Qa Trends May09 V3

QA Testing Trends Your Text here Your Text here Pini Cohen EVP & Senior Analyst Architecture & Infrastructure Strategies pinicohenstki.blogspot.com 1 Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

Agenda The current economic situation and testing STK round tables – word from the field Agile software development TDD – Test Driven Cloud Computing and SAAS Open Source VSS – Virtual Software Appliance Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

Scenario: Adapting in Healthy Ways, Rather Than Fixating Adaptive organizations have a core foundation of values and principles that keep them from chasing their tails every time tactical winds blow Cost Risk and Transformation Quality Speed 5 Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

Testing and Quality? How low can we get? Price reduction is hearting everybody Your Text here Your Text here 7 Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

Local trends • Who is responsible for the testing: – The project manager – The production\\data center manager • “Critical security patch is available”. What do we do now? Complete test? Partial test? Project manager looks at the system? Non?! • “To ISO or not to ISO?” this is the question • Versions vs. Incremental changes? Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI 10 Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

Local trends • When to perform regression tests? End of project? End of module? Meanwhile?! • Change management : stopping “test server” caused production application to stop!! • Testing (and dev.) vs. Security department : – Who control the process? – Who is the responsible? – Who pays (project? General security budget?) • Security is up to 15% of development budget (critical applications) Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI 11 Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

Israeli Nearshore Acknowledging the Matrix Global advantage & cost saving (up to 50%) by outsourcing: Malam (Ma’alot); Ness Your Text here Your Text here (EDC); Aman (Tehila) the transition from PS Offshore: NTS to outsourcing 12 Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

QA Israeli Trends Existing clients have broaden their scope Service provides added value – HD employees transition to QA on-demand (e.g. Calanit-Carmon) Your Text here Your Text here Israeli nearshore providers are used as offshore by global clients due to standards of work & languish (e.g. Matrix Global) 13 Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

New Generation of Knowledge Workers • Live in virtual worlds • Expect immediate results • Many open threads • Deliver quickly, in small increments • Expect personalization • Intolerant of disruption In short: very agile! http://www.solutionsiq.com/resources/SIQ- AgileDevelopmentPlatform-Rudd-Young- Agile2008.ppt 15 Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

Agile Project Management - Overview 12 Code Analysis Code Test Test Implement Analysis 9 6 3 12 3 6 9 Source: Cutter Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI 16 Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

www.agilesparks.com.  AgileSparks is an Israeli company whose core and only focus is Agile. Led by a team of experts with vast experience.  Helps organizations move to a higher level of Agility and provides a wall-to-wall solution that includes training and on the job consulting.  The only company in Israel recognized by the International Scrum Alliance and approved to certify Scrum Masters.  Implemented Agile/Scrum in more than 100 companies in Israel. Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

Cost of Feedback – Test Driven DEV Trends Development http://losangeles.pm.org/presentations/tdd/TheRoadToTestDrivenDevelopment.ppt 19 19 Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

DEV Test-Driven Development Trends • Pick a Feature • Write a Test for that Feature • Run all Tests and see new Test Fail • Write Code for Feature • Run all Tests and see all Tests Pass • Refactor • Repeat http://losangeles.pm.org/presentations/tdd/TheRoa dToTestDrivenDevelopment.ppt 20 Copyright Oversee.net 2008 Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

Cloud Computing Modularity Desktop as a service Software as a service (standard applications) Platform as a service (custom applications) Infrastructure as a service (compute, storage, network) 22 Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

HP Software-as-a-Service offerings Customer service management STRATEGY APPLICATIONS OPERATIONS Quality Business Service Business Service IT Service Management Management Automation Management Operations Orchestration Quality Project & Portfolio Business Center Management Client Availability Center Automation Center Service Center Manager Performance CIO Office Operations Center Center Release Control Data Center SOA Network Automation Application Center Management Center Security Center Center DDM & Universal CMDB CTO Office SAP, Oracle, SOA, J2EE, .Net The HP SaaS global web platform Reporting Document library Security & audit Notification Data access Offered by HP SaaS Integration supported today 24 11 May 2009 Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI Pini 24 Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

