FY17 ADM Suites Quick Sheets
- 1. MODERN LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) HPE ALM is a unified software platform for managing and automating activities, insight, and assets to deliver applications from requirements through development, testing, and readiness for delivery. HPE ALM integrates with your development and testing tools and through integrated analytics provides real-time visibility of the progress, quality, and defect profile of your application projects at any stage in your software development lifecycle. In addition, HPE ALM integrates with upstream project portfolio management software and downstream deployment, monitoring, and incident management software to drive complete ALM of applications from inception to retirement. HPE ALM is ideal at improving visibility across local, distributed, and outsourced teams, and at managing the moving parts of today’s applications. Designed to support any sort of software development methodology from Agile to iterative to traditional waterfall, ALM promotes consistency across processes, drives best practices and asset sharing, and improves interactive communication among executive management, product and project managers, business analysts, development, and testing teams. Built on an open, easily extensible architecture, HPE ALM is one of the most widely adopted unified, technology-agnostic application delivery systems available in the market. Quality Center (QC) Quality Center includes software modules for Requirements Management, Release and Cycle Management, Test Plan, Test Lab, and Defect Management. Additional fee-based modules are available for Business Process Testing, Change Impact Testing for SAP, Service Test Management and web-application security testing (QAInspect). All these modules offer a seamless, consistent and repeatable process for all stages of application quality management - from gathering requirements, to planning and scheduling tests, analyzing results, and managing defects and issues. Quality Center is available in 2 different editions: Quality Center Starter Edition: Addresses the needs of entry-level QA organizations getting started with testing Quality Center Enterprise Edition Suitable for mainstream QA organizations who may not have expanded globally or may not be managing large, complex QA initiatives Agile Manager(AGM) Agile software development requires a shift in the way an organization thinks. It impacts all stages of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). It also affects all stakeholders within that lifecycle, from business analysts to developers to testers. Challenges include smooth iteration and release planning, collaboration among cross-functional teams, and reliable quality assurance for multi-layered and composite applications. You also must address how to effectively manage dynamic requirements and tests. We help customers who are transitioning, or have transitioned, from traditional waterfall approaches to iterative Agile methodologies. Our integrated application lifecycle management software and best practices help to manage Agile development and Agile testing processes successfully. These solutions provide better visibility, control and responsiveness across the lifecycle, from requirements management to delivery. They provide peace of mind to ensure that applications perform and remain secure.
- 2. MODERN FUNCTIONAL TESTING Automated Functional Testing Test more, test faster with HPE UFT and BPT, LeanFT, and Sprinter Today’s application teams are challenged to balance speed—time to market for the software that drives business innovation—and quality to ensure an amazing brand and customer experience. They are adopting practices like Agile Development and DevOps to get to market faster and requiring more automation in testing to ensure that quality stays at the center of application delivery. Our test automation solutions are both proven and well integrated into today’s Agile and DevOps development and testing tool ecosystems. With UFT and BPT, we deliver the most comprehensive and easy to use framework for the rapid design, development, execution and maintenance of automated functional tests. LeanFT builds on the power of UFT and is designed to provide a lightweight and developer friendly user experience. LeanFT is designed to leverage Agile development efforts to shift functional testing earlier in the application lifecycle, supporting unit testing, API testing, functional testing and regression as part of a continuous integration and testing process. And, as manual and exploratory testing will continue to be a vital part of ensuring quality in fast moving application delivery efforts, Sprinter delivers a powerful set of enablers to simplify, accelerate and focus manual testing on the creative aspects of testing while automating the laborious aspects such as data injection and testing across different browsers. All of our functional testing solutions integrate with both open source developer tools as well as with our ALM and Quality Center management platforms. In addition, our functional testing solutions seamlessly interoperate with HPE Mobile Center and HPE Network and Service Virtualization to accelerate mobile testing.
- 3. PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING AND LIFECYCLE VIRTUALIZATION StormRunner Load on SaaS (SRL) StormRunner Load is the newest innovative for Agile Cloud testing. It is Simple, Smart and Scalable. Simple: Because customer can now create and execute tests in less than 10 min. Very easy to create and simulate transactions, no need to create complex scripts Smart: It provides real-time analytics, helping customers to find performance issues before moving apps to production. Scalable: It allows customer to deploy load-generators across the globe via multiple cloud providers (Amazon, Azure and HP Helion). Customers can simulate from 1 to millions of virtual users within minutes. LoadRunner (LR) LoadRunner software is the industry-standard and market leader for performance testing. With LoadRunner testing software, customers can measure end-to-end performance, diagnose application and system bottlenecks, and tune for better performance - all from a single point of control. It supports a wide range of enterprise environments, from web, mobile to Citrix and ERP platforms. Performance Center (PC) Performance Center software is an enterprise-class application performance testing platform. It provides a complete, on-demand optimization solution for your application performance testing process, integrating load testing with diagnostics. Also available via Software-as-a-Service for organizations/partners: With on-demand projects (ad-hoc projects, seasonal testing, last minute) With a Center of Excellence
- 4. Network Virtualization (NV) Discover, emulate and test real-world network conditions affecting end users and application services Network Virtualization capabilities Discoveryand Capture Identify and record real-world network performance conditions (Mobile, Cloud, Web & WAN) Virtualization and Test Virtualize production network conditions to accurately emulate and test application performance Analysis and Optimization Analyze test results and implement optimization strategies to improve performance Network Virtualization components The increasingly distributed nature of applications and their users has created a significant burden on the networks and infrastructures required to continually deliver data and meet end user performance expectations. To manage this burden, application environments have become more complex, resulting in new (and numerous) potential points of performance bottlenecks. When deploying applications across WAN, Web, Mobile or cloud-based networks, Network Virtualization provides an integrated approach that incorporates best practices for ensuring accurate and reliable software testing. Service Virtualization (SV) Service Virtualization is an HPE branded solution that helps simulate and emulate the behavior of specific components in hetrerogenous component-based applications such as API-driven apps, ERP apps, cloud-based apps, and web services/service-oriented architectures (SOA). Value Proposition Empowers developers and testers to easily automate, predict, accelerate and scale their application testing and delivery through virtualization and simulation of dependent components and services that are either off limits, unavailable, inaccessible, or with costly fees to access.
