Best Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Tools
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What are Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Tools?
Software development life cycle (SDLC) tools are software applications that support and streamline the various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle. These tools help manage requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software projects. They enhance collaboration among development teams, automate repetitive tasks, and ensure efficient tracking of project progress. Some common SDLC tools include project management tools, version control systems, integrated development environments (IDEs), and testing frameworks. By utilizing these tools, organizations can improve productivity, reduce errors, and deliver software solutions on time and within budget. Compare and read user reviews of the best Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Jama Connect
Jama Software
Jama Software® is focused on maximizing innovation success in multidisciplinary engineering organizations. Numerous firsts for humanity in fields such as fuel cells, electrification, space, software-defined vehicles, surgical robotics, and more all rely on Jama Connect® requirements management software to minimize the risk of defects, rework, cost overruns, and recalls. Using Jama Connect, engineering organizations can now intelligently manage the development process by leveraging Live Traceability™ across best-of-breed tools to measurably improve outcomes. Our rapidly growing customer base spans the automotive, medical device, life sciences, semiconductor, aerospace & defense, industrial manufacturing, consumer electronics, financial services, and insurance industries. -
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Visure Requirements
Visure Solutions, Inc.
Visure Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider of requirements management tool suites offering a comprehensive collaborative ALM Platform for system engineering industries. Visure’s value proposition is nothing less than the total innovative technology in key functions: standard compliance for safety-critical and business-critical systems. - Requirements and Traceability Management - Test Management - Bug & Issue Tracking - Risk Management - Collaboration Management - Centralized data base, Review/Approval process - Certification Management (Support of many Standard Templates ISO26262, IEC62304, IEC61508, CENELEC50128, DO178/C, FMEA, GAMP5, SPICE, CMMI, etc. + Tool Qualification Package) - Configuration Management, Baselining, History Tracking, Requirements Versioning - Dashboards + Report Customization - Integrated with DOORS, Jama, Siemens Polarion, PTC, Perforce, JIRA, Enterprise Architect, HP ALM, Microfocus ALM, PTC, TFS, Word, Excel, Test RT, RTRT, VectorCAST, LDRA, etc. -
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BrowserStack
BrowserStack
BrowserStack is the world’s largest cloud platform for software testing, with 19 global data centers & 20,000+ real Android and iOS devices that power nearly 1 Billion tests a year. BrowserStack's end-to-end unified testing platform is focused on supporting all genres of testing & operations, from functional testing to visual testing, accessibility testing, performance testing, test observability, API testing, and more. Over 50,000 customers, including Amazon, Paypal, Well Fargo Bank, Nvidia, MongoDB, Pfizer, GE, Discovery, React JS, Apache, JQuery and several others rely on BrowserStack to test their web & mobile apps.Starting Price: $29/month/user -
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SpiraTeam
Inflectra
SpiraTeam by Inflectra is a complete application lifecycle management (ALM) system that allows businesses to manage project requirements, test cases, releases, issues, and tasks in one unified platform. Deployed either in the cloud or on-premises, SpiraTeam offers a rich set of collaboration and quality assurance tools for project managers and IT professionals who want to take full control of their entire project lifecycle as well as analyze and execute projects effectively. Primary features include resource management, task management, portfolio management, issue management, and file sharing.Starting Price: $15.99/month -
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P4 Plan
Perforce
P4 Plan (formerly Hansoft) is a real-time planning and project management tool designed to enhance collaboration across teams, offering flexibility in managing projects through various development methodologies such as SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, and more. It allows teams to track work, time, and progress in real time, providing comprehensive visibility and advanced features like capacity planning and project history. The tool integrates with existing workflows and tools, such as P4 and Perforce ALM, for deeper traceability and smoother operations. With a user-friendly interface that adapts to individual team preferences, Helix Plan helps accelerate planning and decision-making, ensuring faster delivery and greater efficiency across development teams.Starting Price: $28.00/month/user -
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Bamboo
Atlassian
Bamboo offers first-class support for the "delivery" aspect of continuous delivery. Deployment projects automate the tedium right out of releasing into each environment, while letting you control the flow with per-environment permissions.Starting Price: $10 for up to 10 jobs -
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Tosca
Tricentis
No-code, Automated Continuous Testing. Tricentis Tosca, the #1 Continuous Testing platform, accelerates testing with a script-less, no-code approach for end-to-end test automation. With support for over 160+ technologies and enterprise applications, Tosca provides resilient test automation for any use case. Learn how Tricentis Tosca can help you: - Deliver fast feedback for Agile and DevOps - Reduce regression testing time to minutes - Maximize reuse and maintainability - Gain clear insight into business risk - Integrate and extend existing test assets (HPE UFT, Selenium, SoapUI…) -
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zipBoard
zipBoard Tech.
