March 2, 2010 – Boulder, CO – Confio Software today announced that Ignite 8, a major expansion of its award winning database performance solution, is now available. Ignite 8 expands the Ignite™ for SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 and Sybase products to include comprehensive performance monitoring in combination with the response-time analysis for which Ignite has been known.

We believe in unit testing and test driven development, and we also know how hard it is to learn to write proper unit tests that are readable, maintainable and trustworthy. That’s why we created Test Lint – the world’s first and only coding advisor for unit tests in Visual Studio 2010.

ATLANTA - March 8, 2010 - VersionOne, recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile management tools, today announced the availability of VersionOne Ultimate Edition -- a comprehensive agile lifecycle management platform for scaling agile organizations. The Ultimate Edition builds on VersionOne's proven agile development platform and delivers an organizational solution that includes new Agile Analytics, Test Management and Ideas Management capabilities. The Ultimate Edition provides the only integrated, out-of-the-box agile management platform where all stakeholders - customers, managers, product owners, executives, developers, testers and analysts - can easily work together in a single, centralized environment.

Cincinnati, OH – March 2, 2010 – Seapine Software, a leading global provider of quality-centric application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, announced today that its upcoming TestTrack 2010.1 product release includes a number of new capabilities to support Agile development. Key features enable development teams to better collaborate, improve productivity, shorten release cycles, and deliver higher-quality software products.

Ottawa, Canada - March 8, 2010 - The Eclipse Foundation today announced new initiatives to support the ongoing growth of the Eclipse Mylyn ecosystem. The open source Mylyn project is a widely extended framework for integrating task and application lifecycle management (ALM) tools with the Eclipse IDE. The project will create new sub-projects representing key IDE/ALM integration categories. New projects include: the "Tasks" project for integrating task and change management; "SCM" for integrating source code management; "Build" for integrating build management and continuous integration; and "Review" for collaborative code review. The new sub-project leadership will support a broader range of leading Agile vendors contributing to the ongoing evolution of Mylyn.

SAN FRANCISCO and BANGALORE, March 1, 2010 ­ ThoughtWorks Studios, (www.thoughtworks-studios.com) a global leader in Agile ALM and training, today announced the latest version of its Agile test automation solutions, Twist® 2.0. Designed to manage the rapid pace of software testing within Agile environments, Twist 2.0 helps testers, developers and business analysts work together to ensure testing is highly efficient and collaborative, resulting in faster release cycles of quality applications.

Mountain View , California – March 1, 2010 - Viewtier Systems, today announced availability of Continuous Integration and Software Release Management for Git , a free and open source, distributed version control system. Integration of Parabuild and Git is available immediately.

GrinderStone is an Eclipse plug-in for Grinder load testing scripts development. The Grinder is a Java load testing open source framework that makes it easy to run a distributed test using many load injector machines.

SAN MATEO, Calif., February 22, 2010 — Fortify Software, the market leader in Software Security Assurance solutions, debuted the next generation hybrid security analysis technology for testing web applications. Developed in collaboration with HP, Hybrid 2.0 enables teams across the application lifecycle to improve visibility into security risks, increase test accuracy and produce more secure web applications through new advances in correlating static and dynamic testing results.

Inflectra Corporation, Silver Spring, MD announced that it has released the latest version of SpiraTeam® - its integrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite and SpiraPlan® – its Agile Project Estimation, Planning and Management system.