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Borland Weaves Silk Into Open ALM Strategy
By Jeff Feinman

March 1, 2007 — Borland Software is trying to bring more smoothness to its Silk. The company has spun a slew of new capabilities into the three main products that make up its quality assurance suite, Borland Silk, as it weaves together its Open ALM strategy, which was unveiled in January.

Borland officials said that the most important enhancements were made to SilkCentral Test Manager. The company’s test management tool has been equipped with an Eclipse-based testing client that provides testers with a standalone application on their desktop for manual testing.

Brad Johnson, Borland’s product marketing director, said that customers expressed the need for a more user-friendly client, with test-to-code impact analysis that lays out each step of manual testing.

SilkPerformer, the company’s load-testing product, now includes Java Management Extensions—a standard API for tools that manage and monitor devices and applications. SilkPerformer also has a new plug-in to the Eclipse IDE. Meanwhile, the SilkTest automated functional testing tool adds new collaboration capabilities enabled by Windows Vista. Johnson said that many software vendors that are Borland customers have built applications on Windows Vista, and SilkTest allows them to record and run automated functional tests in that environment.

“This announcement continues to improve the alignment between development organizations and quality assurance organizations,” Johnson said. “Typically…there’s very often a big rift in communication between [QA] teams and development teams that are actually delivering software code.”

Borland defines its Open ALM concept as offering customers the ability to use any combination of life-cycle tools, whether commercial or open source, and catering to a broad range of platforms.

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