zipBoard is a visual review and bug tracking tool that helps teams collaborate better by communicating visually. Features like visual annotation and feedback, bug tracking, Kanban/Spreadsheet, etc; help teams do their best work. Integrations with Slack, Jira, Microsoft Teams, TestMu AI help agile teams to add zipBoard to their workflows seamlessly.Starting Price: $49/month -
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Visual Expert
Novalys
Visual Expert is a static code analyzer for Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Server T-SQL, and PowerBuilder. Identify code dependencies to modify your code without breaking your application. Scan your code to improve the security, performance, and quality. Perform Impact analysis to Identify breaking changes. Automatically scan your code to detect and fix security vulnerabilities, bugs and maintenance Issues. Implement continuous code inspection Understand the inner workings of your code with call graphs, code diagrams, CRUD Matrix and Object Dependency Matrix (ODM). Automatically generate an HTML Source Code documentation. Explore your code exploration with hyperlinks Compare applications, databases or pieces of code. Improve maintainability. Clean up code. Comply with dev standards. Analyze and Improve DB code performance: Find slow objects and SQL queries, Optimize a slow object, a Chain of calls a slow SQL, Get a query Execution Plan. And much more.Starting Price: $495 per year -
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Diffblue Cover
Diffblue
Diffblue Cover analyzes your existing Java program and writes unit regression tests that reflect the current behavior of the code. The CLI tool works 100% autonomously, configuring itself from your Maven or Gradle environment. By bringing automation to the test-writing process, the CLI tool provides a speed boost for organizations that are working towards achieving DevOps goals like CI/CD. Since it fits into a CI pipeline, the CLI tool protects the whole codebase from regressions by shifting testing left. Diffblue Cover's unit regression tests run fast and verify new code changes immediately, helping users detect undesirable changes in the code’s behavior as early as possible, when they're the quickest, easiest, and cheapest to fix. And tests are automatically maintained, saving teams even more time.Starting Price: Free -
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Codebeamer
PTC
codebeamer is an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform for advanced product and software development. The open platform extends ALM functionalities with product line configuration capabilities and provides unique configurability for complex processes. Empower product teams in industrial manufacturing and automotive engineering. Optimize the delivery of complex automotive technology and industrial manufacturing products. codebeamer is a complete lifecycle management solution with all-in-one requirements, risk, and test management capabilities.Starting Price: $102 per user per month -
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Tuleap
Enalean
We help organizations develop software products by providing Tuleap, the all-in-one Agile and DevOps solution, without vendor lock-in. At Enalean, the software publisher of Tuleap, we believe that innovation is the sum of collective intelligence and technological intelligence. For more than 10 years, we have been supporting industrial organizations in their digital and agile transformation. Our mission is to give teams the best tools to benefit from collaboration and digital transformation. Our tool helps organizations deploy business agility and achieve the level of technological performance needed to drive society evolution through innovation. We apply Lean and Agile values, both in our software development processes and with our collaborators, both internal and external.Starting Price: 23€ per user/month -
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Wabbi
Wabbi
Automatically assign security policies based on project attributes and your risk profile for each application, version, environment, and asset. Then, translate those policies into orchestrated workflows from ticket creation to scheduled scans, approvals and controls – all from one platform. Manage and orchestrate the full lifecycle of vulnerabilities from triggering scans proactively based on SDLC events and schedules, or reactively in response to security events to correlating and consolidating, rescoring based on application risk, and monitoring fix SLAs to ensure no vulnerability falls in the cracks. End-to-end management of the complete application security program as an integrated part of the SDLC ensures continuous security compliance, prioritization, and analysis throughout the lifecycle of the application as your single control point to reduce friction, scale AppSec and improve secure code quality.Starting Price: $8 per user per month -
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Axify
Axify