- 5. Diagnostics (DIAG) Diagnostics software monitors of the health of application transactions in traditional, virtualized and cloud environments allowing quick isolation and resolution of issues. Using a common tool easily collaborate across the entire application lifecycle to release higher quality applications. Diagnostics provides deep drill down into transactions from the end user through the backend. It uniquely serves as a common tool set for pre-production and production to diagnose application performance bottlenecks quickly and improve quality. Diagnostics allows IT to Identify bottlenecks in composite applications, pre-production or production Share application diagnostics across teams for analysis and quick resolution Automatically discover and aggregate transactions from user, server, database and backend Monitor application health in traditional, virtualized and cloud environments Deliver business transaction management for composite/traditional applications SiteScope (SiS) For Systems and Application Performance Management SiteScope software is agentless monitoring for availability and performance of distributed IT infrastructures and applications. This proactive, web-based infrastructure monitoring solution is lightweight, highly customizable, doesn't require high overhead agents on your production systems, and can be securely viewed anytime and anywhere via an iPhone/iPad or Android device. SiteScope software also acts as a monitoring foundation for otherofferings such as Business Availability Center™, Managed Software Solutions™, LoadRunner™ software. For example, when used with System Availability Management (SAM) in BAC, you can manage multiple SiteScope servers as well as consolidate reporting across multiple SiteScope servers.
- 6. MOBILE APPLICATION LIFECYCLE Mobile Center(MC) HPE Mobile Testing solutions enable customers to address the challenge of optimizing mobile app quality and the user experience throughout the application lifecycle. HP’s mobile testing solutions span across the lifecycle from manual functional testing with HP Sprinter to automated functional testing with Unified Functional Testing and automated performance testing and virtualization with HP LoadRunner, Performance Center and Service and Network Virtualization. HPE Mobile Center acts as the glue that connects all of these aspects of mobile testing, providing a single gateway for customers to execute their tests, manage their on-premise and AWS-based devices and emulators and ultimately take control of their mobile reality. Primary value driver: Create based on scalable and extensive real-world testing Monitor all aspects of the user experience Amplify your delivery pipeline by shifting mobile analytics left Differentiator The right differentiators will depend on the various project requirements, and skills and maturity of the mobile app team. Fully integrated, end-to-end mobile testing solution across all the stages of the mobile app lifecycle Increase the quality of your work by bringing mobile analytics back into development and testing Replay sampled or lived network conditions with high fidelity during any test cycles Proof Points AutoZone is the leading retailer and a leading distributor of automotive replacement parts and accessories in the United States. In addition to a chain of brick-and-mortar stores, AutoZone runs several subsidiary companies including ALLDATA, which provides original equipment manufacturer (OEM) auto repair information to the professional automotive service industry. Accelerate testing by 194%, through increasing testing efficiencies Reduce defect leakage into production from approximately 15% to near 0%, improving application quality Accelerate release cycles (from 10 stories per sprint to 17), speeding time to market Cut data-plan costs 100%, by, saving $12,000 a year Speed testing by 12x (by running test scenarios across multiple devices simultaneously)
- 7. AppPulse Mobile(AppPulse Mobile) Monitor mobile app user experience fromthe user's perspective AppPulse Mobile is a SaaS APM solution that measures mobile app user experience from the user’s perspective. It provides a single, meaningful score from 0 to 100 that encapsulates the user’s average overall experience enables app teams to deliver 5-star apps. It’s tagless, requires no mobile app code changes to deploy. Key message AppPulse mobile uniquely connects user's actions to detailed response time and crash analytics and monitors key mobile app metrics such as app launch time, UI response time, crashes, errors, battery usage, and cellular and Wi-Fi network data use. It also provides a graphical user flow view that follows mobile app user engagement and interactions, screen by screen and shows key metrics such as total number of sessions, number of users abandoning the app at specific screen, and the most popular user actions. Key benefits Supports faster change execution, issue avoidance and problem resolution Improves speed and responsiveness to rapidly changing requirements Accelerates time-to-market for new innovations Differentiators Automatically detects app changes Uses codeless/tagless instrumentation that provides thread level visibility Provides unique, industry leading FunDex app user experience score Provides a graphical User Flow engagement view that follows the user's app interaction