Application lifecycle management

{{short description|Product management of computer programs throughout their development lifecycles}} {{More citations needed|date=June 2011}} {{Software development process}}

'''Application lifecycle management''' ('''ALM''') is the product lifecycle management (governance, development, and maintenance) of computer programs. It encompasses requirements management, software architecture, computer programming, software testing, software maintenance, change management, continuous integration, project management, and release management.<ref>{{cite news|first=Jennifer |last=deJong |title=Mea culpa, ALM toolmakers say |date=2008-04-15 |url=http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=31952 |work=SDTimes |access-date=2008-11-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110202160045/http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=31952 |archive-date=February 2, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{citation|first=David |last=Chappell |title=What is Application Lifecycle Management? |url=http://www.microsoft.com/global/applicationplatform/en/us/RenderingAssets/Whitepapers/What%20is%20Application%20Lifecycle%20Management.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207012857/http://www.microsoft.com/global/applicationplatform/en/us/RenderingAssets/Whitepapers/What%20is%20Application%20Lifecycle%20Management.pdf |archive-date=December 7, 2014 }}</ref>

== ALM vs. Software Development Life Cycle ==

ALM is a broader perspective than the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which is limited to the phases of software development such as requirements, design, coding, testing, configuration, project management, and change management. ALM continues after development until the application is no longer used, and may span many SDLCs.

== Integrated ALM ==

A research director with research firm Gartner proposed changing the term ALM to ADLM (Application Development Life-cycle Management) to include DevOps, the software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops).<ref>{{cite web|title=Gartner blogpost|date=2011-12-02|url=http://blogs.gartner.com/tom_murphy/2011/12/02/should-we-stop-using-the-term-alm/}}</ref>

== ALM software suites ==

Some specialized software suites for ALM are:

{| class="wikitable" ! Name ! Released by |- | Azure DevOps for Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management | Microsoft |- | Enterprise Architect | Sparx Systems |- | GitLab | GitLab |- | Helix ALM | Perforce |- |IBM Rational |IBM |- | JIRA | Atlassian |- | Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management | Micro Focus |- | Mylyn | Eclipse Foundation |- | Parasoft DTP | Parasoft |- | Protecode System 4 | Protecode |- | PTC Integrity | PTC |- | Pulse | Genuitec |- | Rocket Aldon | Rocket Software |- | SAP Solution Manager | SAP |- | StarTeam | Borland |- | TeamForge | CollabNet |- | Tuleap | Enalean |}

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== Further reading == *{{cite book|title=Application Management: Challenges - Service Creation - Strategies|first1=Frank|last1=Keuper|first2=Christian|last2=Oecking|first3=Andreas|last3=Degenhardt|first4=Gabler|last4=Verlag|year=2011|isbn=978-3-8349-1667-9}} *{{cite book|first1=Walter|last1=Linnartz|first2=Barbara|last2=Kohlhoff|first3=Gertrud|last3=Heck|first4=Benedikt|last4=Schmidt|title=Application Management Services und Support|publisher=Publicis Corporate Publishing|year=2004|isbn= 3-89578-224-6}} *{{cite web|title=Gartner Market Scope for ALM 2010|url=http://www.gartner.com}} *{{cite book|title=Agile Application Lifecycle Management|first1=Michael|last1=Hüttermann|publisher=Manning|year=2011|isbn= 978-1-935182-63-4}}

==External links== * Chappell, David, [https://web.archive.org/web/20141207012857/http://www.microsoft.com/global/applicationplatform/en/us/RenderingAssets/Whitepapers/What%20is%20Application%20Lifecycle%20Management.pdf What is Application Lifecycle Management?] (PDF), archived from the [http://www.microsoft.com/global/applicationplatform/en/us/RenderingAssets/Whitepapers/What%20is%20Application%20Lifecycle%20Management.pdf original] (PDF) on December 7, 2014 * Gartner Analyst Sean Kenefick, [https://www.gartner.com/doc/1942914/market-profile-application-life-cycle Market Profile: Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) Tools, 2012] * Margaret Rouse, [http://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/definition/application-lifecycle-management application lifecycle management (ALM)] * Dave West, [https://www.infoq.com/articles/Integrated-ALM Integrated ALM Tools Are Fundamental to Success] * Dominic Tavassoli, [http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Integrating-application-lifecycle-management-ALM-processes-provides-additional-benefits Integrating application lifecycle management (ALM) processes provides additional benefits] * Zane Galviņa1, Darja Šmite, [http://www.bjmc.lu.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/lu_portal/projekti/bjmc/Contents/770_1.pdf Software Development Processes in Globally Distributed Environment]

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