Telelogic enhances ALM for QA

NEW DELHI: Telelogic, the leading global provider of solutions for advanced systems and software development, today announced enhanced integration between Telelogic DOORS, Telelogic SYNERGY and Mercury TestDirector and Mercury Quality Center. These enhancements complement Telelogic's Automated Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategy by supporting the market needs of requirements-driven development and test, together with integrated change and defect management.

. "With project activities currently based on silos of disconnected data, there is a lack of management visibility on the progress of projects. Assessment of product performance against milestones is often based on assumptions rather than facts," said Ingemar Ljungdahl, chief technology officer at Telelogic. "This enhanced integration provide product development and support teams access to consistent requirements, test, defect and change request data, all from within their familiar tool environment. This is a major achievement as companies begin to leverage ALM solutions to boost efficiency and productivity."

"We are pleased to work with Telelogic to integrate their products with Mercury's industry leading application delivery offerings," said Mark Sarbiewski, senior director of products at Mercury. "The integration will enable mutual customers to optimize the quality of their applications and meet their business technology optimization goals."

The enhanced integration of Telelogic's requirements and change & configuration management technology with Mercury TestDirector provide a complete solution covering requirements, change & configuration and test management, integrated into an ALM environment that:

· Improves process maturity by synchronizing requirements, change requests, test cases and defect reports;

· Enhances communication and collaboration between project disciplines; and

· Scales to meet enterprise needs with minimal administration overhead.

The integrations may be deployed as a complete solution or separately, delivering support for the following industry best practices:

• Requirements-Driven Development. With the existing DOORS and SYNERGY integration, the functions available to web-based SYNERGY users are extended beyond change requests - they can contribute to requirement definition and ensure that requirements are communicated to developers. Management control is increased by establishing traceability between requirements and development tasks, enabling progress monitoring of requirement satisfaction.

 

• Requirements-Driven Testing. The enhanced DOORS and Mercury TestDirector integration enables analysts to focus on delivering testable requirements and quality assurance/test teams to develop tests against those requirements, ensuring complete system validation against the requirements versus simply testing what was built. Management can make release decisions based on conformance to requirements rather than on disconnected test statistics.

• Integrated Defect Management. The enhanced SYNERGY and Mercury TestDirector integration synchronizes change and enhancement requests with defect reports raised by the quality assurance/test teams, enabling management to assess the priority and severity of all changes in a single environment. Developers can now focus on defect analysis and resolution, and testers always have up-to-date visibility of defect resolution. The result of this integration is the complete definition of a product release, enabling the test team the ability to efficiently focus their efforts.