SilkCentral Test Manager v8.0 April 2005

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SilkCentral Test Manager - v8.0April 2005
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The Software Quality Challenge
Time to Market Resources Utilization Deliver
y of Quality Applications
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 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
  

Global test management is a mechanism for
companies to organize and optimize the testing
process across teams, projects, locations, and
departments. It fosters collaboration and reusa
bility of test assets.
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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
Test Planning
Requirements Management
Test Execution
Defect Tracking
Reporting
Supports the entire testing processCentralizes
control Provides clear visibility into the
quality of the application
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Anytime, Anywhere Access with Test Manager
SilkCentral Test Managers Web interface and
shared access to the central repository allows
you to be productive 24x7
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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

Test Manager Central Repository
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Traceability with Test Manager
Achieve predictable project outcomes while
protecting intellectual property
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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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Reporting with SilkCentral Test Manager

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

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Reporting with SilkCentral Test Manager

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

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Reporting with SilkCentral Test Manager

• Standard Requirements Requirements Detail

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Reporting with SilkCentral Test Manager

• Standard Requirements Requirements Details,
  Requirements Information, History

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Reporting with SilkCentral Test Manager

• Standard Requirements Requirements (grouped by
  Priority)

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Reporting with SilkCentral Test Manager

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

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Reporting with SilkCentral Test Manager

• Current Build Status Execution Details report

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Reporting with SilkCentral Test Manager

• Current Build Status Current Build Status
  Summary 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.