Compare the Top Government Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Tools as of April 2025

What are Government Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Tools?

Software development life cycle (SDLC) tools are software applications that support and streamline the various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle. These tools help manage requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software projects. They enhance collaboration among development teams, automate repetitive tasks, and ensure efficient tracking of project progress. Some common SDLC tools include project management tools, version control systems, integrated development environments (IDEs), and testing frameworks. By utilizing these tools, organizations can improve productivity, reduce errors, and deliver software solutions on time and within budget. Compare and read user reviews of the best Government Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Jama Connect

    Jama Connect

    Jama Software

    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.
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    Visure Requirements

    Visure Requirements

    Visure Solutions, Inc.

    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.
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    Visual Expert
    Visual Expert is a static code analyzer for Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Server T-SQL, and PowerBuilder. Identify code dependencies to modify your code without breaking your application. Scan your code to improve the security, performance, and quality. Perform Impact analysis to Identify breaking changes. Automatically scan your code to detect and fix security vulnerabilities, bugs and maintenance Issues. Implement continuous code inspection Understand the inner workings of your code with call graphs, code diagrams, CRUD Matrix and Object Dependency Matrix (ODM). Automatically generate an HTML Source Code documentation. Explore your code exploration with hyperlinks Compare applications, databases or pieces of code. Improve maintainability. Clean up code. Comply with dev standards. Analyze and Improve DB code performance: Find slow objects and SQL queries, Optimize a slow object, a Chain of calls a slow SQL, Get a query Execution Plan. And much more.
    Starting Price: $495 per year
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    Jira

    Jira

    Atlassian

    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.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Visual Studio Code
    VSCode: Code editing. Redefined. Free. Built on open source. Runs everywhere. Go beyond syntax highlighting and autocomplete with IntelliSense, which provides smart completions based on variable types, function definitions, and imported modules. Debug code right from the editor. Launch or attach to your running apps and debug with break points, call stacks, and an interactive console. Working with Git and other SCM providers has never been easier. Review diffs, stage files, and make commits right from the editor. Push and pull from any hosted SCM service. Want even more features? Install extensions to add new languages, themes, debuggers, and to connect to additional services. Extensions run in separate processes, ensuring they won't slow down your editor. Learn more about extensions. With Microsoft Azure you can deploy and host your React, Angular, Vue, Node, Python (and more!) sites, store and query relational and document based data, and scale with serverless computing.
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    Jenkins

    Jenkins

    Jenkins

    The leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project. As an extensible automation server, Jenkins can be used as a simple CI server or turned into the continuous delivery hub for any project. Jenkins is a self-contained Java-based program, ready to run out-of-the-box, with packages for Windows, Linux, macOS and other Unix-like operating systems. Jenkins can be easily set up and configured via its web interface, which includes on-the-fly error checks and built-in help. With hundreds of plugins in the Update Center, Jenkins integrates with practically every tool in the continuous integration and continuous delivery toolchain. Jenkins can be extended via its plugin architecture, providing nearly infinite possibilities for what Jenkins can do. Jenkins can easily distribute work across multiple machines, helping drive builds, tests and deployments across multiple platforms faster.
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    BrowserStack

    BrowserStack

    BrowserStack

    BrowserStack is the world’s largest cloud platform for software testing, with 19 global data centers & 20,000+ real Android and iOS devices that power nearly 1 Billion tests a year. BrowserStack's end-to-end unified testing platform is focused on supporting all genres of testing & operations, from functional testing to visual testing, accessibility testing, performance testing, test observability, API testing, and more. Over 50,000 customers, including Amazon, Paypal, Well Fargo Bank, Nvidia, MongoDB, Pfizer, GE, Discovery, React JS, Apache, JQuery and several others rely on BrowserStack to test their web & mobile apps.
    Starting Price: $29/month/user
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    SpiraTeam

    SpiraTeam

    Inflectra

    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.
    Starting Price: $15.99/month
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    Perforce Helix Plan
    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.
    Starting Price: $28.00/month/user
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    Enterprise Architect
    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.
    Starting Price: $229
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    Tosca

