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Saturday | 30 August, 2008

HP Application Quality Management (AQM) Zone

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HP Application Quality Management (AQM) Zone
Validate the quality of your applications before they go into production

Today, applications are the lifeblood of your business. And application failures put your business outcomes directly at risk.

Application Quality Management is about ensuring your IT organisation can hit the go-live button with confidence. For successful business outcomes, it is essential to understand the quality of applications from the business process perspective - not just view them as lines of code - to ensure applications function as they should, scale to meet demand, and remain secure throughout their life.

HP Software is uniquely qualified to help, with two decades of experience in AQM. Please explore the resources of this zone to learn more!

www.hp.com.au/btosoftware

Tools and techniques for superior test management

In recent years, the field of application testing has evolved. While the pressure to deliver high-quality applications continues to mount, shrinking development and deployment schedules and high turnover rates for skilled employees make application testing challenging. Read on to discover how to combat these problems and complete your application testing successfully.
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Reducing risk through requirements driven quality management: An end-to-end approach

An effective requirements management system must help both business analysts and quality managers meet their commitments with limited resources and in the face of inevitable change. Read on to discover a better business approach to quality management.
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Automate performance testing to predict system behavior and improve application performance

Discover the benefits of automating performance testing, and learn how best practice performance testing can benefit your business.
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HP customer perspective white paper: best practices for implementing HP Quality Center software

Discover a structured approach to planning and implementing an integrated, web-based suite of tools. Read on to get practical advice, tools and processes for delivering high-quality applications.
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IT project management yields savings for energy company 23/07/2008 09:45:23
HP's updated software shows IT managers where resources spend their time and why projects get delayed.

Constellation Energy invested in project and portfolio management (PPM) software from HP in part to comply with requirements laid out in Sarbanes-Oxley. In addition to achieving compliance, the integrated energy company reduced repetitive processes and is saving nearly US$1 million annually.
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SOAs may spawn 'Business Process Experts' 29/05/2008 08:06:28
New skills emerge from SOA.

The emergence of services-oriented architecture (SOA) from traditional object-oriented programming means that system design now requires a different approach, and therefore a new combination of skills.
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Vic tax office on 10-year road to SOA 27/05/2008 10:34:42
Plug n' play payment systems cut taxpayer costs.

The Victorian State Revenue Office (SRO) is conducting a mammoth 10-year Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) implementation to revitalise its central payment systems.
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Test automation: Making IT easier 05/05/2008 11:54:46
The benefits companies experience when using test automation scripts

"It used to take four people five days to test the software every month," says Kevin Bingham, vice president of IT at Arizona Federal Credit Union. "Now, we can do it in six hours."
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HP enhancing SOA products in mainstream effort 30/04/2008 08:04:10
Testing, diagnostics, policy enforcement bolstered as HP extends its Business Technology Optimization for SOA portfolio.

Seeking to enhance mainstream SOA deployments, HP is increasing SOA quality management capabilities in several products.
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Adobe Flex Builder speeds RIA development 28/04/2008 08:09:34
Version 3.0 of the Eclipse-based Flex IDE hits the high notes with real-time charting, wizards for data binding and Web services, new tools for app profiling, and support for AIR; Creative Studio integration could use improvement

For improving the look and feel of browser-based applications, AJAX technologies work wonders, but RIAs (rich Internet applications) take the browser to a whole new level. RIAs deliver a consistently richer user experience, with functionality and data access more closely approximating native desktop apps.
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Poor software testing hits companies in the pocket 12/04/2008 14:10:37
The vast majority of IT development and project directors worry that poor software testing is costing their businesses money.

Nearly 40 percent of organizations have suffered financial loss as a result of poor or no software testing. That's according to a survey sponsored by testing specialist, SQS Research.
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BT adopts agile programming 12/03/2008 10:14:13
BT's Web-centric architecture helps traffic managers handle shifts in network loads

In 2005, BT Group began replacing an aging Unix-based phone-traffic monitoring system with a Web-centric architecture. The intent: allow traffic managers to make quicker changes to switches and other physical devices to handle shifts in network loads -- on any point in the company's vast telecommunications network -- without risking system overloads.