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Software quality and reliability are lifelines to customer loyalty
and your profitability. That means rigorous quality discipline
and seamless collaboration between your development and
QA teams can help bring your customer-focused strategy to life.
Seapine Software, the leading provider of quality-centric
application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, has created
an assessment tool that enables development organizations
to gain a high-level understanding of their current ALM
capabilities. The Seapine Software Quality-Ready Assessment
(QRA) allows your development organization to measure its
efficiency and effectiveness by uncovering critical practice-level
capabilities such as:
• Your ability to quickly and easily produce the documentation
necessary to pass your next compliance audit.
• Your ability to keep existing functionality from being
compromised with each release.
• Your ability to enforce your product development process.
The Seapine Software QRA will make it easier for you to
understand your unique ALM capabilities, and to align those
capabilities in support of your quality-centric goals. The
assessment consists of a short Web-based survey, and includes
a customized report that describes your ALM capabilities in four
key technology areas.
To take advantage of the free Seapine Software Quality-Ready
Assessment simply visit www.seapine.com/qualityreadysdw
and complete the survey now.
Satisfy Your
Quality Obsession
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What’s Your QRA Score?
Seapine’s Software Quality-Ready
Assessment will provide valuable
insight into your software develop-ment
quality-readiness, and how to
achieve success through integrated
application lifecycle management.
Recommendations
To Reach the Expert Practice Level
Organizations that aspire to reach the expert practice level and create a sustainable quality-advantage should
consider the following practice improvement opportunities:
Track
• Deploy an issue management solution with integrated change management to reliably track development
artifacts, including source code, test cases, test results, and issues
• Create a fully enforceable and repeatable product development process
• Ensure complete traceability between development artifacts with linking and automatic change notifications
• Log every action, document every change, and record every approval for compliance and auditing purposes
• Continuously track and report on development and testing status to ensure release schedules are met and
quality products are delivered on time
Test
• Use a test case management solution to track test cases, assign tests, and track results
• Organize automated tests into regression test suites that can be performed without impacting resources
• Eliminate test-to-fix lag time by deploying a test case management solution that can be integrated with your
issue management solution
• Utilize pair-wise testing or another best practice to reduce testing effort, when possible
Automate
• Automate every test that can be automated, and run automated tests as part of your nightly build process
• Utilize an adaptive automated testing tool to ensure scripts do not require extensive modifications when an
application changes
• Integrate your automated testing and issue management solutions to automatically push test failures into the
issue management workflow
• Deploy an integrated ALM solution that includes test case management, automated testing, issue management,
and change management
Change
• Use a software change and configuration management solution that requires users to link source file changes
with feature and change requests
• Enforce your change policies with a workflow-enabled change management solution
• Leverage change management tools and practices beyond the software development organization to streamline
the change process and enforce change policies company-wide
• Utilize notifications and triggers to improve communications, automate change, and enforce policies
• Streamline development and testing collaboration by providing access to source files from your issue
management solution and access to issues, tasks, and test cases from your change management solution
Key Technology Competency Areas
A company that aspires to evolve into a quality-ready software development organization must focus on four key
technology competency areas: tracking, testing, automation, and change management.
Track
Quality software
development involves
people, processes,
and technology. Your
development and QA
teams may be in the same
building or located across
the city or around the
world. Tracking defects,
issues, feature requests,
change requests, and
tasks through real-time
notifications and
reporting capabilities is
essential to increasing
productivity and creating
collaborative processes
that lead to greater
software quality.
Test
Software applications are
becoming increasingly
more complex and
development schedules
more aggressive. This
impacts each phase
of the development
lifecycle which includes
processes that must be,
measured, improved,
and managed. Testing
leads to continuous
improvement and higher
quality. Establishing
quality goals, testing, and
reporting on progress are
essential to producing a
quality product on time,
time after time.
Automate
Time is the one resource
you cannot make more
of. You can add more
resources, but this
increases cost and adds
complexity to your
project. Automation is
one of the best ways to
use time and resources
efficiently. Test cases,
work item routing, state
changes, builds, and other
development-related tasks
are all candidates for
automation. Integrated
automation solutions
remove the need for
human intervention,
which can slow down
automation. Automate
everything possible.
Change
Change is inevitable in
software products, before
and after release. Your
ability to successfully and
efficiently manage change
directly impacts quality.
Software products and
the software development
process include thousands
of assets that must be
versioned, shared, and
updated in a controlled
manner. Change
management tools and
practices are critical to
coordinating software
development, managing
multiple versions of
products, and providing
the traceability required
by internal and external
regulations.
Track
Automate
Change
Test
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