HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite

HP has announced its Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite, comprising software solutions that improve collaboration among application delivery teams, enabling organisations to accelerate business innovation and lower operational costs.

The solutions provide business analysts, developers and testers with visibility across the life cycle of cloud applications, and automation to streamline the delivery process.

The suite includes:

Service Virtualisation 1.0, which integrates with a broad set of application life cycle management solutions. By accessing a simulated environment immediately, organisations can enhance performance testing of composite applications. The simulated environment also eliminates the need to build a redundant test environment, access production systems or recreate a proxy to mimic service behaviours.

Application Lifecycle Intelligence (ALI), which provides a real-time view into changes made to source code while allowing developers to work with the tools of their choice. This allows organisations to measure the impact of changes on requirements, tests and defects for a complete analysis of application quality prior to release.

Agile Accelerator 5.0, which features a scheduling tool for viewing deliverables in development and provides real-time visibility across the application life cycle for rapid response to changing business requirements.