Axify offers innovative features based on the latest trends and research in software engineering, designed by a development team for development teams. Our algorithm creates accurate delivery estimates based on your team's activity while giving you valuable insights into process issues that may impact delivery times. Quickly see what your teams are working on, how much time is allocated to development activities, and task alignment with corporate objectives. Get all your engineering metrics in one place to make informed decisions, align your development teams, and improve your software delivery processes. By automatically collecting data across your entire software development lifecycle, you'll get a clearer picture of your team's progress, allowing you to prioritize more effectively. Monitor engineering metrics and key performance indicators. Get an overview of resource allocation in your development team.Starting Price: $500 per month -
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P4
Perforce
P4 (formerly Helix Core) is an enterprise-grade version control system designed to manage the complexities of modern software development. It allows teams to store, track, and manage all digital assets—ranging from source code to 3D models—with unprecedented scalability. P4 is ideal for large, distributed teams working on large-scale projects, offering powerful collaboration tools, seamless integrations, and advanced branching capabilities. With strong support for both centralized and distributed workflows, P4 enhances productivity and efficiency, making it a top choice for software, game, and hardware development teams. -
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Perforce ALM
Perforce
A good ALM tool helps the application lifecycle management of your product. The best ALM tools give you end-to-end traceability across your lifecycle. That’s why development teams across industries choose Perforce ALM (Helix ALM). Perforce ALM is a modular suite of ALM tools. You can use this application lifecycle management suite to trace requirements, tests, and issues. Perforce ALM is the best ALM software for application lifecycle management across the entire lifecycle. Together, this suite of ALM software delivers unparalleled traceability. That means you’ll know if requirements have been tested and met, if test runs have passed (or failed), and if issues have been resolved. Plus, if a requirement changes, you’ll know which test cases and issues will be impacted. Perforce ALM makes it easy to create requirements and share requirements documents. You can do requirements reviews and get approvals — all within the software. Plus, you can even reuse requirements across projects. -
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Codacy
Codacy
Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps identify issues through static code analysis, allowing engineering teams to save time in code reviews and tackle technical debt. Codacy integrates seamlessly into existing workflows on your Git provider, and also with Slack, JIRA, or using Webhooks. Users receive notifications on security issues, code coverage, code duplication, and code complexity in every commit and pull request along with advanced code metrics on the health of a project and team performance. The Codacy CLI enables running Codacy code analysis locally, so teams can see Codacy results without having to check their Git provider or the Codacy app. Codacy supports more than 30 coding languages and is available in free open-source, and enterprise versions (cloud and self-hosted). For more see https://www.codacy.com/Starting Price: $15.00/month/user -
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Modelio
Modeliosoft
Use the best modeling techniques adapted to all your business needs. Benefit from a support ensuring the collaboration of people and a range of expertise, with dedicated methodological support. Adapt the platform to your organization (actors and roles, expertise, projects, federated organizations). Store your knowledge in a coherent and standardized repository centralizing all models and documentation. Share information automatically in WEB portals or up-to-date documents. Define the common language adapted to each participant. Organize and manage the repository. Have a software at your disposal that adapts to the load increase or decrease of projects and teams. Have a solution accessible to teams regardless of their geographic location. Permanent support at both the material and functional levels.Starting Price: $422 one-time payment -
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Upsun
Upsun
Upsun, formerly known as Platform.sh, is a cloud application platform designed to give developers production-perfect preview environments on every branch. It instantly clones live data, configuration, and code so teams can eliminate staging drift and accelerate testing and deployment. The platform enhances collaboration by allowing simultaneous development, stakeholder feedback, and rapid iteration without IT bottlenecks. With built-in observability, teams can monitor performance, optimize resources, and troubleshoot issues proactively. Upsun delivers strong security, automated compliance, sustainable hosting, and globally reliable infrastructure backed by 24/7 support. Trusted by major organizations worldwide, it empowers teams to deploy faster, cut costs, and improve development workflows.Starting Price: $10 per month -
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Harness
Harness
