Inflectra 2017 Boston, MA, USA User Summit

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Boston, MA User Summit: 2017
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Agenda
 10:00 – 10:30 Meet & Greet / Coffee
 10:30 – 11:00 Company News
 11:00 - 11:30 Agile Training Champions Presentation
 11:30 - 12:30 SpiraTeam Showcase
 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
 1:30 – 2:00 SmarteSoft Presentation
 2:00 - 2:30 SpiraTeam Roadmap
 2:30 - 2:45 Coffee Break
 2:45 – 3:15 Sophelle Presentation
 3:15 - 3:45 Rapise Showcase & Roadmap
 3:45 – 4:15 Open Forum Discussion
 4:15 – 4:30 Feedback & Wrap Up

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Company News
Secondary Title

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The last few months
 Big releases across our product line:
 SpiraTeam 5.2
 Rapise 5.0
 KronoDesk 2.0
 Updates to plugins (Excel, Jira)
 Open sourcing a number of plugins
 New company strategy to make our tools better,
faster
 New initiatives (like today) to engage and help
our customers beyond traditional support
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Where do we want Inflectra to go next?
 Accelerate growth (in response to user demand,
not VC rounds)
 Release updates across our product line on a
consistent basis
 Develop features faster that make our tools ever
easier to use, and ever more powerful (it’s a
tightrope)
 Stay true to who we are and why we get up in
the morning
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Background – Who Are We?

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In a nutshell…
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What does this mean for you?
 We are focusing on three groups of people
 Each release will balance how we can help each
group, so everyone in your teams can get the
most out of our products
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Testers ManagersDevelopers

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What specific changes are we making?
 Updating our marketing to emphasize the “why”
 Why is Inflectra different
 Why you use our products
 Ensuring that we have a cohesive platform and
ecosystem that supports our brand
 Smaller releases to get new features out faster
and respond more quickly to your feedback
 Reaching out more proactively to our customers
and potential customers
 We’ll discuss this more later…
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Branding Changes
 In late 2016 we brought in a new head of marketing to
better communicate with our users.
 We have a new brand and identity that is simpler and
more cohesive across our products:
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Nurturing the Inflectra Community
 Sponsoring Local Meetups
 DC Agile Testing Community
 DC Coding Community
 Inflectra User Summits
 Europe – March 2017
 London
 Zürich
 Germany
 North America
 Boston, MA – Today!
 San Francisco, CA – September 28th
 Future
 Let us know what you would like!
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Getting Social with Inflectra
 Website – Blog, Support Forums
 Twitter – Latest News & Info
 Facebook – News & Industry
 LinkedIn – In Depth Coverage
 Google+ - Industry & Background
 YouTube – Product Videos
 Pinterest – Diagrams and Infographics
 Instagram – People & Events
 XING – Company news for DACH region
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Training Initiatives
 Developing curricula and training guides (see above)
 Working w/ partners to create online courses using LMS
 Free YouTube based videos for self-training
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Demo of Velpic LMS Platform
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Agile Training Champions
Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan
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Product Showcases
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Overview: The Inflectra® Platform
SpiraTeam®
SpiraTest®
Requirements & Test
Management
SpiraPlan®
Project Management &
Defect Tracking
KronoDesk®
IT Support & Help Desk Ticketing
Rapise®
Test Automation Platform (Web, GUI, Services)
TaraVault™ - Source Code Hosting

