Developer March

OFF THE PRESS

Micro Focus Integrates Visual Studio 2010 in Cobol Tools Micro Focus has announced four new Cobol products to allow developers to...

ODA Open Design Alliance Announces DWGdirect.NET Beta Release The Open Design Alliance (ODA) announces the beta release of DWGdirect.NET,...

Use Intel Alpha SDK to Write Netbook Applications and Earn Money Intel has announced a new opportunity for developers to earn money by writing...

WHITE PAPERS

Hot and Safe: a Beginner's Guide to Multithreaded Libraries Most of the discussion of multithreading that emerges from Cilk Arts is...

8 Simple Rules for Designing Threaded Applications Multithreaded programming is still more art than science. This white paper...

Maximizing Digital Media Application Performance using Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives in Microsoft* .NET* Environment Microsoft .NET framework's interoperability mechanisms can be used to create...

EXCLUSIVES

JBoss Fights to Retain Its Title in the Testing Tools Category

Quality assurance tests play an important role in the process of creating software products. Measures ensuring the quality of a software product meets the requirements are welcome in every step of creating the software product. Testing is one of the final and most important steps in creating a software product.

Both software development and software testing have undergone substantial evolution over the years. The early stages of software testing were primitive and did not fully meet intended goals. Software testing has already gone through at least two clearly identifiable phases. In “Software Testing 1.0”, software testing was misunderstood. It was an afterthought or adjunct to the development process an was left to less skilled, lower-paid individuals who actually viewed software testing as the entry point on a career path to becoming a software developer. There were few useful testing tools and methods for achieving a high degree of automation. Those that existed were expensive, difficult to use and ineffective at addressing productivity needs and concerns. In this phase, executive management was mostly disconnected from software testing – assuming that somehow, it would get done.

With “Software Testing 2.0” came the recognition that software testing was and is an important part of the development process. Software testing was recognized as a valuable part of application development, and everybody started to test in earnest. With the high degree of acceptance across functional groups, came ownership issues – issues of where testing fits organizationally, how it is budgeted for, and from where testing should receive its direction. There was also an explosion of available tools. These tools often further distracted the testing efforts, turning the process into one of tool selection without clear goals, architecture or direction. Within this phase, executive management’s understanding of testing was still rudimentary as was their involvement.

Testing Tools Winner at Great Indian Developer Awards 2008: Ramakrishna G, SVP, Saltmarch Media, receiving the award on behalf of the Borland SilkTest Team

Then better quality products were developed with broader and deeper testing coverage, taking less time to test and reducing quality-related costs. The current state-of-the-practice, referred to as “Software Testing 3.0”, is now emerging. Software Testing 3.0 offers the culture, methodologies, beliefs, and techniques that will enable software testing to truly deliver the full potential of quality engineering, test automation and global resources. Software testing is finally evolving to a point where it can meet and exceed management expectations. The global software testing market is worth USD $13 billion today.

Testing Tools Winner at Great Indian Developer Awards 2008: Bruno Georges, Middleware Solutions Director for Red Hat APAC/Japan, receiving the award on behalf of the JBoss Profiler Team

Saltmarch Media's annual Great Indian Developer Awards honors software products across 12 categories, based on their productivity, innovation excellence, universal usefulness, simplicity, functionality and most importantly on the ground feedback from India’s software developer ecosystem. In the testing tools Category, the final shortlist consists of Klockwork’s Insight, VMLogix LabManager, Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition, JUnit.Org and JBoss Profiler. Borland’s SilkTest was the first product to win in this category in 2008 followed by JBoss Profiler in the 2009 chapter of the same awards.

If there is a particular change and testing tool that you personally endorse to your colleagues or you evangelize about them at the first opportunity you get, here is your chance to vote for it (voting closes April 10 2010) and see it win this prestigious award. Who knows? You could win along with it too. At the end of the voting process, a lucky draw will be conducted and one person will receive a surprise gift from our prize sponsor. So visit the 2010 Great Indian Developer Awards website and cast your vote. It counts!

VIDEOS

JavaScript for the C# Developer With the proliferation of thin-client web applications, sooner or later every C# programmer will likely have to write some JavaScript. What could go wrong? After all, it's just another...

PODCAST&VIDEOS

.Net Collections Deep Dive The .NET framework provides a rich set of collection classes, crafted to help you address a multitude of tasks. But, let’s face it, we rarely use this vast array to the scope that...

Caring about Code Quality We all have seen our share of bad code. We certainly have come across some good code as well. What are the characteristics of good code? How can we identify those? What practices can...

Design Patterns for .NET Programmers Between lambda expressions in C# and functional programming in F#, we can now make use of patterns well beyond those popularized by the so called GOF. In this presentation we will learn...

Stepping into the Near Future of the IDE Ever wonder what it might be like to write code in the future? DevExpress’ Mark Miller will explore trends in tools & human interfaces and preview interesting & exciting...

Quality First - Building Quality Into Your Application Throughout the Lifecycle Application quality is often considered as an afterthought and put off until late in the application lifecycle. To consistently deliver high quality products, quality should be...

The Entire Game Should Move Onto the GPU, says Rev Lebaredian As the computing functionality and horsepower of GPUs has grown over the last few years, the role of the GPU is rapidly expanding to game tasks beyond rasterization-based graphics. Now...