Maintaining software quality on the bleeding edge

From IT’s perspective, the business is always asking for new applications -- apps to innovate, or simply make their jobs a little easier. The problem is, it always want them done quickly and be up and running perfectly at launch.

Our very own Dr. Bill Curtis sat down with ComputerWeekly to discuss the challenges of maintaining this level of development while simultaneously ensuring the application’s performance and resiliency. You can hop over to ComputerWeekly to read the full article here.

What can IT leaders do to keep their applications high quality while sticking to the development schedule? Leave your thoughts below in a comment.

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Open source is part of almost every software capability we use today. At the very least libraries, frameworks or databases that get used in mission critical IT systems. In some cases entire systems being build on top of open source foundations. Since we have been benchmarking IT software for years, we thought we would set our sights on some of the most commonly used open source software (OSS) projects. Software Intelligence Report <> Papers

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Lev Lesokhin EVP, Strategy and Analytics at CAST

Lev spends his time investigating and communicating ways that software analysis and measurement can improve the lives of apps dev professionals. He is always ready to listen to customer feedback and to hear from IT practitioners about their software development and management challenges. Lev helps set market & product strategy for CAST and occasionally writes about his perspective on business technology in this blog and other media.