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In this Testing newsletter edition of Marlabs, have detailed about one of the most popular Test Management tool for agile methodology. Know the advantages of Rally over Traditional Test Management Tools, Rally editions and Rally Integration with other test management tools, CRM and IDE. Also, Marlabs detailed how their clients were benefited in the in the test sprint cycles & different activities that were performed using Rally tool. Download their next Testing newsletter edition on Security Testing at http://www.marlabs.com/services/testing/case-studies
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December 2013
Marlab’s
I N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
Go Agile
Go Rally 2
Marlabs Testing
Updates 6
Quality News &
Views 7
Know Your
Teammate 8
Cartoon Space 8
Welcome to the 4th issue of Test Digest.
In this edition, our focus is on Agile testing. As per Forrester, “Agile development is rapidly becoming the norm” . Agile has taken many forms and moved well be-yond the Agile manifesto. There are also so many differ-ent methodologies classified under Agile- Scrum, Fea-ture/Test driven development, eXtreme programming. Specific to testing-As per the World Quality Report 2013-14, Agile development is widely adopted, but still gives rise to problems for testing- the key challenges reported by executives include – Lack of a good testing approach to fit in with the Agile development, low levels of test automation, lack of Tools to create reusable test sets , difficulty in identifying the right areas on which Testing should focus. This edition includes an article on the ben-efits and use of Rally, in one of our Agile projects.
Enjoy the edition and keep your feedback coming in!
Volume IV
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Agile methodology is a very popular process that has been followed in most of
the development and testing projects. Rally is one of the popular Test Manage-
ment tools in the agile world, which covers end to end process of a Project which
includes :
Requirements creation
Task Estimation
Test case creation
Test Execution
Defect Tracking
Reporting & Time Sheets
Advantages of Rally over Traditional Test Management Tools :
Real time picture of project status.
Co-ordinate multi-team releases, every feature and sub system stays syn-
chronized with QA focus.
Shared product backlogs, hierar-
chical projects, roll up reporting
and advanced analysis.
Integrated application lifecycle
data provided to everyone.
Idea Management, Agile portfolio
management, time and Cost track-
ing, full quality management
Extended Rally’s functionality with
customer features, displays and
reports.
Sri Harsha B
Rally Integrations :
Rally can be integrated with:
Test Management tools: IBM Rational Software, HP, VSTS
Source code management: Github, Perforce
Defect Management: JIRA, Bugzilla, VSTS, RCQ
CRM: Sales force, Oracle Sales Cloud
IDE: Eclipse, VSTS
Build Release Management: Jenkins, Electric cloud
Rally Editions Comparison:
Case Study of Rally for Marlabs Internal Projects :
It’s been used in one of Marlab’s prestigious client’s project effectively from
last 4 sprints
Each sprint is designed for 4 weeks of duration and starts with Sprint plan-
ning meeting, where in QA and Dev teams need to provide their estimates for
the user stories.
P A G E 3
continuation of ‘Go Agile.. Go Rally..’
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Tool has been used across different phases of sprint cycle as shown in the diagram.
It’s been used to capture, track and report defects
On a high level Rally hierarchy starts with
Project ->Iterations -> User Stories ->Tasks, defects
Complete end to end Agile process can be tracked using this tool
Different activities which are performed in Rally are as below :
o Create customized Dashboard of individual priority
o Sprint progress tracking which shows the planned velocity and current sta-
tus.
o Creating and updating the tasks for a user story
o Create defects and link it to user story
o Setting up the notification rule to indicate the changes to respective story
owners
o Generation of reports for each sprint. For e.g. Burn down chart as shown in
below image., etc.
continuation of ‘Go Agile.. Go Rally..’
Some Sample Screens of Rally Platform :
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P A G E 6
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Plans are of
little
importance,
but planning
is essential – Winston
Churchill
HP Unified Functional Test & Application Lifecycle Management
A 2 day training was conducted on “HP-UFT & ALM” by Vikas Joshi. The training covered new features of UFT 11.5, how it differs from QTP 11, inte-
gration with ALM, BPT concepts
Trainings
ME : Vivek Hosmani, born in Bangalore and spent my next 5 years in Delhi (which i vaguely remember) then back to Bangalore where i did most of my Education and then to Pune for my postgrad and currently in the peaceful city Mysore.
On Role : Test Engineer DOB : June 7th
Interests : It‟s a BIG list, but the prime ones are Football (with which my day start with)
and Music (Rock/Electronic comes first in my favorites, but it‟s the songs from recent Kan-
nada movie „Lucia’ tops my current playlist). Also love to spend my leisure stumbling upon sites which feature latest on mobiles/technology
Favorite Gadgets : My Lappy and Mobile
Aspirations : Not to limit myself to one thing or aspect. I love to learn new things, expanding my horizon of knowledge in every aspect and to give back something good to the world. Looking forward to it.
Inspiration : Living in different cities and meeting different people has been an amazing learning curve in various aspects of daily life .So i try to take my inspiration from all the good things in each one i meet and each place has to offer.
About Marlabs: Has been an amazing start to my career here with great humble and sup-portive people who stand by the phrase - "Marlabs Family".
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Rajesh Sundararajan .
Sriharsha Kumar B R .
Murali Dubutavalu .
Varaprasadarao Yarra .