With the ever increasing market pressure to deliver more business value with shorter timelines, IT departments and software development organizations are always seeking ways to improve productivity, build applications that are aligned with the customer needs and improve competitive edge. Successful organizations, consistently delivering applications right the first time, know the secrets of focusing on the front end of the application life cycle starting with the gathering and documentation of effective requirements.
In this webcast, James Robertson, Principal, The Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc., teams up with Compuware's Fergal McGovern, Director, Requirements Management Solutions, to deliver some of the most valuable requirements information this year.
Requirements-driven testing: The journey from business needs to test and user acceptance
Nearly two-thirds of IT projects fail. A critical stress point is the connection between QA/test and Requirements. A Requirements-Driven Testing approach will help improve the quality of requirements, involve QA earlier in the lifecycle and maximize your projects’ ability to deliver on their objectives. This webcast will show concrete techniques for optimizing the QA and testing processes by keeping testing activities aligned with business-facing and performance-oriented requirements.
Featured speakers are: Richard Bender, President, Bender RBT Inc. recognized expert in requirements-based testing and Fergal McGovern, Director of Requirements Management Solutions, Compuware Corporation.
Requirements-driven testing: The clear solution for improving application quality
Featured Speakers: Fergal McGovern, Director Business Requirements Management Solutions, Compuware Corporation and Jason Swafford, Product Manager QACenter, Compuware Corporation.
Poor business requirements lead directly to poor application quality. When business requirements are ambiguous, missing, or just plain wrong, it is impossible for testers to confidently build a test plan that truly validates an application’s business functionality. Instead, testers are forced to "fly blind" and try to guess what the business expects the application to do. The results of this approach are disastrous: IDC research indicates that 70-80% of project failures stem directly from poor business requirements.
The approach—called Requirements-driven Testing—is specifically designed to address this problem. Requirements-driven Testing improves application quality by enabling teams to capture better business requirements and directly leverage them in the testing process. Featured solutions our Optimal Trace, Compuware's requirements definition and management solution and QACenter, Compuware’s test management solution. Together, these tools deliver a tightly integrated solution that enables project teams to deliver higher quality applications.
Get IT right the first time – Requirements Definition, the root of the problem
We all know the statistics: more than 70% of IT projects that fail do so because of poor requirements management. But WHY is it so hard to get requirements right? Forrester analyst, Carey Schwaber shares brand new research to help IT Managers tackle this problem. Compuware's Mike Burba will also provide some case studies of real-world IT shops that are employing some of the practices that Carey defines and the value this is delivering to their business.
Requirements in an Agile world - The Collaborative Game and how to succeed with Optimal Trace
Featured Speakers: Dr. Alistair Cockburn, Consulting Fellow, Humans and Technology, internationally recognized expert on agile and object-orientated software development methodologies and Fergal McGovern, Director, Business Requirements Management Solution, Compuware Corporation.
Explore the key tenets of the Agile Manifesto and learn how People, Co-operation and Communication are the critical success factors of software delivery. This session will delve into the implications of Agile, "Just Enough" and "Fit for Purpose" and will demonstrate the application of these guiding principals - particularly through the usage of Requirements driven projects in Optimal Trace.
Debugging
The Key to Great Code: Testing Early, Often and Automatically
No matter how elegant the algorithm or cool the user interface you create, it's worthless if it crashes or doesn't properly execute. John Robbins of Wintellect, author of the MSDN Magazine Bugslayer column, and Mike Koza of Compuware, code quality and development life-cycle expert, explain how to make developer-driven testing more efficient and accurate. This session covers:
Strategies for scheduling and testing techniques
Creating developer testing that works in conjunction with Continuous Integration builds
Ways to automate testing every time your code goes into the master sources
How testing in the development stage actually saves developers time
Performing under pressure: How to make sure your .NET memory doesn't fail you
.NET makes developing applications and web sites easier and faster than ever. However, if you bring your native code performance assumptions to the .NET table, you can be in for a rude surprise when your code goes into production.
Join renowned debugging expert John Robbins of Wintellect, author of the MSDN Magazine Bugslayer column, as he shares real-world tips and tricks to fight and conquer .NET performance challenges. Mike Koza, Compuware's code quality subject matter expert, will show you how your Microsoft IDE and Compuware's profiling and performance-enhancing developer tools can make your .NET code fly.
Debugging from the Trenches - War Stories from the Real World
When do you learn the most about your software development skills? When you have a million browser search windows open, it's 2 a.m., and you've been debugging for three days.
