Lifecycle Management & Integration
Lifecycle Management & Integration
We ensure the quality of the software and provide support in process development and the integration of tools in your QA processes.
We ensure the quality of the software and provide support in process development and the integration of tools in your QA processes.
The product life cycle and the software are becoming ever faster and more complex. In addition, they must constantly adapt to new requirements. We support you in expanding your quality assurance, training tools, dealing with agile methods and helping to create integrations in order to achieve a high level of automation in your CI/CD pipeline.
We operate, configure, advise and customize the tools you use. In this way, we enable integration with central data management.
We train your employees in the use of tools and processes.
We bring quality and tools together
We ensure the quality of software applications
Good quality assurance starts as early as possible
Good quality assurance starts as early as possible – and extends over the entire software life cycle. However, this is often easier said than done. Hybrid approaches in particular, increasingly also in conjunction with cloud-based architecture, can present their own unique challenges.
We support you in not losing sight of the big picture and continuing to achieve the best possible quality (assurance) even under changing circumstances!
Quality in the software life cycle
The elimination of defects during productive operation is costly. For this reason, quality assurance should be started at the beginning of the requirements gathering process and the testers should be involved.
Planning and conception
Poor quality specifications are often a reason for the failure of a project or product. Intensive consultation between the main parties involved – business/product owner, specialist department, users, developers and testers – plays a very important role here.
By jointly developing and clarifying the requirements from the outset, a shared vision of what will be delivered can be conveyed. Gaps in understanding can also be closed. Start smart, start early!
Certain mechanisms can be used to achieve high quality at an early stage:
- Concept reviews, review of the requirements
- Definition of ready (DOR) for user stories
- Definition of acceptance criteria
- Requirements not only for functional topics, but also for technical features and guidelines
- Planning test infrastructure & test strategy (quality assurance concept)
Development and testing
Bereits während der Entwicklung können bestimmte Funktionstests (Unittests) nach der Fertigstellung des Codes kontinuierlich überprüft werden. Dies kann aber nie ein vollumfänglicher Test sein, sondern deckt nur bestimmte Testfälle ab. Durch anschließende fachliche oder kundenspezifische Tests lassen sich business-relevante Szenarien überprüfen.
Die Testautomatisierung bietet hier für die Regressionstests ein ideales Werkzeug.
- Code review (static code analysis)
- Unit test
- Integration test
- End-to-end test
- Performance test
- Load test
- Stress test
- Whitebox/blackbox test
- Security test
Acceptance
After successful development, the acceptance test is carried out by the specialist department or customer. This can be carried out from different perspectives. It should not only include technical aspects, but also consider operational and security-related issues.
- Acceptance test/user acceptance tests (UAT)
- Smoke test
- Performance test
- Load test
- Stress test
- Operational acceptance tests (OAT)
- Whitebox/Blackbox test
- Security test
Operation
Nur durch kontinuierliche Tests (Regressionstests) nach jeder Änderung und jedem Deployment lässt sich eine hohe Softwarequalität erreichen. Für den Betrieb einer Anwendung sind regelmäßiges Reporting und Monitoring ausschlaggebend.
Durch das Monitoring der verschiedenen Komponenten lassen sich Systemausfälle oder Grenzwertüberschreitungen überwachen und ein schnelles Handeln kann erfolgen. Das Sammeln und Auswerten von Leistungsdaten hilft ebenso zur kontinuierlichen Systemoptimierung. Transparency can be created through reporting in order to make the right decisions.
- Regression test
- Post-test
- Scalability test
- System monitoring
- Reporting
Why quality assurance right from the start?
There seems to have been a lot of movement in the field of quality assurance in the recent past – just think of terms such as “shift-left”. However, many of these topics are not that new after all. The picture opposite illustrates this. It has been known since the 1970s that the later defects are found in the development cycle, the higher their cost.
For this reason, efforts have been made to increase the quality of requirements and to make any deviations visible directly in the requirements review. This means that errors can be identified at an early stage and are therefore “cheaper” to rectify.
Other industries are showing how quality assurance (both constructive and analytical) can be integrated from the outset. A comparison with the automotive sector is shown below as an example:
In the automotive sector, quality assurance is carried out right from the start of production through material testing, simulation tests, stress tests and final assembly. The new vehicle only rolls off the production line after passing numerous tests. This high quality standard should also be applied to all software products. After all, customer confidence should be the top priority there too. After all, electronic function testing using machine data analysis is becoming increasingly important in the automotive industry, for example with the advent of control units.
Achieving more together
In today’s networked world, communication plays an increasingly important role. In addition to the interpersonal level, the synchronization and integration of individual tools also plays an important role in the success of day-to-day work. Additional workload caused by collating individual reports As part of our activities, we support you with our specialist knowledge and expertise in eliminating additional work and costs.
Various tools are used in day-to-day work. Sometimes collaboration with other projects can be challenging due to the different tools. For example, compiling reports from the test and development areas involves a great deal of effort. This means that data has to be maintained and merged redundantly in several tools. This results in additional work, which costs time and resources.
We have made it our mission to support you in eliminating the problems and additional work with our expertise and experience.
Effort minimization through synchronization & integration
Nowadays, there is also a corresponding software solution for many areas of work. As a result, the same data is required in different tools. Synchronization and integration offer numerous possibilities for linking tools with each other and automatically exchanging large volumes of data.
Synchronization allows different tools and processes to be linked together and manual work to be reduced. In a possible work process, the requirements are maintained in a backlog management tool, but the tests are carried out in another tool. The resulting defects are then needed again in backlog management for documentation and processing. Synchronization allows the required data and information to be exchanged without manual effort. These aspects reduce the susceptibility to errors and users benefit from the time savings. It is also possible to exchange data from projects in the same tool. Data can also be migrated in this context. Transferring large amounts of data manually would involve a great deal of effort.
We are also happy to support you with integration issues. Be it the integration into a CI/CD pipeline or the linking of two tools. CI/CD pipelines can be used to automate deployment processes, which enables early testing and more precise change tracking. For example, a pipeline includes the automatic deployment of software after changes have been checked into the GIT. Unit tests, automated tests and security checks are then run. If these have the desired coverage and success rate, the software is rolled out to the integration or production environment. The results of each test stage are automatically transferred to the respective test management tool after completion. It is also possible to use plugins, for example, to link two tools directly with each other and thus transfer data between them. This means that all important information is available at a glance and users can work in their preferred tools.
Management and adaptation of the ALM tool landscape to the infrastructure
Our goal is to provide you with the application lifecycle management tools you need for your daily work in software development. Our services include installation, configuration and operation with a focus on our partner tools from Micro Focus.
What does application enablement mean?
Application lifecycle management tools form the basis for all software development and accompany software throughout its entire lifecycle. However, operating these tools in an existing IT infrastructure proves to be a challenge.
Our application enablement services include the installation, configuration, migration and updating of customer tools. This extends to adapting ALM tools to project-specific requirements. Even after successful implementation, we continue to provide support with services in the areas of maintenance, backups and fallback strategies. Thanks to our many years of experience in using the tools, we can draw on know-how and best practices and provide support in a variety of ways.
The primary aim of application enablement is to ensure that the selected tools work with the appropriate IT infrastructure. In the case of a new implementation or migration, this means that we analyze your existing processes, projects, tool landscape and IT infrastructure and, if necessary, coordinate them with you. Our advice is based on this information, without losing sight of the goal.
To ensure that the application lifecycle management tool can optimally support the software lifecycle, we advise on the creation and configuration of CI/CD pipelines and the integration of standard tools into the pipeline.
accompio as your point of contact for Software Lifecycle Management & Integration
accompio is your reliable partner for software lifecycle management and integration. With a deep understanding of the challenges of modern software development, we help your organization improve development processes, ensure quality and create seamless integrations. Through tailor-made solutions and expert knowledge, we help you maximize the value of your software investments and prepare for future requirements.