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Effective Requirements Management with HP Quality Center: Connecting Business Goals with Quality

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Gerald Heller (Software.Process.Management ) Bernhard Weiss (HP)Swiss Requirements Day 2011, Zurich 1

Effective Requirements Management with HP Quality CenterConnecting Business Goals and Quality

Gerald Heller, Software.Process.Management, GermanyBernhard Weiss, Hewlett-Packard, SwitzerlandSwiss Requirements Day, June 22, 2011, Zurich

Integrated Requirements Management

� Requirements are the foundation of the entire software lifecycle

� The effective connection from requirements to testing enhances both disciplines

� It adds business value to the contributions of IT and software development

� Effective requirements management and test management must be supported by tools

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Business Value of IT & Software Development


FastUsable

Maintainable

Productive

Flexible

Low Cost of Ownership

Deliver valuablesolutionsUseful

Application Lifecycle Management


PLANPLAN

DELIVERDELIVER

RUNRUN

RETIRERETIRE

portfolio mgmt.

ESTABLISH GOVERNANCE

PRIORITIZE & INVEST

monitor programs

policiescompliancere-use

ITERATE

RELEASE

DEPLOY

INITIATE

ENHANCE

REPAIR

MONITOR & TUNE

STRATEGIC DEMAND

Conduct Acceptance Test

Conduct System Test

ConductComponent Test

Conduct Integration Test

Coding and Testing (Developer Testing)

Define Business Goals

and Context

Develop Requirements Specification

Develop Architectural

Design

Develop Detailed Design

Deliver andDeploy System


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HP Quality Center: Integrated Requirements Management

Integrated RM Delivers Business Value


IT & Software Development

Manage Change Requests and Defect Reports

Conduct Acceptance Test

Conduct System Test

ConductComponent Test

Conduct Integration Test

Coding and Testing (Developer Testing)

DefineBusiness Goals

and Context

Develop Requirements Specification

Develop Architectural

Design

Develop DetailedDesign

Deliver and Deploy System

Requirements Testing

Business Departments / Customers

HP Solutions to Master the Core Application Lifecycle

Requirements ManagementRequirements Management DevelopmentDevelopmentManagement

QualityQualityManagement

Requirements Management

Requirements Definition*

Development Integrations

Defect Management Functional Performance Security

Foundation

Traceability ReportingProcess Standardization (i.e. Waterfall, Agile)

Extensibility (Open APIs)

Application Lifecycle ManagementApplication Lifecycle Management

Project Planning & Tracking Enterprise Release Management

* Textual RD, Business Process Model (BPM) and industry leading 3rd party RD tools integration

Secure Development

New!New!

More!More!

New!New!

New!New!

More!More!

More!More! New!New!


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HP Lifecycle Solutions & Operating Principles

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Traceability & Insight

Unified Platform

Simplified Web Access

Technology Agnostic

Powerful Automation

Quality at the Center

Modular

Integrated

Heterogeneous

Best-in-class

COMPLETE LIFECYCLE COVERAGE

COMPLETE LIFECYCLE COVERAGE

PLANPLAN

Project & Portfolio

Management

Project & Portfolio

Management

DELIVERDELIVER RUNRUN RETIRERETIRE

HP ALM

Quality Center

Perform Center

App. Security Center

Business AvailabilityBusiness

Availability

Deployment AutomationDeployment Automation

Service Management

Service Management

Records Management

Records Management

ArchivingArchiving

CORE LIFECYCLE EXCELLENCE

CORE LIFECYCLE EXCELLENCE

HP APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

Project Planning & Tracking Enterprise Release Management

ALM Foundation

Process standardization Reporting Extensibility

SOA SystinetSOA Systinet

RequirementsManagement

Development Management Quality Management

DefinitionVersioning &

Change ControlLink to

IDE, SCMDefect Mgmt.

Secure Code

Function Perform Secure

Legacy Delivery: Islands, Point Tools & Brute Force

Biz Analyst

Developer(MSVS)

Developer(Java)

Functional Test Engineer

Manual TestersPerformance

Engineer

Project Manager

Application Security

Developer(.NET)


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Modern Delivery with HP Application Solutions

Biz Analyst

Developer(MSVS)

Developer(Java)

Functional Test Engineer

Manual TestersPerformance

Engineer

Project Manager

Application Security

HP Sprinter

ALM/QC11 Plan & Track

PC11/LR11

RM11 + BPM

ASC+Fortify

Developer(.NET)

RM Challenges & Objectives

� Variety of Business Scenarios� Collaboration & Communication� Transparency� Distributed Development� Flexibility & Adaptability� Process Guidance� Consolidated Tool Landscape



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Different Business Scenarios for RM

� Application development for internal use� project-driven, occasional to continuous, one or few

centrally hosted instances, subsequent releases, long lasting, change request driven

� Product development for market� continuous, customer & market driven

� Internet app� agile, short release cycles

� System development� embedded software


Recommendations for Integrated RM

� Establish evolving requirements practices� Provide information structures for guiding

requirements development & management� Support collaboration among RM stakeholders� Utilize a learning framework



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Requirements Structure

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Fit Criterion: Link RM with Testing


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Fit Criterion: A measurement of the requirement such that it is possible to test if the solution matches the original requirement

Quality Requirements


Correct

Testable

Unambiguous

Prioritized

Feasible

Useful

Characteristics of quality

requirements

See: ISO/IEC 9126-2001


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Requirements Definition in HP Quality Center


Agile Requirements


User Story estimation

User Story as a requirement type

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Rich Text Requirements


Traceability



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Transparency


Understand where you are at any point in time based on requirements coverage analysis

Connect Business Process Models


Import Business Process Models

View critical paths for development

and testing

Link Requirements to

Model


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Support Project Management


Inception ElaborationKick-off Construction

ReleaseConstructioncomplete

Phase 1 Phase 2

Transition

Phase 3 Phase 4

Stabiliz.

Portfolio Manage

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IDE

Defect Manage

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Req. Develop

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Change Manage

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BPM

Modeling

Tool Landscape for RM


RMRM

Test Manage

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Test Manage

ment

Efficient solutions required

Solution design with defined processes


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Introducing Integrated RM: RM Tool Exists


HP Quality Center


Test ManagementExistingRM Tool

Bridge

Tracing - Reporting - Dashboards

� Replicatedrequirements

� Basis forintegrated RM

� Test cases linked withrequirements

� Test results traced back forrequirements coverage

ExistingRM Tool

HP Quality CenterTest Management

BridgeTransfer requirements IDfor reference in test cases

Introducing Integrated RM: No RM Tool, Yet


CustomerRequirements

Test Plan &Test Results

Test CasesSystemSpecification

HP Quality Center


Test Management

Tracing - Reporting - Dashboards

� Systematically managedcentral requirements base

� Effective workflow support� Extensive traceability

� Test cases linked withrequirements

� Test results traced back forrequirements coverage

CustomerRequirements


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Benefits of Integrated RM

� Requirements managers can easier define good requirements and achieve higher productivity

� Project managers gain new levels of transparency and control

� Business departments and customers receive more useful software and services faster


Thank you


Contact

Bernhard Weiss

Hewlett Packard GmbH Software.Process.Management

[email protected] [email protected]

www.hp.com/ch/meethpsoftware www.swpm.de

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