RABIT – Rapid Accelerated/Actionable Build Install Test. release management suite for Cordys(Open Text).

1. Effective Release Management for Cordys BPM
Automated Rapid Accelerated Build Install & Test

2. Release Management Streamlined Confidential AutoRABIT (Automated Rapid Accelerated Build Install & Test)
Release Management
Ever Thought!!!!,
Your software release
process could be more
automated and confidence
evoking?

3. Release Management Streamlined Confidential AutoRABIT (Automated Rapid Accelerated Build Install & Test)
The Deployment (controlled) Nightmare
How the story started
From:
• 40 page deployment document
• + 11days production deployment
schedule
• 17 member development/deployment
team
• Weekend deployment
• Quarterly deployment
To: 
• 4 page document
• 1 day
• 3 member team
• Weekday
• Bi-weekly

4. Release Management Streamlined Confidential AutoRABIT (Automated Rapid Accelerated Build Install & Test)
tes
Manual Process and the approximate timelines
(Basis: various client deployment experiences)
CORDYS
CWS
CORDYS
CWS Test Team
Production Issue
Staging/UAT
QA / Integration
Production
Feature1
Test Team
Configure Workspace
Error
Manual Process
2 Days
2 Days
2 Days
1 Day
2 Days
* Test effort excluded

5. Release Management Streamlined Confidential AutoRABIT (Automated Rapid Accelerated Build Install & Test)
AutoRABIT in Action
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Dev Environment
AutoRABIT System
Single Click Promotion
C3 BOP 4.1BOP 4.0 BOP 4.3
Advanced Platform Migration
UAT Staging Production

6. Release Management Streamlined Confidential AutoRABIT (Automated Rapid Accelerated Build Install & Test)
Saving TIME, EFFORT, MONEY and accelerating
QUALITY
Release Management
Compliance Check
Test Automation Support
Advanced Migration
Application Deployment
Automated packaging and deployment
of Cordys Applications
Advanced CLI [ Command Line Interface ]
for automating CWS operations
Support for ISVP / CAP deployments
ISVP Dependencies are also handled
Both fresh install and upgrade of ISVPs /
CAP files supported
Compliance checks for Java Code
against the coding standards
Static analysis of web applications for
multi-browser compatibility
Web Service [ WS I] Compliance
check
300 + UI wrappers written to achieve
end-to-end test automation of Cordys
Applications
Business Users can generate
automated test cases from Excel
Test Genius suggest the test cases to
run based on the changes made
reducing the test effort by 85% app.
Automated upgrade of Cordys Platform
Application Migration
Content Migration
Workflow built to handle the migration process
1- Click promotion of ISVP / CAP files into
release environments [ UAT , Staging ,
Prod etc., ]
End-to-end automation of the release
process
Powerful ALM aggregator Dashboard
showing all the information about
project from various external systems like
Jira, Bugzilla , TestManager etc at one
place.

7. Release Management Streamlined Confidential AutoRABIT (Automated Rapid Accelerated Build Install & Test)
AutoRABIT helped a global Insurance Leader achieve Agile delivery
• In numbers, number of bugs found in UAT and time spent
before moving to production
– Similar sized projects
– Similar user groups
Description No of bugs found UAT phase
duration
Time spent in
fixing the bugs
Number of test
engineers in dev
team
Project before Rabit
was implemented
93 4 weeks 6 weeks 4 for 12 weeks
First project after
Rabit was
implemented
22 4 weeks 2 weeks 2 for 3 weeks
Second project after
Rabit was
implemented
2 (one was later
decided to be
enhancement)
2.5 weeks 2 days 1 for 3 weeks

8. Release Management Streamlined Confidential AutoRABIT (Automated Rapid Accelerated Build Install & Test)
AutoRABIT Test Genius

9. Release Management Streamlined Confidential AutoRABIT (Automated Rapid Accelerated Build Install & Test)
AutoRABIT Other Editions
* Continuous Integration * Continuous Deployment * Continuous Delivery * DevOps
Enabling Enterprise Agility