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FastTrackRequirement and Test Coverage End-2-End Visibility and Traceability

A solution helping you stay ahead of the competition.

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Who Is Verona Systems?

• Verona is a fast growing company that provides Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions. We pride ourselves in providing unparalleled customer service. By using Verona Systems, our customers are able to deliver applications with confidence, speed, and quality.

• Verona started in 2002, and is a privately owned software company. Our corporate headquarters is based at 300 Brickstone Square, Andover, Massachusetts 01810. We also have an off shore development office in Beijing China.

• Our clients range from start up to Fortune 500 companies; in the Telecommunications, Technology, and Utilities sectors.

• See what our customers have to say…..


FastTrack Is A Proven Solution:

“Verona allows us to With the traceability and project management features, the senior management and even our customers can see what is in each release, what work has been done against each feature, and the current status of each of the programs. As a young company moves into the phase of generating substantially more and more revenue, being predictable becomes the benchmark to make the company successful. That is what Verona delivers: predictability.”

-- Conrad Clemson, CEO, BNI Inc.

“Verona was able to grow with our business and process maturity. We took our Engineering organization and process from a small start-up through a successful acquisition by a major telecommunication company. Through this transition we achieved TL-9000 certification, which was significantly simplified by our use of the Verona suite of tools. Verona has been instrumental in our success and continues to be a valuable tool for our organization. It was a tremendous asset that allow us to manage complex, collaborative, multi-site programs.”

-- Craig Gilbert, Sr. Director of Software Engineering, Motorola, Inc.

“Verona kick-starts the product life cycle properly and can then be used to guide the product from inception to customer delivery. One key to delivery quality product is getting the requirements right and then levering the requirement specification to drive engineering functionality, test, and documentation. Verona provides digital tools allowing cross-functional teams members to collaborate, be aware of feature status, and be alerted to the change of features or product plans. Verona helps product organization delivers on time and on budget”

Don Dewar, Video Architect, Camiant, Inc

Our customers range from start-up to fortune 500 companies


What Problems Do We Solve?

90% of software projects are either delayed, over budget, or delivered with poor quality!

Why? • Poorly written requirement documentation.• Huge gaps between requirement and test coverage. • Management has no real-time visibility for project status, and can not take

action immediately. By the time the problem is realized, its is too late.

With increasing competition in the technology world, Time-To-Market is crucial.

FastTrack’s “One-Place-To-Go” solution will help solve these challenges, enabling your company to deliver product release FASTER and BETTER.

In the following slides, you will see why…


What is FastTrack?

Fully Integrated ALM Solution

FastTrack is comprised of five major modules:

• Requirements Management (RM) • Document Control and Document Review(DC/DR)• Code Inspection (CI)• Test Management (TM)• Engineering Project Management (ePM )

Common data repository

100% web-based, single sign-on

3rd party tool integration, e.g. JIRA

Supports both waterfall and scrum methodologies


One-Stop ALM Solution


Single Data Repository ModelA platform to provide cross-functional groups with real-time communication

FastTrackCommon Data

Repository

RequirementsManagement

TestManagement

DocumentManagement

ProjectManagement

Reviews &Inspections

Data Adapters

JIRA Other1 Other2………………


Login Page

FastTrack login page(Single sign-on for all

modules)

Access Control: Three user levels:a) Basic Userb) Module-Specific Admin

Userc) FastTrack Admin User


User Home Page

User Home Page

A: All user-related action items in one place

Lists all the user’s action items in one place. User can click any list and take action immediately

B: FastTrack Main Menu RM: Requirements Management ePM: Engineering Project Mgt Doc Control: (with doc review) Code Inspection TM: Test Management JIRA: Integrated with FastTrack 360: Executive Dashboard CIA: Critical Intelligent Analysis C: Global Pending Items Lists List of documents pending

approval with aging report List of reviews with aging report List of open JIRA critical issues


Requirements Management (RM) Home Page

A. Requirements CaptureB. Release PlanningC. Traceability ReportsD. Effort PlanningE. RM Actions: See top-right list


Requirements Management, Cont’d.

