Application Lifecycle Management

Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the integrated system of people, tools and processes that supervise a software application from its initial planning through retirement.. See complete definition.

December 23, 2019 23 Dec'19
5 can't-miss software development news stories of 2019

Before you finalize your 2020 plans, take a minute to catch up on app-dev news stories that will shape the next year. Here are the five top news stories for 2019, with analysis.
December 20, 2019 20 Dec'19
Manual mainframe testing persists in the age of automation

Mainframe testing is still done manually by many IT shops, despite mainframe modernization and digitization efforts that benefit from automated software testing methods.
November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19
Kubernetes tools vendors vie for developer mindshare

Developers in the cloud-native industry running Kubernetes environments say they need more and better Kubernetes tools to get around some of the complexity of the platform.
August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19
Atomist adds drift management feature to pare technical debt

Atomist has added a feature to its software delivery automation platform to help enterprises visualize, identify and fix the problem of technology drift.

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