Borland Software Corporation is a market-leading independent software tools vendor. Our business is based on providing customers with effective solutions to their software development and testing problems. This paper describes our Quality Maturity Curve concept, which we believe will enhance the way software delivery organizations go about improving the quality of their development processes and delivered products.

More and more companies are moving to agile software delivery approaches. But agile delivery brings with it a new set of challenges; among them, functional test automation - opinion is divided in the Agile community on the value of automated testing. However the reality is that software teams must manage quality if they are to avoid operational risk. Businesses are encouraged to adopt an agile process that fits their unique needs. Nothing about agile is pre-determined or dictated so it’s no surprise that businesses find it challenging to implement agile as a trusted business process – using tools to automate their agile delivery process is yet another variable that complicates the decisions they must make.

This paper describes how you can use Borland’s Quality Maturity Curve™ (QMC) concept to achieve your quality objectives in an efficient, step-by-step manner. You’ll learn how Borland’s approach to lifecycle quality management (LQM) enables you to determine manageable, achievable, and affordable steps to improving the quality of your development processes and delivered products. Borland is the only vendor with integrated tools and process, a “whole lifecycle” approach to quality, and proven best practices to help you achieve all of your quality management goals.

Businesses don’t wait until a product is almost available to create a strategy for how it will drive revenue. Why then do they wait until the very last moment to ensure the quality of software? This paper examines Lifecycle Quality Management, including its core processes and best practices. It also introduces Borland ® Lifecycle Quality Management (LQM), the first proactive offering to infuse quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle.