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Atlassian products help innovators everywhere plan, build and launch great software. More than 35,000 large and small organizations – including Citigroup, eBay, Coca-Cola, Netflix and United Airlines – use Atlassian’s issue tracking, collaboration and software-development products to work smarter and deliver quality results on time. Learn more at atlassian.com.

IBM Rational quality management and testing solutions enable companies to continuously test and validate quality throughout the product and application lifecycle. By bringing together functional, performance, integration testing, and service virtualization into a comprehensive offering, organizations are able to deliver higher quality products and services to market rapidly with greater efficiency, higher predictability, and reduced cost. ibm.com/ibm/devops/us/en/build/

Appvance PerformanceCloud is a 3rd generation platform designed to test and validate scalability and performance of internal and external facing apps. QA teams using APC show a 600% improvement in productivity versus older tools. IT managers, DevOps, and brand managers use Appvance PerformanceCloud to ensure their apps will perform as promised, to encourage usage and protect brand image. APC provides deeper diagnoses of issues compared to older tools, and offers end-to-end app performance verification, including Web apps, Ajax, Social/Mobile apps, SOA, Web services using SOAP/REST, and BPM/ESB, for organizations of all sizes. While fully compatible with industry standard functional test scripting languages, including Selenium and soapUI, Appvance's patent pending uxAvatar technology replaces scripting with recordings of user actions requiring little to no coding, simplifying the entire app testing process from functional to performance to APM. www.appvance.com

Coverity, Inc., a Synopsys company (Nasdaq:SNPS), is a leading provider of software quality and security testing solutions. Coverity’s award-winning development testing platform helps developers create and deliver better software, faster, by automatically testing source code for software defects that could lead to product crashes, unexpected behavior, security breaches or catastrophic system failure. The world’s largest brands rely on Coverity to help ensure the quality, safety and security of their products and services. For more information, visit www.coverity.com, follow us on Twitter or check out our blog.

David Consulting Group (DCG) is a global provider of software analytics, software quality management and Agile development solutions that enable high quality, on-time and on-budget delivery of software through all phases of the development lifecycle.  Since 1994, large enterprises, growing mid-cap companies and emerging technology leaders have relied on DCG to address immediate and long-term application development and maintenance issues, delivering valuable improvements at the right price.  DCG maintains a U.S. corporate office in Malvern, PA and a European corporate office, DCG-SMS, in Blackpool, UK.  Visit us online at www.davidconsultinggroup.com.

Mobile Labs provides enterprise-grade, next generation testing tools for mobile app testing, mobile device testing and mobile website testing. With a focus on security, agility and affordability, Mobile Labs delivers solutions to help enterprises deploy quality mobile apps for Android and iOS platforms while also securely managing mobile devices and test device access via private cloud. Mobile Labs helps today’s enterprise IT and QA teams improve mobile application testing management, minimize the number of mobile devices required for test, and strengthen mobile device and mobile app security. To learn more about Mobile Labs, visit www.mobilelabsinc.com

Parasoft is recognized by software development professionals as the leader in software development lifecycle automation. By integrating software development management, quality lifecycle management, and dev/test environment management, we help teams deliver better software faster. Since 1987, over 10,000 companies—including 58% of the Fortune 500—use Parasoft. Visit parasoft.com

ASTQB is the American arm of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board  in 50+ countries with over 350,00 software testers certified worldwide. ISTQB develops the body of knowledge and glossary that a software tester should understand, and tests to it with an examination to grant the professional credential. ISTQB certification has three levels:  Foundation (CTFL), Foundation Agile Extension (CTFL-AT) containing Test Analyst, Test Manager and Technical Test Analyst, and Expert. The ISTQB body of knowledge syllabi and glossary are downloadable at no cost from our website www.ASTQB.org, where full information about the program is easily accessed. ASTQB also offers Business Analyst certification through the International Qualification Board for Business Analysis (IQBBA).

Blue Agility specializes in large-scale Agile transformations leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe™) and IBM's Application Lifecycle Management tools. Using DevOps solutions, Blue Agility provides a framework of people, process and technology, enabling the enterprise with continuous delivery capabilities. Leveraging the bluejazz™ technology (Innovate 2013 technical summit best of show), organizations access customized role-based tool usage models, ensuring scalable and sustainable enterprise-wide transformations with end-to-end traceability.

Checkpoint Technologies, Inc., is a solutions provider specializing in all areas of IT Performance, Quality Assurance and software testing with a focus in functional, application security, mobile, and performance testing. We provide leading-edge HP Software solutions and expert services that optimize organizations' business technology and improve their software testing process. Our product and solutions capabilities include, but are not limited to, the following: ALM/Quality Center, UFT/Quick Test Professional, BPT, Performance Center, LoadRunner, HP Fortify Software Security Center / Infrastructure - Business Class Products (Server, Storage, etc.) - Enterprise Class Mission Critical Products (Server, Storage, and Networking).

Kiuwan is an Optimyth Software brand for static source code analysis in the cloud. With Kiuwan, there is no longer an excuse for bad code.
Bad code is expensive. Don’t you want to do anything about it? Kiuwan is the smart way to measure your application's quality and security continuously as part of your deployment process. Minimize risk making sure your applications have the minimum levels of quality and security you need. Kiuwan will help you identify the weak points and defects in your applications and help you improve… the smart way.

