In this episode, Nagesh Nama interviews Eric Gavaldo, the CEO of xQUAL.
Eric has spent most of his life building and testing software applications.
They discuss the importance of a good ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) package and the key features that ContinuousALM offers.
ContinuousALM can be used not only for software development and validation but also for equipment and facilities validation.
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ContinuousALM is built on xQUAL which is one of the industry leading ALM platforms.
ContinuousALM lets you manage requirements, specifications, traceability, test cases (both manual and automated) as well as deviations. You can:
1. Structure your releases down to components
2. Define your business requirements
3. Write your functional and technical specifications
4. Manage your projects using Agile/V-model practices
5. Design your tests and test case procedures
6. Orchestrate your test and test plans
7. Plan and execute your test campaigns
8. Archive and compare your test results
9. Report on coverage, results, progress, quality etc.
10. Track your bugs (integrated or third-party)
ContinuousALM provides in real-time the smart progress charts. It covers scope, testability, quality and specifications. You can easily assess your project or product progress.
Do you have enough tests to cover your product, project or system? It takes into account all tests linked to each requirement and also allows testers to refine this coverage estimation on each individual element of the traceability matrix. We also use each item's priority and status to compute an as-reliable-as-possible real-time consolidated coverage.
When can you expect your test execution to finish? Whenever you execute manual or automated tests, ContinuousALM records the run time for each test. For each new campaign it can then predict how long it should take to complete it. It will even determine precisely how many days, hours and minutes remain to finish an on-going campaign.
What's the overall quality of your product, project or system? ContinuousALM uses complex algorithm taking into account status, priority, executability, local coverage of each component in the traceability matrix, latest results on all the elements to calculate a unique Quality Score
Are you improving your quality?
ContinuousALM presents the tests distribution (also called tests pyramid) for each product or project. By visualizing the spread in test types, you can immediately assess if your development cycle supports your quality objectives. You also see how your team is embracing proven practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavorial-Driven Development (BDD), etc.
Methodologies Supported: Agile, V-Model, Kanban, RUP, etc.. DevOps: Connectors to many Continuous Integration (CI) systems including Bamboo, Jenkins, Hudson, TeamCit.
Enterprise Integration: Real-time connectors to JIRA, VersionOne, Trac, Bugzilla, Mantis, Clearquest, VersionOne, Redmine, QC, YouTrack
Connectors: Support for more than 90 launchers QTP/UFT, Selenium/WebDriver, JMeter, soapUI, Robot Framework, Cucumber, etc..
Software Quality Built-in:
1. Support for automated and manual tests execution
2. Dedicated exploratory testing module based on Session-Based Test Management (supports FDA CSA)
3. Test case parameterization (including an implementation of the pairwise algorithm)
4. Real-time execution graph stored
5. Dependencies between tests
6. Automatic scaffolding of tests from Requirements or specifications
7. Support for Bidirectional Traceability including traceability to Campaign Sessions (Execution Runs)
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ContinuousALM is built-on xQUAL. xLM, LLC incorportes best practices, automation, reporting tools and configuration settings to make it GxP / 21 Part 11 compliant. xLM LLC delivers ContinuousALM as a continuously validated app to its customers.