Harness is an AI-native software delivery platform that helps engineering teams achieve excellence by automating and streamlining the entire software delivery lifecycle. It enables continuous integration, continuous delivery, and GitOps for multi-cloud, multi-region deployments with increased speed and reliability. Harness simplifies infrastructure as code, database DevOps, and artifact management to improve collaboration and reduce errors. The platform offers AI-powered testing, incident response, chaos engineering, and feature management to enhance quality and resilience. Harness also provides cloud cost management, security testing orchestration, and developer insights to optimize performance and governance. Trusted by leading enterprises, Harness accelerates innovation while reducing manual effort and risk. -
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CodeArts
Huawei Cloud
This software development pipeline builds on Huawei's years of R&D best practices at one stop. These practices are secure and trustworthy across the full process and can facilitate efficiency increase and digital transformation. Huawei's many years of R&D practices, cutting-edge R&D concepts, and leading R&D engineering capabilities. More than 10 out-of-the-box sub-services for the full lifecycle of software development. 20 mainstream languages, frameworks, and environments for seamless application migration to the cloud. Builds in R&D security capabilities, over 3000 code check rules, and support for top 10 languages. Full-lifecycle one-stop CodeArts makes development simpler and more efficient with better quality. Provides agile and efficient development collaboration services, document management, knowledge collaboration, online collaboration, and dashboard report customization for software development teams.Starting Price: $6 per month -
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Polarion ALM
Siemens
Connect teams and projects, and improve application development processes with a single, unified solution for requirements, coding, testing, and release. In legacy software development environments, many different point solutions are used to manage the application lifecycle. As a result, development artifacts are scattered, slowing down collaboration, hindering transparency, undermining integrity and making it difficult to drive innovation. Polarion ALM gives organizations one unified solution that delivers project transparency through real-time aggregated management information. Everyone is aligned around what is being built and why to drive advancement while protecting integrity and compliance. This helps teams respond faster and with better quality to new business opportunities and customer demands. Unlock synergies across all collaborators with 100% browser-based access to a single data source. -
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OpenText Software Delivery Management is a comprehensive platform designed to enhance the DevOps pipeline with integrated planning, continuous integration, test management, and release management capabilities. It enables Agile teams and DevOps toolchains to deliver high-quality software with end-to-end visibility, traceability, and actionable insights. The platform helps embed quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle, from ideation to release, aligning goals with key milestones. It supports transformation from traditional waterfall to scaled Agile and hybrid methodologies, allowing teams to evolve at their own pace. Automation at scale is achieved by managing thousands of continuous integration-driven tests and measuring automation effectiveness. This tool is ideal for organizations aiming to ensure continuous quality and streamline their software delivery process.
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CA Flowdock
CA Technologies
CA Flowdock brings all of your conversations, work items and tools into one place. Prioritize work, solve problems, search and organize across teams, locations and timezones. Real-time team chat for your entire organization. Flows are the heart of Flowdock, they are open spaces for your teams to converse and collaborate. Invite project stakeholders to join your Flow to participate in discussions, see updates from your tools, and receive catered notifications. Within a team Flow, conversations are organized by Threads. Team members can reply to these Threads, keeping topics organized. All conversations are color coded so you can quickly identify a topic and jump back into the conversation. If you need to discuss something confidentially with a member of your team, you can converse privately through our 1:1 Flows. Use the /appear command to activate instant video chat and screen sharing through one of our favorite integrations: Appear.in. The link is available for anyone on your team.Starting Price: $3.00/month -
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BMC Compuware Topaz is a comprehensive suite of modern mainframe development and testing tools designed for greater developer productivity, no matter how old or complex the program. Get modern mainframe development and testing with better visibility and knowledge. A Compuware-commissioned Forrester Consulting study found that 64 percent of mainframe-powered organizations are running over half their mission-critical workloads on the mainframe. Meanwhile, they are only replacing one-third of retiring experts. Given this new reality, it is critical companies adopt a force multiplier that lets their development teams accomplish more with less. The Topaz suite can help mainframe developers at all experience levels quickly understand, update, test, maintain and troubleshoot even the oldest, most complex or most poorly documented systems.
