Better Software - March 2009 - (Page 51) Product Announcements Agile Development Practices BOULDER, CO—Rally Software has launched a Web site and online toolkit to calculate the cost-cutting benefits of agile practices. The new toolkit helps teams understand the financial impact of agile adoption and includes an ROI calculator, an industry study on the cost savings experienced by agile teams, and an Agile Success Guaranteed program. Agile practices enable companies to build less but deliver the same value by focusing on the features that have the highest business value and not wasting money on the features that don’t. Agile increases team productivity and product quality, which enables businesses to build more with fewer resources. A recent study conducted by QSM Associates showed that agile teams using Rally are 50 percent faster to market and 25 percent more productive as compared to plan-based or waterfall projects. The online toolkit includes details about Rally’s new Agile Success Guaranteed program, which eliminates the risk in adopting agile practices. The program enables teams to transition or scale their agile adoption with a three-month or sixmonth safety net, including: a thirty-day unconditional money back guarantee for product and services, early termination option within the first three or six months for a pro-rata refund, and a discount on product and service bundles. Rally is the only agile ALM provider to guarantee agile success, helping teams deliver their first agile projects in under sixty days. The toolkit is available for free at build procedure into several parts or builds that can be run on different build agents, in sequence or in parallel, using the same set of sources in all of them Tests re-ordering, which can determine a set of tests that is likely to fail and perform those tests first the next time the project builds Possibility to redo any build from a particular version control revision (history builds) Improved agents authentication mechanics, per-agent CPU-benchmarks, and agents overview statistics matrix Statistics for an entire project, and comparative statistics on a single chart New integrations, including FxCop and dedicated Rake runner, as well as improvements for old ones such as MSTest A new, highly improved Eclipse integration, which brings to the Eclipse world many cool features previously available only for IntelliJ IDEA users A lot of user interface improvements—new project page with project-centric information and statistics, dedicated page for viewing individual test statistics and details, and many improvements in dependencies management Some of the plugins bundled with TeamCity, such as integrations with Eclipse, ClearCase, and FxCop, are now open source Numerous other improvements, including notifications, VCS integration, a greatly improved search engine, and more to create reusable keywords from a running application. GUIdancer 3.0 offers comfortable, code-free, and agile testing to teams at all stages of the testing process. Version 3.0 of GUIdancer will contain expansions in two directions. The first of these is model-based testing. Using the new modeling perspective, testers will be able to plan the structure of their tests and automatically transform the model into GUIdancer test cases. This new feature will extend the support that GUIdancer offers to teams testing early. Using requirements, activity, or UML diagrams available in the design phase, testers will be able to generate test cases to be executed when the application under test (AUT) is available. The second new area supports testers later on in the test process—namely those starting testing when an application is already available. Although no AUT is required to specify GUIdancer tests, this new observation mode will allow testers to create keywords using the running application. Keyword creation and refactoring is, of course, code free, which saves time and resources in testing and maintenance. Visit www.bredexsw.com for more information. • • • • • • • CodePro AnalytiX PORTLAND, OR—Instantiations, Inc. announces an upgrade to its comprehensive code quality product, CodePro AnalytiX. Through intense automation of audits, metrics, and best practices, CodePro AnalytiX ensures superior software quality and maximum developer productivity throughout the entire code development cycle. With this upgrade, Instantiations more than doubles the number of security audit rules to 150, bringing the industry’s most comprehensive Java code auditing library to more than 1,100 rules. Extensive security rules have been added in the categories of language semantics, Struts, and configuration files (Ant, Ivy, Maven, and WebSphere), while significantly expanding other categories including API usage, authentication, EJB security, file usage, tainted user input, and more. Key enhancements include: MARCH 2009 BETTER SOFTWARE • www.rallydev.com/agilevalue. • TeamCity 4.0 PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC—TeamCity is a continuous integration server and distributed build management tool available from JetBrains. Its key benefits include on-the-fly build feedback, faster builds and better scalability, clean code base, better control over large-scale environments, easy setup and adoption, and, finally, extensibility. Starting with v3.0, TeamCity has been free for small and medium-sized teams. Features include: • Build chains support, which allows the break down of a single Visit www.jetbrains.com for additional information. GUIdancer 3.0 GERMANY—Bredex GmbH announces the planned release date of GUIdancer 3.0, their automated GUI test tool, as the first quarter in 2009. 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