Lifecycle Quality Management

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Making Quality a Core Value of Software Lifecycle Management
Lifecycle Quality Management is a pragmatic approach that is changing the way organizations think about software lifecycle management by enabling them to proactively address quality from the very beginning of the software delivery lifecycle.




Lifecycle Quality Management aligns business priorities and quality expectations with project requirements, development activities and software testing with a comprehensive solution for software quality assurance, management and control.

Quality itself is often hard to define because it means different things to different people, but in the context of software quality assurance, the simple and appropriate definition of software quality is the convergence of complete requirements, correct code, and minimal defects that align to meet business goals.



To employ Lifecycle Quality Management, then, means that requirements must align with business goals as well as testing objectives, development teams must be able to control the quality of emerging software builds and identify defects very early, and the quality assurance teams need to focus on testing what matters to the business and easily leverage the known efficiencies of test automation.

To meet these objectives, Borland Lifecycle Quality Management addresses the following areas:

Continuous Build and Test Automation
Automated testing, integration, and validation for agile development
Requirements Based Testing
Aligning business requirements with testing priorities
Software Test Management
Enabling a process-driven approach for planning, documenting and managing the entire testing process
Software Performance Testing
Load and stress testing of mission-critical application to identify and diagnose performance bottlenecks before going live
Software Functional Testing
Validating that application features and functionality meets end-user expectations and business requirements

Unique Process-Led Approach to Improving Lifecycle Quality Management
Borland’s approach to quality is unique in that it takes into account an organization’s existing software lifecycle management maturity and leverages industry best practices to evaluate current performance and identify specific areas for improvement. The solution enables organizations to improve quality iteratively through:



Planning: Through proper planning, teams can ensure alignment between project and quality goals.

Verification & Validation: Through comprehensive verification and validation processes, including process audits, peer reviews, analysis & software testing; organizations can collect quality metrics all across the development lifecycle.

Management: Through change control, test analysis, status tracking, and reporting, organizations can control activities and assets driving quality initiatives, determine whether corrective actions are necessary, and inform management of on-demand status and readiness.

Improvement: Through metrics and criteria defined and analyzed during the quality process, development teams can respond to identified issues, whether they are process, requirements, or implementation related, eliminating or improving the root causes for follow-on development activities.


Benefits
Effective Lifecycle Quality Management empowers software teams to:

Mitigate Risk
Make informed, traceable, validated Go/No Go decisions
Identify defects of all types earlier in the development phase and effectively across QA
Know that performance and scalability are up to production standards
Validate that users are receiving business value, as expected
Understand the impact of business changes on development and test activities
Reduce Costs and Time to Market
Eliminate defects in requirements – the highest source of software problems
Capture defects on the developers desktop before Quality Assurance teams ever see them
Reduce and eliminate broken builds that often bring Quality Assurance to a standstill
Capitalize on the efficiency, accuracy and time-savings of test automation
Increase Efficiency, Profitability, Competitiveness
Support manual and automated testing with process, efficiency and reporting
Manage heterogeneous testing environments with a single quality platform
Gain visibility into the testing process and project readiness
Deliver applications faster than competitors
Deliver applications with higher quality and better performance than competitors
Meet business needs with confidence that functionality and performance meet user expectations
Provide traceability to defects, requirements and tests for compliance needs

Borland applies the Lifecycle Quality Management Solution via Borland® Accelerate, a proven four-phase improvement approach for customer success designed to transform an organization’s process maturity level. The flexible Accelerate framework allows Borland to tailor the solution to the customer’s unique needs. It leverages:

Best-in-Class Processes backed by assessment tools, a knowledgebase of process models, implementation toolkits, a proven project management approach and a repository of best practices
Technology to efficiently automate and enforce those processes, including Borland’s award-winning Silk product line
Skills Training to ensure successful adoption of the processes and technology



Using the proven Borland Accelerate Framework as a guide, Borland supports organizations at various stages in their Lifecycle Quality Management efforts.

Phase I: Borland experts help define goals using executive workshops and other activities that result in clearly defined objectives.
Phase II: Borland experts help organizations architect and plan their Lifecycle Quality approach using workshops that result in a prioritized set of processes and practices, as well as skills development plans.
Phase III: Borland helps organizations develop and deploy an appropriate Lifecycle Quality solution that incorporates education learning paths and workshops to help define processes, train users, and pilot the solution.
Phase IV: Borland helps organizations validate their Lifecycle Quality efforts using perform