BUSINESS CHALLENGE

Effective collaboration across teams, processes and tools drives successful projects. Testing is one of those areas that software delivery teams see as time-consuming, poorly focused, and gets in the way of achieving project goals. SilkCentral® Test Manager is an open test management solution that addresses this issue by aligning goals and requirements with testing, technology and processes. It provides an integrated framework for improving productivity, traceability and visibility for all types of software testing, and ensures control over application readiness.

PRODUCT OVERVIEW

SilkCentral Test Manager (SCTM) is an open test management solution that reflects the way today’s organizations work. As a scalable, flexible test management engine, it ensures that development teams deliver higher quality software into the hands of their users faster, ensuring greater value in a shorter timeframe.

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SCTM provides goal and requirement driven test management that coordinates technologies, resources, team capabilities, and meaningful deliverables to promote quality, collaboration, efficiency, and confidence. As today’s software development teams work on projects of all sizes, SCTM scales from supporting a single project to being the engine that supports multiple projects distributed around different locations right across an organization.

This unparalleled solution delivers control over application quality by providing consistent, repeatable processes across whichever methodology you adopt – from waterfall to iterative methodologies such as agile. It provides a unified framework for managing manual and automated tests while integrating with existing unit, functional and performance test suites to provide an open test management solution for the consolidated management and visibility of testing activities throughout the development of the software.

Fig 1: User-defined dashboard provides customizable insight into status of testing

Fig 2: Integrates with third party requirement management, test automation, issue tracking, and source control tooling. Including, but not limited to, those in the diagram.

KEY BENEFITS OF SILKCENTRAL TEST MANAGER:

Real time visibility and control of issues raised at all stages of test execution with the in-built issue management tool, as well as provision for seamless integration with 3rd party tools

Breathes life into testing through requirements visualizations and videos of results

Enables live, quality monitoring of agile and traditional project activities for co-located and globally distributed teams

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Delivers advanced reporting, including project status, requirements and test coverage, quality trends, milestones, test type and defect trends

Provides users with customizable dashboard reporting featuring dashboards targeted to their projects

Enables organizations to manage go/no-go decisions based on customer driven quality goals

Aligns test efforts with quality goals such as risk mitigation

Delivers advanced manual testing planning capabilities to facilitate: What to test; When to test; Where to test; How to test and Who to test

Improves manual testing with a simple, scalable Manual Test Client that guides testers through the process, assuring consistent, repeatable data collection and reporting

Exposes test results across all required environments through configuration testing

Eliminates re-work associated with project changes and exploits test asset reuse

Manages, integrates and aggregates test results from existing test frameworks and tools through open test management

Provides a single investment that will sustain a quality program across all projects and teams

Delivers insight into executed code for Java and .Net applications

DETAILED FEATURE OVERVIEW

Visual requirements and test results

Visualizations within SilkCentral Test Manager engages business users in a collaborative way, so that they

Fig 3: CaliberRDM process flow in SCTM

Fig 4: Quality goal progress reporting

can quickly and easily validate requirements. SCTM integrates with Caliber RDM to synchronize simulations and visualizations of requirements with test planning.

SilkCentral Test Manager also provides video capture for both manual and automated test activities, making it easy to reproduce issues or provide evidence that compliance and audit needs are being met.

Highlight risk mitigation and quality goals

SilkCentral Test Manager helps prioritize, execute and demonstrate how test efforts respond to initiatives such as risk-based testing. It has a flexible, straightforward and easily understood mechanism for defining risk mitigation requirements and the quality goals determined by the business, using its own terminology. It shows the time cost of meeting those goals and helps test planners select a test set efficiently. Reports then show how testing has responded to the risk mitigation and other quality goals, ultimately enabling the go/no go decision on the release readiness of a project.

Advanced Manual Execution Planning: What / When / Where / How & Who

The advanced manual execution planning enabled by SilkCentral Test Manager increases efficiency and productivity by making it easy to identify, plan and schedule manual tests.

