Application Lifecycle Management Software

Application Lifecycle Management Software:

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software is a software that operate different stages of software development and deployment at the same time including  project management, requirements management, development, testing and quality assurance (QA), customer support and IT service delivery.
ALM software provide a standardized environment for communication and collaboration between software development teams and testing team. You can also use the environment to communicate and collaborate with operation and support team. The process of software development, all manual, repetitive tasks required for provisioning, deployment, maintaining software stacks and delivery can also be automated using this software. An end-to-end test management solution can be provide by the software for software development with full traceability. It helps teams to overcome project challenges, manage priorities and accomplish project objectives within the time frame.
Basically the fusion of all the disciplines concerned with all aspects of the software delivery process including project management, requirements management, software development, testing and quality assurance, deployment, and maintenance is AML software.

Features and Benefits of Application Lifecycle Management Software:

• The agile and DevOps development approaches can be integrated together to enable teams to collaborate more effectively for your organization.
• Continuous delivery of software and updates with frequent releases is possible by using Application Lifecycle Management Software.
• AS the software provides a framework for software development, a pre-established plan and requirements can be used to turn an idea into an application that is also helpful in managing your software over time.
• Application Lifecycle Management Software takes the whole lifespan of the application in to consideration along with maintenance, future updates and the time to be replaced.
• The teams will be able to communicate in real time by using an Application Lifecycle Management Software. It also provide estimation and project planning, source code management, requirements management features and test management resulting in higher-quality products.
• ALM software provides faster deployments because of improved visibility into your workflow and increased developer satisfaction.

Features to be consider while choosing an Application Lifecycle Management Software:

By building its own use case, an organization can determine which ALM product or products best suits its needs. An organization needs to understand its own demographics such as size, history, financial position, employee experiences, etc. along with the issues that are causing the most serious bottlenecks in the current process to build a use case.
The features of ALM solutions in terms of importance in managing its use cases can be determined to choose the right ALM software. These features could be:

• ALM tools should have the functionality that helps you process your requirements and the tools should be adaptable to the methodology and processes that you are following in your organization.
• Capture and management of system use-cases can be a part of the requirements definition process. Storing the use cases along with their associated scenarios in the system and links to the other requirements that the use case defines is possible.
• Workflows can be defined and managed that help organize your processes which is an important feature for regulated or process driven industries.
• Functionality should be there to help you estimate and plan your projects.
• For a more complex review and oversight requirements, a workflow functionality is necessary that ensures all of the assigned tasks follow a specific set of steps with reviews and quality gates.
• It should offer integrated source code management functionality.
• It should offer basic test case management so that you can you create and manage your test cases in folders, with sorting and filtering capabilities.
• ALM tool should provide a test suite or test set concept that allows you to group test cases for assignment and tracking if you need the ability to manage a larger QA team or have testers working in different geographies and timezone .
• Some tools can be integrated with testing tools to manage your automated testing