Micro Focus Rolls Out New Generation Developer Tools

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Micro Focus has announced four new product releases as part of the launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

Micro Focus has announced four new product releases as part of the launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. The new products, Micro Focus Visual COBOL, Micro Focus Silk4Net, Micro Focus DevPartner Studio and Micro Focus Analyzer Express, enable customers to develop, analyze and test for the highest quality code, greatly simplifying the tasks and challenges faced by application developers. All of these products are fully integrated with Visual Studio 2010, and are being showcased at Microsofts launch events in Bangalore and Las Vegas and in launch activities in other major cities worldwide.

With this announcement, Microsoft and Micro Focus enable a combined development, testing, analysis and deployment solution to help broaden user options and evolution for business-critical applications across platforms, said Melinda Ballou, program director for the Application Lifecycle Management Service at IDC, a leading research and advisory company headquar

tered in Framingham, Massachusetts.

At a time when many organizations struggle with inadequate quality and development resources, the cost saving potential and increased efficiency across teams and across disparate platforms is key. This can help users to improve and evolve legacy and emerging new applications quickly and at lower cost, leveraging a platform that integrates these Micro Focus products with the new capabilities of VSTS 2010, including tighter Sharepoint and Microsoft Project 2010 integration, added Ballou.

We are excited to launch our next generation developer tools in India. These new Micro Focus products, closely integrated with VS2010, will enable our customers, global application development centers and testing factories in India, to deliver higher quality solutions with increased productivity&efficiency. From maintenance and modernization of COBOL applications and UI, to application insight for improved code quality and eff

ective test automation, these tools will add significant value at every step to the developer community in India, commented Ashish Masand, Country General Manager, Micro Focus India.

Micro Focus Visual COBOL enables developers to exploit existing enterprise applications on the Microsoft platform. The millions of organisations that continue to rely on COBOL-based applications to run their business now have a low-risk opportunity to take advantage of Visual Studio 2010 without the need for rewriting their applications.

Micro Focus Silk4Net, the proven choice of QA professionals for powerful, functional and regression test automation, brings the best test automation capabilities to Visual Studio 2010. It achieves the benefits that have been sought after with test automation for many years and are now demanded in Agile transformations.

Micro Focus DevPartner Studio enables developers to debug, analyze, test and tune applications and

will deliver enhanced visibility into the inner workings of applications being developed within Visual Studio 2010.