Zephyr is a complete test management system. It has collaboration tools, customizable dashboards for instant status, Test Desktops, with built in metrics, and test execution capability with defect tracking.
You can read about it's list of product features here and see an overview video here. There's also a limit person trial version here. It has some very good looking interfaces.
I have only read about the product and have not tried it out but it sounded like it had some very useful features. Since I have not actually used it I can only give you my impressions. Some things I liked were:
- Central repository for documents or at least links to the documents.
- Test/QA/Management Collaboration
- Instant update of test status
- It sounds like it was for Agile development with all the communication and collaboration, but I'm sure it can be used for any type of development.
The ability to manage widely distributed test systems is impressive and massively useful.
A couple of big questions, at least for me.
One, how well it plays with TestStand and other NI products. NI is the big dog on the block for test software and electronic, at least at Lockheed and to get a foothold it would need to complement our NI abilities.
Two, We have a lot of legacy code and equipment from NI that we don't want to lose. Since our previous tests cases are in TestStand written in CVI or LabVIEW, how well you can re-use your old tests? How well will it interact with the legacy code?
I'm probably download and try out the trial version but it would be in my spare time. Unfortunately, that wouldn't be until the end of the year.
All-in-all Zephyr looks like it has potential and I would like to hear from anyone who tries it.
No comments:
Post a Comment