Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is an integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) product family with the tools and processes that help development teams work more effectively together. With the release of the Visual Studio 2010 product family, Microsoft is changing the game in the testing industry. Visual Studio 2010 offers a rich set of capabilities focused on the different types of testers – all the way from generalist testers focused primarily on manual testing and scenario validation, to the expert and specialist testers focused on performance testing and automated functional testing. With Visual Studio 2010 product family you can create high quality applications that deliver business value by:
- Building quality into the lifecycle
- Eliminating “No-Repro” scenarios by filing rich, actionable bugs
- Incorporating performance in the lifecycle
- Eliminate waste by driving efficiency into the test effort
- QA Team aligned with Business Analysts, Architects, and Developers
- Eliminating tedious tasks, chose the right tests
- Improving setup and deployment of tests
- Ensuring complete testing
- Focused test planning and progress tracking
- Transparently see the quality of requirements and level of testing
- Leveraging virtualization
- Accelerate setup/ tear down and restoration of complex virtual environments
- Testers can file rich bugs with links to environment checkpoints
For more details, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/india/visualstudio
Micro Focus is a FTSE 250 company that delivers innovative software to maximize the quality, efficiency and value of business critical applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization, Testing and Management software helps businesses to optimize the return on their business software and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk.
Borland quality solutions from Micro Focus embed quality assurance throughout the entire development lifecycle – from requirements definition to ‘go live’ – identifying and eliminating defects at the beginning of the process, rather than removing them at the end of development.
The Borland solutions from Micro Focus deliver value across three key areas:
Requirements: Caliber uniquely combines requirements definition, visualization, and management into a single ‘3-dimensional’ solution. Managers, analysts and developers get the right level of detail about how software should be engineered. The direction for development and QA teams is clarified, reducing the risk of poor business outcomes.
Change: StarTeam helps development teams retain control in a shifting world with a single ‘source of truth’ to prioritize and collaborate on defects, tasks, requirements, test plans, and other in-flux artifacts. Even when global teams develop software with complex environments and methods, StarTeam controls change and increases the quality of outputs.
Quality: Silk testing products automate the entire quality process from inception through to delivery, ensuring that tests are planned early and synchronized with business goals, even as requirements and realities change … even taking testing to the cloud to meet peak load demands.
Borland solutions from Micro Focus helps customers align business priorities and quality expectations with project requirements, development and testing. This is the key to delivering better software, faster. Visit Micro Focus at booth at Step-IN Forum 2012 to see how to make quality a core value of your software delivery process.
For more information, visit www.microfocus.com
“Since 2005, Neotys has been helping its clients in more than 60 countries to ensure their applications' reliability, performance and quality.
NeoLoad, load testing solution, increases productivity allowing you to perform your tests faster, while providing pertinent analyses of test results and full support for all new technologies.”
Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses; financial institutions, including banks and credit unions; consumers and accounting professionals. Its flagship products and services, including QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax®, simplify small business management and payroll processing, personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. ProSeries® and Lacerte® are Intuit's leading tax preparation offerings for professional accountants. Intuit Financial Services helps banks and credit unions grow by providing on-demand solutions and services that make it easier for consumers and businesses to manage their money.
Founded in 1983, Intuit had annual revenue of $3.9 billion in its fiscal year 2011. The company has approximately 8,000 employees with major offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India and other locations. More information can be found at www.intuit.com.
KOVAIR: Kovair Software is the innovation leader in global Application Lifecycle Management - ALM and IT Service Management – ITSM solutions, supporting globally distributed multi-site application development and services. Its flagship products, the ALM Studio, the ITSM Studio and the Omnibus Integration Middleware are web based, feature-rich, configurable, development and service application platforms with built in workflow and integration framework that offers a complete set of integrated tools and processes for managing the entire IT lifecycle. Kovair focuses its solutions in three domains:
- 2. IT Service Management (ITSM)
- 3. The Integration Middleware
1. Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Indian Testing Board (ITB) is the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) approved national board for India. ITB is responsible for the "ISTQB-Certified-Tester" Certification in India.
The ISTQB was officially founded as an International Testing Qualifications Board in Edinburgh in November 2002. The ISTQB is responsible for the "ISTQB Certified Tester", which is an international qualification scheme and the qualifications in the scheme are based on a syllabus. There is an examination covering the contents of the syllabus. After the examination, each successful participant receives the “ISTQB-Certified-Tester” certificate.Please visit Exam Dates page for details on the dates of examination and how to apply. The syllabi are available at the Syllabi page.
The contents of each syllabus are taught as courses by training providers, which have been accredited by ITB. The list of accredited training providers and information on how to get accredited visit the Training Providers page. For more information visit www.istqb.in
Dataquest an institution that was founded in 1982, aims to disseminate non-partisan, credible and useful information for vendor and user communities alike for the Indian IT and IT-enabled industries. Dataquest has become an inseparable part of the Indian IT journey. A leader in the true sense of the word, Dataquest’s editorial news and commentary is trusted for its information and integrity.
Referred to as the Bible of Indian IT, Dataquest has constantly endeavored to highlight the major
issues faced by the industry and users, publishing in-depth analyses of market trends and fast
changing technologies. As the pioneer and leader of IT media in India, the magazine has consistently kept track of new developments in the IT industry and the corresponding information needs of the corporate user.
