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Test-Driven Development: Does writing software backwards really improve quality?
This white paper examines a project that used both test-driven development and traditional development methods to determine if either method impacts software quality.
Five Issues that Prevent Software Quality
This white paper examines five common issues that keep software development organizations from achieving quality.
QRA Fast Facts: Automate
This white paper highlights results from the quality-ready assessment and explains how test automation significantly improves an organization's ability to complete the required levels of testing without adding resources, lengthening release cycles, or reducing test coverage.
QRA Fast Facts Series
This white paper includes key insights and strategic actions organizations can take to immediately improve software quality and increase development and QA productivity.
QRA Fast Facts: Change
This white paper highlights results from the quality-ready assessment and explains how integrating change management with other systems, such as issue tracking, helps software development teams realize significant quality improvements.
QRA Fast Facts: Test
This white paper highlights results from the quality-ready assessment and explains how integrating test case management with issue tracking significantly increases proficiency and productivity.
QRA Fast Facts: Track
This white paper highlights results from the quality-ready assessment and explains how an issue tracking can allow organizations to shift resources to revenue-producing development while streamlining processes and providing a better understanding of the quality of each release.
Identifying the Cost of Poor Quality
This white paper discusses the effects of poor quality in software development and provides recommendations for improving quality.
Quality-Centric Application Lifecycle Management in a Down Economy
This white paper examines the value of adopting quality-centric ALM, which integrates quality into every stage of the software development lifecycle.
Leveraging 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance to Achieve Broader Product/Process Quality
This white paper discusses how life sciences companies can leverage some of the tools and processes needed for 21CFR11 compliance to implement end-to-end, quality-centric processes.
All-pairs Testing and TestTrack TCM
This white paper explains how all-pairs testing, supported by tools like TestTrack TCM, can help you identify the minimum combinations of input variables needed to ensure adequate test coverage while substantially reducing your overall testing effort.
Software Test Management Tools Defined
This white paper discusses the challenges of managing the testing process and how a new class of software applications, called software test management tools, will help QA teams manage testing more efficiently, estimate test coverage more accurately, and improve the QA process and resulting product quality.
The Future of Software Configuration Management: A Sharper Focus on Small Changes
This white paper discusses how workflow-enabled SCM sytems are evolving to enforce and track the change process.
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Automated Testing
This white paper discusses some of the common problems that QA teams should be aware of when selecting an automated testing tool and methodology.
At Your Service - TestTrack Pro's Role in a Service-Oriented Architecture
This white paper explains why service-oriented architectures have come into vogue, the technologies used to implement them, and how TestTrack Pro fits into the big picture.
Tooling Up for Agile Development
This white paper discusses agile development practices and how the right tools can facilitate success in an agile world.
Better Concurrent Development through Branching and Surround SCM
This white paper discusses how to successfully implement concurrent development using branching and Surround SCM.
Successfully Automating Development Workflows
This white paper explains how the right issue management solution can help automate your development workflow, regardless of team size or workflow complexity.
Beyond the Wild, Wild West: Successfully Managing Web Development
This white paper discusses the benefits of using version control, issue management, and automated testing tools to easily and cost effectively manage Web development projects.
Automated Testing: Is It Money Well Spent?
This white paper includes a straightforward model to help determine if automated testing will save you money or cost you money.
Advantages of a Configurable Linking Solution
This white paper provides an overview of linking, as well as tips and best practices for using linking to improve the reliability of your products and processes.
Breaking Down the Barriers to Collaborative Software Development
This white paper highlights the benefits and barriers to the three most common approaches to collaboration, as well as an integrated collaboration solution from Seapine Software.
Change Management: A Cornerstone of the Capability Maturity Model
This white paper provides an overview of the Capability Maturity Model Integration for Software (CMMI-SW) and best practices for successful implementation.
Taming the Complexity of Game Development
This white paper discusses what you should look for in an asset management system and one solution that may meet your needs.
Impact of 21 CFR Part 11 on Software Development
This white paper describes the benefits of using issue management and change control tools to help create and manage FDA-compliant processes.
Managing Projects for Regulatory Compliance
This white paper outlines a methodology for implementing and managing business processes that meet ever-changing standards and criteria.
Change Management and Dreamweaver
This white paper describes Surround SCM's seamless integration with Dreamweaver and the related benefits of incorporating change management into the Web development process.
Migrating from Visual SourceSafe to Surround SCM
This document briefly explains the differences between Surround SCM and Visual SourceSafe, and includes instructions for migrating to Surround SCM from SourceSafe.
The Importance of Branching Models in SCM
This IEEE Computer article describes how the branch-by-purpose model offers better support for parallel development efforts.
Decision Time: Build or Buy?
This white paper can help you decide whether building a solution in-house, customizing an open source solution, outsourcing to a third-party vendor, or buying a commercially available defect tracking solution is the right decision for your company.
Change Request Overview Process
This white paper outlines a process for requesting and managing application changes during the product development cycle.
Taming the Mysterons - A bug by any other name ...
This white paper offers tips and advice for successfully managing Mysterons, or 'anything that does-not-go-right with software'.
Testing with Brains
This white paper discusses the need for testers to think about what they are doing, the process on which to base this thought, and the use of tools to assist them in these tasks.

