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Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software helps track and plan a broad range of development activities. These include specification, design, development and testing of a software application from initial planning through retirement.
Requirements management
Software design
Project management
Functional testing
Performance testing
Deployment automation
Change management
Monitoring and reporting
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is closely related to Agile Development but is broader in scope. Where agile development is primarily a way of organizing development cycles within the product development process, ALM is concerned with development, but also delivery and maintenance of the software over the life of the application. ALM covers a product from inception to retirement, not just the development component of a product’s life.
ALM is connected, not only to agile development concepts but also to the DevOps movement. Under DevOps, application development becomes merged with IT operations and deployment issues. The agile development process is extended into IT operations with developers remaining involved with products long after they have been deployed.
Application Lifecycle Management tools vary in their sophistication but often include functional testing capabilities, Performance testing, application development management tools, and deployment tools.
JIRA Software is an application lifecycle management solution for software development teams. It allows users to create, prioritize and track the progress of tasks across multiple team members, and offers a wide range of integrations. It is offered via the cloud and local servers.
Jama, from the company of the same name in Portland, Oregon, is an application lifecycle management platform.
AzureDevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server, or TFS) is a test management and application lifecycle management tool, from Microsoft's Visual Studio offerings. To license Azure DevOps Server an Azure DevOps license and a Windows operating system license (e.g. Windows Server) for each machine …
Beyond Compare from Scooter Software headquartered in Madison is a utility for comparing different version of documents and seeing the differences. It also allows changes to be merged and synchronized.
PTC Windchill RV&S (formerly Integrity Lifecycle Manager of the Integrity suite) is an MBSE (model-based systems engineering) suite. The former Integrity suite contains an Asset Library which supports systems-of-systems approach to design (i.e. linking models into higher-level models that subsume th…
Micro Focus offers the former HPE application lifecycle management and quality assurance suite, Application Lifecycle Management / Quality Center (or ALM/QC).
LeanKit is a project management solution built around flexibility, data-driven analytics, and workflow automation. The software was acquired by Planview in December 2017 to expand that company's capabilities.
Rally Software headquartered in Boulder, Colorado developed the Rally agile software development / ALM platform which was acquired by CA Technologies and rebranded as CA Agile Central. After CA's acquisition by Broadcom the software was once again rebranded as Rally.
SpiraTest allows customers to manage their software testing and quality assurance activities. It provides requirements management, test management and bug-tracking functionality with integrated reporting.
Inflectra SpiraTeam is a project Management solution built around capabilities such as bug tracking, quality assurance, and collaboration.
Micro Focus ALM Octane, their flagship application lifecycle management (ALM) product.
CollabNet in South San Francisco offers TeamForge, an application lifecycle management platform.
Review Assistant is a peer code review tool which integrates with popular control systems namely: TFS, Subversion, Mercurial, Git and Perforce. It is an plugin for Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 developed to enhance the team development process. The tool includes support for formal code review…
Rocket® Aldon® solutions provide the tools and infrastructure users need to automate everything from the moment a change request comes in until a solution is delivered to production, as well as automate compliance reporting and audit tracking.The vendor aims to help users keep their software running…
Micro Focus Agile Manager is an application lifecycle management option acquired by Micro Focus from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. It has reached End of Life. Users are encouraged to migrate to Micro Focus ALM Octane.
TechExcel in Lafayette, California offers DevSuite, an application lifecycle management (ALM) platform.
Polarion ALM is an application requirement management software platform now owned and supported by Siemens since the 2015 acquisition.
Code Compare is a file and folder merge tool that demonstrates a new level of code comparison. The vendor says that advanced comparison approaches, which consider the peculiarities of different programming languages make a significant advantage in code comparing. The Visual Studio integration helps …
GoCD, from ThoughtWorks in Chicago, is an application lifecycle management and development tool.
German company Andagon offers Aqua, an application lifecycle management platform.
CA Technologies offers Application Lifecycle Conductor, an ALM suite.
zipBoard is a bug tracking and visual feedback tool which lets software teams take screenshots and assign tasks while browsing their web-based (web-apps, websites and E-learning) products. The vendor’s value proposition is that this solution makes collaboration among agile teams easier.
SprintGround is a task management, project tracking and collaboration tool for software development teams and enthusiasts. This solution provides a centralized platform to organize IT development projects, coordinate work, track time, monitor progress, plan releases and keep all team members up to d…
The Parasoft Development Testing Platform offers presents a testing and application lifecycle management solution.
DronaHQ as a mobility platform helps containerise all apps in one single app. It's a docker for mobile apps used to build, deploy and manage apps rapidly. DronaHQ includes: Pre-built Container App across IOS/Android/Windows. Cordova runtime & app management layer. Platform & Device A…
There are plenty of options out there, but here's our shortlist of the best Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Tools. These products won a Top Rated award for having excellent customer satisfaction ratings. The list is based purely on reviews; there is no paid placement, and analyst opinions do not influence the rankings. To qualify, a product must have 10 or more recent reviews and a trScore of 7.5 or higher, indicating above-average satisfaction for business technology. The products with the highest trScores appear first on the list. Read more about the Top Rated criteria.