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Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced that it has achieved “Ready for IBM Rational Software” technical validation for Wind River Test Management, a test automation system for monitoring, executing and managing embedded device software testing. This validation provides IBM Rational customers with assurance that Wind River Test Management has met IBM Rational’s requirements for safety, interoperability, and user experience, and integrates seamlessly with IBM Rational Quality Manager.

“A lifecycle quality management solution based on the integration will help companies improve their ROI and collaboration across the development lifecycle, reduce costs by increasing automation, and provide better visibility to project status, leading to higher quality and on-time deliveries.”

The Wind River integration enables bi-directional traceability between requirements and tests as part of the overall software development lifecycle in the Rational Software and Systems Engineering solution. Wind River Test Management allows users to discover un-tested requirements and automatically identify test suites that are impacted by requirements changes. It then generates an optimized test suite comprised of the minimum set of tests that are required to run based on code changes. By focusing test time and resources on what really needs testing, these features provide optimal balance between cost, time, quality and risk, and increased quality of software embedded in complex devices.

“We are very pleased to announce this formal validation between Wind River and IBM Rational Quality Manager, which allows us to extend our test automation specialization to Rational customers,” said Ido Sarig, vice president of product marketing at Wind River. “A lifecycle quality management solution based on the integration will help companies improve their ROI and collaboration across the development lifecycle, reduce costs by increasing automation, and provide better visibility to project status, leading to higher quality and on-time deliveries.”

“The integration of Wind River’s patented technology with Rational Quality Manager will help product development teams manage business risks using a lifecycle quality management approach,” said Michael Loria, vice president, IBM Rational Business Development. “With this integrated solution, users can provide quality management across the whole development lifecycle through the Rational Software and Systems Engineering solution, as well as execute testing where it matters most.”

Wind River will present and exhibit at IBM’s Innovate 2011 Conference in Orlando, FL this week. Please visit Wind River Booth #524 to see a demonstration of Wind River Test Management and the integration with IBM Rational Quality Manager. Additional information about Wind River Test Management is available at www.windriver.com/products/test_management.

SC Magazine has featured a great article on the importance of designing secure software with an eye to alleviating potential security issues in the future.

The ramifications of bringing to market an application that is not secure have become painfully clear for far too many organizations.

In fact, a recent Ponemon Institute survey of 45 breached companies actually put a number on it, calculating that the average cost of a data breach in 2009 was $6.75 million.

With vulnerable applications serving as the No. 1 cause of data breaches, it seems obvious that organizations need to take a proactive approach to security. Not only will this help reduce costs, it can also save a company from the potential damage on their reputation that a security breach can cause.

To help prevent this, organizations must take the steps to help ensure applications are designed securely from the initial stages of development, not added on as an afterthought.

According to an article in informationweek, IBM have announced plans to introduce a hardware/software set for Integrated Product Management as well as software testing in the cloud.

The announcement was made at Innovate 2010, IBM’s, convening of the Rational Software user group.  The event is currently in its 13th year and opened in Orlando on Monday.

According to Scott Hebner, VP of marketing of IBM, A new availability of software testing tools will be available.  Instead of paying a fixed price for a tool or set of tools, customers will buy credits or “tokens” for tool use.

“You can exchange tokens for the tools you need when you need them. There’s no procurement process, which normally loses valuable time as you await fulfillment,” said Hebner. The approach, based on the “pay for use” concept associated with cloud computing, allows customers to decide on what tools they want to use as they get into a project, rather than forcing a purchase beforehand.

Description:

Defect Tracker is a web-based development solution.  It tracks and organizes defect reports throughout the development cycles.  Its flexible customization enables you to adapt to your engineering changes.

Features Overview

* Engineer’s inbox (shows all defects assigned to you)
* Performing searches
* Creating public and personal reports
* Creating simple and easy to use charting in seconds
* Saving your personal and public charts
* Subscribing to defect updates by email notification
* Viewing defect change history
* Time-based escalation of defect priority
* Automatic defect assignment routing
* User management by role
* Finding out all logged on users in the system

Easy Customization Interface

You can customize the Defect Tracker without writing code.  Just use point and click, you can add, remove and modify any attribute of an object to meet your development specifications.

Database Requirement

Defect Tracker 1000 does not require a database and yet with full functional features.  If you choose to use a database later, you can simply migrate to Defect Tracker 2000.  By using the one-click data migration utility, you can migrate all your previous data into your new database.

Install and Run

All in one installation, there is nothing else to install.  You can use the Defect Tracker right away after you installed it.  There is no complicated setup and configuration.  Clients can be connected to server using a browser.  No client installation is required. Client is fully HTML based, therefore no plugins to download.

System Requirements

* HTML client runs on lastest Firefox and Internet Explorer.
* New Fire Server runs on major Java 2 platforms (currently certified on Windows and Linux, also known to run on other major platforms with java support).
* Series 1000 does not require database. Series 2000 supports the following major databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, IBM DB2, MySQL and Informix, PostgreSQL.
* Server memory: 64 MB (Series 1000), 128 MB (Series 2000)
* Diskspace: > 100 MB
* i386 compatable processor speed for server: 500 MHz or above

View TesterTools dedicated page for this tool.

What is LMbench?

* Suite of simple, portable benchmarks

* Compares different systems performance

* Results available for most major vendors (SUN, HP, IBM, DEC, SGI, PCs including 200 Mhz P6’s)

* Free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

* Bandwidth benchmarks

o Cached file read
o Memory copy (bcopy)
o Memory read
o Memory write
o Pipe
o TCP

* Latency benchmarks

o Context switching.

o Networking: connection establishment, pipe, TCP, UDP, and RPC hot potatoo File system creates and deletes.
o Process creation.

o Signal handling
o System call overhead
o Memory read latency

* Miscellaneous

Download LMbench documentation

• January ‘96 Usenix paper (76K, gzipped)
• June ‘98 Usenix paper on Mhz (239K, gzipped)
• Manual pages