Paul Krill
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Borland offers release readiness for software

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Feb 23, 20092 mins

TeamInspector is part of company's software delivery platform and helps development managers know when software is ready for customer use

Borland Software is unveiling on Monday TeamInspector, a “release readiness” system that reveals metrics to give development managers evidence that software is ready for customer use.

Metrics like code analysis, test coverage, standards compliance, and build trends are gathered and revealed, Borland said. The product presents metrics in a dashboard displaying real-time and trend information across projects. TeamInspector becomes part of the Borland Management Solutions software delivery platform.

[ Last year, Borland sold its CodeGear software development tools unit. ]

“TeamInspector provides visibility into the quality of a software organization’s output through metrics that tell the real story — whether the code is solid, has been adequately tested, was built to standard, and is maintainable,” said David Wilby, vice president of product strategy at Borland.

Code is monitored across a multi-project portfolio. Features include inspector infrastructure, providing a framework for code inspection, and portfolio dashboards, which aggregate metrics from various tools to display key risk and readiness indicators, such as test coverage. Also featured is a build and continuous integration environment, integrating with software configuration and change management tools and gathering information from multiple sources when events occur, such as a build.

TeamInspector works with a range of ALM tools and processes, Borland said. Available Monday, TeamInspector is sold in packs starting at $20,000.

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