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Quality Assurance Begins with Requirements

An integration between Telelogic DOORS and HP Quality Center

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Integrating the project team


Test Status

Test DesignTest Execution

Test Planning

Requirements Driven Testing

DOORS

Quality Center Tests based onrequirements ensure

deliverables meet customer expectations

Quality is conformance to requirements

Process Automation and Increased FocusThe test team is working against the right set of requirements

Test Status Test Planning

Test DesignTest Execution

Requirements Management

Requirements Management


Benefits of Requirements Driven Testing

Providing a requirements based integration between DOORS and Quality Center enables: The Requirements Analyst to focus on delivering testable requirements with fully defined

qualification criteria

The QA/Tester to focus on developing tests against a known set of requirements

Release Management can be performed based on requirement quality measures rather than on statistics of test pass/failure


DOORS – Quality Center Integration Overview

Fully role based, bringing functionality and data to a users preferred tool Both DOORS users and also Quality Center users


Role: Analyst

The Analyst is a DOORS user principally interested in Requirements Management

Specifies Qualification Criteria that must be met by testing

Needs to know that requirements are tested

Performs Impact analysis to cover requirements and test

Wants to be involved with Release Review Boards

TestsTests?The Analyst


Role: QA/Tester

The QA/Tester is a Quality Center user principally interested in Test Management and execution

Uses the Qualification Criteria as test requirements

Needs to be involved with requirements review

Establishes traceability to requirements

Test failure investigation

RequirementsRequirements ?The QA/Tester


Role: Manager(System Review Board) The SRB

Analyze impact of defects (priority, severity)

Have the final say regarding release decision

Test managers influence the SRB in the confidence that they have an efficient test process working

against the requirements

Development managers influence the SRB based on the latest test information against their development efforts

Analyst manager influence the SRB with the full business impact of making a release based on

requirements met or not.


Role: Integration administrator

The Integration administrator is interested in automating as much of a project lifecycle as possible

Restricted to a limited number of people

Understands more about the integration than “standard” users

Interested in making sure users are controlled

Wants to make sure that the integration runs smoothly with minimal adverse business impact


But what does it do?


Facilities within Quality Center

See DOORS data inside of requirements tab in Quality Center Test against requirements rather than simply against what is built


Facilities within Quality Center

Map DOORS data into other parts of Quality Center such as the test design

Modify DOORS data to aid communication Constrained to user defined attributes


What happens next?

Qualification criteria can be reviewed and comments entered inside of Quality Center

Existing functionality within Quality Center Automatic generation of template test information from the qualification criteria

Control over requirement changes through traceability alerts

Similar to DOORS suspect links

Test execution raises defects that are indirectly associated to requirements


Manually instigate transfer of information between DOORS and Quality Center

Facilities within DOORS



Associations created within Quality Center seen as DOORS links

Use standard DOORS facilities to review tests

Suspect links so that requirements changes are not missed



Quality Center information seen as DOORS modules

Requirements, tests, defects, etc…

full impact analysis including test data

“Statement of Quality” alongside requirements

Three levels of detail, Boolean, defect list, full test summary:

Defect monitoring against requirements

Business criticality set by Analyst for prioritization

Traverse into Quality Center if required


Statement of Quality Attributes


Roll-up Results


Detailed analysis

Analyst now has detailed information to identify what needs to be fixed


Synchronize SoQ Attributes


Facilities available to the Integration administrator Data set definition

Defines how much information should be visible when seeing the same information in DOORS and Test Director

Attribute mapping:

Configures how DOORS information is seen in Quality Center

Configures how Quality Center information is seen in DOORS

Client installation for remote administration

Individual named user authentication for improved security


Synchronization controls

Configure synchronization Automated

or Manual


So what?


Analyst Benefits

Better visibility of test plan increases systems quality Review construction of the audit trail to ensure that requirements have been

planned to be tested

Monitor test status against requirements to identify business impact

Fully role based integration within DOORS Traceability columns on requirements and test

Reporting facilities

Suspect Links


QA/Testers benefits

Work against a defined set of requirements Maximize system quality while controlling an efficient test process

How much testing is enough?

Efficient test autopsy is a defect in the test, implementation or requirement?

Traverse audit trails back to original requirements analysis

Fully role based integration Combined reports from within Quality Center

Traceability alerts so requirements changes are never lost


Manager Benefits

Quality Assurance statistics alongside requirements ensure that: Full business criticality understood and traced back to user need

Overall development process prioritized commercially rather than technically

Statistics aggregated up through the requirements hierarchy Fast identification of overall systems quality

Easier to communicate quality assurance to the end customer


Overall benefits

More cohesive organizations with minimal learning curves See information from other disciplines without the need to move outside of a preferred

working environment

Increased systems quality Providing a connection between the Analysts and the Testers ensures that clear

acceptance objectives are both defined and met.


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