Organizations that implement successful user acceptance testing can greatly reduce errors and business risks.

"Smartphone" author Majeed Ahmad discusses present and future smartphone trends, including growing consumerization, democratization in the IT world, cloud computing and HTML 5. CIOs and other information technology buyers in the enterprise can examine how smartphones are affecting business.

Explore smartphone and mobile computing technologies and services with expert Majeed Ahmad, author of a new book, Smartphone.

Software consultant Nari Kannan reveals eight metrics that are most important in ALM in this tip.

Acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) is a technique used to bring customers into the test design process before coding has begun.

In this tip by Agile expert Lisa Crispin, learn the important steps to move your organization forward with a well-planned automation strategy.

Agile expert Lisa Crispin explains the four Agile testing quadrants and how they can guide managers and development teams in creating a test strategy.

With strong Agile practices such as unit testing, code reviews and proper attention to requirements, bugs can be prevented or found early in the application lifecycle.

In this story, SSQ?s Yvette Francino explores how lifecycle virtualization ties in with continuous integration and modern ALM. CIOs and other decision makers will learn what analysts are saying about the next level of virtualization in their organizations.

In this tip, we talk about the differences in Scrum and Kanban, comparing and contrasting these two approaches used in software development.

A recent study conducted by CAST used their Application Intelligence Platform to evaluate the structural quality of 365 million lines of code. In this interview with CAST?s chief scientist Dr. Bill Curtis, he discusses the study and what IT decision makers can do about technical debt.

In this second of a two-part interview with renowned software development expert ?Uncle Bob? Martin, we hear more of his thoughts on collaboration, discipline and measuring quality.

What is the role of QA when developers are automating more and more of the test efforts? What?s the best way to give code estimates? Software guru ?Uncle Bob? Martin answers these questions in this first part of a two-part interview about his new book.

ALM expert Kevin Parker discusses the importance of security and offers some tips to business leaders in this response.

In this expert response, Kevin Parker explores the current and potential uses of collaborative social media tools for ALM team members, including Twitter and instant messaging.

In this response, expert Pete Walen describes how managers and decision makers can gain from regular interaction via social media.

In this response, expert Pete Walen explains how social networking tools provide an avenue for learning and teamwork that nearly everyone can take advantage of.

Software consultant Nari Kannan writes about the challenges in automating the testing of mobile apps and some popular solutions that are available for them today.

ALM expert Kevin Parker discusses how people have shifted communication to social networks and how managers can take advantage of this trend.

In this response, ALM expert Kevin Parker discusses the evolution of chat platforms and wikis amongst developers, explaining how managers can use these technologies to their advantage.