Its no suprise that agility in development lifecycle and availability of a product as a service that you can access from anywhere and not the least ability to scale to various channles like mobile and tablets have become mainstream effectively this year and many of the products are gearing up with these as must requirements. QMetry, a leading provider of software quality management solutions, has recently just done that with a major update to its advanced test management platform, which will help agile development teams to bring newer efficiencies to their testing processes.
The update will also enhance collaboration and reduce the development time, regardless of the SDLC process. In addition, the improved integration capabilities will help QA groups to improve the ROI on their existing ALM tools. Its already available as SAAS and is gearing up to launch the mobile app shortly.
"You don't need to scrap your existing ALM tools", emphasized David Silva, Product manager at QMetry "QMetry 5.0 provides seamless integration with almost all popular defect management and test automation tools. Our goal is to help you leverage your existing tool investments".
Drop Feature and Multi Version TestCase Support
QMetry 5.0 adds many new features to give QA groups more flexibility. QMetry's new "drop" feature allows QA groups to quickly add a new drop at the time of testing. "Many organizations, agile and otherwise, receive many iterations of software weekly and sometimes daily and want to track them as part of one development or test cycle. Our new 'Drop' feature allows you to do that," added Silva "whether you are testing a new code drop, bios version, development build, or patch your QA group can quickly test it and view the results either separately or cumulatively."
QMetry 5.0 now allows QA groups to test against specific versions of a Test Case. This will enable them to test a patch against an old version of the test case.
Project, Release Level Testing
The new version also helps QA groups better organize their Test Cases and Requirements by organizing them at a project, release, and cycle level. In addition, groups that use agile methodology can store unscheduled Test Cases and Requirements in the backlog to be quickly accessed and reviewed with the next cycle or sprint.
With its flexible architecture and API's i guess integration with industry leading agile tools probably could be on the way if i have to make a wild guess :). With an ability to test different baselines of your source code with different versions of test cases would be fantastic news to the developer/testing community working in iterative approach.
Improved Bi-Directional Integrations
QMetry is well designed to integrate with various ALM tools. It already boasts integrations with Defect tracking tools that include JIRA, Bugzilla, Mantis, FogBugz and more comes with API's it exposes allowing it to integrate with many commercial, open source as well as home-grown tools.
QMetry 5.0 also includes further improvements on its industry leading bi-directional JIRA integration. This will allow users to create or link existing issues from QMetry as soon as they discover them, or pull issues from JIRA as Test Cases or Requirements through QMetry's 'Advanced Search Query'. Users can also view and create Test Cases and Requirements from QMetry directly in JIRA. This will save developer's time logging in and learning a new tool, and they will be able to view the data they need where they need it.
The integrations also include industry leading Test Automation tools like SeleniumHQ, SilkTest, QTP, Telerik, TestComplete, Robot Framework and others.
Varied Products For SMB's and Enterprise
One of the focus areas of QMetry is also to be a right fit based on size of organization and organizatinal needs. QMetry professional version also introduces two new product editions: QMetry Core for the smaller organizations looking for a powerful streamlined version; and QMetry Enterprise a more robust edition for the larger organizations. QMetry Core is SaaS only and is available for evaluation released as of December 5th, 2011. QMetry Enterprise is SaaS as well as On Premise and is in beta for a Q1 of 2012 release.
In one of my chat with Manish Mathuria, CTO of QMetry has said "Most QA teams are tired of piece-meal solutions. We are trying to build platform QA hub where you can integrate various ALM products. We already integrate with various bug-tracking and test automation software. We would like to give customers an integrated view of multiple tools where customers can manage the entire software test life cycle from one place. We are also planning to create vertical focused test solutions. For e.g. we do a lot of mobile testing on InfoStretch side, where we are seeing a lot of unique use cases that apply to mobile testing from test management perspective. We are coming up with a solution based on the QMetry platform that will solve the various challenges that QA teams are facing while testing mobile applications. We will also be launching the QMetry mobile app pretty soon."
