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Micro Focus this week announced the 2010 releases of SilkTest and SilkCentral Test Manager, which boast integration between the former Borland application lifecycle management (ALM) products and development platforms from Microsoft and Eclipse. SilkTest 2010, for automated testing, features Silk4Net, a UI option that extends SilkTest by plugging directly into Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 IDE. [...]

ThoughtWorks Studios is releasing on Tuesday Go, for automating the entire build, test, and deployment process in agile software development projects. Organizations using Go can release software faster and more reliably, ThoughtWorks Studios said. [ As InfoWorld's Paul Krill reported in January, agile development is now considered mainstream. ] “What Go addresses is often referred [...]

The recession has changed a lot of things about IT, particularly in the demand for quality assurance (QA) professionals who have an encyclopedic-like range of skills. That change is largely due to the increasing adoption of agile software development, which appears to have gained ground during the recession as companies looked to speed up software [...]

Microsoft began offering on Monday guidance intended to help developers make secure applications for the company’s Windows Azure cloud platform. Guidance is being offered in the form of a technical paper accessible on Microsoft’s site that’s entitled, “Security Practices for Developing Windows Azure Applications.” It is intended for developers, designers, architects and testers and is [...]

ThoughtWorks unveiled this week an online community focused on exchange of ideas and best practices related to agile software development. Called “Agile Transitions,” the community is intended for discussion of executive- and business-level issues pertaining to “agile IT,” according to ThoughtWorks, which sells products for agile application lifecycle management. [ Earlier this year, InfoWorld's Paul [...]

Microsoft on Tuesday released a template for applying its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) methodology to agile software development projects built with the Visual Studio development environment. The downloadable template, offered in a beta release, enables developers to apply SDL to the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development process. [ Also on InfoWorld: Microsoft [...]

Agile software development processes, in which software is built in short iterations rather than mapped out fully in advance, have joined the mainstream of development approaches, according to a Forrester Research report released this week. Forrester surveyed nearly 1,300 IT professionals and found that 35 percent of respondents stated that agile most closely reflects their [...]