DDJ Whitepapers

Improving Software Quality to Drive Business Agility

With greater complexity from technology, software sourcing, compliance, security, and other areas, addressing software defects has never been more challenging. Keeping up with this level of complexity to retain software agility and profitability demands consistent, reenergized, and targeted approaches to quality.

IDC conducted a survey in 2Q08 to explore current practices in, costs of, and attitudes toward software quality. A new white paper "Improving Software Quality to Drove Business Agility", by Melinda-Carol Ballou, IDC Program Director, Application Life-Cycle Management, offers a comprehensive and insightful summary of the survey results. Download the Whitepaper now.

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Test Automation Provides Significant Time Savings

With the availability of test automation solutions, missing deadlines because of inadequate test coverage or slow and tedious manual testing is inexcusable. This white paper highlights results from Seapine Softwareıs Quality-Ready Assessment - a high-level evaluation tool that helps development organizations measure the state of their quality readiness - and explains how test automation significantly improves an organizationıs ability to complete the required levels of testing without adding additional testers, lengthening release cycles, or reducing test coverage.

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Quality Software Development Demands More Than Just Change Management

While the majority of software development organizations use change management solutions, very few capitalize on its full potential. This white paper highlights results from Seapine Software's Quality-Ready Assessment - a high-level evaluation tool that helps development organizations measure the state of their quality readiness - and explains how integrating change management solutions with other systems, like issue tracking, helps software development teams realize significant quality improvements.

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Increase Customer Satisfaction with High Quality Software Best Practices

This Seapine Software white paper proves that given the choice of higher cost, longer delivery time, or poorer quality, customers will choose to protect quality. Seapine Software surveyed nearly 1,000 Software Development and Quality Assurance professionals through the Seapine Software Quality-Ready Assessment and found the top factors driving organizations to focus on application lifecycle management solutions, the priority level companies assign to building quality into their development environment, and the degree to which those organizations complete their application development on time and within budget.

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Test Case Management is Vital to Improving Software Quality

Adoption of test case management solutions has helped many organizations avoid compliance risks and cost overruns. This white paper highlights results from Seapine Software's Quality-Ready Assessment - a high-level evaluation tool that helps development organizations measure the state of their quality readiness - and explains how integrating test case management with issue tracking significantly increases proficiency and productivity.

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Effective Issue Tracking Improves Software Quality

Despite the maturity of the software industry, many companies still overlook the value of electronic issue management. This white paper highlights results from Seapine Software's Quality-Ready Assessment - a high-level evaluation tool that helps development organizations measure the state of their quality readiness - and explains how a packaged tracking solution allows organizations to shift resources to revenue-producing development while streamlining processes and providing a better understanding of the quality of each release.

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How to Digitally Sign Downloadable Code for Secure Content Transfer

Learn how VeriSign Code Signing Certificates allow you to digitally sign your content for unprecedented secure delivery over the Internet and safely transport it from your site. In this free white paper, "How to Digitally Sign Downloadable Code for Secure Content Transfer," you will get an overview of how to use platforms such as: Netscape Object Signing, Office 2000 and Visual Basic for Applications and Java Signing.

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Protect Your Software against the Top 7 Piracy Threats

Common Hacks & Counter Attacks will show you how to:

• Secure the communication between the application and the license
• Protect time-based licenses, like subscriptions and demos, from time-tampering
• Plus more...

Download your free copy today.