HP and Coverity collaboration will speed software development

Nick Booth

The combination of the two systems gives the users the best of both testing platforms, say analysts

Software projects could speed up dramatically as the two major players in development testing have agreed to integrate their platforms.

Coverity is integrating its development testing platform with HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), in a move that could fine tune the testing process and help projects meet even tighter deadlines.

Analysts say this could make software developers more competitive and provide a massive boost to the industry.

The combined solution heightens visibility into development by incorporating code quality into the overall picture of application quality. This in turn cuts the risk of there being application quality issues in production. The improvements come at no extra cost (in time or money) to developers.

Surface code quality defects discovered by Coverity’s Static Analysis and FindBugs systems, for example, can now be incorporated straight into a developer’s existing ALM workflow.

The combination of the two systems gives the users the best of both testing platforms, say analysts.

“ALM adoption is most successful when the development workflow is modified as unobtrusively as possible,” said Thomas Murphy, research director at Gartner.

Allowing developers to test their code for quality defects and share this information across teams, without leaving their workflow, will slash the time and cost of adoption and will foster a greater spirit of collaboration, says Murphy. He described the end result as: “a more effective quality process.”

Brands, customer satisfaction or revenues will all benefit as a result, says developer Theresa Lanowitz, founder of Voke.

“We are excited about collaborating with HP because it makes for reliable, rapid software delivery,” Anthony Bettencourt, CEO of Coverity.

The industry is due to become more efficient on October 18th, when the new integrated platform becomes available. Until then, polar bears will continue to die on melting ice caps in the arctic.