Incorporate Test Management into the Application Lifecycle
How integrated is your QA effort into full application lifecycle? Effective test management ensures the delivery of quality software projects. Every requirement needs proper test coverage, and when issues are uncovered during the testing phase, these defects need to be accurately tracked, evaluated and resolved.
MKS Integrity for Test Management is the only test management solution on the market today built as an extension to an application lifecycle management platform. Unlike other standalone vendor offerings, MKS Integrity for Test Management breaks down the walls between business analysts, development and QA, liberating teams from their silos to collaborate more fully, and with greater ease.
Features and Benefits
True requirements based testing – MKS Integrity for Test Management offers complete traceability between requirements, test cases, defects and related development activities coupled with suspect link flagging providing teams with improved upstream and downstream information and ensures your project receives complete test coverage. Suspect link flags allow QA managers, developers and business users to immediately see and be notified of changing requirements and to assess the impact of these changes on the testing process in real time.
Metrics, Trends and Analytics – MKS Integrity’s powerful querying, charting, reporting and dashboards reveal information about test efforts and project status in real time – no manual data entry – information is mined directly from processes and activities governing the lifecycle.
- Test Results Editor – Provides a focused environment for staff to execute tests. QA staff can enter the results of manual testing here; view test results; query on existing defects, and raise new defects and link them to workflow and related documentation.
- Automated Test Execution Framework – Integrates MKS Test with leading test execution tools such as Mercury Quick Test Pro, ITKO Lisa. Execution of automated tests and results can be recorded in MKS Integrity.
- Historical Reporting – Provides QA managers, project managers and business users with the ability to view change to test cases, projects and requirements over time, to better analyze project performance and facilitate future planning.
- Flexible and powerful workflow – Tightly control the test effort with MKS Integrity’s powerful workflow, ensuring testing policies and procedures are followed. Approval cycles ensure only authorized personnel approve test plans, create or modify test cases, assign tasks and resolve defects, and workflow guides the transition of projects from development to testing to deployment, protecting critical business systems.
- Automated email notifications – Email notifications keep the flow of information moving and ensure critical items get attention informing QA managers of test coverage exceptions; changing requirements and outstanding defects in the testing process.
- Single repository control – MKS Integrity’s repository maintains complete audit trails of test plans, test cases and test results and their changes over time.
- Rich, Open API – enables integration with existing tools environments and existing infrastructure.
MKS Integrity Also Offers Integrations with Leading Test Vendors
Users with an existing investment in HP/Mercury Quality Center can also benefit from MKS Integrity. MKS provides an integration at both the process and workflow and source code management levels allows for natural process flow between development and QA and for the versioning of test scripts and other test-related assets. For more information on our integration with HP/Mercury Quality Center, see our solutions for HP/Mercury page on this site.
