Making Software Quality Assurance Part of the Entire Application Lifecycle

As part of an Intelligent ALM™ solution from MKS, Test Management becomes part of the entire application lifecycle rather than something that happens "at the end of development". We go beyond what traditional ‘test case authoring’ tools call Test Management. With a range of functionality and best practices including change management for test assets, unique reuse capabilities and the advantages of a coherent platform, MKS Test Management helps drive more effective testing, shorter cycle times and more accurate QA decision-making.

The accelerating amount of software in applications and devices, combined with delivery of multiple configurations or versions makes significant demands on test management. Complexity and volume must be consistently managed, or deadlines and quality are at risk.

With the only test management solution built as an integral part of an application lifecycle management platform, MKS Integrity breaks down the walls between business analysts, development and QA, liberating teams from their silos to collaborate more fully, and with greater ease. Capabilities to manage test cases persistently enable the reuse of valuable test assets release over release and from product to product.

MKS Integrity helps QA answer pressing questions that impact the business:

• Are we ready to ship?
• What is the impact of requirements change on the test deficit?
• What is the status of the defects found in testing? Are they still in development?
• Are we testing against the most current requirements?
• Where were these tests used before, and are they applicable to our current project?
• How is our quality trending? Are we on-track to meet our software quality goals?

What Makes MKS Integrity for Test Management Unique?

• Unified data model enables collaboration, visibility, and auditability
  Business analysts, developers, testers and other stakeholders benefit from a cohesive feedback loop that keeps everyone in synch. A single platform maintains complete audit trails of test plans, test cases and test results and their changes over time.
• True requirements-based testing (RBT) improves software quality
  Complete traceability between requirements, test cases, defects and related development activities provides teams with improved upstream and downstream information to help ensure complete test coverage. Know when requirements change and assess the impact in real time.
• Parameterized software testing helps you get more products to market, faster
  Write test cases that have a high degree of variability, and then reuse those test cases from release to release. Gain the flexibility to define parameter values which change the behavior of your test without duplicating the core asset.
• Make the right decisions, with a real-time view into quality trends & metrics
  Powerful querying, charting, reporting and dashboards reveal information about testing efforts and project status in real time. There’s no manual data entry -- information is mined directly from the processes and activities governing the lifecycle.