Borland Extends Lifecycle Quality Management Solution with New Innovations Across Silk™ Product Line
Enhancements Deliver Increased Efficiencies for Manual Testing and Test Management, Extend Automation to Eclipse and Vista Environments
Cupertino, Calif. - Feb 13, 2007 : Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL, www.borland.com), the global leader in Open application lifecycle management (ALM), today announced new and innovative capabilities across its Silk™ line of integrated testing and quality management products, core components of Borland's Lifecycle Quality Management (LQM) solution. The enhanced offerings help customers streamline manual testing processes and extend performance test management and automated functional testing to the latest development environments.
New and innovative capabilities across the Silk product line include:
- Borland SilkCentral® Test Manager™– new, Eclipse-based testing capability streamlines the manual testing process and automatically captures results in centralized console; new "test-to-code" impact analysis capability improves test prioritization and maintenance.
- Borland SilkPerformer®– Java™ Management Extensions (JMX™) monitoring improves diagnostics of Java server performance and new support for the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) brings performance test management to Java developers.
- Borland SilkTest®– support for new environments, including Microsoft® Windows Vista™, allows customers to build and test with the latest enterprise technologies.
"Borland is committed to helping customers address the full range of software quality challenges they face by continuing to deliver innovations across our integrated suite of lifecycle quality management products," said Brad Johnson, director of product marketing, Borland Software. "Our comprehensive LQM approach helps customers systematically reduce costs and improve the success rate of IT projects by infusing quality practices and controls throughout the software delivery lifecycle."
Innovative Manual Testing for Improved EfficiencyManual testing can account for nearly 85 percent of testing efforts, but is often an ad hoc and inefficient process driven by Word documents and e-mail. Borland helps quality assurance teams streamline the manual testing process with the introduction of a new, manual testing capability added to SilkCentral Test Manager. The capability is delivered through an Eclipse-based application that guides testers through the manual testing process - whether online or offline - capturing the results and automatically synching back to a centralized console where they can be integrated, managed and tracked along with other test results.
Test-to-Code Impact Analysis Added to Test ManagementThe ability to identify what tests to run or modify when software code changes is a common testing challenge. The latest release of SilkCental Test Manager addresses this challenge by providing software engineers with the ability to visualize the direct relationships between lines of software code and software tests. This new "test-to-code" impact analysis capability improves test prioritization by confirming that tests are covering the most critical functionality. Maintenance is also improved by enabling test engineers to effectively identify what tests need to be modified or created when software code changes.
Architected for Open ALMAdditional enhancements to Borland's LQM products are focused on a holistic and Open approach to application quality, leveraging existing processes, in any environment, with integration to other ALM products - both in-house and third-party. For example, SilkCentral Test Manager now ships with integrated support of the new Borland Gauntlet™ product, allowing visibility and control of early-stage developer testing from a single test management console, and the latest release of Borland SilkPerformer offers greatly improved Java Server™ performance diagnostics with the introduction of JMX monitoring. New technology support also includes an Eclipse plug-in enabling performance test scripting in the Java IDE.
In addition, Borland SilkTest now delivers UI testing for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows XP 64 Bit Operating systems, Internet Explorer 7® and .NET, providing customers with the ability to build, test and deliver applications leveraging these new and popular environments.
AvailabilityBorland SilkCentral Test Manager, SilkPerformer and SilkTest are available today. For more information on Borland's LQM solution, please visit: http://www.borland.com/us/solutions/lifecycle_quality_management/index.html.
About BorlandFounded in 1983, Borland (NASDAQ: BORL) is the leading vendor of Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions - open to customers' processes, tools and platforms - providing the flexibility to manage, measure and improve the software delivery process. To learn more about maximizing the business value of software, visit http://www.borland.com.
Borland SilkCentral Test Manager, SilkPerformer, SilkTest, Gauntlet and all other Borland brand and product names are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland Software Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. Java, JMX, JavaServer and all other Sun brand and product names are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Microsoft, Windows Vista, Windows Internet Explorer 7 and all other Microsoft brand and product names are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
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