ThoughtWorks Studios Announces New Upgrades to Agile ALM Products Twist and Cruise

SAN FRANCISCO AND BANGALORE – September 22, 2009 — ThoughtWorks Studios, a global leader in Agile ALM tools and training, today announced new versions of its Twist test management and Cruise® release management products. Together with Mingle, the leading Agile project management tool, the new versions of Twist and Cruise strengthen ThoughtWorks Studios’ recently launched Adaptive ALM solution that manages all aspects of the Agile development lifecycle.

Major new features of Twist allow developers to manage both manual and automated testing from a single solution, streamlining the entire testing process and eliminating the need for multiple tool sets that lead to errors and stunted productivity. The latest version of Cruise provides the ability to include source control change numbers in build labels, visibility into the available disk space on agents, and a number of performance improvements.

“All of our products support solid engineering practices that are crucial to Agile success and this latest version of Twist addresses the need to manage both automated and manual testing from a single tool,” said Cyndi Mitchell, managing director for ThoughtWorks Studios. “With our new edition of Cruise, developers have improved visibility into the overall release management process and can better manage ‘the last mile’ of the software development and release process.”

Twist is a collaborative testing platform designed to help development teams deliver applications that are fully aligned with business requirements. The new Twist 1.1 extends the ease of creating evolving automated tests to manual testing, thus optimizing the overall testing process. It provides a centralized testing platform to create, execute and maintain all manual and automated test scenarios in one space, allowing teams to debug failing automated scenarios using manual execution and record manual test results. Twist 1.1 also executes any scenario manually and records the results, and supports batch execution of all manual tests in a test suite. Other features include improvements to the Twist Selenium Recorder which now supports recording test assertions, and improved HTML reporting capabilities.

“While a large portion of testing activities can and should be automated, manual testing is necessary for cases like testing visual references and exploratory testing,” said Sudhir Tiwari, vice president of operations for ThoughtWorks Studios. “Using separate tools to create and manage automated and manual tests can lead to chaotic and error-prone test management.”

Cruise provides real-time visibility and control of the build, deploy, test and release process for build teams, testers, developers and management. It helps shorten the feedback cycle, accelerating automation and increasing collaboration over releases to lower the risk and effort associated with releasing complex applications. Cruise 1.3.2 simplifies the release management experience with usability and performance improvements. It provides the ability to more easily correlate builds with the version in source control from which they are derived. It also eases maintenance efforts by monitoring and warning teams of low disk space for agents or pipelines. Additional performance enhancements support installations with more than one hundred agents, and improve scheduling speed for servers handling a large number of pipelines.

About ThoughtWorks Studios
ThoughtWorks Studios is a global leader in Agile ALM tools and training. Its products and services are used by organizations as a foundation for sustainable Agile adoption, where project management, automation and engineering best practices are required. The company’s Adaptive ALM solution provides a platform for managing all aspects of the software development lifecycle, from requirements definition and project management to test automation, quality assurance and release management. The three products that make up Adaptive ALM, Mingle (project management), Twist (test automation) and Cruise (release management), are available as an integrated solution or as stand-alone products. The company also provides in-depth training courses that cover all aspects of Agile ALM through it Agile Workshops series. Backed as an independent division of ThoughtWorks®, the pioneering leader in Agile development and best-practices, ThoughtWorks Studios’ customers include 3M, Honeywell, BBC, eBay, Barclays, Vodafone, McGraw-Hill and Rackspace. It is headquartered in San Francisco and Bangalore, with offices in London and select cities in Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, please visit www.thoughtworks-studios.com.

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