Embarcadero Technologies has a solution to the problem of tracing where data comes from and goes to within a system. The recently released ER/Studio 8.0 includes the new Visual Data Lineage, which is designed to help architects and modellers deal with consolidation, integration and compliance issues. It offers a visual representation of data lineage within an enterprise, making it possible to conduct an impact analysis between data sources and targets, as well as to visually analyse and document data flow without having to inspect code.

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A R C H I T E C T U R E N E W S – in association with
Save the dates Automate testing
It’s the time of year for marking out with TestDrive
blocks in the planner, so it’s worth noting
that Software Architect 2009 has a TestDrive 6 is the latest version of Original
new slot – 29th September to 1st October. Software’s “visual-layer” software test
However, you don’t have to wait until automation tool. Support for Java, Oracle
then for a relevant conference – Forms and 3270 Mainframe applications
DevWeek 2009, being held this year at are added to its supported technologies,
the Barbican Centre, takes place from conference workshops on architectural which includes .NET, Ajax, Web 2.0 and
23–27 March and has a track dedicated to topics that can be booked separately – Lotus Notes. It now claims to deal better
architecture, with sessions presented by subject to availability. with heterogeneous application
Kevlin Henney, Simon Brown, Neal Ford, There’s even time to claim an architectures and infrastructures using a
Kevin Jones and Dave Wheeler on topics early booking discount by reserving mix of technologies such as Java, SOA,
including design patterns, refactoring and your place by 27 February. Web and Packaged application forms.
unit testing. There are also pre- and post- I www.devweek.com I www.origsoft.com
Follow the data
Embarcadero Technologies has a solution to the problem of
tracing where data comes from and goes to within a system. The
recently released ER/Studio 8.0 includes the new Visual Data
Lineage, which is designed to help architects and modellers deal
with consolidation, integration and compliance issues. It offers a
visual representation of data lineage within an enterprise,
making it possible to conduct an impact analysis between data
sources and targets, as well as to visually analyse and document
data flow without having to inspect code. TeamCity version 4.0
Other new features in ER/Studio 8.0 include LDAP
integration, attribute-level submodeling, object-level compare flags TeamCity 4.0 from JetBrains is the latest version of an
and support for Sybase IQ 12.5 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. integration server and build management tool for workgroups,
I www.embarcadero.com with special facilities for agile approaches to development. It
offers scalability implemented by a build grid, extensibility via a
Java API, and integration with multiple IDEs, version control
Find flaws in VB code systems and build tools. New in version 4.0 is the introduction
of build chains, which improve performance by breaking down a
Project Analyzer v9 is a single build into multiple parts executed on different build
programming utility that agents in parallel. The agents can also be managed with
reads the source code of a authentication and benchmarks. Automatic test re-ordering can
Visual Basic program to determine a set of tests which are likely to fail and give them
detect errors. It locates priority for subsequent project builds, thus saving time. A redo
unconditional decision command can repeat a build from a particular version control
statements, variable revision. You can also now get statistics for an entire project,
writes that do not execute, and comparative statistics on a single chart. There are new
and missing or integrations, including FxCop and dedicated Rake runner, as
overlapping Case well as improvements for old ones such as MSTest and Eclipse
branches. It also verifies enumeration constants and warns in general. The user interface has also been improved with
where a number is possibly used in its place. It watches for risky project overviews and individual test statistics. The free
syntax, such as hard-coded path names or octal numbers. It also professional edition is restricted to 20 build configurations, and
catches hazardous variable choices, forgotten or almost unused three build agents.
code, and brittle declarations. I www.jetbrains.com/teamcity
In addition to revealing existing bugs, Project Analyzer
decreases the likelihood of writing new bugs by recommending
For all the latest architectural news, plus dozens of in-depth
improvements such as safer declaration keywords. A set of class articles on a wide range of topics, details of forthcoming
design rules help enforce consistent programming style. It also events, a list of architectural training courses in the UK, and
documents VB projects with source code print-outs, reports, other useful resources, visit the ITarchitect web site.
diagrams and software metrics.
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