Best Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Tools - Page 2
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Perforce ALM
Perforce
A good ALM tool helps the application lifecycle management of your product. The best ALM tools give you end-to-end traceability across your lifecycle. That’s why development teams across industries choose Perforce ALM (Helix ALM). Perforce ALM is a modular suite of ALM tools. You can use this application lifecycle management suite to trace requirements, tests, and issues. Perforce ALM is the best ALM software for application lifecycle management across the entire lifecycle. Together, this suite of ALM software delivers unparalleled traceability. That means you’ll know if requirements have been tested and met, if test runs have passed (or failed), and if issues have been resolved. Plus, if a requirement changes, you’ll know which test cases and issues will be impacted. Perforce ALM makes it easy to create requirements and share requirements documents. You can do requirements reviews and get approvals — all within the software. Plus, you can even reuse requirements across projects. -
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Codacy
Codacy
Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps identify issues through static code analysis, allowing engineering teams to save time in code reviews and tackle technical debt. Codacy integrates seamlessly into existing workflows on your Git provider, and also with Slack, JIRA, or using Webhooks. Users receive notifications on security issues, code coverage, code duplication, and code complexity in every commit and pull request along with advanced code metrics on the health of a project and team performance. The Codacy CLI enables running Codacy code analysis locally, so teams can see Codacy results without having to check their Git provider or the Codacy app. Codacy supports more than 30 coding languages and is available in free open-source, and enterprise versions (cloud and self-hosted). For more see https://www.codacy.com/Starting Price: $15.00/month/user -
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Modelio
Modeliosoft
Use the best modeling techniques adapted to all your business needs. Benefit from a support ensuring the collaboration of people and a range of expertise, with dedicated methodological support. Adapt the platform to your organization (actors and roles, expertise, projects, federated organizations). Store your knowledge in a coherent and standardized repository centralizing all models and documentation. Share information automatically in WEB portals or up-to-date documents. Define the common language adapted to each participant. Organize and manage the repository. Have a software at your disposal that adapts to the load increase or decrease of projects and teams. Have a solution accessible to teams regardless of their geographic location. Permanent support at both the material and functional levels.Starting Price: $422 one-time payment -
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Upsun
Upsun
Upsun, formerly known as Platform.sh, is a cloud application platform designed to give developers production-perfect preview environments on every branch. It instantly clones live data, configuration, and code so teams can eliminate staging drift and accelerate testing and deployment. The platform enhances collaboration by allowing simultaneous development, stakeholder feedback, and rapid iteration without IT bottlenecks. With built-in observability, teams can monitor performance, optimize resources, and troubleshoot issues proactively. Upsun delivers strong security, automated compliance, sustainable hosting, and globally reliable infrastructure backed by 24/7 support. Trusted by major organizations worldwide, it empowers teams to deploy faster, cut costs, and improve development workflows.Starting Price: $10 per month -
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Atlassian Clover
Atlassian
For many years Atlassian Clover has provided Java and Groovy developers a reliable source for code coverage analysis. This dependability has allowed us to focus our development efforts on delivering new features and improvements to our core offerings, including Jira Software, Bitbucket, and others. All of this has lead to our decision to open source Clover, what we believe is the best way to give Clover the focus and attention it deserves. Developers are ready and eager to contribute to Clover as they have with our other open-source projects including the IDE connectors and dozens of libraries. Although Clover is already a powerful code coverage tool we’re excited to see what the community will do to make it thrive. -
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ActiveState
ActiveState
ActiveState delivers Intelligent Remediation for vulnerability management, which enables DevSecOps teams to not only identify vulnerabilities in open source packages, but also to automatically prioritize, remediate, and deploy fixes into production without breaking changes, ensuring that applications are truly secured. Existing tools overwhelm DevSecOps teams with excessive vulnerability data, false positives, and a lack of prioritization, often leading to inaction and increased exposure to exploits. ActiveState’s solution provides your DevSecOps with a comprehensive view of open source vulnerability status across your application portfolio, enabling them to prioritize the vulnerabilities that matter, assess the risk of updates, and choose recommended remediation paths. The ActiveState platform centers on open source languages packaged as runtimes that can be deployed in various form factors. Low-to-no CVE container images are also available for plug-in and play needs. -
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Harness
Harness
Harness is an AI-native software delivery platform that helps engineering teams achieve excellence by automating and streamlining the entire software delivery lifecycle. It enables continuous integration, continuous delivery, and GitOps for multi-cloud, multi-region deployments with increased speed and reliability. Harness simplifies infrastructure as code, database DevOps, and artifact management to improve collaboration and reduce errors. The platform offers AI-powered testing, incident response, chaos engineering, and feature management to enhance quality and resilience. Harness also provides cloud cost management, security testing orchestration, and developer insights to optimize performance and governance. Trusted by leading enterprises, Harness accelerates innovation while reducing manual effort and risk. -
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CodeArts
Huawei Cloud