Join renowned debugging expert John Robbins of Wintellect, author of the MSDN Magazine Bugslayer column, as he discusses some of the nastiest bugs he's fought and how he tamed them. The techniques he describes may surprise you.
Ken Cowan, Product Manager and Architect of Compuware's award-winning DevPartner product line, will share code war stories on how automated tools stopped bugs faster than you ever thought possible.
The emergence of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a fundamental architecture in rapidly building mission-critical enterprise applications creates significant challenges in assuring the quality and reliability of these services. Any failure of an individual service means one or more applications depending on that service will also experience downtime. Development teams must assure their web services achieve the same high levels of quality as individual applications. A key facet of this challenge is the ability to anticipate and recover from application and environment errors to prevent catastrophic failures.
In this webcast produced through publisher FTP Online, David Falkenstein of Compuware and Peter Varhol of Technology Strategy Research show you how development teams utilizing Microsoft technologies can write better error-handling code and test that code through error simulation to ensure the highest-quality web services possible.
Metrics-based Management
Show me the metrics: Gain deeper visibility into your IT process
When undertaking a major IT initiative such as outsourcing, application modernization or process improvement, it’s essential that organizations benchmark their assets so that they can later measure and validate ROI. During this webcast, you’ll learn how Compuware Metrics-based Management offers unparalleled insight through technology, methodology and metrics that allows you to control your complex and dynamic IT initiatives, ultimately mitigating risk and helping you to realize your desired cost savings.
All code is NOT created equal. Complex code can be easy to create but is more difficult to test and maintain. Stealth bugs lurk in complex code, and they normally slip through testing only to appear after deployment. Automatically measuring code complexity in development and QA can help you to prioritize test case development, identify refactoring opportunities and deliver more reliable and maintainable applications.
In this educational webcast, Matt Schuetze, software development manager for the Compuware DevPartner product line joins with Compuware code quality expert Mike Koza to discuss tactics and strategies on:
how to locate your biggest testing challenges and prioritize test development
how to improve your ability to assess application risk using automated code analysis
how to identify refactoring opportunities in your code
how to communicate complexity metrics to technical stakeholders
A cure for code quality woes: Find the pulse of your projects
We all know the poor health rate of typical application development projects. A behind-the-scenes look can be even more depressing. Developers spending half a workday finding and fixing a troublesome bug, quality analysts frustrated by tracking new failures with each new testing cycle, and managers unable to get a clear status picture of what’s really going on.
Fortunately, there is a way to get visibility into the health of your application before it goes live. In this educational webcast, Compuware code quality expert Mike Koza explains processes and tools that will help you debug, test and tune apps in a way that builds in quality, rather than attempting to test it in. Compuware software engineer Ian Goodsell explains how these approaches help him – and can help you – eliminate wasted time and build superior, high-performance applications.
Whether you’re building, testing or managing the application development process, you’ll learn ways to:
Get visibility into the health of your applications at the code, test or management report level
Understand what areas of the application pose the biggest testing challenges
Learn how to increase the number of tests and testing cycles – faster than you’re doing it today
Learn how to pinpoint security vulnerabilities throughout your development lifecycle
Stored Procedures, UDFs and Triggers—Common Logic or Common Problem?
Internationally recognized DB2 experts Susan Lawson and Daniel Luksetich of Yevich, Lawson and Associates discuss proper ways to write and use DB2 Stored Procedures, including how SQL statements, program logic, WLM, user-defined functions and triggers fit in.
Practical Best Practices for Application Development
Webcast originally produced by Software Development Magazine
When it comes to using best practices in Microsoft-based development, many organizations are still stuck at square one. The good news is that you don’t need to turn your organization upside down to take advantage of basic disciplines that save you time, money and effort, while improving overall application quality. Join software development industry experts David Kelly, Founder and President of Upside Research, and Chris Davis, Subject Matter Expert for Compuware, for a practical discussion on how to leverage the best of best practices for developing applications.
What you’ll learn:
Why you should care about best practices
The Top 5 development best practices to get started today
What you can do yourself, and when to consider outside help
How development tools can automate best practices
What other organizations are doing today with best practices
Application Auditing
Take IT Security One Step Further—Investigating Internal Data Breaches
With the onslaught of media attention on exposing privacy breaches, you know you need to secure your mainframe data. Chances are, you have taken steps to do so by installing a host of anti-intrusion technologies that keep unauthorized parties—both internal and external—from accessing your critical data. But that’s not enough. Join this Compuware webcast as Dr. Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of The Ponemon Institute, and Compuware discuss the many costs of a data breach, regulatory compliance and how the Compuware Solution for Application Auditing takes IT security one step further than traditional approaches by capturing authorized internal application activity.
