The fifth and final piece to the Improved Application Development series is now available. This one looks at testing your application before the next phase of development or release. Here’s the abstract: Testing is a vital part of any development …

Part 4 of the Improved Application Development series, which covers a development from end-to-end using Rational tools is now available. Written by Nate Schutta, it concentrates on extending the application to work on the web, using the powerful f…

The next article in the Improve application development series is now up at the IBM site. This follows on from Part 2, written by Nate Schutta, and moves on to managing the project now that the application is being developed and the you start gett…

My latest Rational piece is up on the IBM site. This is an update of the series I co-wrote last year on using a suite of Rational tools for your development projects. The latest series focuses on the new Rational Application Developer and Rational…

This tutorial, the final of a five-part series, focuses on the role of software testing during application development. Testing is a vital part of any development process, and to perform adequate testing you need not only to identify faults but al…

The focus of this third tutorial in the Improved application development series is on change management. In this tutorial, you will learn how individual change requests are linked and traced back to the original requirements specification, and how…

Developing applications using the Rational Unified Process is a lot easier if you have the right tools to help you throughout the entire process. The Rational Toolset provides a range of tools that can be employed to help produce the application i…

When using the Rational suite of tools to define, develop, and manage your software development you are constantly using the functionality of the Rational Team Unifying Platform to provide the core infrastructure. This provides basic functionality…

Developing an application on a real-time operating system and embedded environment usually requires in-depth knowledge of the embedded environment, even when using the various toolkits available to you. In this tutorial you’ll look at Rational Ros…

Software is based on requirements — the requirements of your clients, team, marketing department and other entities, all of whom send you requests about the features that they would like incorporated into the system. But how do you track all of t…