HPE Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is the solution on process management of lifecycle of applications. Allows to manage their development and testing and also to organize the automated applications testing.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) 11.0

The Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) 11.0 platform automates all development process of applications — from requirements management before quality assurance and performance.

The research conducted by Forrester Consulting company by request of HP showed that 69% of the heads responsible for decision making in information technology field selected 25% of the annual IT budget for upgrade of applications, and 30% of respondents allocated more than 50% of the funds which are taken away on IT for these purposes. Upgrade allows the organizations to receive control over difficult processes and to transform a portfolio of applications according to requirements of the enterprise quickly adaptive to changes of business (Instant-On Enterprise). Such transformation, in turn, allows the organization to develop more dynamically, to react quickly to changes and it is better to perceive any innovations.

HP ALM 11.0 is the first in industry integrated site for upgrade of applications differing in scalability and platform independence. It allows customers to lower a defect level in applications more, than by 80% in comparison with averages on the industry indicators. In the report of Forrester Research of 'The Time Is Right For ALM 2.0+' (October, 2010), it is said: "The platform allowing to improve work planning and accounting of artifacts, but also, to provide providing the reporting and integration with portfolio management and operational information is necessary for management of delivery".

HP ALM 11.0 — the integrated platform covering all range of tasks of transformation of business applications. Applications are developed in support of specific business processes, but as the business environment is subject to permanent changes, together with it also processes change, so, and applications cannot remain invariable, stiffened and need permanent conversion. The products which are a part of ALM 11 allow to develop successfully applications on the basis of Web 2.0 technologies, at the same time improving the business applications which are already available in the companies including written on legacy platforms to adapt them to modern conditions.

It is a uniform product with certain requirements to functionality, quality, performance, but it and a set of independent components on the general platform — Quality Center, Performance Center and others for which the HP ALM platform is a basis. They help to automate ensuring quality of applications and certification of their performance, allow to reduce operating expenses and to release means for improvement of applications at a delivery stage. The number of advantages which are got by customers includes the following:

• the accelerated deployment of applications thanks to automation of transactions of testing using the module HP Sprinter which, in particular, allows to automate data preparation and accomplishment of the same transactions in different environments;
• rationalization of process of creation of tests by means of the module HP TruClient which is a part of tools of HP of LoadRunner 11.0. It provides testing of application performance without preliminary labor-consuming drawing up scripts;
• an opportunity to reduce amount of functional defects of the application when testing the graphical user interface and other functions using HP Unified Functional Testing 11.0 — the single automated solution for difficult applications consisting of modules of HP Functional Test and HP Service Test 11.0.

Automating the sequences of the transactions executed by several project teams HP ALM 11.0 simplifies management of lifecycle of applications. The customer gets a number of advantages, including:

• an opportunity to estimate risks and on the basis of it to make the decision on release of the next application versions using a planning module and tracking the course of the project (Project Planning and Tracking) of ALM 11.0. This component allows to set the purposes for the next releases and to manage versions by means of the process based on control of indicators in real time;
• improvement of cooperation between developers, quality control specialists, business analysts and security specialists which is reached thanks to solution integration of HP ALM 11.0 with development environments. Such integration allows to control the application for all its lifecycle and to manage all changes;
• fast delivery of applications using the HP solution of Agile Accelerator 4.0. This solution gives an ability to manage projects of rapid development using the preset flows of works and configurations that considerably facilitates work of developers.

HP Agile Accelerator 4.0 is available in free basic edition and also expanded;

• decrease in the business risks caused by malfunctions in work of multifunction Internet-applications because of the defects influencing work of separate functions, performance level or degree of security;
• possibility of automatic import of business process models to the ALM component which is responsible for requirements management (Requirements Management). This function allows to visualize the course of business processes and helps to specify the text requirement description.

The consulting services of HP on management of lifecycle of applications offered by department of HP of Software Professional Services help to reduce the total cost of testing, to raise the security level due to reduction of a defect level, to reduce an implementation time and to increase number of software users. Specialists of HP help to select optimal methods of testing and flexible delivery patterns and also render services of training.

HP ALM 11 allows public institutions and commercial enterprises to automate the flows of works connected with upgrade of applications including requirements management, project planning and control of their subsequent development and also management of development, quality assurance, elimination of defects, a research of performance and management of releases.

HP ALM 11 is a component of HP IT Performance Suite, the platform of the corporate level using which IT specialists can analyze the IT environment and increase its efficiency. This platform creates a complete overview of IT assets and allows to optimize effectiveness of work of the IT environment according to specific business challenges.

2014: HP Application Lifecycle Management v12

On March 20, 2014 the HP company announced release of the 12th version of products from structure of a portfolio of HP of Application Lifecycle Management.

Using applications of the organization will increase quality and high-speed performance of mobile, cloud, hybrid and traditional applications. These software solutions will help to improve planning processes and developments, to reduce costs for testing, to accelerate release of applications and also to protect business from the destabilizing factors