Tool links

The tools listed here are tools related to the software development process. This is not a complete list and not all these products have been used by processwave, its simply here to help you locate tools for the trade. They are also in no specific order.

Icon Tool Link Short description
Gatherspace.com

Gatherspace.com is a powerful fully hosted requirements management and use case tool for managing and sharing software requirements. You will be free to focus on your requirements, and not worry about infrastructure, maintenance, and upgrades.

Select Process Director Select Process Director provides an effective approach to researching and deploying software development life-cycles, pragmatically and efficiently on each and every project. Select Process Director is an invaluable process mentoring tool for every team member.

Editors note: We'd call this change Management software.

FozBugs FogBugz helps you make better software by tracking, prioritizing, and coordinating the thousands of small tasks a development team has to do. FogBugz is web based, so everyone on the team always sees the whole picture. Feature requests, customer email, bugs, even high level design discussions are instantly searchable and trackable.
Control ES Control ES The control Enterprise Suite enables the definition, access and management of the disparate information that is required to drive a High Performance organisation.  This consists of the hierarchy of end-to-end processes, the related documents, forms, and links to applications, the resources, the role-based storyboards, and the performance scorecards and corresponding metrics. It is fundamentally about driving end-user adoption of shared best practice, ensuring that no-one has the excuse “I didn’t know what to do, or how well I was doing.”
xProcess xprocess from ivis.com  xProcess is a process improvement environment created to unify agile planning, project execution, and process improvement across the enterprise.
Software Design RealtimeMantra Real-time Mantra highlights the key issues in real-time system design. It also cover real-time design patterns and issues in complex software design. The mantras have been divided into the following categories.
Modelling Tool EventStudio EventStudio bridges this gap by providing advanced constructs for sequence diagram based object modeling and multiple scenario design. This enables developers to explore a large number of success and failure scenarios without the overhead of individually documenting each scenario.
CaseComplete Case Complete helps users create and manage use cases.  Case Complete helps IT professionals improve their requirements development by helping them write better use cases with greater ease. Case Complete also provides structure and support to accelerate learning for those less experienced in preparing use cases.
pragmasystems.com ProcessMax Tool Presentation
  pragmadev.com PragmaDev's Real Time Developer Studio now supports UML diagrams for the development of real time and embedded software. It can be seen as a UML real time profile based on SDL. The tool can generate full code for any RTOS and offers graphical debugging on target.
Graphical Java Workflow Process Editor JaWE is a graphical Java workflow process editor according to WfMC specifications supporting XPDL as its native file format.
Process Director Plus provides an effective approach to defining your software development life cycle, delivering an efficient way of rolling out the process to your projects and closing the 'process improvement' feedback loop. Adaptive, managed processes and rollout means that the benefits of process improvement can be achieved.
CodeBeamer CodeBeamer is a web-based tool platform for analyzing, finding, sharing, and publishing information in local and distributed software development teams. It benefits the whole organization.
Flashline CMEE CMEE is a complete reuse solution. It establishes a central, easily accessed repository of reusable assets. More importantly, it simplifies the process of embedding reuse in the software development lifecycle.
 

HOORA - HAT

 

HOORA is a method for object-oriented analysis, that provides clear guidelines on how to use UML. HAT, the HOORA Analysis Tool, provides direct support for the HOORA concepts, pushing forward the UML tools from drawing support to process support.
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VisualModeler Visual UML Visual UML® is an affordable, easy-to-use yet powerful and full-featured object modeling tool that provides full and comprehensive support for all of the OMG UML™ 1.3 & 1.4  Also includes UML extensions for Business Object modeling, Robustness modeling, Web application modeling (using WAE), XML modeling, and Data modeling/Database design.
SoftModeler SoftModeler has been designed to give you, the Java developer or team leader who is seeking a good and inexpensive UML tool, a solution that will provide you with more useful features for a lower budget. This is not an empty marketing promise: read more about SoftModeler's features below and then check the prices ...
Objecteering Objecteering Software provides software development tools and services that meet the needs of teams who want to take advantage of object technologies such as Visual Modeling with UML™, application code production using technologies such as JAVA, EJB, C++, CORBA, XML and .NET, tests automation and requirements management throughout the software development life cycle.
Mega For over ten years, clients, worldwide, have used MEGA products to capture, analyze and design business processes and more recently IT architectures. Multi-discipline design teams using MEGA for business and IT modeling efforts are supported with a commonly shared MEGA Repository.
Select Component Architect Select Component Architect extends the Select Enterprise technology to provide a scalable design environment for pragmatic business process design, service/component-based design (CBDesign), UML and database design.
Embarcadero Technologies Describe

Embarcadero’s Describe™ provides your software development team with immediate visibility into your source code. The product adds a set of powerful visual tools for manipulating code, all directly within your existing development environment.

