Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the product lifecycle management (governance, development, and maintenance) of computer programs. It encompasses requirements management, software architecture, computer programming, software testing, software maintenance, change management, continuous integration, project management, and release management.

ALM vs. Software Development Life Cycle

ALM is a broader perspective than the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which is limited to the phases of software development such as requirements, design, coding, testing, configuration, project management, and change management. ALM continues after development until the application is no longer used, and may span many SDLCs.

Integrated ALM

A research director with research firm Gartner proposed changing the term ALM to ADLM (Application Development Life-cycle Management) to include DevOps, the software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops).

ALM software suites

Some specialized software suites for ALM are:

NameReleased by
Azure DevOps for Visual Studio Application Lifecycle ManagementMicrosoft
Enterprise ArchitectSparx Systems
GitLabGitLab
Helix ALMPerforce
IBM RationalIBM
JIRAAtlassian
Micro Focus Application Lifecycle ManagementMicro Focus
MylynEclipse Foundation
Parasoft DTPParasoft
Protecode System 4Protecode
PTC IntegrityPTC
PulseGenuitec
Rocket AldonRocket Software
SAP Solution ManagerSAP
StarTeamBorland
TeamForgeCollabNet
TuleapEnalean

See also

Further reading

  • Keuper, Frank; Oecking, Christian; Degenhardt, Andreas; Verlag, Gabler (2011). Application Management: Challenges - Service Creation - Strategies. ISBN 978-3-8349-1667-9.
  • Linnartz, Walter; Kohlhoff, Barbara; Heck, Gertrud; Schmidt, Benedikt (2004). Application Management Services und Support. Publicis Corporate Publishing. ISBN 3-89578-224-6.
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  • Hüttermann, Michael (2011). Agile Application Lifecycle Management. Manning. ISBN 978-1-935182-63-4.

External links

  • Chappell, David, (PDF), archived from the (PDF) on December 7, 2014
  • Gartner Analyst Sean Kenefick,
  • Margaret Rouse,
  • Dave West,
  • Dominic Tavassoli,
  • Zane Galviņa1, Darja Šmite,