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SpiraTeam Show Case
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SpiraTeam 5.2 Showcase
 New incident list / detail page [Simon]
 Followers
 UI Updates
 Associations
 Graphs, maybe
 Program planning board [Adam]
 Testing things [Adam]
 Auto-suspect
 Test set auto-scheduling on build
 Personalized dashboards for developers, testers and
managers
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SpiraTeam 5.3 Showcase
 We’d like to present concepts for the following
two new features in v5.3:
 Exploratory Testing
 Test Configuration Management
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SpiraTeam 5.3 – Exploratory Testing
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SpiraTeam 5.3 – Test Configurations
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Test Configurations ? Why Do We Need Them?
 We have a test set with some parameterized test
cases:
 We want to execute the same tests for multiple
browsers and logins/passwords
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 We could add multiple instances of the same
test case with different parameter values:
 Or we could copy the same test set multiple
times and set different values on the set.
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 Imagine we have 5 browsers, 4 operating
systems and 20 logins to test:
 That’s 1,600 unique test combinations!
 How do we easily exclude invalid combinations
(Windows & Safari, Mac & IE)
 Test configurations is a way to separate out the
test data from the test sets and test cases.
 So how might they work?
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Test Configurations - Concept
 You create a new test configuration:
 You map each of the test case parameters to a
custom list that already exists:
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 The system auto-populates the table of all possible (but
not necessarily valid) combinations:
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 You can remove the combinations that are not
valid (e.g. IE & Mac)
 You then assign this test configuration to the test
set and SpiraTest will then allow you to execute
the entire set for each configuration.
 Could be used for both manual and automated tests
 RemoteLaunch and Rapise will be enhanced
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Lunch
We Start Back at 1:30 PM
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SmarteSoft Presentation
Scott Almeda
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SpiraTeam Roadmap
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SpiraTeam – Near-Term Roadmap
 Version 5.3 – Summer 2017
 Test configuration management, with support grid test data
 Enhancements for exploratory and session-based testing
 Cross-project associations for test cases
 Test pages UI redesigns to include new layout and fast loading
 New charts and graphs added to dashboards & core pages
 Version 5.4 – Autumn 2017
 Tasks pages UI redesign to include new layout & fast loading
 Tasks cross-project associations functionality
 Instant Messenger Enhancements
 New charts and graphs added to dashboards & core pages
 High-level program planning milestone-views

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SpiraTeam – Versions 6.x – Ideas for 2018
1. Document workflow functionality with steps, types, transitions and
states, with electronic-signature
2. Major reporting and graphing enhancements
3. Integrated intelligent alerting system with AI diagnostics
4. Enhanced timecard management with support for hours-per-day
level reporting
5. Support for financial estimations and tracking, and budget
forecasting
6. Support for Earned Value Management reporting
7. Program Portfolio Management (PPM) Enhancements
8. Project Tracks and Personnel Groups for enhanced planning
9. Features for storing and managing freeform documentation
10. Support for custom plugins and widgets in Spira platform
11. Requirements and Test Case baselining support

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Coffee Break
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Sophelle Presentation
Eric Johnson
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Rapise Show Case
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Rapise – Version 5.1 – Next Week
 Rapise Visual Language (RVL)– scriptless test design
 Specialized support for testing Microsoft web
applications
 Office365
 Dynamics365
 General usability updates to streamline record/playback
 Enhances REST API testing validation functionality
 Sample frameworks using Rapise with Git or Microsoft
TFS
 Global File Object to streamline file handling

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Rapise Showcase
 Overview of Rapise
 Record, Learn & Play
 The SPY tools
 Showcase of 5.0 and 5.1
 5.1 - Rapise Visual Language
 5.0 - SOAP and REST
 Integration with NeoLoad
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Rapise – Future Development Roadmap
 Version 5.2 – Mobile & Web Enhancements
 Integration with Kobiton mobile device cloud
 Support for Apple Xcode XCUITest and Appium 1.6 (replaces
UIAutomation)
 Support for recording with Microsoft Edge Web on Windows 10
 Support for recording test scripts during mobile testing when
sending events
 Version 5.3 – Data-Driven
 Data-driven testing, integrated with planned SpiraTeam data-
tables
 Support for additional packaged applications based on customer
feedback
 Smart-Learn functionality for learning complex compound
objects

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Wrap-Up
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Wrap Up
 Feedback (+s and deltas)
 Was this useful?
 How can we harness this group going forward
 Local meeting
 Annual user summits
 Other ideas?
 Blogging opportunities
 Other online platforms
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