This document discusses Agile testing and the Rally test management tool. It notes that while Agile development has become very popular, testing within Agile presents challenges around lack of methodology, automation, and identifying test focus areas. The document then discusses how Rally can help with Agile testing by managing requirements, estimation, testing, defects, and reporting across the entire project lifecycle. It provides an example of how Rally has been used effectively on an internal Marlabs project to plan, track work and report on sprints.

1. December 2013
Marlab’s
I N S I D E T H I S
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Go Agile
Go Rally
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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

3. 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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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.
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5. 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
Rajesh Sundararajan .
Sriharsha Kumar B R .
Murali Dubutavalu .
Varaprasadarao Yarra .