What You should Know About Software Tools ?

June 3, 2013 - PRLog -- Software development tools or programming tools is a type of application utilized to create or debug other programs. When several such programs are combined it helps to accomplish the task very easily. The early uses of such Software Tools extend when loaders, control programs and linkers were used in market. During that time such tools were simple and lightweight.

Presently there are different types of software development tools available in different categories. The general classification of such software includes performance analysis tools, debugging, static analysis and formal verification, memory usage, application build and or checking.

Similarly, in software development, series of ALM tools are utilized that helps in developing bug free software. Some of the commonly used Software Tools for this purpose include requirement management tools, test management tools, project management tools, use case management tools, issue management tools, change management tools, release management and iteration management tools, collaboration management tools and document management tools. With these tools the different phases of the life cycle are managed successfully followed by helping to maintain tight integration in such processes.

While selecting these tools some of the common factors must be considered. This include ability to let project team access project data from any place through internet, common repository for all project documentation and artifacts, complete collaboration among all team members around the world 24/7, extensive reporting capability to export reports as PDF or Microsoft word, integration with test execution tools. Complete traceability of requirements to use cases, scenarios, test cases, test sets, test scripts, issue reports and change requests are some of the other factors that requires to be considered while selecting such Software Tools.

The market has different vendors that provide these tools while claiming that they all have distinguishing features. However, it is very important for the organization to ensure that tools are serving the purpose thoroughly during the software development stages for the sake of meeting deadlines and quality. Considering several factors like organizational infrastructure, people using such software tools, nature of the project would be sensible before making the final selection of these tools.

Organizations can shortlist the suitable tools based on activities like comparing the features of the available tools, opting for trial versions to understand the potentiality and suitability of the tools and knowing about the bugs of the tools followed by understanding the bug issue. Selecting tools for software development must be done with precise and care as generally a huge amount of resource is spent.

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