PALO ALTO, Calif., April 26, 2010 - HP today announced new application quality offerings to help organizations realize the benefits of application modernization through increased business agility and reduced time to market. HP Service Test Management 10.5 and the enhanced HP Functional Testing 10.0 advance application modernization by allowing clients to focus their time on application quality while improving the line of sight between development and quality assurance teams.

We are proud to announce that Ranorex 2.3 is released and available for download. The new version includes the following new major features and improvements:
* Support for Flex 4 and AIR 2 Applications
* Floating License option
* Transparent Automation of 32bit/64bit
* Full Support for Flex 4 and AIR 2 Applications

Sonatype is happy to announce the availability of Nexus 1.6. We’ve cut a new release for both Nexus Open Source and Nexus Professional. Nexus gives you control over the repositories your builds interact with. It can also provide you with an easier way to publish, distribute, and manage the software applications you create.

15 April 2010 - PureCM, the change and configuration management specialist, has announced a major new release of its core SCM solution, PureCM 2010-1. This includes a range of new and enhanced features to support agile application lifecycle management (ALM), enabling development teams to improve their productivity, shorten release cycles, and collaborate more effectively.

SAN FRANCISCO – April 6, 2010 – Coverity, Inc., the software integrity leader, today announced the Coverity Software Integrity Rating program. Coverity Software Integrity Ratings provide companies with an objective standard to measure the integrity of their software as well as reveal defects in software they integrate from third-party suppliers. Companies that receive an approved rating for their products will be issued a Coverity Integrity Seal. This seal can be displayed with a company's rated products as a sign that the software was analyzed for defects that could compromise product safety, security, and performance.

Prague, Czech Republic, April 13, 2010 — JetBrains®, creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing tools for software developers, have announced the general availability of ReSharper 5.0, its award-winning productivity tool for .NET Framework development in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and earlier versions. Simultaneously shipped with Visual Studio 2010, ReSharper 5.0 adds full-scale support for the IDE and the latest .NET Framework trends and technologies, including ASP.NET MVC 2.0, C# 4.0, and VB.NET 10. Major productivity improvements include an extensive toolset for web development, new features to support working with large projects, and numerous code analysis enhancements.

Mountain View , California – April 11, 2010 - Viewtier Systems, today announced availability of Continuous Integration and Release Management for Bazaar, a version control system that helps you track project history over time and to collaborate easily with others. Integration of Parabuild and Bazaar is available immediately.

Original Software releases TestBench for System i v7 30th March 2010 – Original Software, the Application Quality Management (AQM) vendor, today announced the release of TestBench for System i v7. The latest version of the company’s database management and verification solution now includes support for Double Byte Character Sets (DBCS) and IASP support. “With this latest update, our entire solution suite is now DBCS capable” said Colin Armitage, CEO of Original Software. “We’ve experienced increasing demand for our solutions in enterprise accounts, many with operations in far eastern geographies. Although quite a niche field, no other supplier has capabilities to support DBCS for testing green screen apps or at the database level. For the modern business, being able to comprehensively test systems in all its operating geographies is simply a must,” he expanded.

Waltham, MA, April 12, 2010 – Telerik, a leading provider of development tools and solutions for the Microsoft? .NET platform, today announced the launch of WebUI Test Studio 2010, an innovative and easy-to-use automated web-testing solution. Encompassing essential web technologies such as ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, and MVC, Telerik’s WebUI Test Studio represents one of the most comprehensive, yet cost-effective automated testing suites available in the marketplace. With distinct product editions specialized to meet the needs of QA professionals and software developers, WebUI Test Studio marks Telerik’s entry into the QA and testing space.

Automated exploratory testing is a method integrating Test Automation within the Exploratory Testing Session that enables the testers to save money and to become more productive during test execution. This article describes automated exploratory testing and explains its benefits.