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Month: September 2014

Redmine is one of the leading open source tools for Issue Management that can be integrated with other popular defect management tools using the Kovair integration adapter for Redmine. Kovair Redmine Adapter facilitates seamless data flow from Redmine to other ALM or SDLC Tools in the market place. Currently, the Kovair Redmine Adapter supports all artifacts of the Redmine Issue Management features.

Features & Benefits

  • Manage all your Redmine artifacts and other ALM artifacts centrally.
  • Automate actions on issues resulting from other integrated tools such Hudson for Build Management, TFS for Requirements Management.
  • Ensure cross-tool visibility, traceability and process automation.
  • Allow project teams to work on issues from within their preferred tool environment and thereby enhance their productivity.
  • Streamline issue tracking and resolution processes spanning across multiple tools.
  • Allow the issue resolution process to become part of an organization-wide macro process covering the entire SDLC.
  • Automated issue tracking and cross-tool visibility
  • Support for both System and Custom Entities
  • Support for System and Custom Attributes
  • Support for one way Attachment
  • Ability to define customized business rules, and establish relations between objects of disparate ALM tools
  • Robust, reliable, and readily scalable enterprise-class architecture

Kovair Support for Redmine Integration

Kovair Omnibus Integration Platform maximizes the value of your Redmine deployment by providing seamless integration between Redmine and other best-of-breed tools used in different ALM modules such as HP ALM, TFS, TestLink, JIRA and IBM ClearQuest. Kovair supports the latest stable version of Redmine 2.5.2.

Kovair Redmine Integration Adapter provides painless integration with Redmine, resulting in visibility of Redmine Issues across tools, traceability and micro-level process automation. The integration ensures that all the artifacts across the development chain are integrated with each other and Issues or custom artifacts in Redmine can be traced back to the Test Cases and the corresponding Requirements. For instance, you can track Redmine Issues to the related Test Cases in TestLink and the Requirements in TFS.

The integration of Redmine with other ALM tools is not a point-to-point integration. Instead, it is based on a robust Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architecture that requires only one adapter per tool, thereby making the integration environment easy to maintain and readily scalable.

Kovair Redmine Integration Adapter offers the followings:

Improved Collaboration

Issue Management often involves different teams working on different set of tools for tracking, reporting, monitoring, resolving and updating issues. Testers need to identify and report about the issues; developers need to analyze the issues, trace back to source requirements and debug them and Project Managers need to closely monitor if the issues have been identified and resolved in timely manner. Failing to do any of them can result in severe project failure.

Kovair Redmine Adapter ensures that Developers, Testers and Project Supervisors are well-connected throughout the project lifecycle and each of the team members are aware of who, what and why of all issues tracked in Redmine.

Absolute Traceability

Kovair Omnibus’s central framework, in collaboration with Kovair Redmine Adapter, allows creation and management of traceability relationships between Redmine Issues and other artifacts from other tools. Maintaining traceability from requirements to issues reflects the stability of requirements and their implementation status.

Attachments

While adding an Issue in Redmine, a Tester can attach a relevant image file with the Issue. Kovair Redmine Integration Adapter allows such attachments to flow across the integrated tools along with the Issue information.

Integrated Issue Management

Traditional Issue Management, implemented in a single information silo can no longer address the complexity and agility of modern software development. To ensure project success, Issue Management processes must be seamlessly integrated with all other SDLC processes.

Thus, Integrated Issue Management is integral to all software organizations. Kovair Redmine Integration Adapter helps organizations in establishing the same by linking bugs, issues and features with corresponding test cases, requirements, and relevant design and code files.

Cross-tool Reporting

Kovair integration adapter for Redmine and other tools in relation help in attaining consolidated data about Issues/Features and other related artifacts and generate various reports for analysis. This helps in project monitoring, risk management and process enhancement.

Kovair Integration Support for Git Suite

Git is an open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large software applications development projects with speed and efficiency.

