Efficient Software Project Management is an integral & important requirement for any successful software project execution. While many tools promise to deliver software project management capabilities, few tools & teams succeed.
Janet Gregory in her article “What Programmers Have to Know About Testing” highlights the things that developers can do to greatly streamline software testing and deliver quality software.
IndicThreads.com invites submissions for the 1st IndicThreads.com International Conference On Software Quality to be held on 5th and 6th March 2010 in Pune, India. The conference is an independent event on software quality & testing and is the place to be, to learn the latest in the software testing & software QA world while meeting with like-minded individuals from across the industry. 
Update Feb 2010 – The call for papers is now closed. Please visit http://q10.indicthreads.com/ for conference, sessions & speakers info.
The 4th IndicThreads.com Conference On Java was held on 11-12 Dec 09 in Pune. While Java software today is being used more widely than ever before, there are also a number of questions that are being asked of Java. Inline with the state of Java today, the theme for conference 09 was “Turning The Corner”. Thank you to all the delegates, speakers, sponsors & partners of IndicThreads for their support & participation.
CAST has announced Appamarq which is claimed to be the software industry’s first application quality benchmarking repository. Designed to help organizations manage their application software quality to reach both operational and business goals, the Appmarq database contains software quality statistics, trend data and best practices collected from a number of industry sectors and geographies.
SparkBuild, a free software build tool claims to make developer builds up to ten times faster. SparkBuild helps developers overcome the challenges inherent in build avoidance techniques and makes debugging faster and easier. It is free for both commercial and non-commercial projects.


