SilkCentral Test Manager v8'0 Overview June 2005

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SilkCentral Test Manager - v8.0Overview June
2005
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Why is Visibility Important?
Decision-making
Time to Market Resources Utilization Managing
the costs associated with resources utilization
(people/machines) Delivery of Quality
Applications Meeting requirements for
functionality, integrity, performance, and
reliability
Quality
Resources
Time
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Global Quality Management Needs

• Have more predictable software quality, schedules
  and costs
• Increase collaboration across teams
• Decrease the testing cycle (for faster releases)
• Comply with Iterative/Agile development processes
• Make effective timely decisions
• Trade-off decisions about quality, release
  schedule, resources allocation
• Go/no go decisions

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Addressing the Global Quality Management Needs

• With a global quality test management solution
  that
• Enables management to gain visibility into the
  testing process for effective decision making
• Provides a central point of control for
  organizing and sharing information
• Facilitates team collaboration
• Builds new efficiencies that accelerates time-to-
  market

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The Test Management Activities

• Testing starts with requirements.
• Requirements management is the process of
  gathering, organizing and tracking requirements
  documents throughout the project
• Focus testing efforts
• Allows testing teams to prioritize testing based
  on requirements/business priority/risk

• Test plans contain test designs, test
• Steps, and other test attributes
• Who must test what and how
• Set up the environment
• Define test steps procedures
• Develop test design
• Define test data
• Design test architecture
• Link test plans to requirements

• Scheduling execution of manual
• and automated tests
• Unit tests, Functional Regression tests, and
  Load Performance tests
• Provides increased test coverage
• Eliminates human error and provides consistency
  in testing, independent of who runs the tests
• Tracks historical data on all test executions

• Defect tracking and management
• Process of reporting, tracking and analyzing
  issues throughout the software application
  lifecycle
• Define workflow for audit trail
• Automatically records and coordinates the
  resolution of defects

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The Test Management Process Silos
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SilkCentral Test Manager Ties it All Together
Software Quality Optimization Platform
Test Planning
Requirements Management
Test Execution
Defect Tracking
Reporting
Manages the entire testing processProvides a
central point of control for organizing and
sharing information Enables clear visibility
into the testing process for early detection
resolution of problems
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SilkCentral Test Manager Ties it All Together!
DEFINE QUALITY
MEASURE QUALITY
Test Planning
Requirements Management
Test Execution
Defect Tracking
Reporting
MANAGE QUALITY
IMPROVE QUALITY
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SilkCentral Test Manager - v8.0High Level
Benefits
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Testing Process Old School
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Parallel Application Development Testing
The Most Effective Testing Process with Test
Manager
DEVELOPMENT
Architecture Object Model
Design Specs
Builds
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Integrated Web Reporting Throughout the Entire
Process
Architecture Object Model
Design Specs
Builds
Requirements
Tests
Test Execution
Test Plans
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Collaboration Visibility with Test Manager

• Collaborate communicate across teams and
  projects
• Share and reuse test assets
• Gain visibility into the testing process with
  reports metrics for effective decision-making

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Anytime, Anywhere Access with Test Manager
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Traceability with Test Manager
Achieve predictable project outcomes while
protecting intellectual property
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SilkCentral Test Manager - v8.0Screen-shots
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Requirements Management with Test Manager

• Integrations
• CaliberRM (Borland)
• Requisite Pro (IBM Rational)
• MS Word Excel (Microsoft)

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Test Planning with SilkCentral Test Manager
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Test Execution with Test Manager
Structured view of how tests need to be managed

• Filtering
• Allows you to easily select types of tests to be
  run reported on.

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Manual Test Execution with Test Manager

• Import Tests from MS Word Excel
• Import your existing manual tests directly into
  Test Manager

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Defect Tracking with Test Manager

• Integrations
• SilkCentral Issue Manager (Segue)
• ClearQuest (IBM Rational)
• Basic integration with 3rd party defect tracking
  tools
• Ability to add issue number, description, and
  status to failed tests
• Add URL to failed test, Test Manager will open
  the link

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Quick Flexible Reporting with Test Manager

• Project Overview Test Type Distribution, Test
  Execution Results, Find/Fixed Rate

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Quick Flexible Reporting with Test Manager

• Project Overview Test Coverage, Test Type
  Distribution, Test Execution Results

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Quick Flexible Reporting with Test Manager

• Standard Requirements Requirements Detail

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Quick Flexible Reporting with Test Manager

• Standard Requirements Requirements Details,
  Requirements Information, History

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Quick Flexible Reporting with Test Manager

• Find/Fix Defect Rate Find Fix Deferred Defect
  Rate report

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Quick Flexible Reporting with Test Manager

• Current Build Status Execution Details report

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Summary

• With Segues SilkCentral Test Manager, you can
• Optimize application quality throughout the
  lifecycle
• Gain clear visibility into the entire testing
  cycle
• Accelerate time-to-market
• Increase collaboration across teams
• Ensure end-to-end traceability
• Comply with Iterative/Agile development processes
• Make faster and effective decisions about
  quality, resources allocation, and release
  schedules.