Kovair's new ALM Studio

Kovair announced that it has brought all the key point applications for an
ALM-SDLC implementation in a single package under a single data repository
called the ALM Studio. These include the requirements management, test
management, defect and issue management, release management, risk management and
project management. This is a fully-configured applications suite with best
practices work flows for requirements review and approval, test planning,
development test execution and defects resolution. Additionally, Kovair's
flexible and configurable work flow and the configurable application entities
allow the users to configure it for their specific needs irrespective of the
development methodology they are following, whether it be the traditional
Waterfall, Iterative or Agile.

With Kovair's proven Omnibus bidirectional integration middleware, the ALM
Studio has been integrated for all the popular development IDEs like Eclipse,
Microsoft Visual Studio and the Rational Application Developer allowing the
developers to continue to work in their familiar environments and yet have
complete access to all the artifacts for requirements, test cases and defects
from the ALM Studio. With Kovair's further integrations with its Omnibus for
configuration management tools like Subversion, Clearcase, Perforce and TFS,
developers can trace their source code to requirements and defects providing end
to end traceability.

For testing, the testers can build test scripts in tools like the HP Quick
Test Pro (QTP), the Rational Functional Tester (RFT) and execute them
automatically from the test lab in the Kovair ALM Studio. Any other test
automation tools can also be integrated with the Kovair test lab through the
Omnibus. The ALM Studio comes with multiple types of integrated reporting and
dashboards for key project metrics and status — requirements coverage, release
readiness, quality metrics, defect trends and the project health report. "We
have created an end to end ALM-SDLC solution with all the key capabilities
within Kovair, with further enhancement of the ALM Studio with integrations with
other best of breed tools" commented Atanu Majumdar, VP Engineering, Kovair.

"We are pleased to offer this new and well integrated solution to the market
that will result in increased productivity, improved quality, better process
implementation, high confidence change management and considerably enhanced
management visibility and decision making capability for any enterprise" said
Bipin Shah, CEO and Chairman, Kovair.