Requirements Capture

• One single interface will allow a user to either import product backlog to this project or add requirements into this project directly

• For each FR, a user can see how many TRs are already created, and continue to add more if needed

• With JIRA integration, a user can see which JIRA is implemented in which release and its development status

FR – Feature Requirement or Marketing Requirement

TR – Technical Requirement

FR:TR 1:M

Based on Waterfall vs. Scrum Project-Type:• Create new FRs/Import FRs from RM database• Create user stories/Import stories from release backlog


JIRA Integration

Map JIRA Issues Into RM

• User can view JIRA tickets through FastTrack interface, without hopping around between two applications

• Allow user to associate JIRA issues with FastTrack requirements, and incorporate these into a release for tracking and reporting.


JIRA Integration, Cont’d.

Map JIRA Issues Into RM• One JIRA per RM, or• Many JIRA’s per RM


Test Management Home Page

Test Management

A. Create/Edit Test Plans/Test

Runs

B. View Test Progress

C. Trend Analysis by Test Area

D. Test Coverage Reports

E. Create Test Cases

F. Bulk Import Test Cases From

an Excel File

G. View User’s Assigned Test

Cases


Test Management, Cont’d.

Add/Edit Test Plans

Single Interface To Have Access To All The Test Plan/Test Run Action

A: List of All of The Existing Test Plans and Test Runs

B: Test Results Metrics Per Test Plan/Test Run

C: Add Test Run create a new test run or clone from an existing one

D: List Any Features Without Test Results Yet

E: Create New Test Plan


Document Review & Control

Document Review & Control

A. Built-in work-flow

B. All project documents in one place

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ePM: Project Tracking Dashboard

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ePM Home Page

A. For each project, one place to access to all artifacts and measurements

B. Authorized user can update each project’s properties


ePM: Status of Key Deliverables

See status of all project document artifacts in one place!


Release Roadmap a simple and easy way to plan project features

User can select any number of projects to do feature list comparison

By providing side-by-side release features list, user can view easily what have been planned in the two releases, what planned status for each feature.

Moving features among release make much simpler


RTC ReportRequirement and Test Coverage End-2-End Visibility and Traceability

Test Coverage Report

A. Summary of Project-Level Test Coverage

B. For each planned feature with related design/test documentation and tests


Test Coverage Gap Analysis And Action

Use Case:

Did I miss something?

You think you have included all the test cases for both the planned features and the regression features, but in the back of your mind, you may not be so sure …

Our RTC report will take guessing out of the equation…

Contact us to request a live demo.


Contact Us

Want to stay ahead of your competition?

Contact us for a live demo to see how we can help you.

Karen GoldenSr. Director of Sales

[email protected]

www.veronasystems.com

mailto:[email protected]


Frequently Asked Questions…

Q: We like your one-stop-shop solution, however, we have some tools in place already. Do we have to discontinue using our current tools? Also, we don’t want to have any process interruption, is that possible?

A: Yes, you can continue to use your existing tools. FastTrack is a suite of applications that are integrated through a single data repository. This design enables customers to utilize one or all FastTrack modules. However, implementing the FastTrack enterprise version will allow for maximum results.

There is no process interruption.

Q: We use excel files to store our requirements. Can we import all of the requirements to Verona’s FastTrack Requirement Management module?

A: Yes, we have a small utility which allows a user to import their requirement excel file into FastTrack-RM.

Our solution suport’s legacy data. In addition, after implementing FastTrack, you can continue to write your requirements in an excel file and load it into FastTrack-RM.

Q: We use excel files to store our test cases. Can we import, in bulk, the test cases into FastTrack-TM?

A: Yes. In the FastTrack-TM home page, there is a link called, “Import Test Cases”. This link will start a utility application to allow a user to upload a set of test cases into FastTrack’s test management.

Prior to utilizing the FastTrack Solution, several of our customers had test cases stored in many different locations. Verona providing support services, and imported their data into our product.

Q: If we decide to use FastTrack, what are the systems requirements? Also, how quickly can we have it installed, and start to use it ?

A: Requirements: Window XP/Server with IIS .

The installation takes approximately one hour. Verona can install the software on-site or remotely through VPN.

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