Continuous integrated testing: start at the beginning

Described in this webcast is continuous integrated testing (CIT), an approach that allows application testing to start at the beginning of the development phase rather than at the end. Development teams can build and automatically test their applications repeatedly – usually daily – while also profiling the code to check performance and efficiency. This approach ensures that problems are found early in the life cycle, reducing costs, avoiding pre-deployment panics and vastly improving the quality of the finished product.

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Quality: Get the whole picture

Today’s IT managers have a lot of objectives to juggle: productivity, compliance with statutory requirements, meeting user expectations and creating customer loyalty are just some of them. Only by seeing IT in the context of the business as a whole can you hope to achieve the right balance. One way of ensuring that you see the ‘big picture’ is to improve your organisation’s quality maturity level, as measured by the Compuware Quality Maturity Model. This executive guide introduces the model to you by outlining its four stages and where they fit into an application’s life cycle.

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Technical tip: improve Java performance with better garbage collection

The Java Virtual Machine garbage collector is a feature used by DevPartner Java Edition that takes care of a number of previously troublesome memory problems, but you still need to know how to make the most of this feature. Follow our four simple tips to ensure that your system’s memory doesn’t get clogged up by unneeded objects. Things will run faster, and you could avoid an application server crash.

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