Boston - Compuware and Borland Software at the TechEd 2006 conference this week bolstered application lifecycle management (ALM) offerings for Microsoft's .Net platform.
Compuware announced DevPartner Studio 8.1, which is the company's suite of tools for measuring code quality.
"The things we're doing [are] really trying to extend the collaboration between the QA (quality assurance) organization and the developer organization," said Ken Cowan, product manager for DevPartner at Compuware.
Version 8.1 features integration with work items in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. This function enables test assets to be shared between developers and QA personnel by storing them in Foundation Server, which is the collaboration component of Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System ALM platform.
Also in version 8.1 are additional rules to test for compliance with .Net coding standards. Compuware also has made it easier to automate the static analysis function in the product; additionally, users can add their own rules for static analysis.
Compuware also enhanced its Vantage product, for monitoring of applications in production. A new version, release 9.9, now features full-time monitoring and root cause analysis for .Net applications.
"The idea is to fix the application before it seriously impacts your business," Cowan said.
DevPartner 8.1 ships on June 19 and costs $2,300 per seat. Vantage 9.9 also is available; Compuware officials did not immediately have pricing information for the product on Tuesday.
Borland is providing Unified Modeling capabilities to Visual Studio users.
Borland's visual modeling tool, Together 2006 for Visual Studio, has been integrated with the Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition, providing UML support and Borland LiveSource capabilities. LiveSource offers roundtrip engineering between source and class diagrams.
The new version of Together is due to ship later this summer.
Posted by Paul Krill on June 13, 2006 02:38 PM
