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Product Announcements Rally End-to-End Solutions BOULDER, CO—Rally Software Development Corp. announces enhancements to its products, online training center, and Web 2.0 portal, which enable customers to adopt agile practices from product idea to delivery. In addition, new enterprise-ready integrations with products from traditional application lifecycle management (ALM) vendors— including IBM, Microsoft, and HP— help drive incremental agile adoption for organizations of all sizes. • Rally Release 2008.1 will include drag-and-drop ranking, task reordering, defect suite roll-up status, enhanced release burndown charts, expanded revision history, acceptance test authoring and tracking, and international Web caches to further enhance performance and server response times. • Agile University, an online center for public agile training courses, now has a new administrative system for agile trainers. New administrative functions allow a worldwide network of trainers to post and manage courses while taking advantage of full course coordination services. • Agile Commons, a rapidly growing Web 2.0 community for agile practitioners, includes feature requests that are prioritized and voted on by customers to drive collaboration, responsiveness, and innovation. Enhancements to the Agile Commons platform include allowing readonly status on feature requests, sorting by category, and allowing members to change their votes. Visit www.rallydev.com for more information. Squish 3.3 GERMANY—froglogic GmbH unveils version 3.3 of the automated GUI testing tool Squish. Squish supports creating and running automated GUI tests of applications based on a variety of user interface technologies including Trolltech’s Qt toolkit, Java AWT/Swing/NetBeans, Java SWT/Eclipse RCP/JFaces, Web/ HTML/AJAX, and Mac OS X Carbon/ Cocoa. One of the new features of version 3.3 is cross-technology support. While previous Squish versions worked exclusively on one specific GUI technology, the new release enables the testing of hybrid GUI applications. For example, Squish tests can automate Win32 ActiveX controls embedded in Qt applications, Java applets, Flash, or Active-X components embedded in a Web application, or mixed Java Swing/AWT and SWT/ Eclipse RCP applications. Other new features include dedicated support for interacting with Eclipse GEF elements (Squish for Java) and QGraphicsView items (Squish for Qt), support for testing Mac OS X Carbon/Cocoa GUI applications, support for testing Java applications started via Java Web Start, an integration into the Eclipse TPTP Framework, and several improvements to enhance the tool’s ease of use and test maintenance. Visit www.froglogic.com for additional information. www.StickyMinds.com MAY 2008 BETTER SOFTWARE 45 http://www.rallydev.com http://www.froglogic.com http://www.skytap.com http://www.skytap.com http://www.skytap.com http://www.StickyMinds.com

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Better Software - May 2008

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