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Product Announcements IBM Jazz AUSTIN, TX—Surgient has announced it will offer integrated solutions with products built using IBM Jazz collaborative technologies. IBM quality assurance users can use Surgient’s Virtual Automation Platform to allocate IT resources and set up and tear down virtual labs on demand for software testing and quality assurance, introducing new efficiencies to the application development lifecycle. By implementing the Surgient Virtual Automation Platform, development and QA organizations will benefit from Surgient’s self-service IT solution for virtual lab management. IBM Rational customers using IBM Rational Quality Manager can request and build a live application testing environment with specific configurations without manual administration from a company’s IT department, freeing up IT personnel to address additional business critical initiatives. Visit www.surgient.com for more information. Coverity Software Readiness Manager SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Coverity, Inc. has announced the availability of Coverity Software Readiness Manager for Java. This product allows development managers, release managers, and executives to assess objectively the release readiness of their critical code by combining essential data from multiple sources including Prevent, Coverity’s industry-leading static analysis product. Software Readiness Manager helps development teams deliver high-integrity code that successfully meets quality standards to align product development with business goals. Key features include: • Automatic identification of failureprone (high-risk) code across large and complex software systems • Translation of large amounts of data from multiple tools into actionable, prioritized recommendations for improving code • Correlation of test coverage data with high-risk code to determine if failure-prone areas are being sufficiently tested • Elimination of issues due to poor coding practices earlier in the software development lifecycle, before they negatively impact development • Creation of quality and risk benchmarks to identify code appropriate for reuse Visit www.coverity.com for additional information. SI Tested WILMINGTON, MA—Security Innovation has unveiled its SI Tested program. This new program offers a means of validating a company’s security testing efforts in the absence of either industry or internal company standards for software security. This validation allows companies whose software programs undergo Security Innovation’s security testing to display the SI Tested logo on their Web sites, marketing collateral, and other appropriate software packaging. The SI Tested program is currently available to all companies that wish to establish stringent security standards R 42 BETTER SOFTWARE NOVEMBER 2008 www.StickyMinds.com http://www.coverity.com http://www.surgient.com http://www.StickyMinds.com/september http://www.StickyMinds.com

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Better Software - November 2008 Contents Mark Your Calendar Contributors eLightenment Technically Speaking Code Craft Test Connection Management Chronicles Getting Agile with User-Centered Design Google Web Toolkit Simple Summaries of Complex Projects Product Announcements 10 Things You Might Not Know About … The Last Word Ad Index

Better Software - November 2008

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