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The Quality Aspect Choice

The following software products were chosen by Quality Aspect to promote quality and productivity in software development:

Buzan's iMindMap
 
iMindMap

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
 
Nuance's Naturally SpeakingNuance's Naturally Speaking

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.
 
AtTask - Project Management Software

@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
 
      

Developing and modeling in Eclipse leads to increased productivity and streamlines your entire model-code-deploy software development process.
Keeping in sync between the developer's source code and UML models is a tedious job. Visual Paradigm SDE for Eclipse offers seamless integration of UML modeling tool with the leading Java IDE, Eclipse. Visual Paradigm embeds itself to Eclipse to provide a unified modeling and development environment. SDE for Eclipse offers you following benefits:
Intuitive navigation between code and visual model Powerful UML Report Generators (PDF, HTML, MS Word and OpenOffice) Real-time or on demand, Round-trip incremental model and source code synchronization Superior visual modeling environment Latest and full UML notation support Sophisticated Automatic Diagram Layout Textual Analysis and CRC Card Support

  
Clover for Eclipse by Cenqua
Code Coverage by Clover Supported by Cenqua

With Clover you can quickly find out exactly what your testing actually tests.
Regardless of what kind of testing you use (unit, functional, integration) Clover will show you precisely what statements were executed, the methods that were entered, and which branches were and were not taken. Clover's IDE plugins give you this information without having to leave the IDE. Improve testing quality. Increase Testing Productivity. Find and fix bugs faster.

 
Copernic Agent Professional
 
 
 
Altova DiffDog 2005 Professional Edition
 

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!
 
  
 
 
activePDF Composer
 

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
 

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.
Not only is Source Insight a great program editor, but it also can display reference trees, class inheritance diagrams, and call trees. Source Insight features the quickest navigation of source code and source information of any programming editor.
Source Insight features quick and innovative access to source code and source information. Unlike many other editor products, Source Insight parses your source code and gives you useful information and analysis right away, while you edit.