This software development pipeline builds on Huawei's years of R&D best practices at one stop. These practices are secure and trustworthy across the full process and can facilitate efficiency increase and digital transformation. Huawei's many years of R&D practices, cutting-edge R&D concepts, and leading R&D engineering capabilities. More than 10 out-of-the-box sub-services for the full lifecycle of software development. 20 mainstream languages, frameworks, and environments for seamless application migration to the cloud. Builds in R&D security capabilities, over 3000 code check rules, and support for top 10 languages. Full-lifecycle one-stop CodeArts makes development simpler and more efficient with better quality. Provides agile and efficient development collaboration services, document management, knowledge collaboration, online collaboration, and dashboard report customization for software development teams.Starting Price: $6 per month -
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Nimble
NimbleWork
Nimble project management software is a powerful tool that enables organizations to streamline their work processes and enhance productivity. With its collaborative and AI-powered features, Nimble empowers teams to effectively manage projects and achieve their goals. The software offers a unified platform for seamless team collaboration and task management. It provides comprehensive project analytics and customizable reports, allowing teams to gain valuable insights and make data-driven decisions. Nimble also optimizes resource allocation, ensuring efficient project execution.Starting Price: $10/month/user -
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Factory
Factory
Factory is an enterprise AI platform designed to accelerate the software development lifecycle by automating and optimizing various engineering processes. It offers a unified workspace that integrates code, documentation, tickets, and discussions, reducing context switching and enhancing team collaboration. Combines all development artifacts into a single intelligent workspace, providing comprehensive visibility and control over engineering projects. Transforms complex tasks into repeatable processes, enabling teams to tackle engineering challenges efficiently and consistently. Provides guided workflows for seamless integration with premier development tools, facilitating rapid setup and deployment. Factory's platform is designed to support large enterprises, offering features like dedicated compute resources, custom integrations tailored to organizational workflows, and premium support with dedicated account management.Starting Price: $80 per month -
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Polarion ALM
Siemens
Connect teams and projects, and improve application development processes with a single, unified solution for requirements, coding, testing, and release. In legacy software development environments, many different point solutions are used to manage the application lifecycle. As a result, development artifacts are scattered, slowing down collaboration, hindering transparency, undermining integrity and making it difficult to drive innovation. Polarion ALM gives organizations one unified solution that delivers project transparency through real-time aggregated management information. Everyone is aligned around what is being built and why to drive advancement while protecting integrity and compliance. This helps teams respond faster and with better quality to new business opportunities and customer demands. Unlock synergies across all collaborators with 100% browser-based access to a single data source. -
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Sonatype Nexus Repository
Sonatype
Sonatype Nexus Repository is a robust binary repository manager designed to store, manage, and distribute open-source components, dependencies, and artifacts across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). It supports over 20 formats, including Maven, npm, PyPI, and Docker, allowing for seamless integration with build tools and CI/CD pipelines. With advanced features like high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability across cloud platforms, Nexus Repository ensures secure and efficient management of your software artifacts. The platform enhances collaboration, automates workflows, and improves visibility into your software supply chain, helping teams manage dependencies and improve software quality. -
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OpenText Software Delivery Management is a comprehensive platform designed to enhance the DevOps pipeline with integrated planning, continuous integration, test management, and release management capabilities. It enables Agile teams and DevOps toolchains to deliver high-quality software with end-to-end visibility, traceability, and actionable insights. The platform helps embed quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle, from ideation to release, aligning goals with key milestones. It supports transformation from traditional waterfall to scaled Agile and hybrid methodologies, allowing teams to evolve at their own pace. Automation at scale is achieved by managing thousands of continuous integration-driven tests and measuring automation effectiveness. This tool is ideal for organizations aiming to ensure continuous quality and streamline their software delivery process.
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CA Flowdock
CA Technologies
CA Flowdock brings all of your conversations, work items and tools into one place. Prioritize work, solve problems, search and organize across teams, locations and timezones. Real-time team chat for your entire organization. Flows are the heart of Flowdock, they are open spaces for your teams to converse and collaborate. Invite project stakeholders to join your Flow to participate in discussions, see updates from your tools, and receive catered notifications. Within a team Flow, conversations are organized by Threads. Team members can reply to these Threads, keeping topics organized. All conversations are color coded so you can quickly identify a topic and jump back into the conversation. If you need to discuss something confidentially with a member of your team, you can converse privately through our 1:1 Flows. Use the /appear command to activate instant video chat and screen sharing through one of our favorite integrations: Appear.in. The link is available for anyone on your team.Starting Price: $3.00/month -
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BMC Compuware Topaz is a comprehensive suite of modern mainframe development and testing tools designed for greater developer productivity, no matter how old or complex the program. Get modern mainframe development and testing with better visibility and knowledge. A Compuware-commissioned Forrester Consulting study found that 64 percent of mainframe-powered organizations are running over half their mission-critical workloads on the mainframe. Meanwhile, they are only replacing one-third of retiring experts. Given this new reality, it is critical companies adopt a force multiplier that lets their development teams accomplish more with less. The Topaz suite can help mainframe developers at all experience levels quickly understand, update, test, maintain and troubleshoot even the oldest, most complex or most poorly documented systems.
