2. What?
“Borland enables organizations to deliver better software faster.”
How?
By focusing on predictability and productivity across the
application lifecycle, Borland takes a collaborative approach to
ALM. This ensures that complex portfolios are efficient, adaptable,
stable, and aligned with business.
Result?
The Borland Difference
Developers
• Work together
• Know why they are
building
• Informed of changes
QA/Test
• Work in parallel
• Instant knowledge
• Cut inefficiencies
Management/Customers
• Predictably informed
• Now have options
based on real time data
8. Borland Differentiators
Borland The Other Guys
Less infrastructure More infrastructure
Smaller teams collaborating seamlessly Smaller teams working on their own
Open & agnostic Migration of technology vendors
Strong requirements = strong product Less focus on requirements
Predictable management data Brute force unknowns
Customer Choice
•Methodology
agnostic
•Platform choice
•Open Standards
SDLC Coverage
•Comprehensive
Capabilities
•Synergistic benefits
•Best-of-breed
Supports Innovation
•Modernisation
Alternatives
•Enabling Agile
•Service Offerings
9. Micro Focus positioned as Leader in the Gartner Magic
Quadrant for Integrated Software Quality Suites
9
“Testing software can be an expensive
process, but poor software quality leads
to user dissatisfaction, as well as
increased development and maintenance.
Therefore, having a well-defined set of
tools and practices to drive software
quality will positively affect the overall
business bottom line.”
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Integrated
Quality Suites, January 31, 2011
This Magic Quadrant graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research note and should be
evaluated in the context of the entire report. The Gartner report is available upon request from Micro Focus.
11. • Continuous visibility to changes in a product
requirement
• Single point of truth to keep everyone on the
same page
• Eliminates uncertainty with deliverables
• Powerful traceability across requirements and
other lifecycle artifacts
• Powerful document generation to support
existing RM process demands
• Flexible import export of document based
processes
Tracking and Managing Business Requirements
Caliber
Benefits Capability
12. • Team collaboration is enhanced without change to tool
or process
• Control and visibility over project source code & changes
• Global teams are always in synch
• Manage and track revision changes to assets without the
need to synchronize multiple sources
• File versioning, labelling and code compare & merge
capabilities, integrated with major IDEs
• Flexible workflow, versioning and notification capabilities
for all asset types
Keeping Development Teams in Sync
StarTeam
Benefits
Capability
13. • Finally understand where and why applications are slow
• Moves performance management from reactive to
proactive
• Lowers cost of infrastructure by knows just how much to
build
• Easy to design visual flow through applications
• On premise and cloud based agents
• Mobile simulation support for various protocols
• Support for ERP systems and certified for SAP
• TrueLog explorer shows where bottlenecks form
Robust Performance Testing
SilkPerformer
Benefits
Capability
14. • Single point of truth for all testing practices
• Managers can now track the efficiency of manual testers
• Consolidates all practices into one tool for management
visibility across functions
• Integrates with industry leading tools
• Demonstrates to manual testers what needs to be done
• Launches functional tests and reports on results
• Highly useful reports track progress across products,
testers & tools
• Integrates with SAP SolMan to make SAP more efficient
Robust Performance Testing
SilkCentral
Benefits
Capability
15. • Dramatically shortened testing cycles
• Deliver higher quality applications at a lower
cost
• Bridges the gap between business analysts
and QA testers
• The most powerful tech-domain scripting in the
industry
• End to end testing via visual to scripting
• Wide support for various platforms including SAP,
3270, IE9, Windows apps
Quality
SilkTest
Benefits Capability
17. • “Storyboard” Scripts –
Not Code
– Easy for everyone understand
– Focused on what the user
sees
• Offline editing
– Decreases maintenance
effort
• Visual results
– Management review of
regression issues
– Immediate feedback to developers on where a test failed
– Difference checker
Visual Testing
18. • Eclipse plugin
– Java scripts
– Creates a Silk4J
Project
– Record and playback
in Eclipse
– API for driving the
OpenAgent
Silk4J
19. • Visual Studio 2010 plugin
– Creates a Silk4NET Project
– Record and playback in Visual Studio
• Common Languages Run Time support
– API for driving
the OpenAgent
– C#, Visual Basic
– Supports VS
2008 as well
Silk4Net
20. Visual Test
Testing Application Layers
SOA SOA
SOA SOA SOA SOA
Business Services
Graphical User Interface
Java or .NET Script
21. Testing a Complex Business Process
Road Deicing Scheduling System
Truck
SOA
FTP
SOA
Thermal
Maps
Station
Readings
Road
Changes
District
Forecast
Truck
Schedule
Truck
Change Deicing
Schedule
Treated
Road
22. Testing a Complex Business Process - Scheduling road deicing
SOA
FTP
SOA
Thermal
Maps
Station
Readings
Road
Changes
District
Forecast
Truck
Schedule
Truck
Change Deicing
Schedule
Treated
Road
Visual Test
Java or .NET Script
