Borland Software agreed to buy startup Gauntlet Systems, whose software
should serve as a “virtual sandbox” to verify coding standards in the larger
company’s application lifecycle management (ALM) portfolio.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Prior to entering the build management process in application development,
Gauntlet’s software detects potential problems before they have a chance to
impact developers. The software pre-screens new code against quality
guidelines before it enters the build process.
Such action pares the number of so-called “broken builds” that can impact
team productivity and delay project delivery, Borland said in a statement.
Eventually, Gauntlet’s software will be tailored to enforce standards in
security, licensing, compliance and code readability.
Gauntlet’s software also provides project managers a business intelligence
dashboard.
This software utility tracks project status, code metrics, unit tests, code
coverage trends — all of the things that determine whether a project is
delivered as promised.
Check-in activity, code coverage and test results can be correlated and
analyzed, providing a holistic picture of the entire
software lifecycle. Using these dashboards, managers can also compare
historical trends.
Borland is in the midst of turning around the company after a series of
disappointing earnings quarters.
The company parted ways with longtime CEO Dale Fuller and hired as
CEO industry veteran Tod Nielsen, who cut his teeth at Oracle, BEA Systems
and Microsoft.
Last month, Borland made a major move to fortify its ALM portfolio by acquiring Segue Software.
At the same time, the company announced plans to shed its integrated
development environment (IDE), which includes Borland Developer Studio,
Delphi, C++Builder and C#Builder and JBuilder product lines.