What to test: Through quality goals / filters

When to test: Planning of tests against cycles within specified timeframe (start & end dates)

Where to test: Where tests should be performed

Who to test: Allocation of test resource to cycle with time capacity

How to test: Which configurations to perform tests against

Fig 5: Advanced manual execution planning

Fig 6: Dashboard reporting, requirements, tests, execution

Real-time quality monitoring of all testing activities

Whether teams are co-located or distributed across the globe, all testing activities are monitored in real-time, giving transparency across the organization and fostering live collaboration for cross project activities. A personal dashboard provides targeted information according to the project and test cycles relevant to the user’s role and interest.

Insight into testing through code and configuration coverage

SilkCentral Test Manager provides developers and test planners with a detailed account of the classes and methods covered during manual and automated execution of .Net and Java applications. This helps developers determine if testing has covered new code, and test planners can choose which tests need to be executed to cover code changes.

Configuration testing ensures tests can be executed against multiple configurations without the need for duplication. This enables clear reuse of scripts, management of tests and report on coverage of test environments. Sets of tests can be easily executed across all required environment configurations.

Powerful lab and load test management

SilkCentral Test Manager Dynamic Hardware Provisioning (DHP) technology makes it easier for large, distributed organizations to manage test environments spanning multiple platforms and configurations, enabling lab environments for various stakeholders to be created while reducing costs and improving uptime.

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SilkCentral Test Manager also provides load test resource management to simplify the management of performance testing of enterprise applications. Integration with performance, load and stress testing solution, SilkPerformer®, dynamically assigns workloads to available load test agents, to deliver:

Rapid turnaround on load/performance tests execution

Simplified, managed control of performance test environments

Efficient management of virtual users pools across multiple projects and teams

Agile test management

Optimized to test both agile and traditional projects, SCTM speeds up test execution and increases collaboration on quality assurance activities. SCTM manual execution planning supports agile development through progress reporting, burndown charts, planning and personal dashboards/ SilkCentral Test Manager is deeply integrated with VersionOne® and Rally®, the leaders in agile project management.

Quality metrics for software delivery

SilkCentral Test Manager delivers the confidence to release high quality, multi-platform applications through:

Personal dashboards and reports that deliver targeted information ensure a clear focus and direction on the status of activities for informed, go/no-go decisions

Context sensitive reports based on current ‘in flight’ user activities - dynamically generating ‘one-click’ reports specific to requirements, test plans, and test plan execution

Code coverage technology links tests with the code they actually touch. This improves choices of what to test when code changes force tests to be modified

Quality goals can be defined against individual requirement and tests

Trending and analysis data to track the progress of all quality initiatives across multiple teams, technologies and platforms across a global computing environment

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PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS & SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Supported environments

Operating System Support

Windows XP

Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit (execution server)

Windows Server 2008

Windows 7 32-bit/64-bit (execution server)

Linux Operating System Support (execution server)

Ubuntu, Redhat Enterprise Linux 5, Debian, Suse Linux

Web Browser Support

Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome

Web Server Support

IIS 6 and 7 32-bit/64-bit

Micro Focus standalone Web server (Tomcat)

Apache (load balancer)

Database Management System Support

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (SP1/SP2), 2008 R2

Oracle 10g (version 10.2.0.4 / 10.2.0.5)

Oracle 11g (version 11.2.0.1 / 11.2.0.2)

Java Support

Java Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.5 or later

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.5 or later

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Integrated Micro Focus Software Support

SilkPerformer

SilkTest

StarTeam

Caliber

TestPartner 6.3

Integrated Third-Party Software Support

Bugzilla

IBM Rational

JUnit 4.4 or later

SAP Solution Manager

SnagIT

MSTest

Subversion 1.5.x and 1.6.x

VMware Lab Manager

VMware vCenter Lab Manager

Telelogic Doors 8.0

FitNesse

VersionOne Enterprise Edition

Rally

Compuware Quality Manager

Changepoint 2009/2009 SP2/2010 SP1

JIRA

Microsoft Office Excel (.xlsx) Importing tests

Microsoft Office Word (.doc,docx) Importing requirements

Please consult your Borland account representative for supported versions.