Software
development lifecycle (SDLC) refers to the process of software
development. It includes various phases such as planning,
requirements gathering & analysis, design, development,
integration & testing, and deployment.
Each
phase of the software development process involves the efforts of a
team of stakeholders such as business analysts, architects,
developers, testers and managers. They use different kinds of tools
such as IBM RequisitePro, ClearQuest, ClearCase, Enterprise
Architect, HP Quality Center, Microsoft TFS, SharePoint, Visual
Studio, Eclipse IDE, Atlassian Jira, Perforce, CA Clarity,
Subversion, Hudson and so on to complete each phase of the software
development lifecycle.
These
best of breed tools help the different stakeholders to perform their
respective tasks to near perfection. Though these are best of breed
tools, they are siloed point function tools incapable of doing
reciprocal operation with their counterparts.
The
lack of effective collaboration and synchronization between the
different practitioner tools resulted in limited traceability, wasted
effort and time, unstable integrations, lower productivity, poor
quality and unsatisfactory software delivery. This accelerated the
need of a solution that would help overcome the limitations of the
software development lifecycle. Hence the concept of Application
Lifecycle Management (ALM)
was born.
ALM
is “the capability to integrate, coordinate, and manage the
different phases of the software delivery process. From
development to deployment, ALM is a set of pre-defined process and
tools that include definition, design, development, testing,
deployment, and management. Throughout the ALM process, each of these
steps are closely monitored and controlled.” ALM brings about
effective tool integration that helps to develop software
applications of high quality at a faster rate.
A
leading technology leader in application lifecycle management offers
true end-to-end ALM with its innovative ALM
integration platform.
This platform helps to do away with not only complex and costly
integrations but also overcome the limitations of point-to-point
integration and single vendor tools integration. Let’s look at some
of its advantages.
* Investment
protection : This platform integrates tools from
different vendors, including internally developed tools. Hence, it
protects all the tool investments by a development organization.
* Best
of breed tools for the best function : It allows integration
of multiple third party ALM tools from different vendors
for the same function. Moreover, it supports simultaneous use of
multiple tools from multiple vendors in a single tool ecosystem.
* Flexible
integration business rules : This platform does
not have any hard coded embedded business rules and therefore are
easily configurable.
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