The focus on application development has never been greater within software organizations than it is today. The pace of technological change and the increasing proliferation of agile development methodologies create significant challenges for any developer today, from managing and supporting multiple technologies and integrations to adopting fundamentally different ways of working. In addition every development team is also tasked with generating competitive advantage and releasing software faster to market (while of course maintaining and increasing product quality).
Making a Developer’s Life Easier
Micro Focus provides a number of developer tools directly integrated with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 IDE that can significantly benefit developers to meet the ever-increasing challenges faced today:
Micro Focus Visual COBOL™ provides a complete environment for quickly building and modernizing COBOL enterprise components and business applications.
DevPartner Studio is the industry standard for building code quality into Windows applications during the development process.
SilkTest provides powerful test automation capabilities make it the perfect solution for regression, cross-platform and localization testing.
Analyzer Express for Visual Studio 2010 gives developers instant-access to data flow analysis for their applications.
Click here to see all 4 products in action with Visual Studio 2010.
Micro Focus Visual COBOL
Benefits
Cuts the time taken to build, extend and maintain applications
Deliver greater customer satisfaction with modern UIs and improved quality using Visual Studio 2010 and .NET frameworks
Maximizes developer productivity by using modern development and testing technology
Highlights
Creates modern COBOL applications with graphical Windows and web user interfaces while reusing existing code
Utilize the highly-productive Visual Studio development environment which has been extended to support COBOL programming
Creates Managed and Unmanaged COBOL applications integrated within Visual Studio 2010
Support for .NET v4.0 and “multi-targetting” previous releases of the .NET framework
Streamlined COBOL syntax for easy .NET programming
DevPartner Studio
Benefits
Reduce developer re-work through significantly improved software code quality upon release
Easily adopt coding standards and best practices, such as agile development methodologies
Significantly increased developer productivity and project velocity
Ability to centrally manage complex, heterogeneous development environments, including applications built with legacy Windows and .NET technologies using older Visual Studio environments
Increased collaboration between development and QA through automatically pre-populated Team System work items
Highlights
Full complement of DevPartner Studio features accessible within the Visual Studio IDE
Integration with build servers and automated testing platforms to create a continuous integrated testing environment
Easily accessible code quality metrics for development and QA managers
In-depth code quality diagnostics
Distributed multi-tier analysis capabilities
Method and line-level diagnostic information
SilkTest
Benefits
Deliver products and solutions faster to market through shortened test cycles
Reduced development re-work, maintenance and cost through simpler script execution that also generates greater reliability and faster execution
Comprehensive support for agile development methodologies
Highlights
Powerful test automation capabilities for regression, cross-platform and localization testing
Support for broad range of application technologies, including AJAX, Flex and Web 2.0 technologies, Java, .NET and client/server
Script creation and execution that is simple, robust and quick
Unparalelled object recognition and synchronization capabilities, eliminating the need for artificial wait times or complex script logic
Support for multiple script engines, including popular CLR based languages Visual Basic, .Net or C# in Visual Studio. Developers immediately benefit from the power of the SilkTest NTF Testing API and the unrivalled open agent technology that SilkTest provides to interface with the AUT.
Analyzer Express
Benefits
Analyzer Express for Visual Studio 2010 gives development teams rich insight into the structure of their applications. Providing this information at their fingertips helps to:
Accelerate development activities as development team members gain the insights into applications that they need every day. This knowledge means that change requests can be executed faster, cutting up to 45% of the time required to complete a business requirement.
Create teams of experts with Instant-access to data flow analysis makes your entire team ‘instant experts’. This leads to team members that are up to 40% more effective.
Improve application quality through access to accurate and complete data flow analysis helps development teams avoid costly errors and re-work that can lead to poor quality applications.
Highlights
Overcome complexity through technical insight into application portfolios
Powerful analysis allows developers to trace how data flows through a program, allowing users to quickly understand how the code behaves
Forward and backward data flow analysis lets developers trace data flow both to and from a selected artifact, ensuring completeness of analysis
Simple “right-click” interface makes puts analysis at your fingertips
Integration with “Bookmark” pane allows developers to follow the identified data flows to determine which is of interest for a given work item
Summary
Micro Focus developer tools integrating directly with Visual Studio 2010 provide application developers with functionality that greatly improves day-to-day development activities. This enables developers to meet the challenges of increasing technological change and the adoption of agile development methodologies, while also:
Increasing developer productivity
Generating faster time to market
Significantly improving application quality
Micro Focus developer tools and Visual Studio 2010 provide developers with a winning combination.
