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Jazzing Up QA:An Introduction to

Rational Quality ManagerDaniel Gilio,

Practice DirectorGeneva Technical Services

www.genevatechnicalservices.com

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About the Presenter

Daniel Gilio is Practice Director of Geneva Technical ServicesLifecycle Development Practice, experienced with thecomplete IBM Rational Tool Suite. He has extensiveexperience implementing solutions withClearCase/ClearQuest/UCM, Requisite Pro across divergentEnterprise environments.

10+ years in SDLC & IBM Rational Tools

Multiple Deployments of Rational Tools to Fortune 100 Companies

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What is Jazz?

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Planned Jazz Evolution

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How Does Jazz Fit In?

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Barriers to effective software quality

Sources: 1-Standish Group 2-Forrester 3-Gartner 

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Process and Strategy Drives Test Cycles

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IBM Rational Quality Management Blueprint

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Testing at an Enterprise Level

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Rational Quality Manager

Full Web Based Test Management Included Manual Testing on the Web

Practioner tools (RFT, RPT) still have desktop clients with which RQMinterfaces

Reporting Through all phases of testing (accessible anywhere anytime)

Access to information needed in real time

Easily Customized per custom reports

Comprehensive Test Planning

Test Plan Centric Approach

Ability to define and Capture complete Test Plan

Customization of Test Plans per project/organization needs

Govern and manage Test Project utilizing Test Plan

Collaboration & Communication Unifies the test team

Review and approval processes

Test Asset Reuse and Versioning

Customization

Help customers model, represent, report against their test process

Define Test Plan templates

Custom reports

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Reporting

Constant Status reporting based upon the measures definedas part of overall process

1. When am I done testing?

2. What else do I need to validate?

3. What is the quality of my AUT?

4. Am I ready to release?

5. If I release now what would be the impact to my business?

6. How much longer will it take to fully test the system?

7. What is my Requirements Coverage?

8. What is my major blocking issues?

9. Where do I need to focus my testing for this build/release?

10.Have I met all my exit Criteria so I can move to next Phase?11.We did everything as defined per our process – what went

wrong?

Full set of reports/Metrics/Dashboards

Ability to easily create you own

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Summary

Rational Quality Manager: Mitigates business risk: Catch defects earlier and keep the team

in synch with dynamic process and activity-based workflows

Improves operational efficiency: Automate labor-intensivelifecycle processes and determine optimal plans addressing widerange of platforms and requirements

Provides greater visibility of metrics: Make reliable decisions withconstant access to prioritized metrics tailored for individuals andteams

Protect existing investments and deliver greater predictability:Adopt successful deployment patterns and map to operationalKey Performance Indicators (KPIs), platforms and requirements

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RQM Roles

By default, Rational Quality Manager includes thesepredefined user roles:

Architect

Test manager

Test lead

Tester

Lab manager

Everyone (meaning everyone else)

When your administrator creates user IDs, each user ID isassigned to a role. Teams can configure the roles so thatcertain functions are enabled or disabled for each role.

Because roles are configurable, your test team can customizeRational Quality Manager to suit their needs.

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Example of Roles in Practice

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Our Quality Management Team

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Our Quality Management Team

Lucy - Test Mgr

Charlie - Tester

Schroeder - Lead

Patty  – Lab Mgr

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DEMO

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QUESTIONS