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Embold
Embold Technologies
Get a deeper understanding of your software with Embold's profound analysis and intuitive visuals. Visually comprehend the size and quality of every component and fully understand the state of your software at a glance. Understand issues on a component level with rich annotations and see where they are located in your code. View and navigate through all ingoing and outgoing dependencies of your software components and learn how they influence each other. Quickly understand how to refactor and split complex components by using our innovative partitioning algorithms. The EMBOLD SCORE, calculated from four dimensions, tells you which components have the biggest impact on the overall quality and need to be solved first. Analyze your code’s structural design with the help of our unique set of anti-patterns on a class, functional, and method level. Embold utilizes several metrics ranging from cyclomatic complexity to coupling between objects to measure the quality of software systems. -
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Kovair ALM
Kovair Software
Kovair ALM is an integrated, collaborative, and mouse click-configurable platform that offers holistic capabilities to all phases of Application Lifecycle Management including Project Management, Requirements Management, Development, and Testing & Quality Assurance. Powered by capabilities like end-to-end traceability and real-time reporting using the data from all phases of the lifecycle, Kovair ALM provides a Single Source Truth for all users involved in each of the lifecycle phases. Kovair ALM with capabilities like task-based workflow coupled with notification and business rules, enables organizations to implement and enforce centralized governance across all the phases of a project lifecycle. This leads to the elimination of manual handoffs between teams, cost reduction, process automation across various lifecycle phases, and enhanced product quality by ensuring compliance with different industry standards. Check Value Propositions for the Kovair ALM Platform. -
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HCL RTist
HCL Software
HCL RTist is a development environment for creating complex, event-driven and real-time applications. It is specifically designed to help software engineers with feature-rich tooling for design, analysis, building and deploying embedded, real-time systems and IoT applications. Helps developers design applications at higher abstraction level than code. Meet the only tool you need to develop stateful, event-driven and real-time applications. Embedded systems developers are looking for a developer tool to deliver secure, high-quality production code with quick, agile methodologies allowing them to react to new business requirements while minimizing the maintenance cost of long-lived applications running on many different device preferences of their users. Also, companies strive to implement strict, continuous delivery processes to ensure code integrity and a stable, highly available production deployment of these real-time applications. -
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IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) is a comprehensive end-to-end engineering solution that stands at the forefront of the market, seamlessly guiding you from requirements to systems design, workflow, and test management, extending the functionality of ALM tools for better complex-systems development. By adopting an end-to-end view across the entire product lifecycle, enabling a digital foundation for data traceability, you can more easily track changes to minimize risk and reduce costs. Conquer complexity from design to execution, unite teams through digital thread, leverage modelling and reuse, harness insights from automated reporting, and confidently operate at scale laying the foundation for innovation. The bi-directional data in the digital thread will enable functional, software, mechanical, and electrical engineering domains with a single source of truth.