Application Quality
Improve quality in your application delivery process - a success story at Arizona Federal Featured Speaker: Kevin Bingham, Assistant Vice President, Arizona Federal
IT organizations today face the perennial challenge of staying within budget, meeting time-to-market demands, and increasing quality. It might appear that you have to sacrifice one goal to achieve another. In this presentation, Kevin Bingham, Assistant Vice President of Arizona Federal, discusses how his organization leveraged test automation and a structured process to deliver applications without sacrificing budget, time or quality.
Top Strategies to Reduce Cost While Increasing Quality in Application Delivery
Reducing cost and increasing quality of applications at the same time is not a combination you see very often. IT usually has to sacrifice one for the other. In this webcast, Matt Winford, senior product manager of Compuware Quality Management solutions, will discuss key strategies to reduce cost while simultaneously increasing quality in the application delivery process.
Properties and Targets and Items, Oh My! Automating your build process for reliability and code quality
The linchpin of a software project is the daily build. If your code breaks, you're dead so, how can you be sure your build process is consistent and reliable? Can you measure the quality of your application's daily build before running it? In this webcast Dan Mosely, Senior Development Engineer, Microsoft Corporation and Jeffery Thomas, Software Developer, Compuware discuss how to streamline builds using MSBuild with Visual Studio 2008 and how code quality tools can verify builds, detect errors and test performance in conjunction with your automated build process. You will learn:
how to leverage MSBuild for consistent, extensible and reliable .NET builds
what approaches to measuring code coverage and volatility will keep your tests relevant
how code quality tools verify builds, detect errors and test performance
what new features have been added in MSBuild to automate your builds with Visual Studio 2008
The Application Quality Dilemma: Why Testing Alone Doesn't Guarantee Quality
Please join Jason Swafford, Compuware Quality Solutions Product Manager, and Chris Kowal, Compuware QA Architect, as they discuss the application quality dilemma and how Compuware Quality Management provides the necessary building blocks for developing sound quality practices and ensuring consistent delivery of high quality applications.
Improving Application Quality: A Collaborative Approach
Learn how instituting collaboration and effective communication in your organization increases quality across the lifecycle. Find out how companies like HP take a collaborative approach to quality through a new on-demand webcast that features helpful hints on how to encourage frequent and continuous communication and sharing of common goals, innovative ideas and real-time problem solving throughout the entire software development life cycle.
Align Testing and Business Goals: Best Practices for Optimized Testing
Working with limited IT resources and tight deadlines to bring new or modified projects on line has always been a balancing act. And though testing is vital, it’s often short-changed and limited—if it’s not optimized for today’s "do more with less" IT atmosphere. View this Compuware webcast and learn why optimized testing is the key to significant productivity and quality gains.
Code Coverage
Code Coverage: A Better Way of Testing to CYA (Cover Your Assets)
What are you willing to risk when deploying an application? Quality? Cost? Performance? Your job? Unless you’ve implemented code coverage into your business, you’re gambling against the odds.
Don’t miss your opportunity to learn how Xpediter/Code Coverage can help you validate your testing performed on an application’s underlying business logic. You’ll also hear how many Compuware customers are using Xpediter/Code Coverage to measure and improve the effectiveness of their testing efforts, while providing management with test-coverage statistics and risk-assessment reports. Sign up today!
Test Data Privacy
Protecting Sensitive Information: A Practical Solution for Test Data Privacy
With all of the media buzz surrounding compliance, you know that it is critical to protect your data--in test as well as in production--but you may not know where to start. Learn about Compuware's customizable, four-step, best-practices approach to ensuring data privacy in test.
Risk Management
Protect Yourself Against Internal Threats: Reduce the risk and liability of data breaches
The threat of insider data breaches is substantial. Research indicates 70 percent of security incidents incurring actual losses occur internally, so you need a plan in place to protect your critical assets.
During this webcast, you will learn how to:
Reduce risk and liability associated with test data privacy and production security
Lower the cost of regulatory compliance
Validate and prove compliance with repeatable processes and audit reports
Improve rapid response for auditing infractions and application problems
Provide vital forensic information to investigate suspicious activity.
