Best Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Tools

Compare the Top Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Tools as of June 2025

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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    Jira

    Jira

    Atlassian

    Jira is the only project management tool you need to plan and track work across every team. Jira by Atlassian is the #1 software development tool for teams planning and building great products. Trusted by thousands of teams, Jira offers access to a wide range of tools for planning, tracking, and releasing world-class software, capturing and organizing issues, assigning work, and following team activity. It also integrates with leading developer tools for end-to-end traceability. From short projects, to large cross-functional programs, Jira helps break big ideas down into achievable steps. Organize work, create milestones, map dependencies and more. Link work to goals so everyone can see how their work contributes to company objectives and stay aligned to what’s important. Your next move, suggested by AI. Atlassian Intelligence takes your big ideas and automatically suggests the tasks to help get it done.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    GitLab

    GitLab

    GitLab

    GitLab is a complete DevOps platform. With GitLab, you get a complete CI/CD toolchain out-of-the-box. One interface. One conversation. One permission model. GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. GitLab helps teams accelerate software delivery from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs, and reduce the risk of application vulnerabilities while increasing developer productivity. Source code management enables coordination, sharing and collaboration across the entire software development team. Track and merge branches, audit changes and enable concurrent work, to accelerate software delivery. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects in code among distributed teams via asynchronous review and commenting. Automate, track and report code reviews.
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    Starting Price: $29 per user per month
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    SpiraTeam

    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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    Azure DevOps Services
    Plan smarter, collaborate better, and ship faster with a set of modern dev services. Use all the DevOps services or choose just what you need to complement your existing workflows. Deliver value to your users faster using proven agile tools to plan, track, and discuss work across your teams. Build, test, and deploy with CI/CD that works with any language, platform, and cloud. Connect to GitHub or any other Git provider and deploy continuously. Get unlimited, cloud-hosted private Git repos and collaborate to build better code with pull requests and advanced file management. Test and ship with confidence using manual and exploratory testing tools. Create, host, and share packages with your team, and add artifacts to your CI/CD pipelines with a single click. Access extensions from Slack to SonarCloud to 1,000 other apps and services—built by the community.
    Starting Price: $6 per user per month
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    LinearB

    LinearB

    LinearB

    We correlate and reconstruct Git, project and release data to provide real-time project insights and team metrics with zero manual updates or developer interruptions. LinearB’s Software Delivery Intelligence platform analyzes hundreds of signals every minute from your Git and project systems to highlight where you can do the most good for your team. Software Delivery Intelligence helps dev teams continuously accelerate delivery by correlating development pipeline data – code, git, projects, CI/CD – to provide visibility, context and workflow automation for every member of the team.
    Starting Price: $15 per dev per month
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    Codebeamer
    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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    Harness

    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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    Sonatype Nexus Repository
    Sonatype Nexus Repository is a robust binary repository manager designed to store, manage, and distribute open-source components, dependencies, and artifacts across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). It supports over 20 formats, including Maven, npm, PyPI, and Docker, allowing for seamless integration with build tools and CI/CD pipelines. With advanced features like high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability across cloud platforms, Nexus Repository ensures secure and efficient management of your software artifacts. The platform enhances collaboration, automates workflows, and improves visibility into your software supply chain, helping teams manage dependencies and improve software quality.
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    Azure DevOps Projects
    Build any Azure application, on any Azure service, in less than five minutes. Built-in support for popular application frameworks. Automatic full CI/CD pipeline integration. Built-in monitoring with Application Insights. Deployment to the platform of your choice. With DevOps Projects, start running your application on any Azure service in just three steps—simply select an application language, a runtime, and an Azure service. Choose from a variety of languages—including .NET, Java, PHP, Node, Python, Go and others—and many of their popular frameworks. Or deploy your own application hosted on a source control. Run your application on Windows or Linux. Simply deploy to Azure Web App, Virtual Machine, Service Fabric or choose Azure Kubernetes Service for your application. While options are wide-ranging, execution is simple and fast. Get rich performance monitoring, powerful alerting, and easy-to-consume dashboards to help ensure your applications are available and performing.
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    Rocket Aldon Lifecycle Manager
    Customers and employees demand high-quality digital experiences. Meet their expectations by deploying applications in complex, multi-platform production environments — quickly, confidently, and securely. Rocket® Aldon® solutions automate everything from the moment a business request comes in until an application is delivered to production, with full audit tracking and compliance reporting. Some organizations spend 20 - 30% of their IT budget on compliance reporting and audit preparation. Rocket Aldon solutions provide automation and reporting of your software development and change processes, helping you to track, view and monitor everything necessary to satisfy ITIL, COBIT, SEI/CMMI, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, PCI, Basel II and other regulations. With Rocket Aldon, best practices are enforced without you having to think about it — you can even ensure separation of duties at a granular level using the Lifecycle Manager Ops Portal.
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