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Adaptive ALM tool suite built for agile

By David Rubinstein

August 17, 2009 — Agile life-cycle management tool maker ThoughtWorks Studios today released Adaptive ALM, which the company says offers companies software that adapts to their processes and practices.

Adaptive ALM consists of ThoughtWorks Studios’ Mingle (project management), Cruise (release management) and Twist (test automation) software. The goal is to get developers, QA professionals and IT “on the same page from day one,” said Cyndi Mitchell, managing director of ThoughtWorks Studios, the commercial tools business division of ThoughtWorks, a consultancy.

The Mingle technology provides the central point of task management, with the use of movable cards to track requirements, issues and workflow, as well as reporting, Mitchell explained. Cruise is for continuous integration management, in which the deployment process can be implemented, and builds and configuration can be managed. Twist is where the execution and evolution of tests and test suites is managed.

“Evolving functional tests is difficult,” Mitchell said. “They are brittle.” Twist allows users to apply refactoring to functional tests so they can be maintained and reused, she said.

Adaptive ALM enables users to trace requirements through testing, ensuring they get implemented in the final solution, Mitchell explained. It also provides the ability to create build grids, so tests can be spread over different nodes. The results are then aggregated and returned, facilitating the continuous integration that underlies agile software development, she added. It is all designed to give users greater visibility in the development process, and allow for changes to be dealt with more easily.

Mitchell said Adaptive ALM is a response to other “agile-in-a-box” solutions that she said do not respect the collaborative nature of software development.

“A company selects processes and tools, but unforeseen things happen that don’t fit those processes and tools,” she explained. “Competing forces then take over. Do you adhere to the process and tool, or do you deliver results? What happens is, organizations get frustrated and stop using the [agile management] tool, or it’s not used effectively.”

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