects are never propagated in the code stream. Klocwork is available in two versions: Klocwork Insight for C/C++ and Java, and Klocwork Insight for Java. Visit www.klocwork.com for additional information. VMware Stage Manager PALO ALTO, CA—VMware, Inc., unveils a new management and automation product that streamlines and accelerates the process of bringing new or modified applications and other IT services into production. Building on the management capabilities of VMware Infrastructure, VMware Stage Manager automates management of complete, multi-tier application environments—including the servers, storage, and networking systems that support them—as they move through various stages from integration to testing to staging and user acceptance before being released into production. By deploying VMware Stage Manager, application owners can: • Manage pre-production infrastructure assets utilizing them only when needed, thereby reducing server sprawl and increasing the resource utilization efficiency of IT services hosted on VMware Infrastructure • Rapidly build up a preproduction image of complex production environments, thereby mitigating risk of errors and potential downtime • Systematically propagate complex system changes through all phases of the process while more easily enforcing change and release management procedures • Accelerate the completion of requests for changes to production systems Visit www.vmware.com for additional information. • Image Doctor simplifies update and maintenance of image-based test scripts in rapidly changing UI environments. • Image Import accelerates test script development by leveraging existing image resources. • Text Image Generation simplifies interacting with text on the screen of the system under test, including dynamic content not known until test execution time. • Readable SenseTalk scripts and a powerful interactive debugger simplify even complex automation development and script maintenance tasks. RiTA builds on Eggplant’s capabilities, advances automated testing, and eliminates the need for testers to work on the Apple Mac platform. It provides a central facility for Windows users to build, store, manage, and execute Eggplant automated test cases from their Windows desktop. Irrespective of the platform to be tested (Windows, Linux, Unix, Symbian S60, Mac, etc.), RiTA offers a comprehensive testing solution delivering all of the capabilities of Eggplant to the Windows platform. Email info@redstonesoftware.com or visit inwww.redstonesoftware.com for additional information. TeamCity 3.0 PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC—JetBrains announces the free professional edition of its newly released TeamCity 3.0, which delivers multiple improvements in different areas and extends its support for both Java and .NET software development teams. New features include: • Per-project access rights with project roles—an exclusive feature of the Enterprise edition • Build statistics charts, with declarative pluggable charts for user-defined metrics • Pre-tested commit from Visual Studio for Subversion • .NET Duplicates finder for catching similar code fragments of your C# and Visual Basic .NET code • Java Inspections and Duplicates for Maven2 projects • Version Control labeling for Subversion, CVS, Perforce, StarTeam, and ClearCase • “Hanging” builds auto-detection and thread dump capturing, for quick feedback on Java and .NET build problems • Display of build start/finish estimations in the build queue • Build tags for organizing and quickly filtering builds Visit www.jetbrains.com for additional information. Mindreef Enhances SOAPscope Server HOLLIS, NH—Mindreef, Inc. announces the availability of SOAPscope Server 6.1, the latest offering of the company’s flagship collaborative team-based solution for testing and verifying the quality of service oriented architectures (SOAs). Highlights include support for several OASIS WS-Security standards requested by customers. The company also introduces three new desktop products: SOAPscope Architect, SOAPscope Tester, and SOAPscope Developer. The Mindreef SOAPscope Server product family allows teams and individuals to choose the most effective mix of product features and pricing based on their needs and those of their SOA project. The new and enhanced products combine valuable Mindreef features into targeted offerings: APRIL 2008 BETTER SOFTWARE Redstone Software Puts Eggplant on the Menu for Windows NEW YORK, NY—Redstone Software Inc., makers of Eggplant, announces it will offer its Eggplant software as part of a self-administering appliance. Designed for Windows users, Redstone’s integrated Test Appliance (RiTA) enables testers to run Eggplant from their Windows PC. Eggplant features include: • Image Collections enable a single script to test an application or process across multiple platforms. www.StickyMinds.com 43 http://www.klocwork.com http://inwww.redstonesoftware.com http://www.vmware.com http://www.jetbrains.com http://www.StickyMinds.com

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Better Software - April 2008 Contents Mark Your Calendar Contributions eLightenment Technology Speaking - A Change Would Do You Good Code Craft - A "D" In Programming, Part 1 Test Connection - Learning the Hardware Lessons Management Chronicles - The Art of Persuading Management Cover Story - Incremental and Iterative Development Developers...Start Your Engines Where Do I Go From Here Product Announcements 10 Things You Might Not Know About... The Last Word - Software Quality and the Prisoner's Dilemma Ad Index

Better Software - April 2008

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