Rally Software Integration with Micro Focus ALM
In an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) ecosystem, the choice of systems, and the collaboration between the cross-functional teams play a great role. While the choice of systems impacts the productivity of a team, cross-functional collaboration helps the teams get complete context of the business requirements. Best-of-breed systems such as Rally and Micro Focus ALM (Also known as Micro Focus ALM / QC and Micro Focus ALM Octane) bring rich functionalities to the ecosystem. Integration of Rally with Micro Focus ALM ensures that the development and QA teams are on the same page when it comes to delivery timelines and has complete visibility into each other’s tasks.
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Rally Software – Micro Focus ALM Integration Overview
The integration of Rally and Micro Focus ALM (Also known as Micro Focus ALM / QC and Micro Focus ALM Octane) helps in bringing the product development and Quality Assurance (QA) team on the same page. As both, teams have visibility into each other’s tasks and complete the context of customer expectations, the quality of the product is better, and the delivery cycle is shorter.
Best-of-breed systems such as Rally and Micro Focus ALM bring rich functionalities to the ecosystem. Integration of Rally with Micro Focus ALM ensures that the development and QA teams are on the same page when it comes to delivery timelines and has complete visibility into each other’s tasks.
How Rally Software – Micro Focus ALM integration is beneficial for an enterprise
- Access to QA plans and defects in real time
- Real-time updates on the status of a story, its estimated time of delivery, and any risks that might delay the impending release
- Complete context of the customer requirement and visibility into codes written by the development team & test cases
written by QA team - Coordinate on the delivery timelines seamlessly with concurrent updates on changes
With Rally Software + Micro Focus ALM integration, enterprises can:
How OpsHub Integration Manager integrates Rally Software and Micro Focus ALM
OpsHub Integration Manager integrates Rally and Micro Focus ALM (Also known as Micro Focus ALM / QC and Micro Focus ALM Octane)in a bidirectional manner. It ensures that all historical and current data is available to each user, in that user’s preferred system, with full context, in real-time. All ‘requirements’ from Rally automatically synchronize to Micro Focus ALM where they are broken down to ‘stories’. The completion of the story and the status of test results against it automatically synchronizes to Rally.
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Use Case: Rally Software Integration with Micro Focus ALM
Problem statement: The development team creates sprints, and requirements in Rally – which is the development system and replicate the same in Micro Focus ALM (Also known as Micro Focus ALM / QC and Micro Focus ALM Octane)– which is used by the QA team. The defects are created in Micro Focus ALM and then replicated in Rally. Manual replication of data takes a lot of time and effort.
Solution: When Rally and Micro Focus ALM (Also known as Micro Focus ALM / QC and Micro Focus ALM Octane) are integrated, there will not be any duplication of efforts and the data between both the systems will synchronize in real time.
- The development team, then, creates ‘sprint’ in Rally with basic attributes, which synchronizes to Micro Focus ALM as a ‘cycle’.
- The development team then creates ‘User Story’ in the already created sprint in Rally. The ‘requirements’ sync to Micro Focus ALM with traceability of cycle and release.
- The developer then works on the ‘User Story’ and updates the status of the ‘User Story’ to ‘Completed’ in Rally, which again synchronizes to status of the ‘requirement’ in Micro Focus ALM.
- The QA team, then runs a quality test and finds a ‘defect’. They log the defect in Micro Focus ALM, which synchronizes to the ‘User Story’ in Rally.
Benefits of integration for Rally Software and Micro Focus ALM users
Rally Software users
- No duplication of efforts for entering the same data in multiple systems
- Clear visibility into quality parameters, QA schedule, test cases, and test results
- Seamless coordination on iteration start and end date
Micro Focus ALM users
- Real-time updates on the story and associated changes/enhancements
- Access to the business requirements, development status, and associated updates from within Micro Focus ALM
- Seamless coordination on iteration start and end date