    Tosca

    Tricentis

    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…)
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    Crucible

    Crucible

    Atlassian

    Ship high quality code. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects across SVN, Git, Mercurial, CVS, and Perforce. Create formal, workflow-based, or quick code reviews and assign reviewers from across your team. Turn any code review into a threaded discussion and comment on specific source lines, files, or an entire changeset. Take action on what's important with unified views into your code activity for commits, reviews, and comments. Improve code quality with data on which parts of your codebase have not been sufficiently reviewed. Get a quick view of review status and who might be holding up reviews. Access a complete audit trail with all code review details, down to the history of a specific review. Customize your Jira Software workflow to stop if there are any open reviews. Upgrade your workflow with Jira Software, Bitbucket Server, Bamboo and hundreds of other developer tools.
    Starting Price: $10 one-time payment
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    Bamboo

    Bamboo

    Atlassian

    Bamboo offers first-class support for the "delivery" aspect of continuous delivery. Deployment projects automate the tedium right out of releasing into each environment, while letting you control the flow with per-environment permissions.
    Starting Price: $10 for up to 10 jobs
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    Fisheye

    Fisheye

    Atlassian

    Search, track, and visualize code changes. Visualize and report on activity and search for commits, files, revisions, or teammates across SVN, Git, Mercurial, CVS and Perforce. View changes with a side-by-side or unified diff tool and link your Jira Software issues directly to diffs, changeset details, or full source. Get a graphical representation of activity in your source, report on lines of code over time, and get a visual audit trail of changes. Follow what's happening throughout your projects with activity streams showing commits, Jira Software issues, and Crucible review activities across your team. Find code fast with search using any artifact in your code: file names, commit messages, authors, text, and even historical changes. Browse, index, and search all your source from all your source code management systems including SVN, Git, Mercurial, CVS and Perforce – all in one tool. Upgrade your workflow with Jira Software, Bitbucket Server, Bamboo and more.
    Starting Price: $10 one-time payment
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    Diffblue Cover
    Diffblue Cover analyzes your existing Java program and writes unit regression tests that reflect the current behavior of the code. The CLI tool works 100% autonomously, configuring itself from your Maven or Gradle environment. By bringing automation to the test-writing process, the CLI tool provides a speed boost for organizations that are working towards achieving DevOps goals like CI/CD. Since it fits into a CI pipeline, the CLI tool protects the whole codebase from regressions by shifting testing left. Diffblue Cover's unit regression tests run fast and verify new code changes immediately, helping users detect undesirable changes in the code’s behavior as early as possible, when they're the quickest, easiest, and cheapest to fix. And tests are automatically maintained, saving teams even more time.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Codebeamer
    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.
    Starting Price: $102 per user per month
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    Codacy

    Codacy

    Codacy

    Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps identify issues through static code analysis, allowing engineering teams to save time in code reviews and tackle technical debt. Codacy integrates seamlessly into existing workflows on your Git provider, and also with Slack, JIRA, or using Webhooks. Users receive notifications on security issues, code coverage, code duplication, and code complexity in every commit and pull request along with advanced code metrics on the health of a project and team performance. The Codacy CLI enables running Codacy code analysis locally, so teams can see Codacy results without having to check their Git provider or the Codacy app. Codacy supports more than 30 coding languages and is available in free open-source, and enterprise versions (cloud and self-hosted). For more see https://www.codacy.com/
    Starting Price: $15.00/month/user
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    Modelio

    Modelio

    Modeliosoft

    Use the best modeling techniques adapted to all your business needs. Benefit from a support ensuring the collaboration of people and a range of expertise, with dedicated methodological support. Adapt the platform to your organization (actors and roles, expertise, projects, federated organizations). Store your knowledge in a coherent and standardized repository centralizing all models and documentation. Share information automatically in WEB portals or up-to-date documents. Define the common language adapted to each participant. Organize and manage the repository. Have a software at your disposal that adapts to the load increase or decrease of projects and teams. Have a solution accessible to teams regardless of their geographic location. Permanent support at both the material and functional levels.
    Starting Price: $422 one-time payment
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    ActiveState