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Tooling Up for Agile Development
This white paper discusses agile development practices and how the right tools can facilitate success in an agile world.
Automated Testing: Is It Money Well Spent?
This white paper includes a straightforward model to help determine if automated testing will save you money or cost you money.
The Future of Software Configuration Management: A Sharper Focus on Small Changes
This white paper discusses how workflow-enabled SCM sytems are evolving to enforce and track the change process.
Better Concurrent Development through Branching and Surround SCM
This white paper discusses how to successfully implement concurrent development using branching and Surround SCM.
Successfully Automating Development Workflows
This white paper explains how the right issue management solution can help automate your development workflow, regardless of team size or workflow complexity.
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Automated Testing
This white paper discusses some of the common problems that QA teams should be aware of when selecting an automated testing tool and methodology.
Testing with Brains
This white paper discusses the need for testers to think about what they are doing, the process on which to base this thought, and the use of tools to assist them in these tasks.
Change Request Overview Process
This white paper outlines a process for requesting and managing application changes during the product development cycle.
Change Management: A Cornerstone of the Capability Maturity Model
This white paper provides an overview of the Capability Maturity Model Integration for Software (CMMI-SW) and best practices for successful implementation.
Breaking Down the Barriers to Collaborative Software Development
This white paper highlights the benefits and barriers to the three most common approaches to collaboration, as well as an integrated collaboration solution from Seapine Software.
The Importance of Branching Models in SCM
This IEEE Computer article describes how the branch-by-purpose model offers better support for parallel development efforts.
Impact of 21 CFR Part 11 on Software Development
This white paper describes the benefits of using issue management and change control tools to help create and manage FDA-compliant processes.
Beyond the Wild, Wild West: Successfully Managing Web Development
This white paper discusses the benefits of using version control, issue management, and automated testing tools to easily and cost effectively manage Web development projects.
Taming the Complexity of Game Development
This white paper discusses what you should look for in an asset management system and one solution that may meet your needs.
All-pairs Testing and TestTrack TCM
This white paper explains how all-pairs testing, supported by tools like TestTrack TCM, can help you identify the minimum combinations of input variables needed to ensure adequate test coverage while substantially reducing your overall testing effort.
Five Issues that Prevent Software Quality
This white paper examines five common issues that keep software development organizations from achieving quality.
Managing Projects for Regulatory Compliance
This white paper outlines a methodology for implementing and managing business processes that meet ever-changing standards and criteria.
Software Test Management Tools Defined
This white paper discusses the challenges of managing the testing process and how a new class of software applications, called software test management tools, will help QA teams manage testing more efficiently, estimate test coverage more accurately, and improve the QA process and resulting product quality.
Change Management and Dreamweaver
This white paper describes Surround SCM's seamless integration with Dreamweaver and the related benefits of incorporating change management into the Web development process.
Decision Time: Build or Buy?
This white paper can help you decide whether building a solution in-house, customizing an open source solution, outsourcing to a third-party vendor, or buying a commercially available defect tracking solution is the right decision for your company.
Migrating from Visual SourceSafe to Surround SCM
This document briefly explains the differences between Surround SCM and Visual SourceSafe, and includes instructions for migrating to Surround SCM from SourceSafe.
Quality-Centric Application Lifecycle Management in a Down Economy
This white paper examines the value of adopting quality-centric ALM, which integrates quality into every stage of the software development lifecycle.
Advantages of a Configurable Linking Solution
This white paper provides an overview of linking, as well as tips and best practices for using linking to improve the reliability of your products and processes.
Leveraging 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance to Achieve Broader Product/Process Quality
This white paper discusses how life sciences companies can leverage some of the tools and processes needed for 21CFR11 compliance to implement end-to-end, quality-centric processes.
QRA Fast Facts: Automate
This white paper highlights results from the quality-ready assessment and explains how test automation significantly improves an organization's ability to complete the required levels of testing without adding resources, lengthening release cycles, or reducing test coverage.
Test-Driven Development: Does writing software backwards really improve quality?
This white paper examines a project that used both test-driven development and traditional development methods to determine if either method impacts software quality.
Identifying the Cost of Poor Quality
This white paper discusses the effects of poor quality in software development and provides recommendations for improving quality.
QRA Fast Facts Series
This white paper includes key insights and strategic actions organizations can take to immediately improve software quality and increase development and QA productivity.
QRA Fast Facts: Test
This white paper highlights results from the quality-ready assessment and explains how integrating test case management with issue tracking significantly increases proficiency and productivity.
QRA Fast Facts: Track
This white paper highlights results from the quality-ready assessment and explains how an issue tracking can allow organizations to shift resources to revenue-producing development while streamlining processes and providing a better understanding of the quality of each release.
QRA Fast Facts: Change
This white paper highlights results from the quality-ready assessment and explains how integrating change management with other systems, such as issue tracking, helps software development teams realize significant quality improvements.
At Your Service - TestTrack Pro's Role in a Service-Oriented Architecture
This white paper explains why service-oriented architectures have come into vogue, the technologies used to implement them, and how TestTrack Pro fits into the big picture.
Taming the Mysterons - A bug by any other name ...
This white paper offers tips and advice for successfully managing Mysterons, or 'anything that does-not-go-right with software'.
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