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We want our software products to be better. But, we want developers to progress and improve themselves as well. Quality must be reflected in the way developers think, solve problems, design, and write code. These skills require both awareness of internal quality and the extensive knowledge and experience needed to achieve it.
We need a method that helps identify and fix code quality problems as soon as possible, but also teaches developers how to work better and achieve quality to begin with. We need a method that will help us nurture professional software developers.
The following software products were chosen by Quality Aspect to promote quality and productivity in software development:
| Buzan's iMindMap |
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Buzan's iMindMap™ enables you to apply Tony Buzan’s ground breaking Mind Mapping techniques to any specific working or business situation. It can fulfil a strategic role by giving a clear overview of complex circumstances affecting your business and outlining company wide priorities and agendas. On a more practical level, it can help individual employees to manage their workload, plan meetings and presentations and solve the toughest of business dilemmas. To download a 7 day free trial so you can try it yourself, just click on the image above. |
| Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Preferred by Nuance |
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 is the most accurate speech recognition product Nuance has ever developed - delivering up to 99% accuracy! No other product delivers the power, accuracy and ease-of-use that make Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Preferred the ideal solution for the PC enthusiast or home office user! Talk to your computer and your words instantly and accurately appear in Microsoft® Word and Excel®, Corel® WordPerfect®, and virtually all Windows®-based applications. Listen to incoming e-mail and documents read aloud. Search the Web by speaking URLs and links. Use dictation shortcuts that enable you to insert blocks of texts or bitmaps-such as your name, title, and signature-with a single voice command. Dictate directly into a PC or any Nuance-approved handheld digital recorder. A noise canceling microphone is even included. Now is the time to use the power of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Preferred, and forever improve the way you work with your PC. |
| @task by AtTask Inc. |
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@task is the most effective project management software for your enterprise. With @task, you can centrally manage all your projects, tasks, resources, documents, and issues across the organization. And, as a web-based solution, you can collaborate on and access your project information just about anywhere. Could your company use a boost with better project management? One Fortune 500 company has achieved a 25% increase in "on-time" projects by utilizing @task. For more information about @task, visit www.attask.com. |
| SDE Professional Edition for Eclipse by Visual Paradigm |
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Developing and modeling in Eclipse leads to increased productivity
and streamlines your entire model-code-deploy software development process. |
| Clover for Eclipse by Cenqua |
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With Clover you can quickly find out exactly what your testing
actually tests. |
| Copernic Agent Professional |
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| Altova DiffDog 2005 Professional Edition |
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Altova DiffDog 2005 Professional Edition is the developer's dedicated differencing utility. This powerful, easy-to-use synchronization tool quickly compares and merges source code and text-based files, folders, and directories via its straightforward visual interface. Uniquely, it also provides advanced XML-aware differencing and editing capabilities based on those popularized in Altova XMLSpy. DiffDog 2005 integrates with any version control system that supports external differencing applications. For optimal efficiency, you can edit content directly within its differencing display, merge changes, and instantly re-compare the edited files. Intelligent syntax-coloring, line numbering, indentation guides, folding margins, and other innovative features are provided to assist in comparing source-code and XML files. |
| ActiveWords Plus! |
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| activePDF Composer |
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activePDF Composer is an affordable tool that enables you to easily create PDF files by simply printing to the Composer printer. Built-in optimized configurations and enhanced settings for Microsoft Office applications take the guesswork out of PDF creation, while powerful features such as 40 and 128-bit encryption and customizable output options make Composer the reliable alternative for high-quality PDF creation. |
| Source Insight by Source Dynamics |
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Source Insight™ is a project-oriented program editor and code
browser, with built-in analysis for C/C++, C#, and Java programs. Source Insight parses
your source code and maintains its own database of symbolic information dynamically
while you work, and presents useful contextual information to you automatically. |