Borland Introduces Software 'Simulator'

May 28, 2009

Borland Software, which earlier this month announced it was being acquired by Micro Focus, announced today the release of Borland TeamDefine, a simulation tool for business analysts to create working models of basic software designs.

The problem for many development projects, as David Wilby, senior vice president of products noted, is that many projects start without really testing the behavior, and the later you get into the development cycle, the more expensive it becomes to make changes when users realize the app doesn't do what they want.

"Almost every analyst report I look at seems to be in rigorous agreement that poorly written requirements are the root of all evil," he told InternetNews.com. "However, we seem to be doing an equally shoddy job of fixing that problem."

Borland found that customers had to rewrite about 35 percent of an application on average due to poor requirements that could have been caught much earlier. The sooner a design flaw is found, the cheaper it is. Wilby said it can cost around just $150 to fix a problem in the earliest stages of defining an app, but $14,000 to change it when the app is at the deployment stage....

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Source: Internetnews.com