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Borland Software Corporation, a provider of Software Delivery Optimisation (SDO), has unveiled the Borland Lifecycle Quality Management (LQM) solution. The Borland LQM solution is said to offer the first integrated ALM product suite that links business requirements to code to testing priorities and activities in an automated and traceable way

"The consequences of poor software quality are well known, yet quality is still often treated as an afterthought, something addressed late in the lifecycle with only one organisation (QA) truly held accountable," said Erik Frieberg, vice president of product marketing and strategy at Borland Software.

A Proactive Solution to Improve Quality

LQM is one of the four solutions that Borland offers to make software delivery a manageable business process. The Borland LQM solution offers a foundation of ALM technologies to 'quality-enable' all members of the software delivery team, including business analysts, architects, developers, testers and management. It includes the following components:

• Gauntlet is a better way to prevent software defects
• An enterprise-class platform for software quality management
• Integrated ALM products for requirements-based testing, version control and enterprise defect management
• Process expertise and training to ensure customer success

An Emerging Approach to an Age-Old Problem

"Many application development organisations overemphasise late-stage testing and tools," said Jim Duggan of Gartner in a research report targeted to CIOs. "Since the earliest research into software quality, it has been apparent that a balanced approach that exploits people, processes and tools at several stages throughout the life cycle can achieve improved quality and predictability at the lowest overall cost."

The ability to integrate existing software delivery processes in a more automated and efficient manner can not only help improve quality, but can also increase team productivity, lower development costs, and improve time-to-market. A recent Borland survey of almost 800 IT professionals indicates that companies are already seeking out these integrations. Over 40 percent of those survey respondents said they are in the midst of, or planning to, integrate their requirements and QA processes within the next year.

Borland's LQM solution is said to help the following processes:

• Requirements definition and management
• Test management and execution
• Architecture and design analysis
• Development test and defect prevention
• Automated functional testing
• Performance and scalability testing
• Defect tracking and version control