Fourth Application Life Cycle Management Study
September 2007

(With comparisons to the 2003, 2005 and 2006 studies)

Methodology

An e-mail was sent to 20,000 randomly selected subscribers to SD Times inviting them to participate in a study on change/configuration management, defect tracking and build management. Excluding bounces, the net number of surveys delivered was 19,753. No incentive to fill out the survey questionnaire was used.

The purpose of the study was to ascertain the use of Application Life Cycle Management software, which features were most valuable to respondents, and to measure awareness of companies in the market. The study was e-mailed on September 6, 2007, and cut off and tabulated by BZ Research on September 17, 2007. A total of 513 subscribers, or 2.6% of the respondents, completed the survey, although not all of them answered every question.

BZ Research designed, conducted and tabulated the study. BZ Research is a division of BZ Media, publisher of SD Times.

Table of Contents

Question 1. How many people are involved in software development at your entire company?

Question 2: How many programmers testers and others are involved on the software/applications development team(s) that you work on or manage?

Question 3: How many lines of code are in the LARGEST software program your team is writing or maintaining?

Question 4: How many people are TYPICALLY involved in a specific software development project at your company?

Question 5: How many people are involved in the LARGEST software development project at your company?

Question 6: What kinds of change/configuration management/build management systems do you use at your company?

Question 7: On a scale of 1 to 4, with 1 being not important and 4 being very important, how important are the following features and characteristics when evaluating a change management/configuration management/version control system?

Question 8: Do you have any comments about your priorities, requirements and concerns with change management, configuration management and version control systems?

Question 9: Which of the following change/configuration management and version control solutions DO YOU HAVE AT YOUR COMPANY?

Question 10: Which of the following change/configuration management and version control companies HAVE YOU HEARD OF?

Question 11: Do you use build management solutions at your company?

Question 12: On a scale of 1 to 4, with 1 being not important and 4 being very important, how important are the following features and characteristics when evaluating a change build management solution?

Question 13: Do you have any comments about your priorities, requirements and concerns with build management servers or tools?

Question 14: Which of the following build management solutions DO YOU HAVE AT YOUR COMPANY?

Question 15: Which of the following build management companies HAVE YOU HEARD OF?

Question 16: What type of bug/defect/issue tracking systems are currently used by your development team(s)?

Question 17: On a scale of 1 to 4, with 1 being not important and 4 being very important, how important are the following features and characteristics when evaluating a bug/defect tracking system?

Question 18: Do you have any comments about your priorities, requirements and concerns with bug/defect/issue management systems?

Question 19: Which of the following bug/defect/issue tracking solutions DO YOU HAVE at your company?

Question 20: Which of the following bug and defect tracking companies HAVE YOU HEARD OF?

Question 21: Do you use requirements management solutions at your company?

Question 22: On a scale of 1 to 4, with 1 being not important and 4 being very important, how important are the following features and characteristics when evaluating a requirements management system?

Question 23: Which of the following requirements management solutions DO YOU HAVE at your company?

Question 24: Which of the following requirements management companies HAVE YOU HEARD OF?

Study #4807 costs US$1,495 without verbatims, or $1,795 with verbatims.