Application lifecycle management

Short description: Product management of computer programs throughout their development lifecycles

Software development

Core activities

* Processes
* Requirements
* Design
* Engineering
* Construction
* Testing
* Debugging
* Deployment
* Maintenance

Paradigms and models

* Agile
* Cleanroom
* Incremental
* Prototyping
* Spiral
* V model
* Waterfall

Methodologies and frameworks

* ASD
* DevOps
* DAD
* DSDM
* FDD
* IID
* Kanban
* Lean SD
* LeSS
* MDD
* MSF
* PSP
* RAD
* RUP
* SAFe
* Scrum
* SEMAT
* TSP
* UP
* XP

Supporting disciplines

* Configuration management
* Documentation
* Software quality assurance (SQA)
* Project management
* User experience

Practices

* ATDD
* BDD
* CCO
* CI
* CD
* DDD
* PP
* SBE
* Stand-up
* TDD

Tools

* Compiler
* Debugger
* Profiler
* GUI designer
* Modeling
* IDE
* Build automation
* Release automation
* Infrastructure as code
* Testing

Standards and Bodies of Knowledge

* BABOK
* CMMI
* IEEE standards
* ISO 9001
* ISO/IEC standards
* PMBOK
* SWEBOK
* ITIL

Glossaries

* Artificial intelligence
* Computer science
* Electrical and electronics engineering

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Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the product lifecycle management (governance, development, and maintenance) of computer programs. It encompasses requirements management, software architecture, computer programming, software testing, software maintenance, change management, continuous integration, project management, and release management.[1][2]

## Contents

* 1 ALM vs. Software Development Life Cycle
* 2 Integrated ALM
* 3 ALM software suites
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 Further reading
* 7 External links

## ALM vs. Software Development Life Cycle

ALM is a broader perspective than the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which is limited to the phases of software development such as requirements, design, coding, testing, configuration, project management, and change management. ALM continues after development until the application is no longer used, and may span many SDLCs.

## Integrated ALM

Modern software development processes are not restricted to the discrete ALM/SDLC steps managed by different teams using multiple tools from different locations.[citation needed] Real-time collaboration, access to the centralized data repository, cross-tool and cross-project visibility, better project monitoring and reporting are the key to developing quality software in less time.[citation needed]

This has given rise to the practice of integrated application lifecycle management, or integrated ALM, where all the tools and tools' users are synchronized with each other throughout the application development stages.[citation needed] This integration ensures that every team member knows Who, What, When, and Why of any changes made during the development process and there is no last minute surprise causing delivery delays or project failure.[citation needed]

Today's application management vendors focus more on API management capabilities for third party best-of-breed tool integration which ensures that organizations are well-equipped with an internal software development system that can easily integrate with any IT or ALM tools needed in a project.[citation needed]

A research director with research firm Gartner proposed changing the term ALM to ADLM (Application Development Life-cycle Management) to include DevOps, the software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops).[3]

## ALM software suites

Some specialized software suites for ALM are:

Name  | Released by

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Azure DevOps for Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management  | Microsoft
Endevor  | CA Technologies
Enterprise Architect | Sparx Systems
GitLab | GitLab
Helix ALM | Perforce
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM)  | IBM
JIRA | Atlassian
Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management | Micro Focus
Mylyn | Eclipse Foundation
Parasoft DTP | Parasoft
Protecode System 4 | Protecode
PTC Integrity | PTC
Pulse | Genuitec
Rocket Aldon | Rocket Software
SAP Solution Manager  | SAP
SpiraTeam  | Inflectra
StarTeam | Borland
TeamForge | CollabNet
Tuleap | Enalean
Polarion  | Siemens

## See also

* Application Lifecycle Framework
* Business transaction management
* Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration
* Systems development life-cycle
* Software project management
* Comparison of project management software
* Bug tracking system
* Forge (software)

## References

1. ↑ deJong, Jennifer (2008-04-15). "Mea culpa, ALM toolmakers say". SDTimes. http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=31952.
2. ↑ Chappell, David, What is Application Lifecycle Management?, http://www.microsoft.com/global/applicationplatform/en/us/RenderingAssets/Whitepapers/What is Application Lifecycle Management.pdf
3. ↑ "Gartner blogpost". 2011-12-02. http://blogs.gartner.com/tom_murphy/2011/12/02/should-we-stop-using-the-term-alm/.

## Further reading

* Keuper, Frank; Oecking, Christian; Degenhardt, Andreas; Verlag, Gabler (2011). Application Management: Challenges - Service Creation - Strategies. ISBN 978-3-8349-1667-9.
* Linnartz, Walter; Kohlhoff, Barbara; Heck, Gertrud; Schmidt, Benedikt (2004). Application Management Services und Support. Publicis Corporate Publishing. ISBN 3-89578-224-6.
* "Gartner Market Scope for ALM 2010". http://www.gartner.com.
* Hüttermann, Michael (2011). Agile Application Lifecycle Management. Manning. ISBN 978-1-935182-63-4.

## External links

* Chappell, David, What is Application Lifecycle Management? (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on December 7, 2014
* Gartner Analyst Sean Kenefick, Market Profile: Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) Tools, 2012
* Margaret Rouse, application lifecycle management (ALM)
* Dave West, Integrated ALM Tools Are Fundamental to Success
* Dominic Tavassoli, Integrating application lifecycle management (ALM) processes provides additional benefits
* Zane Galviņa1, Darja Šmite, Software Development Processes in Globally Distributed Environment

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Software engineering

Fields|

* Computer programming
* Requirements engineering
* Software deployment
* Software design
* Software maintenance
* Software testing
* Systems analysis
* Formal methods

Concepts|

* Data modeling
* Enterprise architecture
* Functional specification
* Modeling language
* Orthogonality
* Programming paradigm
* Software
* Software archaeology
* Software architecture
* Software configuration management
* Software development methodology
* Software development process
* Software quality
* Software quality assurance
* Software verification and validation
* Structured analysis

Orientations|

* Agile
* Aspect-oriented
* Object orientation
* Ontology
* Service orientation
* SDLC

Models|

| Developmental|

* Agile
* EUP
* Executable UML
* Incremental model
* Iterative model
* Prototype model
* RAD
* UP
* Scrum
* Spiral model
* V-Model
* Waterfall model
* XP

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Other|

* SPICE
* CMMI
* Data model
* ER model
* Function model
* Information model
* Metamodeling
* Object model
* Systems model
* View model

Languages|

* IDEF
* UML
* USL
* SysML

Software
engineers

* Victor Basili
* Kent Beck
* Grady Booch
* Fred Brooks
* Barry Boehm
* Peter Chen
* Danese Cooper
* Ward Cunningham
* Tom DeMarco
* Edsger W. Dijkstra
* Delores M. Etter
* Martin Fowler
* Adele Goldstine
* Margaret Hamilton
* C. A. R. Hoare
* Lois Haibt
* Mary Jean Harrold
* Grace Hopper
* Watts Humphrey
* Michael A. Jackson
* Ivar Jacobson
* Alan Kay
* Nancy Leveson
* Stephen J. Mellor
* Bertrand Meyer
* David Parnas
* Trygve Reenskaug
* Winston W. Royce
* James Rumbaugh
* Mary Shaw
* Peri Tarr
* Elaine Weyuker
* Niklaus Wirth
* Edward Yourdon

Related fields|

* Computer science
* Computer engineering
* Project management
* Risk management
* Systems engineering

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