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Kovair ALM
Kovair Software
Kovair ALM is an integrated, collaborative, and mouse click-configurable platform that offers holistic capabilities to all phases of Application Lifecycle Management including Project Management, Requirements Management, Development, and Testing & Quality Assurance. Powered by capabilities like end-to-end traceability and real-time reporting using the data from all phases of the lifecycle, Kovair ALM provides a Single Source Truth for all users involved in each of the lifecycle phases. Kovair ALM with capabilities like task-based workflow coupled with notification and business rules, enables organizations to implement and enforce centralized governance across all the phases of a project lifecycle. This leads to the elimination of manual handoffs between teams, cost reduction, process automation across various lifecycle phases, and enhanced product quality by ensuring compliance with different industry standards. Check Value Propositions for the Kovair ALM Platform. -
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ActiveState
ActiveState
ActiveState provides software development teams with the world's most comprehensive library of secure and trusted open source, over 79 million vetted components across all major language ecosystems (e.g., Java, Javascript, Python, R, Go, etc.), including transitive dependencies and OS-level libraries. By building everything from source, we ensure that every component is what it says it is, contains the fewest amount of vulnerabilities, and is continuously remediated. Companies can consume this open source where and when they need it - through their existing artifact repositories, as container images or managed distributions, or via IDPs. When teams transfer their open source responsibility to ActiveState, developers and security teams break free from the endless cycle of vulnerability management. Developers gain confidence knowing their code will make it to production faster and with less friction. Security gains assurance that policy and compliance standards are met by default. -
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IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) is a comprehensive end-to-end engineering solution that stands at the forefront of the market, seamlessly guiding you from requirements to systems design, workflow, and test management, extending the functionality of ALM tools for better complex-systems development. By adopting an end-to-end view across the entire product lifecycle, enabling a digital foundation for data traceability, you can more easily track changes to minimize risk and reduce costs. Conquer complexity from design to execution, unite teams through digital thread, leverage modelling and reuse, harness insights from automated reporting, and confidently operate at scale laying the foundation for innovation. The bi-directional data in the digital thread will enable functional, software, mechanical, and electrical engineering domains with a single source of truth.
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Nutanix Cloud Manager
Nutanix
A unified solution for providing intelligent operations, self-service and orchestration, security compliance and visibility, and control of cloud costs. Nutanix Cloud Manager brings simplicity and ease of use to building and managing cloud deployments and delivers faster time to value for our customers. Streamline management, deployment, and scale applications with self-service and centralized role-based IT governance. Drive financial accountability and unify security operations with intelligent analysis and regulatory compliance. With a few clicks, IT teams can automate their day-to-day operational tasks. They can build automation and improve operations productivity with ease and confidence with zero coding. When detecting the performance of a VM deviates from its normal behavior significantly, it raises an anomaly alert automatically. There is no configuration needed. -
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Rocket DevOps
Rocket Software
Our DevOps tools enable true end-to-end (CI/CD) for IBM i+ environments. Businesses can extend holistic DevSecOps best practices to the IBM i, pursue innovative experimentation, easily respond to compliance audits, and adapt to the ever-changing expectations of process, technology, or experience. In the face of changing regulations and the increasing threat landscape, Rocket DevOps, is part of Rocket’s Security & Compliance solutions designed to de-risk your modernization through the most robust technology, expertise, services, and support. And, with the unmatched experience of our DevOps services team, you’ll be set up for success quickly, with a customized implementation that works best for your business and the power to take ownership over any future changes. Businesses must respond to customer and market needs regardless of how their IT infrastructures are set up. Customers expect development and IT teams to deliver the applications and environments that help businesses excel.