HP SaaS global footprint EMEA 28 business North process monitors America 2 load farms Asia 43 business process monitors 6 load farms Africa Americas Australia/ Asia 13 business process monitors South America • Manages 100 million pieces of data Oceania Each day • Monitors 600,000 business processes every 15 minutes HP SaaS • Provides customers with an average of 90 alerts for BTO: 25 Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

Why Companies Use Open Source • Freedom / Flexibility • Lowers barriers to entry / exit • Can’t afford to build new applications from scratch • Tired of waiting on hold for support • Speed up development • Purchase only the functionality needed • Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) • ROI is shortened Source: AnyOpen Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI 27 Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

Solution - OSS quality • Emerging Vendors Utilize OSS Defects Per Thousands – Netezza lines of Code • Data warehousing appliance – Commodity hardware (servers, CPUs, storage) 0.00057 – PostgreSQL, Linux • End user clients utilize OSS – Retail – in-store appliances – Travel – web sites, fee schedules, reservations 0.00009 MySQL Commercial Source: Reasoning Inc. Be assured the next generation of developers/entrepreneurs will build on OSS Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI 28 Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

General STKI Madad Open Source •Lately we have received lots of Open Source related inquiries – maturity, support, reference, prices of: •OpenOffice •Tomcat •Jboss •MySQL •Drupal •Nagios •Subversion 30 Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

DEV ‘INDUS’ development stack Trends • Completely Open Source • Agile best practices Server Version Control Subversion – Continuous Integration – Test Driven Dev. Continuous CruiseControl Integration • Java build Best Practices – IDE Neutral – Ant Based Workstation Subversion Client TortoiseSVN / Subclipse – Maven 2 CheckStyle Coding Standards Tool Name Used For URL Subversion Version Control Server http://subversion.tigris.org/ CruiseControl Continuous Integration http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.n Code Coverage EMMA TortoiseSVN Version Control Client http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ Subclipse Version Control Client (Eclipse Plugin) http://subclipse.tigris.org/ Checkstyle Java Coding Standards Checker http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/ Unit Testing JUnit EMMA Java Code Coverage http://emma.sourceforge.net/ JUnit Java Unit Testing http://www.junit.org/ Ant + Maven2 Build Scripting Ant Java Build Scripting http://ant.apache.org/ Maven Java Dependency Management http://maven.apache.org/ Eclipse Java IDE http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse / NetBeans IDE NetBeans Java IDE http://www.netbeans.org/ JMeter Load Testing http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/ NetBeans Profiler Java Profiling http://profiler.netbeans.org/ NetBeans Performance JMeter Profiler Validation Profiling Load Testing Automated Source: www.bcic.org.in/notifications/BCIC- Selenium BSPIN/Mr.%20Madhusudan%20Rao,%20Satyam.ppt Functional Testing 31 Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

Why software can be painful • Assembly required! • User has to acquire all of the required components of one of the “supported” stacks • User has to install, configure and maintain everything • Manually intensive process • Error prone • Difficult for solution provider to replicate and support • Fault tolerance (HA/DR) not always there, implemented in inconsistent fashion (requiring run books for each process), and/or an expensive add-on Actual Solution Database Software Drivers OS Patches Operating System http://marketopsrepo.vmware.com/usergroup/preso /Virtual.Appliances.Overview.v3.ppt Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI 33 Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

What is a virtual appliance? • Pre-installed and preconfigured application packaged along with an OS in a virtual machine • Virtual appliances represent an evolutionary step in the distribution of software solutions • Updates (application – OS – other) is handballed by the ISV! http://marketopsrepo.vmware.com/usergroup/preso/Virtual.Applia nces.Overview.v3.ppt STKI modifications Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI 34 Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

Next Generation Laptops: Virtualization “Built-in” – Will this lead to BYOC Bring Your Own Computer? personal corporate image desktop Hypervisor from Citrix/Intel Intel Processors Source: Citrix STKI modifications Pini Cohen’s work Copyright 2009©STKI 35 Do not remove source or attribution from any graphic or portion of graphic

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