    ActiveState

    ActiveState

    ActiveState delivers Intelligent Remediation for vulnerability management, which enables DevSecOps teams to not only identify vulnerabilities in open source packages, but also to automatically prioritize, remediate, and deploy fixes into production without breaking changes, ensuring that applications are truly secured. Existing tools overwhelm DevSecOps teams with excessive vulnerability data, false positives, and a lack of prioritization, often leading to inaction and increased exposure to exploits. ActiveState’s solution provides your DevSecOps with a comprehensive view of open source vulnerability status across your application portfolio, enabling them to prioritize the vulnerabilities that matter, assess the risk of updates, and choose recommended remediation paths based on corporate policies and avoiding breaking changes. We do this by helping you understand your vulnerability blast radius, intelligently prioritize remediations, and precisely remediate what matters.
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    Perforce Helix Core
    Perforce version control — Helix Core — tracks and manages changes to your source code, digital assets, and large binary files. But it does so much more than that. Helix Core helps development teams move faster, even as they develop more complex products. And it provides a single source of truth across development. Contributors can sync their work into Helix Core from the tools they’re already using. Plus, Helix Core can handle everything. 10s of thousands of users. 10s of millions of daily transactions, 100s of terabytes of data. And 10,000+ concurrent commits. It can even deliver files quickly to remote users without the WAN wait. And it can be used on-premises or in the cloud. Spend less time dealing with tools and processes — and more time delivering value. Helix Core ensures that everyone is efficient. You'll get fast feedback, flexibility, and automation for faster builds. Stop wasting your developers’ time with manual workflows — and let them get back to coding.
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    CA Flowdock

    CA Flowdock

    CA Technologies

    CA Flowdock brings all of your conversations, work items and tools into one place. Prioritize work, solve problems, search and organize across teams, locations and timezones. Real-time team chat for your entire organization. Flows are the heart of Flowdock, they are open spaces for your teams to converse and collaborate. Invite project stakeholders to join your Flow to participate in discussions, see updates from your tools, and receive catered notifications. Within a team Flow, conversations are organized by Threads. Team members can reply to these Threads, keeping topics organized. All conversations are color coded so you can quickly identify a topic and jump back into the conversation. If you need to discuss something confidentially with a member of your team, you can converse privately through our 1:1 Flows. Use the /appear command to activate instant video chat and screen sharing through one of our favorite integrations: Appear.in. The link is available for anyone on your team.
    Starting Price: $3.00/month
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    Helix ALM

    Helix ALM

    Perforce

    A good ALM tool helps the application lifecycle management of your product. The best ALM tools give you end-to-end traceability across your lifecycle. That’s why development teams across industries choose Helix ALM. Helix ALM is a modular suite of ALM tools. You can use this application lifecycle management suite to trace requirements, tests, and issues. Helix ALM is the best ALM software for application lifecycle management across the entire lifecycle. Together, this suite of ALM software delivers unparalleled traceability. That means you’ll know if requirements have been tested and met, if test runs have passed (or failed), and if issues have been resolved. Plus, if a requirement changes, you’ll know which test cases and issues will be impacted. Helix ALM makes it easy to create requirements and share requirements documents. You can do requirements reviews and get approvals — all within the software. Plus, you can even reuse requirements across projects.
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    Azure DevOps Projects
    Build any Azure application, on any Azure service, in less than five minutes. Built-in support for popular application frameworks. Automatic full CI/CD pipeline integration. Built-in monitoring with Application Insights. Deployment to the platform of your choice. With DevOps Projects, start running your application on any Azure service in just three steps—simply select an application language, a runtime, and an Azure service. Choose from a variety of languages—including .NET, Java, PHP, Node, Python, Go and others—and many of their popular frameworks. Or deploy your own application hosted on a source control. Run your application on Windows or Linux. Simply deploy to Azure Web App, Virtual Machine, Service Fabric or choose Azure Kubernetes Service for your application. While options are wide-ranging, execution is simple and fast. Get rich performance monitoring, powerful alerting, and easy-to-consume dashboards to help ensure your applications are available and performing.
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