UPDATED 13:21 EDT / AUGUST 26 2013

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DevOps Round Up: Exclusive Phoenix Project Study, Agile Products Enhancement

This past week featured a good number of DevOps developments. From Aerospike’s new product launches to an exclusive study of the development team working on Missing World Media’s City of Heroes spiritual successor The Phoenix Project to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Integrated Software Quality Suites study on leading DevOps vendors.

Magic Quadrant for Integrated Software Quality Suites

Agile development processes are transforming how software is delivered. Enterprises focus on rapid, incremental updates to their web, desktop and mobile applications instead of holding new features and fixes for one large release. Gartner in its Magic Quadrant for Integrated Software Quality Suites defines DevOps Leaders as having broad portfolios covering test management, functional and performance test automation.

Telerik, which supports modern UI frameworks, agile testing techniques and the testing of iOS apps, also find a place into the report. As a mobile and development company, Telerik is a common newsworthy subject on DevOpsAngle, and their appearance in MQ shows how their work has placed them into a powerful position for testing and automation. And, in more recent news, the company’s new product, TeamPulse also made it into the report.

The company’s Agile project management tool, TeamPulse, provides requirement management, bug tracking and other planning tasks. Last week, TeamPulse got a major facelift by supporting HTML5 interface. The advanced HTML5 interface combined with powerful multi-project management functionality enables developers to quickly and easily perform daily activities such as tracking of project status and updating of project works.

Each of the vendors listed in the report have support for additional quality measures: such as code quality, testing database, and either deep or broad platform technology support. These companies are well suited as the backbone of a testing organization’s tool suite, and this is proven via a global presence and significant market shares. These vendors have significant partnerships and show consistency in execution of programs including acquisitions.

Borland, a subsidiary of Micro Focus has been positioned by Gartner for the second year in a row in the leaders in the 2013 Integrated Software Quality Suites Magic Quadrant report. Borland solutions through its Portfolio Silk – recently enriched by Mobile Silk, Silk Performer, Central Silk, and Silk for use with SAP and Silk WebMeter–continued its path of innovation in the mobile and agile, getting a good growth of its share market in the last 18 months.

SOASTA, a leader in mobile testing and cloud, has been named as the leader of Integrated Software Quality Suites in Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant. Gartner has recognized SOASTA leadership in the testing market with proven success in hundreds of enterprises with strong solutions for precision mobile test automation, Real User Monitoring (RUM), and cloud-based web performance testing.

The Phoenix Project

After NCSoft declared no development the popular MMORPG City of Heroes, volunteers of developers, designers, graphics artists, and others called Missing Worlds Media has started The Phoenix Project again to give it a fresh start.

DevOps editor Kyt Dotson had an exclusive interview with Nate Downes, technical director, Missing Worlds Media, to discuss about the project development. Downes said The Phoenix Project is made up of people with a wide diversity of background including RPG designers, server gurus, people who have built and run MUDs.

Downes said the project group is currently working from remote place and collaborate with internet, conference calls, e-mail and other medium to gather their thoughts. After the Kickstarter funds the project, the team is looking go with a distributed node approach and will use the popular Unreal Engine for the development.

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Aerospike, this week, released Aerospike 3 to speed up development and benefit from optimizations like reducing network bandwidth by pushing processing close to the data and taking advantage of the distributed parallel processing power of the cluster. The latest edition is designed to work well in hyperscale that means dealing with I/O scaling and extra CPUs.

Mobile development powerhouse Appcelerator got a boost in its cloud-based app creation platform by acquiring San Francisco-based startup called Singly. Singly’s DataFabric solution promises to simplify user authentication, data management, and social sharing.


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