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Integrated Application Lifecycle Management
Integrated Application Lifecycle Management
What is Integrated ALM?
Integrated Application Lifecycle Management(ALM) is a totally integrated set of tools and processes that help organizations manage the complete lifecycle of an application development. It connects different teams, activities, platforms, tools and processes.It spans from idea generation to the end of the application’s life.
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How Does it Impact Product Quality?
Provides the right context for every stage of ALM
Ensures code quality and performance throughout the lifecycle process. Quality of work is validated at every stage and defects are caught during the process, instead of at the end of it.
Helps you gain Greater Insight into the project
Enforces Best Practice Processes across tools and artifacts
Overcomes challenges for Globally Distributed Development – keeps all stakeholders synchronized
Enables collaboration between stakeholders
Provides real-time actionable metrics to take corrective actions
Manages change with confidence; detects impacts on related artifacts automatically and notifies the concerned stakeholders
How Does it Help in Cross-tool Reporting?
Reports are based on real-time data coming directly from the tools
No time wasted in manually aggregating data from multiple tools
Easy interface to create customized reports based on data
No human error. Reports and dashboards reflect automatic data flow
The reports are available anytime, anywhere through web access
Allows managers to quickly identify the problem areas
How Does It Help in Project Execution
Project Manager
Live reports with aggregated data from all tools
Exact status of different teams working on different areas
Live actionable metrics for each phase
Designer
Changes in Requirements and Stories become immediately visible
Cross-tool visibility and accessibility from IDEs like Eclispe or Visual Studio
Developer
Requirements, Designs, Test Cases, Defects from a single repository
Integrated development environment resulting in better team collaboration
End-to-end traceability of artifacts from within preferred tool
Tester
End-to-end support for test & defect management
Integrated Test Management Framework for cross-tool visibility
Support for automated testing through tools like Selenium & QTP
Kovair Integrated ALM – What does it offer?
Requirements Management
Provides multiple mechanisms to gather Requirements – Direct Entry,Email, via Integration with other tools, from corporate website, direct import from Word or Excel
Facilitates collaborative review of requirements
Allows reusing of Requirements and its related artifacts without copy/paste
Provides in-built modeling capability
Supports Bi-Directional Traceability with Proactive and Reactive Impact Analysis
Enables users to generate custom template based document generation for compliance
Support for versioning – Creation, Viewing Differences, Merging
Provides Excel like batch update facility
Allows users to know the Who, When and What of changes
Supports Baseline
Formatted output to Word, Excel, PDF
Development Management
Provides Bi-directional integration with Eclipse, RAD, VSTS Developer
Provides Plug-ins for Eclipse, RAD, VSTS to view artifacts in other tools
Allows to establish traceability with other artifacts
Facilitates sending of notifications on pending items
Enables creation of cross tool relationships from the IDE
Test Management
Allows creation of Test Cases traceable to requirements in the system
Imports Test Cases from Excel
Facilitates Test Cases approval in collaborative manner
Supports reusing a Test Case as part of another Test Case
Allows managing both manual and automated tests
Manages multiple versions of test runs for each Test Case and test script
Automates test scheduling and running Test Cases in batches
Automates defect capturing from failed Test Cases into Kovair or other repository
Seamless bi-directional integration with HP QC, QTP, RQM, RFT, MTM, Selenium, & Test Link
Reflects results of automated scripts executed in tools like QTP & Selenium
Provides Real time reports and dashboards reflecting status of test cases
Provides traceability with other artifacts of ALM
Issue/Defect Management
Allows real-time defect monitoring thus increasing transparency and predictability on quality
Provides multiple Input Methods to Capture Issues
Allows to establish traceability with other artifacts
Enable users to prioritize defects for resolution
Allows escalation based on the age of defects
Allows automatic creation of defects from failed test cases
Provides Bi-directional integration with JIRA, Bugzilla, TFS, RTC, Clearquest
Project Management
Provides ability to schedule resources as per work load
Facilitates a full blown scheduler for project planning
Allows users to generate Earned Value Management metrics
Enables real-time monitoring of planned vs actual data
Provides Integration with MS-Project and Outlook
Enables users to view the project calendar and track the progress
Task Management
Gives upfront visibility to the users on their pending tasks
Provides capability of entering timesheet against task
Allows users to create Queued task or individual task based on business scenario
Provides the capability of rolling timesheet level data up to project level
Risk Management
Allows to monitor real-time status and measurement of Risk
Provides the capability to establish traceability with other artifacts
Project level visibility of risk importance, type and status
Release Management
Gives capability of managing different types of releases
Provides the capacity of configuring and controlling the entire release workflow
Enables users to monitor the progress of the release on a real-time basis
Document Management
Gives the capability of arranging documents in Windows like folder structure
Provides the provision for folder level permission based on user or roles