Best Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Tools

Jama Software® is focused on maximizing innovation success in multidisciplinary engineering organizations. Numerous firsts for humanity in fields such as fuel cells, electrification, space, software-defined vehicles, surgical robotics, and more all rely on Jama Connect® requirements management software to minimize the risk of defects, rework, cost overruns, and recalls. Using Jama Connect, engineering organizations can now intelligently manage the development process by leveraging Live Traceability™ across best-of-breed tools to measurably improve outcomes. Our rapidly growing customer base spans the automotive, medical device, life sciences, semiconductor, aerospace & defense, industrial manufacturing, consumer electronics, financial services, and insurance industries.

Visure Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider of requirements management tool suites offering a comprehensive collaborative ALM Platform for system engineering industries. Visure’s value proposition is nothing less than the total innovative technology in key functions: standard compliance for safety-critical and business-critical systems. - Requirements and Traceability Management - Test Management - Bug & Issue Tracking - Risk Management - Collaboration Management - Centralized data base, Review/Approval process - Certification Management (Support of many Standard Templates ISO26262, IEC62304, IEC61508, CENELEC50128, DO178/C, FMEA, GAMP5, SPICE, CMMI, etc. + Tool Qualification Package) - Configuration Management, Baselining, History Tracking, Requirements Versioning - Dashboards + Report Customization - Integrated with DOORS, Jama, Siemens Polarion, PTC, Perforce, JIRA, Enterprise Architect, HP ALM, Microfocus ALM, PTC, TFS, Word, Excel, Test RT, RTRT, VectorCAST, LDRA, etc.

Jira is the only project management tool you need to plan and track work across every team. Jira by Atlassian is the #1 software development tool for teams planning and building great products. Trusted by thousands of teams, Jira offers access to a wide range of tools for planning, tracking, and releasing world-class software, capturing and organizing issues, assigning work, and following team activity. It also integrates with leading developer tools for end-to-end traceability. From short projects, to large cross-functional programs, Jira helps break big ideas down into achievable steps. Organize work, create milestones, map dependencies and more. Link work to goals so everyone can see how their work contributes to company objectives and stay aligned to what’s important. Your next move, suggested by AI. Atlassian Intelligence takes your big ideas and automatically suggests the tasks to help get it done.

GitLab is a complete DevOps platform. With GitLab, you get a complete CI/CD toolchain out-of-the-box. One interface. One conversation. One permission model. GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. GitLab helps teams accelerate software delivery from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs, and reduce the risk of application vulnerabilities while increasing developer productivity. Source code management enables coordination, sharing and collaboration across the entire software development team. Track and merge branches, audit changes and enable concurrent work, to accelerate software delivery. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects in code among distributed teams via asynchronous review and commenting. Automate, track and report code reviews.

SpiraTeam by Inflectra is a complete application lifecycle management (ALM) system that allows businesses to manage project requirements, test cases, releases, issues, and tasks in one unified platform. Deployed either in the cloud or on-premises, SpiraTeam offers a rich set of collaboration and quality assurance tools for project managers and IT professionals who want to take full control of their entire project lifecycle as well as analyze and execute projects effectively. Primary features include resource management, task management, portfolio management, issue management, and file sharing.

Perforce Helix Plan is a real-time planning and project management tool designed to enhance collaboration across teams, offering flexibility in managing projects through various development methodologies such as SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, and more. It allows teams to track work, time, and progress in real time, providing comprehensive visibility and advanced features like capacity planning and project history. The tool integrates with existing workflows and tools, such as Helix Core and Helix ALM, for deeper traceability and smoother operations. With a user-friendly interface that adapts to individual team preferences, Helix Plan helps accelerate planning and decision-making, ensuring faster delivery and greater efficiency across development teams.

Enterprise Architect is an enterprise wide solution to visualize, analyze, model, test and maintain all of your systems, software, processes, and architectures. Enterprise Architect is the ideal platform to help you to stay in control of your workspace, support your colleagues and team, enable collaboration and build confidence within your most complex projects.

We correlate and reconstruct Git, project and release data to provide real-time project insights and team metrics with zero manual updates or developer interruptions. LinearB’s Software Delivery Intelligence platform analyzes hundreds of signals every minute from your Git and project systems to highlight where you can do the most good for your team. Software Delivery Intelligence helps dev teams continuously accelerate delivery by correlating development pipeline data – code, git, projects, CI/CD – to provide visibility, context and workflow automation for every member of the team.

