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.
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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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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 .