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OpenText™ Application Quality Management Connect component supports uniformity and traceability in heterogeneous application testing eco-system through sophisticated data synchronization

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Outcomes

  • Increased collaboration between development and QA testing
  • Customized testing and results views for different audiences
  • Increased test traceability and visibility

Challenge

Create full visibility and traceability in a heterogeneous application testing eco-system, while maintaining a DevOps approach

Details

OpenText Application Quality Management Connect ensures OpenText Application Quality Management as central test repository

The team was delighted to discover OpenText™ Application Quality Management Connect, included free of charge in their OpenText™ Application Quality Management license. OpenText Application Quality Management Connect is a data synchronization technology that provides data and relationship synchronization between products across the software development and DevOps lifecycle. This was ideally suited to provide a connection between OpenText Application Quality Management and the third-party tool to create end-to-end visibility across the application testing eco-system.

User stories are defined in the third-party tool, used for application development and enhancement, and sent to OpenText Application Quality Management, the main application testing platform, via OpenText Application Quality Management Connect as a requirement. Work then starts on creating a test script and initiating testing. Because everything is rolled up into OpenText Application Quality Management, this creates uniformity in application test reporting across the organization, supporting full traceability and visibility.

Using OpenText Application Quality Management Connect has increased collaboration between our developers and QA testers. The improved visibility and streamlined process automation mean that we can now easily enable the processes as we define them.

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Senior Test Engineer, Automotive Solution Provider

Reduced test development time

Following the synchronization between OpenText Application Quality Management and the third-party tool via OpenText Application Quality Management Connect, team methodologies have changed for the better. “Using OpenText Application Quality Management Connect has increased collaboration between our developers and QA testers. The improved visibility and streamlined process automation mean that we can now easily enable the processes as we define them,” says the Senior Test Engineer. “We can configure OpenText Application Quality Management Connect to customize views for different audiences which is very useful as we’re dealing with so many teams, all having different requirements for fields that need synching between the tools, and different levels of test automation.”

Connecting the agile management tool with OpenText Application Quality Management has reduced the average user story development time by providing high quality early feedback to the development team, leveraging their familiar, existing, environment. Early defect detection means they can be solved before causing issues in a production or customer environment.

With OpenText Application Quality Management Connect, application tests can be scheduled in OpenText Application Quality Management or, using APIs, OpenText Application Quality Management can trigger automatic test execution through our third-party tool, and still receive all test results. The results are attached to the original test case for full traceability across the two solutions.

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Senior Test Engineer, Automotive Solution Provider

The Senior Test Engineer concludes: “The integration provided by OpenText has really helped us take application test automation to the next level. We feel very confident to further broaden the testing scope by our DevOps team.”

AboutAutomotive Solution Provider

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Automotive test teams often must deal with multiple deploys in a day and releases every day or every two days. An Agile DevOps approach helps to manage this, but a Senior Test Engineer explains that not everything is fixed through streamlining processes: “Working with test teams we often see an architecture with many different elements working in isolation. We have standardized our application delivery on OpenText, deploying OpenText Application Quality Management, OpenText™ Functional testing, OpenText™ Functional Testing for Developers, and more recently OpenText™ Professional Performance Engineering. However, we still rely on other third-party solutions to complete our application test chain. In particular, we wanted to create uniformity between OpenText Application Quality Management and the tool we use to capture our defects and requirements.”

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