Kovair Omnibus has a complete integration with the Git Suite. So, users using only Git as an Enterprise SCM tool can use the integration to track and get the complete traceability. When a user pushes a change to GitHub site via Git command line, desktop apps, or GitHub.com, the Kovair adapter tracks all the changes and pushes the data to the bus in order to publish it to the other tools. It can also initiate automatic build using the integration bus. This provides the manager a complete view of the changes happening without requiring him/her to log into the SCM system.

Kovair also has integration with GitHub and Gerrit. So, software development organizations can also enjoy the benefits of using this integration by tracking changes, comment on lines of code, report issues, and then plan the future of their projects with other connected tools.

Kovair Integration with Git

Kovair has integration with Git through the Adapter named ‘Kovair Git Adapter’. Kovair integration with Git is a one- way integration, where data flows from Git to Omnibus. With the Git integration enabled, you can get all the basic information about Git operations. All information about File, File version and Comments can be pushed through the Omnibus framework to any other connected tools.

Omnibus integration allows one to expose the Federated link for each file version to any other supported tool. This facilitates direct viewing of the actual code file from a different tool such as HP ALM. With this integration in place, one can also create automatic builds in Jenkins or in other continuous integration tools.

Using Kovair Omnibus Integration framework users can have a complete traceability from Requirement to Build to Defect and the related file changes for each Defect. By integrating Git with Defect Management and Requirement Management tools through Omnibus, software development teams can easily collaborate on projects regardless of their geographical locations.

Kovair Integration Scenario with Git

Kovair Integration Scenario with Git

Using Kovair Omnibus integration users can have continuous build automation and consolidated reporting facility. Once a developer checks-in the code to Git, the framework fires the Build. It is not necessary to have the SCM server and Build server at a common location.; The Build sever can be located remotely in a different network. The Developer can also view the Build results from within popular IDEs using the Omnibus Plug-ins for Eclipse or RAD.

In this video you will learn how Kovair Requirements Management allows stakeholders to participate in a real-time collaborative review on anytime, anywhere basis.Using this collaborative review functionality, users can get their queries clarified, record their decisions and approve or reject the requirements.

 Video Summary

Kovair 7.5 offers a simple and built-in Requirements Review model which enables collaborative review of business requirement, functional requirement as well as any word document (eg: Testing document) within Kovair Application. Multiple reviewers can approve, flag in, comment, vote as well as subscribe or unsubscribe to a Requirement. Reviewers can also highlight a specific part of a document to leave a comment on.

This built-in collaborative review process helps moderator to gather feedback on the priority, importance and implementation effort that is required to work on the requirement. Click here to learn more about Collaborative Review functionality of Kovair.

In this video you will learn how the new built-in Word Import feature of Kovair helps users add requirements directly from word documents using its record and comment parsing ability.

 Video Summary

Kovair has had the capability of importing Requirements directly from Word documents using the Word Add-in. Now, Kovair offers you the power and convenience of word import directly from within the Kovair application. There is no need to install a separate plug-in for this.

The new built-in word import feature allows parsing of records using different parsing logics such as keyword, style, and tables. It also enables parsing comments made in a document using markup feature that helps moderators and reviewers add comments in Kovair.

In this video you will learn how to integrate MS Outlook with other Development and IT Tools. Kovair Omnibus Plug in and Adapter for MS Outlook integrate Outlook and all its capabilities with other ALM and IT tools that are connected by Omnibus.

 Video Summary

Most of us use Microsoft Outlook for email and task management. However, now you can do much more with it than just sending/ receiving emails or managing tasks and calendar.

Your Software Development teams can update/add their project artifacts like Requirements, Defects, Change Request real-time directly from Outlook and communicate with each other on new task assignment, task completion and other related events through email. Your Help Desk teams can also add customer issues directly from Outlook; send them to the developers automatically without logging into another tool and finally, get email updates on issue resolution.