ORLANDO, Fla., May 04, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Borland Software Corporation (www.borland.com), the global leader in Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), today announced that several of its application quality experts have been tapped to share their insights and experiences on the direction of the QA industry at the STAREAST 2009 conference, taking place in Orlando, Fla., May 4-8, 2009. In addition to leading four conference sessions, Borland will present "The Future of Testing: How Testing and Technology will Change," as part of the new STAREAST Test & Quality Leadership Summit.

As an increasing number of enterprises consider the transition to Agile, they face a new set of challenges, including integration of QA teams and processes into new Agile software delivery models. Over the past two years, Borland's distributed development organization has undergone its own transition to Agile. Through this experience, its teams have seen the critical role that automated testing plays in enabling a successful transformation. During this year's STAREAST 2009 and STAR Test & Quality Leadership Summit, Borland's own QA professionals will demonstrate how Borland(R) SilkCentral(R) Test Manager(TM), Borland SilkTest(R) and Borland SilkPerformer(R) support and enable both Agile and traditional testing approaches at booth 9/10/11.

STAREAST 2009 Highlights

-- Wednesday, May 6, 6:30 p.m. ET "The Agile Testing Movement: Are Today's Test Automation Tools Still Relevant?" As software projects transition to Agile there are many QA professionals that have built their careers on commercial test tools. This panel of industry experts will explore and examine all angles of the Agile Testing movement.

-- Scott Barber, PerfTestPlus, Inc.

-- Janet Gregrory, DragonFire, Inc.

-- Joachim Herschmann, Borland, The Open ALM Company

-- Doron Reuveni, uTest

-- Thursday, May 7, 9:45 a.m. ET "Updating Your Testing Methods for Web 2.0" Web 2.0 moves much of the application functionality directly into the browser. While creating a richer user-experience that everyone craves, these technologies pose significant new challenges for testing. Matt Brayley-Berger, Borland's domain specialist, Lifecycle Quality Management, discusses areas that are critical in testing Web 2.0 applications.

-- Thursday, May 7, 11:30 a.m. ET Acceptance Testing Using the Robot Framework and Silk Joachim Herschmann, Borland's director of product management, will cover how Silk4J(TM) can be a powerful multi technology test driver.

-- Thursday, May 7, 1:30 p.m. ET "Improve Your Testing Assets Through Domain Modeling" Just as Agile approaches have made inroads in development, FitNesse is doing the same in acceptance testing. Many testers rely heavily on FitNesse to improve collaboration and communication among the product owners, developers, and testers. Renato Quedas, Borland's domain specialist, Lifecycle Quality Management, will lead a session on FitNesse and the model transformation capabilities of the open-source Eclipse(R) Modeling Technology (EMT).

-- Friday, May 8, 2:45 p.m. ET (STAR Testing & Quality Leadership Summit) "The Future of Testing: How Testing and Technology Will Change" While new approaches like Agile and lean development are rapidly gaining popularity, they pose new challenges and opportunities for software quality. Joachim Herschmann, Borland's director of product management, will explore the ways that these powerful forces result in burgeoning new test technologies and require software leaders to change the way they think about the quality professional role, test technologies and processes. Joachim shares Borland's experience as it undergoes massive changes in its development methodologies and test technologies to prepare it for the future.

To see a Borland product demonstration onsite at STAREAST, visit Borland at booth 9/10/11 or click here to see an online demo.

To learn more about Borland's Agile transformation, and its experiences evolving its QA teams and practices to support Agile, please visit:

-- The Agile Transformation Forum: www.agiletransformationforum.com

-- Borland's Blog: From the Agile Transformation Trenches: http://borland.typepad.com/agile_transformation/

About Borland

Founded in 1983, Borland (NASDAQ: BORL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) is the leading vendor of Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions - open to customers' processes, tools and platforms - providing the flexibility to manage, measure and improve the software delivery process. To learn more about maximizing the business value of software, visit http://www.borland.com.

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