Parasoft SOAtest now includes native support for ISO 8583 messaging, a standard for exchanging financial transaction data between the transaction-acquiring device and the card issuer.

A report from European information technology analysis group Quocirca points to a correlation between outsourcing and being the target of hacking.

Original Software has launched ManualTesting.com, a community site for software quality professionals containing numerous free resources designed to alleviate the burden of time-consuming manual testing on QA departments.

DataDirect has announced mainframe-to-SOA integration support for IBM’s new System z10 mainframe.

An Application Lifecycle Management solution for small and medium-sized teams has been created by combining two existing products.

Embarcadero now has a Linux version of Change Manager that allows developers and database administrators to make database configuration comparisons from a Linux workstation.

Bearpark’s Software Architect conference returns to the Barbican Centre on Tuesday 3rd June with an expanded programme of workshops and breakout sessions.

The Actional SOA 7.1 management product family provides policy-based visibility, security, and control for services, middleware, and business processes.

Salesforce.com has announced Force.com Development-as-a-Service, a new set of development tools and APIs that enable developers to harness the promise of cloud computing.

A new SDK for the Perforce Defect Tracking Gateway enables improved integration between commercial and in-house issue tracking systems, strengthening project management capabilities throughout development.

Visustin v5 from Aivosto supports both automated and manual flowcharting, and reverse-engineers source code into flowcharts.

Built on the Eclipse open-source framework, the integrated design and development environment Sybase WorkSpace 2.0 combines enterprise modelling, database development, data federation, Web application development and services development and orchestration.

Progress Sonic Deployment Manager (SDM) aims to help enterprises streamline incremental development and rollout of large-scale SOA deployments.

Serena Dimensions Express is a new lightweight developer-focused software configuration management (SCM) tool that uses the same technology as Serena Dimensions 10 to facilitate rapid implementation and adoption.

SCA 5.0 is the fifth generation of Fortify’s source code analysis software, incorporating new functionality in the areas of customisation, collaboration and comprehensiveness.