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Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a continuous process of managing the life of an application through governance, development and maintenance. ALM is the marriage of business management to software engineering made possible by tools that facilitate and integrate requirements management, architecture, coding, testing, tracking, and release management.[1]
Benefits
Proponents of application lifecycle management claim that it
- Increases productivity, as the team shares best practices for development and deployment, and developers need focus only on current business requirements
- Improves quality, so the final application meets the needs and expectations of users
- Breaks boundaries through collaboration and smooth information flow
- Accelerates development through simplified integration[2]
- Cuts maintenance time by synchronizing application and design
- Maximizes investments in skills, processes, and technologies
- Increases flexibility by reducing the time it takes to build and adapt applications that support new business initiatives
Disadvantages
Opponents of application lifecycle management claim that it
- Increases an application's whole-life cost
- Increases vendor lock-in
Categories of ALM Tools
- Requirements Analysis
- Requirements Management
- Feature management
- Modeling
- Design
- Project Management
- Change management
- Configuration Management
- Software Information Management (for ALM Tool Integration)
- Build management
- Software Testing
- Release Management
- Software Deployment
- Issue management
- Monitoring and reporting
- Workflow
As the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) continues to evolve, tool vendors are increasingly integrating their products to deliver suites. IDEs are giving way to tools that reach outside of pure coding and into the architectural, deployment, and management phases of the application lifecycle, providing full Application Lifecycle Management. The hallmark of these suites is a common user interface, meta model, and process engine that also enable ALM team members to communicate using standards-based architectures and technologies such as Unified Modeling Language (UML).[citation needed]
Notable ALM products
Notable ALM products include:
| Name | Vendor | |
|---|---|---|
| HP Application Lifecycle Management Software | HP Software Division | |
| Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management | Microsoft | |
| IBM Rational Team Concert | IBM | |
| CollabNet TeamForge | CollabNet | |
| Serena Dimensions | Serena_Software | |
| Atego Workbench | Atego | |
| CodeBeamer | Intland Software | |
| MKS Integrity | MKS Inc. | |
| Parasoft Concerto[3] | Parasoft | |
| Pulse | Genuitec | |
| SAP Solution Manager | SAP | |
| StarTeam - Change and Configuration Management | Borland | |
| workspace.com | workspace.com | |
| JIRA | Atlassian | |
| FogBugz | Fog Creek Software | |
| IKAN ALM | IKAN | |
| Polarion ALM | Polarion Software | |
| BuildMaster | Inedo |
Open Source Alternatives
See also
- Business transaction management
- Product lifecycle management
- Application Lifecycle Framework
- Systems Development Life Cycle
- Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration
References
- ^ deJong, Jennifer (2008-04-15). "Mea culpa, ALM toolmakers say". SDTimes. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
- ^ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978848396
- ^ Parasoft Composes Concerto for ALM by Jeff Feinman, SDTimes, August 13, 2009
Further Literature
- Application Management: Challenges - Service Creation - Strategies; Frank Keuper, Christian Oecking, Andreas Degenhardt; Gabler Verlag 2011; ISBN 978-3-8349-1667-9
- Walter Linnartz, Barbara Kohlhoff, Gertrud Heck, Benedikt Schmidt: Application Management Services und Support, Publicis Corporate Publishing 2004, ISBN 3-89578-224-6