J2EE App Server Reviews Welcome to the reviews section on theserverside.com! We are proud to provide the first independent, user run repository for real world J2EE application servers! The community needs real world experiences with application servers, not marketing hype nor flamebait.
MagicDraw MagicDraw is a visual UML modeling and CASE tool with teamwork support. Designed for Business Analysts, Software Analysts, Programmers, QA Engineers, and Documentation Writers, this dynamic and versatile development tool facilitates analysis and design of Object Oriented (OO) systems and databases.
Choosing a Modeling tool Good reference for the things to consider when purchasing a modeling tool.

Rational Rose

UML Modeling tool

Rational XDE

IDE integration for UML modeling of code (J2EE, .NET)

Together Control Centre

J2EE UML Modeling and IDE environment.
OptimalJ Model driven Development Environment for J2EE using Struts framework.
PowerDesigner Enterprise Modeling Tool

WithClass

UML Modeling tool
Visual Paradigm UML

Visual Paradigm IDE

UML Modeling tool

Java IDE

Mind Manager Mind map capturing tool. Comes in various flavours.
Ideogramic UML Interesting tool that captures UML as you draw it on a whiteboard, into a formal UML model on a PC, then projects it over what you have just drawn in a proper UML diagram.
ADONIS The Business Process Management Toolkit
ProVision Workbench product suite
Enterprise Architect UML software tool Enterprise Architect is a comprehensive UML analysis and design tool, covering software development from requirements gathering, thru the analysis stages, design models, testing and maintenance.
EasyBase Executable Modeling User Story Board executable modeling
iUML Executable Modeling Tool Model driven architecture. MDA
CASE Tool Index Case Tool Index Site a little dated, but still has a lot of useful info to explore.
ObjectDomain UML Modeling tool, Roundtrip engineering, XMI import export.
Borland Enterprise Studio Model driven architecture. MDA. eStudio for Windows and Java
  Index of Business Process Modeling tools  
Software Lifecycle Process Management Web based tools for Requirements, Planning, Issue Management.
J2U Reverse engineer Class and Sequence diagrams from java code into XMI for import into Rose.
Artisan Products UML tools with a Real-time bias.
  XML Data Server Vendors A collection of XML Data Server Vendors
  Testing Tools Links A collection of Testing Tools links
  B Toolkit The B-Toolkit comprises a suite of fully integrated software tools designed to support a rigorous or formal development of software systems using the B-Method
SteelTrace - Catalyze Business Process and Use Case Requirements gathering tool.
UMLet UMLet is a Java tool for rapidly drawing UML diagrams
RTM - Requirements Traceability and Management RTM provides tools to manage requirements, structuring them in an organized way so that the project has a solid framework from which to execute the important parts of the project lifecycle.
Telelogic - DOORS Enterprise Requirements Suite (DOORS/ERS) is an enterprise-wide requirements management system that captures, links, traces, analyses and manages information in order to ensure a project's compliance with specified requirements and standards.
StarBase - CaliberRM To help your team develop high-quality enterprise applications, Starbase offers CaliberRM; a collaborative, web-based requirements definition and management system designed to help you gain control of your product development process.
No access to Logo on web 3SL - Cradle Cradle is a comprehensive, user-extensible, multi-user, and multi-project systems engineering environment that provides a robust, proven database structure for concurrent development of large and complex systems.
WebGain - Business Designer WebGain Business Designer™ helps software analysts, developers, project managers, and business unit stakeholders ensure that application requirements for IT projects are captured, approved, and implemented.
ArgoUML Welcome to the homepage of ArgoUML, a java based Freeware cognitive CASE tool. ArgoUML is a modelling tool to help you do your design using UML.
Poseidon Poseidon for UML is a fully-fledged UML CASE tool. It evolved from the Open Source project ArgoUML and turns it to a world class modeling tool. With over 200.000 installations it belongs to the industries most important tools.
  ProjectNucleus  
Intraspect Intraspect combines the best of enterprise collaboration and knowledge management, enabling organizations to support their existing business processes:
  • With cross-functional teams, inside and outside the firewall
  • Across corporate boundaries to customers, partners, and suppliers
  • Through email
  • VaSoftware - SourceForge Your business depends on building better software faster. SourceForge Enterprise Edition is the Development Intelligence solution that will help you align application development with business goals.      FAQ's
    SourceForge Enterprise Edition provides a unified development environment for managing code, content and process. SourceForge delivers Development Intelligence by combining collaborative development tools with the ability to track, measure and report on software project activity in real time.
      ISO 9000 Gap Analysis tool  
    BuildForge buildForge was designed by build engineers to address the specific needs of build process management and automation in real-world software development environments. buildForge integrates smoothly with your existing source control tools and processes, leveraging your existing investment.
    BORE http://www.adaptiveprocesstechnology.com/
    SLATE Provides the means of taking requirements, systems engineering and product knowledge to the enterprise. We accomplish this through Computer-Aided System Design Groupware aimed at the front-end/conceptual part of the development process.

     

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