Borland Extends Lifecycle Quality Management Solution with New Innovations Across Silk(TM) Product Line.Enhancements Deliver Increased Efficiencies for Manual Testing (testing) manual testing - That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation. and Test Management, Extend Automation to Eclipse and Vista Environments CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Borland Software Corporation (company) Borland Software Corporation - A company that sells a variety of PC software development and database systems. Borland was founded in 1983 and initially became famous for their low-cost software, particularly Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo Prolog. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BORL, www.borland.com), the global leader in Open application lifecycle management The administration and control of an application from inception to its demise. It embraces requirements management, system design, software development and configuration management and implies an integrated set of tools for developing and controlling the project. (ALM), today announced new and innovative capabilities across its Silk([TM]) line of integrated testing and quality management products, core components of Borland's Lifecycle Quality Management (LQM LQM Link Quality Monitoring LQM Land Quality Management Ltd (UK) LQM Layered Queuing Model LQM Laughing Quietly to Myself (also seen as LQTM) LQM Lifecycle Quality Management LQM Living Quarters Module ) solution. The enhanced offerings help customers streamline manual testing processes and extend performance test management and automated functional testing (testing) functional testing - (Or "black-box testing", "closed-box testing") The application of test data derived from the specified functional requirements without regard to the final program structure. to the latest development environments. New and innovative capabilities across the Silk product line include: * Borland SilkCentral([R]) Test Manager([TM]) - 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([R]) - Java([TM]) Management Extensions (JMX JMX Java Management Extensions JMX Air Jamaica Express (ICAO code) JMX Jumbogroup Multiplex ([TM])) monitoring improves diagnostics of Java server performance and new support for the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE) brings performance test management to Java developers. * Borland SilkTest([R]) - support for new environments, including Microsoft([R]) Windows Vista The current version of Windows for the desktop. It was released in late 2006 for businesses and early 2007 for consumers. Vista adds numerous features, including improved security and advanced multimedia capabilities. ([TM]), 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 Brad Johnson can refer to:
Innovative Manual Testing for Improved Efficiency Manual testing can account for nearly 85 percent of testing efforts, but is often an ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. 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 Management The 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 ALM Additional 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([TM]) product, allowing visibility and control of early-stage developer testing from a single test management console A terminal or workstation used to monitor and control a network. See Microsoft Management Console. , and the latest release of Borland SilkPerformer offers greatly improved Java Server([TM]) 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 See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Vista and Windows XP 64 Bit Operating systems, Internet Explorer 7[R] and .NET, providing customers with the ability to build, test and deliver applications leveraging these new and popular environments. Availability Borland 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. (The preceding URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. may need to be copy/pasted into your internet browser's address field. Delete the extra space if one exists.) About Borland Founded 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. 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