IBM Rational quality management provides a full set of software delivery process guidance, best practices and integrated tools, supporting a broad range of heterogeneous applications to help testers and software quality teams to achieve improvements in cost efficiency, quality metrics and time-to-value for business-critical projects.

Our solutions enable teams to build quality and security capabilities into their products, using automation capabilities to accelerate discovery and diagnosis, ensuring clean communication between the business, development, quality assurance and IT operations. These offerings are optimized to provide actionable development asset traceability, accelerated problem determination, and early detection of postdeployment availability risks. IBM Rational quality management products provide:

• Single integrated software quality management platform for improved reliability, predictability and team efficiency across the software lifecycle
• Superior functional testing with test automation and data sharing for streamlined, efficient test execution
• Integrated traceability of business, functional requirements, use cases, and SLAs for accurate test case planning
• Integrated web application security and compliance testing

IBM Rational AppScan:

a leading suite of automated web application security solutions that scan and test for common Web application vulnerabilities. Unlike other solutions that inundate users with vulnerability data, AppScan provides intelligent fix recommendations and advanced remediation capabilities, such as comprehensive task lists necessary to fix vulnerabilities uncovered during the scan and improve an organization’s overall security posture.

IBM Rational Policy Tester:

Rational Policy Tester automates website privacy, quality and accessibility reviews to help identify issues impacting compliance and site effectiveness. Policy Tester facilitates faster remediation of issues so you can maintain compliance and foster customer confidence and improves visitor experience by exposing issues that may be impacting site usability. It also facilitates compliance with federally-regulated guidelines and accessibility best practices.

IBM Rational Functional Tester Plus:

A functional and regression testing solution bundle that allows teams to test a wide variety of software applications, including Java, web, web-services, .NET and thick client technology-based applications.

IBM Rational Functional Tester:

An advanced, automated functional and regression testing tool for testers and GUI developers who need superior control for testing Java, VS.NET™ and Web-based applications.

IBM Rational Robot:

A testing tool for centralized QA teams who want to automate the functional and performance testing of applications based on a variety of client/server GUI technologies.

IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality:

A functional and regression testing tool that enables the creation, comprehension, modification and execution of testing GUI-less Web services.

IBM Rational® Performance Tester:

A performance test creation, execution and analysis tool for teams validating the scalability and reliability of complex e-business applications before deployment.

IBM Rational® Test RealTime:

A crossplatform solution for component testing and runtime analysis, it was designed specifically for those who write code for embedded, real-time, and other types of crossplatform software products.

IBM Rational Manual Tester:

A manual test authoring and execution tool that improves testing quality. Test authoring and execution tool to improve speed, breadth, and reliability of manual testing.

IBM Rational TestManager:

A tool for managing all aspects of manual and automated testing from iteration to iteration.

IBM Rational RequisitePro:

For requirements management RequisitePro is a powerful, easy-to-use, and integrated product for requirements and use case management that promotes better communication, enhances teamwork, and reduces project risk.

For more on IBM Rational Software Quality tools, go to www.ibm.com/software/rational/offerings/ testing.html. To download free trials of many of the Rational products described here, visit www. ibm.com/developerworks/downloads.