Quantitative Software Management Inc. (QSM) was established in 1978 and helps organizations reduce the overall expense of software and systems development projects.  QSM’s SLIM software tools and consulting enable organizations to effectively estimate, track, and benchmark their software projects. SLIM-Estimate- The premier project estimating tool and method based on an extensive historic database. This tool estimates the cost, schedule, effort, size, staff, reliability and risk on projects. SLIM-Control- The project oversight tool used for tracking the cost, schedule, effort, size, staff, reliability, and risk on projects.  SLIM-Metrics- The productivity and quality metrics analysis and benchmarking tool for projects. www.qsm.com

Ranorex offers a cost-effective and comprehensive UI test automation framework that simplifies both integration and acceptance testing for developers, and testing professionals, regardless of their programming or scripting experience. The Ranorex Automation Framework allows testing of many different application types including Web 2.0, Mobile Devices (Android, iOS), WPF, Flash/Flex, Silverlight, Qt, .NET and Java. ranorex.com

Rommana ALM received the RQX Global Award for "Best ALM Tool,"  "Best Cloud Solution," and "Best Requirement Management Tool for Business Analysis Excellence"

A comprehensive analytical study of 32 commercial requirement management and ALM tools from IBM, HP and other vendors conducted by RQX Global names Rommana ALM the “Best ALM Tool ". 

"The best tool in this category is Rommana ALM for its seamless ability to both capture and manage requirements across the project lifecycle with 100% traceability from needs analysis to test cases and scripts, to implementation and defect management. “  Read detailed report at http://rqx.rqxglobal.com/reports.html

VersionOne helped pioneer the agile management tool in 2002 – way before it was the cool thing to do in the software development market. Today we remain the only enterprise software company that has been 100% dedicated to agile life cycle management since day one. Our mission, and associated company tagline, Agile Made Easier, is to simplify the process of software delivery via the industry’s most open, comprehensive agile life cycle management platform. VersionOne.com.

Acmqueue provides a critical perspective on current and emerging information technologies, highlighting the technical challenges and problems that software engineers are likely to encounter when using them. In doing so, Queue helps readers sharpen their own thinking and pursue innovative solutions in their own work. queue.acm.org

Agile TV is a leading source of the newest, most effective information and strategies for transitioning, implementing & scaling agile practices in any industry. Featuring exclusive interviews with top agile experts and thought leaders, Agile TV provides new and experienced agile practitioners with valuable tools, tips and insights for delivering projects on time, within budget and with much less risk. For more information, check out AgileTV.com

Better Software magazine delivers relevant, timely information to tackle the challenges of building better quality software, regardless of your role in the software development lifecycle. Bringing you in-depth articles on agile methods, people and teams, CMM®, software process improvement, ROI, and coverage on emerging technologies, Better Software is the only magazine for software professionals who care about quality. BetterSoftware.com

The Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) is an IT industry leadership group comprised of IT executives from the Global 2000, system integrators, outsourced service providers, and software technology vendors committed to introducing a computable metrics standard for measuring software quality & size. CISQ is a neutral, open forum in which customers and suppliers of IT application software can develop an industry-wide agenda of actions for improving IT application quality to reduce cost and risk. Become a CISQ member, learn more: www.it-cisq.org.

Our Mission: To build the community of leading software practitioners. IEEE Software offers pioneering ideas, expert analyses, and thoughtful overviews for professional developers and managers who need to keep up with rapid technology change. This bimonthly technical magazine is the authority on translating software theory into practice.

The International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) is the recognized leader in promoting and encouraging effective management of application software development and maintenance activities through the use of Function Point Analysis and other software measurement techniques. It is the steward of the international standard of software size measurement – ISO/IEC 20926:2009 Software Engineering. ifpug.org

IT Central Station is a dynamic real-time platform that offers user information that is current, objective, and relevant. IT Central Station is revolutionizing the enterprise technology buying process through the power of crowdsourced knowledge, online product reviews and social networking. Enterprise technology professionals use IT Central Station to access and share unbiased product  information and tap into a community of other real users. The Wall Street Journal has called us “The Yelp of Enterprise Technology”.

IT Today informs readers of best practices, as well as of research into current and upcoming issues in information and communication technology (ICT). Articles take a how-to approach to their topics. They help readers solve problems and are applicable to on-the-job situations faced everyday by IT management, staff and consultants in all areas. ittoday.info

Methods and Tools is a free e-newsletter providing practical expert knowledge for software development professionals. Methods and Tools gives software development ideas more than one page to express themselves and covers all aspects of software engineering: project management and planning, methodologies (UML, Agile), software quality & testing, configuration management, etc.  methodsandtools.com

Software Development Times® is the leading magazine covering the software development industry. SD Times is available in print and digitally. It may also be read at SDTimes.com. SD Times (circulation: 70,000) carries more advertising pages than any other development publication and regularly covers software QA and test, agile and ALM development, software security, mobile and cloud-based development and much more. Subscribe free at sdtimes.com.

SQE Training is one of the world's largest providers of software improvement training. We provide the industry’s best resources to help organizations meet their software testing, development, management, and requirements training needs. SQE Training provides a wide selection of specialized courses, developed and dispensed by industry experts, that deliver field-proven techniques for producing high-quality software. sqetraining.com

StickyMinds.com is one of the first and most popular online communities for software development professionals. StickyMinds.com is dedicated to improving software quality throughout the software development lifecycle. Written by industry experts, StickyMinds.com covers topics ranging from agile testing to mobile and cloud computing and everything in between. You’ll also find blog postings, software testing jobs, Q&A and more. Membership is free and includes a complimentary digital subscription to Better Software magazine. www.StickyMinds.com