16 Days Ago - GUIdancer 3.2, the latest version of flagship automated GUI testing tool from Bredex, now "officially" supports Windows 7 and Vista, and includes additional enhancements to its library of pre-built test actions. It began shipping on Nov. 3. Before you decide that US$5785 is too much to pay for an... (Read More)

33 Days Ago - One way to become the "ultimate" of something is to simply declare it. JetBrains, maker of the IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE, on Thursday began previewing IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition, the latest version of its commercial integrated development environment for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. The "ultimate"... (Read More)

Oct 7th, 2009 - With the release of Ingres Database 9.3 today, the company says it's now easier for developers to migrate their application to the open source system from MySQL, Oracle,SQL Server and Sybase. It does so, the company said, through "improved accessibility of table procedures from within the query"... (Read More)

Nov 5th, 2008 - Attention marketing professionals: Sending cute toys along with press releases is a good way to get me to notice them. I received a package today from Actuate, which makes RIA and business intelligence tools. In addition to news about BIRT-based Actuate 10, which I’ll get to in a minute, the... (Read More)

Oct 23rd, 2008 - Research In Motion yesterday released new versions of its BlackBerry development tools, including the BlackBerry Java Development Environment (JDE) Plug-In for Eclipse Beta 2 that's better integrated with the open-source IDE, can perform pre-processing for builds and receives updates through the... (Read More)

Sep 27th, 2008 - Apple this week released an update to its Java Virtual Machine, taking users of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard to 1.6.0_07. Depending on your operating system, the patch fixes as many as 27 bugs, and chances are pretty good that you'll benefit. There are separate updaters for Tiger and... (Read More)

Jul 26th, 2008 - GUIdancer 2.2 Automates Failure Retires If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Such is the way of GUIdancer 2.2, the latest version of the function-test automation tool from Bredex, which began shipping yesterday. The keyword-driven tool for Java (Swing, SWT and RCP) and HTML can now... (Read More)

Jun 26th, 2008 - If you’re looking for low-cost GUI-test automation for Java, Qt, Mac OS X and Web applications, here’s a product you might find useful. Have you heard of Squish? It’s an automated function-testing tool from Froglogic. Released today was Squish 3.4, adding support for the May release of Trolltech’s... (Read More)

Jun 16th, 2008 - It’s like TiVo for Java EE apps. At least, that’s what Replay Solutions says about ReplayDirector for Java EE, which began shipping today. According to claims, it’s unlike other software playback/record products because it virtualizes the execution environment and records not only code, but also... (Read More)

May 28th, 2008 - SourceLabs is like the L. Ron Hubbard for the software community; it makes a living on developers in need of self-help. The company today added Eclipse projects to Self-Support Suite, its support tool and service for Java and Linux developers. The suite now counts the copious creations of the... (Read More)

May 7th, 2008 - It was the belle of the ball stumbling as she made her grand entrance. Sun Microsystems on Tuesday, hoping to make a big splash at JavaOne with the launch of its shiny new platform for rich internet application development, saw demos of JavaFX repeatedly crash. Like blaming it on the red... (Read More)