No-code, Automated Continuous Testing. Tricentis Tosca, the #1 Continuous Testing platform, accelerates testing with a script-less, no-code approach for end-to-end test automation. With support for over 160+ technologies and enterprise applications, Tosca provides resilient test automation for any use case. Learn how Tricentis Tosca can help you: - Deliver fast feedback for Agile and DevOps - Reduce regression testing time to minutes - Maximize reuse and maintainability - Gain clear insight into business risk - Integrate and extend existing test assets (HPE UFT, Selenium, SoapUI…)

zipBoard is a visual review and bug tracking tool that helps teams collaborate better by communicating visually. Features like visual annotation and feedback, bug tracking, Kanban/Spreadsheet, etc; help teams do their best work. Integrations with Slack, Jira, Microsoft Teams, LambdaTest help agile teams to add zipBoard to their workflows seamlessly.

codebeamer is an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform for advanced product and software development. The open platform extends ALM functionalities with product line configuration capabilities and provides unique configurability for complex processes. Empower product teams in industrial manufacturing and automotive engineering. Optimize the delivery of complex automotive technology and industrial manufacturing products. codebeamer is a complete lifecycle management solution with all-in-one requirements, risk, and test management capabilities.

We help organizations develop software products by providing Tuleap, the all-in-one Agile and DevOps solution, without vendor lock-in. At Enalean, the software publisher of Tuleap, we believe that innovation is the sum of collective intelligence and technological intelligence. For more than 10 years, we have been supporting industrial organizations in their digital and agile transformation. Our mission is to give teams the best tools to benefit from collaboration and digital transformation. Our tool helps organizations deploy business agility and achieve the level of technological performance needed to drive society evolution through innovation. We apply Lean and Agile values, both in our software development processes and with our collaborators, both internal and external.

Selectycs is a SaaS platform designed to support technology leaders in digital transformation by offering tools for process optimization, system selection, strategic planning, and user experience management. It helps organizations streamline their IT operations through features like smart SaaS discovery, which identifies duplicate licenses, and capability maps, which define business capabilities for strategic assessments. Selectycs also provides built-in intelligence, a prioritization framework for initiatives, and Gantt charts to visualize timelines. The platform offers integrations with other business tools, aiding in seamless collaboration and decision-making. It’s especially valuable for CIOs, IT managers, and procurement professionals looking to improve technology portfolio management, ensure better project outcomes, and stay ahead of industry trends through automated and insightful planning.

Nimble project management software is a powerful tool that enables organizations to streamline their work processes and enhance productivity. With its collaborative and AI-powered features, Nimble empowers teams to effectively manage projects and achieve their goals. The software offers a unified platform for seamless team collaboration and task management. It provides comprehensive project analytics and customizable reports, allowing teams to gain valuable insights and make data-driven decisions. Nimble also optimizes resource allocation, ensuring efficient project execution.

Kovair ALM is an integrated, collaborative, and mouse click-configurable platform that offers holistic capabilities to all phases of Application Lifecycle Management including Project Management, Requirements Management, Development, and Testing & Quality Assurance. Powered by capabilities like end-to-end traceability and real-time reporting using the data from all phases of the lifecycle, Kovair ALM provides a Single Source Truth for all users involved in each of the lifecycle phases. Kovair ALM with capabilities like task-based workflow coupled with notification and business rules, enables organizations to implement and enforce centralized governance across all the phases of a project lifecycle. This leads to the elimination of manual handoffs between teams, cost reduction, process automation across various lifecycle phases, and enhanced product quality by ensuring compliance with different industry standards. Check Value Propositions for the Kovair ALM Platform.

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) is a comprehensive end-to-end engineering solution that stands at the forefront of the market, seamlessly guiding you from requirements to systems design, workflow, and test management, extending the functionality of ALM tools for better complex-systems development. By adopting an end-to-end view across the entire product lifecycle, enabling a digital foundation for data traceability, you can more easily track changes to minimize risk and reduce costs. Conquer complexity from design to execution, unite teams through digital thread, leverage modelling and reuse, harness insights from automated reporting, and confidently operate at scale laying the foundation for innovation. The bi-directional data in the digital thread will enable functional, software, mechanical, and electrical engineering domains with a single source of truth.

Rally is an enterprise-class platform that’s purpose-built for scaling agile development practices. Power your organization with enterprise agility. In order to make faster and smarter decisions, your development work needs to align to your company's most important business objectives. Align daily work to strategy and leverage data to steer your business towards an outcomes-oriented culture. Rally serves as a central hub for teams to collaboratively plan, prioritize and track work on a synchronized cadence. Teams can visualize their work in the form of lists, boards or timeline views, and more importantly—they can understand how their day-to-day work aligns to the greater goals of the business. Do you struggle to manage dependencies and risks across multiple teams or delivery groups? Rally provides comprehensive roll-ups of progress, dependencies, alignment and plan health—so teams and groups can make intentional decisions and stay ruthlessly focused on value.

The SoftExpert Suite is a comprehensive solution designed to address critical business excellence challenges through an integrated multi-application environment. It offers a suite of interconnected components that can be scaled and expanded as business needs evolve, allowing for the incorporation of new functions. The suite aims to facilitate collaborative problem-solving and improve business performance by providing tools for corporate governance, risk management, compliance programs, and continuous business process improvement.