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Full Traceability, from
requirements to tests
Mathieu AUVRAY, Enalean

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Full Traceability, from requirements to tests
What’s traceability
Definition :
Information necessary and sufficient to
judge the state of a product throughout
its production chain.
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Full Traceability, from requirements to tests
What kind of data
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From birth to death
• Location : Where it come/is/go
• History : Controls, states, changes…
• Identification : Product, item …

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Full Traceability, from requirements to tests
For what ?
Essentially to go back in time to:
• Prove that work is under control
• Justify the quality of design
• Understand and fix a problem
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Full Traceability, from requirements to tests
Mandatory for Quality
• Capture product items lifecycle history
• Compliance with certifications and norms
• Customers demands
• Audit and quality checking
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Full Traceability, from requirements to tests
Traceability = software cost-effective
It is an investment:
• Decrease the time to fix issue
• Decrease risks
• Reassure customers
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Full Traceability, from requirements to tests
ALM makes traceability possible
One tool for application lifecycle:
• Centralisation of information
• Centralisation of teammates
• Build information on the fly
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Needs
Use Cases
Test Cases
Features
Acceptance Criteria

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Full Traceability, from requirements to tests
Tuleap tools for each step …
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Planning / Roadmap Test Cases ResultsSpecifications / Deliveries Sources
Pull Request
GIT
Jenkins
Tuleap Test Management
Documents
SVN
Tuleap Agile Dashboard
Kanban
Tuleap Trackers
Dashboards
Delivery Manager
Tuleap Trackers

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Full Traceability, from requirements to tests
… with data linked to each others
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3 useful Tuleap key features :
• Artifacts links
• Cross-References
• Dependencies Graph

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Full Traceability, from requirements to tests
Demo
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Full Traceability, from requirements to tests
From Requirements…
Store your project documentation in
Document Manager.
Extract information into tracker
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Needs
Specifications
Epic #1
Epic #2
Epic #3

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Full Traceability, from requirements to tests
…to Features
Store the status, info and
history of features in trackers.
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Epic #1
User Story #4
User Story #5
Features
Epic #2
User Story #6
Use Cases
Acceptance Criteria
Release #7
Test #8
Test #9

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Full Traceability, from requirements to tests
…to Test Cases and Campaigns
Use Tuleap Test Management to increase product quality
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User Story #4
User Story #6
Release #7
Test Cases
Test Case #11
Test Case #12
Test Case #13
Campaign #10

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Full Traceability, from requirements to tests
Conclusion
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Full Traceability, from requirements to tests
Thank you
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