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!

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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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continuation of ‘Go Agile.. Go Rally..’

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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 .