Micro Focus has announced that Mitel, a leading provider of unified communications software solutions, is using its Silk solution to help drive resilience and quality testing across its line of products and solutions. Micro Focus Silk has become an important component of the Mitel software design process and is aimed at ensuring defects are identified [...]

In its latest research report, the Standish Group has found that application modernisation projects have the highest likelihood of being completed on time, on budget and with all critical features included when compared to alternative approaches. The new report, Modernisation: Clearing a Pathway to Success, delivers an objective comparison of the cost, risk and ROI [...]

Richard Novak, president and GM of Micro Focus Testing and Application Management Division, discusses how developers can invest time for the future with automated testing The CIO’s worst nightmare is a failure of business-critical applications. The key role of an IT manager is to ensure that software and the IT infrastructure work seamlessly and silently [...]

Early and frequent testing plays a key role in Agile software development. Joachim Herschmann, product director for Test Automation at Micro Focus, offers tips on how software developers and testers can use Agile principles to make their test procedures more efficient. Agile methods are becoming increasingly important in software development and Agile has become one [...]

Micro Focus has launched CaliberRDM, a tool which it says will help businesses reduce failures in their software development projects. According to the company, the product is one of several tools launched by Micro Focus as part of its new Continuous Quality Assurance (CQA) portfolio. Micro Focus’ CQA provides an end-to-end solution for companies looking [...]

With business growth returning at the same time as zero growth in IT budgets and staff numbers, it has never been more important for the QA department to keep the lines of communication open. Julian Dobbins, head of analyst relations at Micro Focus says if talk is cheap, that’s great news for software quality. Growth [...]

Micro Focus has launched SilkTest 2010 and SilkCentral Test Manager 2010, its latest software quality products that it says are designed to proactively drive quality improvements across the entire software development life cycle. Organisations using Continuous Quality Assurance can improve software delivery time to market and eliminate defects at every stage of development, maximising the [...]

Micro Focus has announced the availability of SilkPerformer CloudBurst, a peak demand load testing capability based on its Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) technology. According to MicroFocus, CloudBurst extends its load and performance testing solution SilkPerformer out to the cloud. With CloudBurst, SilkPerformer enables testing organisations to manage large load tests that emulate hundreds of thousands [...]

Micro Focus has partnered with dynaTrace software to provide what it says is a comprehensive performance testing solution, Silk Performance Assurance. The new offering tightly integrates SilkPerformer, Micro Focus’ enterprise-class performance testing product, with a new root cause diagnostic tool powered by dynaTrace, SilkPerformer Diagnostics. Data from the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute indicate the [...]

Micro Focus has successfully deployed its SilkTest automated functional testing software from Borland Software Corporation at financial software provider Ariel Communications, a specialist in multi-asset trading platforms (financial spread betting, foreign exchange and CFDs). By automating the functional testing process, SilkTest has enabled Ariel to cut testing time for system developments in half, helping to [...]