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Nutanix Cloud Manager
Nutanix
A unified solution for providing intelligent operations, self-service and orchestration, security compliance and visibility, and control of cloud costs. Nutanix Cloud Manager brings simplicity and ease of use to building and managing cloud deployments and delivers faster time to value for our customers. Streamline management, deployment, and scale applications with self-service and centralized role-based IT governance. Drive financial accountability and unify security operations with intelligent analysis and regulatory compliance. With a few clicks, IT teams can automate their day-to-day operational tasks. They can build automation and improve operations productivity with ease and confidence with zero coding. When detecting the performance of a VM deviates from its normal behavior significantly, it raises an anomaly alert automatically. There is no configuration needed. -
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gitStream
LinearB
gitStream lets you configure rules that decide how each pull request is treated based on the content of the code. These rules automatically find the right reviewer, check for deprecation, add context tags, and much more. The practice of improving merge efficiency by classifying pull requests based on change size and complexity. Automating the merge path based on the unique merge conditions allows work to flow more efficiently. gitStream adds context to your PRs with labels and comments. This added context empowers your developers to make the best decisions about how and when to work. Speed up time to merge by applying an auto-approve check on pull requests with simple changes like minor version updates of internal libraries. Automate change requests based on org. level coding practices like moving away from deprecated services. -
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Rocket DevOps
Rocket Software
Our DevOps tools enable true end-to-end (CI/CD) for IBM i+ environments. Businesses can extend holistic DevSecOps best practices to the IBM i, pursue innovative experimentation, easily respond to compliance audits, and adapt to the ever-changing expectations of process, technology, or experience. In the face of changing regulations and the increasing threat landscape, Rocket DevOps, is part of Rocket’s Security & Compliance solutions designed to de-risk your modernization through the most robust technology, expertise, services, and support. And, with the unmatched experience of our DevOps services team, you’ll be set up for success quickly, with a customized implementation that works best for your business and the power to take ownership over any future changes. Businesses must respond to customer and market needs regardless of how their IT infrastructures are set up. Customers expect development and IT teams to deliver the applications and environments that help businesses excel. -
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ESLint
ESLint
ESLint is a static code analysis tool for identifying problematic patterns in JavaScript code. It allows developers to configure rules and define custom ones, addressing both code quality and coding style issues. ESLint supports current ECMAScript standards and experimental syntax from future drafts. It can process code using JSX or TypeScript through appropriate plugins or transpilers. The tool is integrated into most text editors and can be part of continuous integration pipelines, enabling automatic problem detection and correction. ESLint is the #1 JavaScript linter by downloads on npm and is used at companies like Microsoft, Airbnb, Netflix, and Facebook. Preprocess code, use custom parsers and write your own rules that work alongside ESLint's built-in rules. Customize ESLint to work exactly the way you need it for your project. Many problems ESLint finds can be automatically fixed. ESLint fixes are syntax-aware so you won't experience errors. -
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Archipelo
Archipelo
Archipelo is a developer security posture management platform that helps organizations safeguard their software development lifecycle (SDLC) by providing real-time insights into developer activities, AI code tool usage, and tool governance. It features Developer Detection Response (DevDR) for proactively identifying and mitigating security risks, Automated Tool Governance to prevent shadow IT, and an AI Code Usage & Risk Monitor to ensure secure coding practices. With seamless integration into CI/CD workflows, Archipelo captures developer actions and provides actionable insights to enhance security, mitigate risks, and ensure compliance throughout the software development process. -
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OpenText ALM Quality Center
OpenText
OpenText™ ALM Quality Center serves as the single pane of glass for software quality management. It helps you govern application lifecycle management activities and implement rigorous, auditable lifecycle processes. Leverage the reusability, traceability, and automation of ALM tools to improve efficiency in developing, testing, and maintaining applications. Automate result collection and gain real-time visibility into application quality, eliminating time-consuming and error-prone human processes. Enforce standard process with built-in ALM workflows and templates. Ensure compliance with detailed change tracking and a risk-based approach. Build an automated, vendor-neutral ecosystem for data consolidation across your application lifecycle with out-of-the-box integrations and APIs. Meet your scalability, security, and application architecture requirements with the deployment option of your choice – on-premises, cloud, or SaaS. -
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Rally Software
Broadcom
Rally is an enterprise-class platform that’s purpose-built for scaling agile development practices. Power your organization with enterprise agility. In order to make faster and smarter decisions, your development work needs to align to your company's most important business objectives. Align daily work to strategy and leverage data to steer your business towards an outcomes-oriented culture. Rally serves as a central hub for teams to collaboratively plan, prioritize and track work on a synchronized cadence. Teams can visualize their work in the form of lists, boards or timeline views, and more importantly—they can understand how their day-to-day work aligns to the greater goals of the business. Do you struggle to manage dependencies and risks across multiple teams or delivery groups? Rally provides comprehensive roll-ups of progress, dependencies, alignment and plan health—so teams and groups can make intentional decisions and stay ruthlessly focused on value. -
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SoftExpert Suite
SoftExpert
The SoftExpert Suite is a comprehensive solution designed to address critical business excellence challenges through an integrated multi-application environment. It offers a suite of interconnected components that can be scaled and expanded as business needs evolve, allowing for the incorporation of new functions. The suite aims to facilitate collaborative problem-solving and improve business performance by providing tools for corporate governance, risk management, compliance programs, and continuous business process improvement. -
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Rocket Aldon Lifecycle Manager
Rocket Software
Customers and employees demand high-quality digital experiences. Meet their expectations by deploying applications in complex, multi-platform production environments — quickly, confidently, and securely. Rocket® Aldon® solutions automate everything from the moment a business request comes in until an application is delivered to production, with full audit tracking and compliance reporting. Some organizations spend 20 - 30% of their IT budget on compliance reporting and audit preparation. Rocket Aldon solutions provide automation and reporting of your software development and change processes, helping you to track, view and monitor everything necessary to satisfy ITIL, COBIT, SEI/CMMI, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, PCI, Basel II and other regulations. With Rocket Aldon, best practices are enforced without you having to think about it — you can even ensure separation of duties at a granular level using the Lifecycle Manager Ops Portal.
