Thursday, September 26, 2013

Test Execution Trend feature added in TTA (0.5.7)

A new version of Test Trend Analyzer (TTA) is now available on github.

These are the new features in it:

  • Test Execution Trend - to see the benchmarking of specific test execution over a time period
  • Failure Analysis View
    • Modified view to show failures for specific Test category along with specific test run
    • Modified view to show failures for All test categories with latest test run
  • Minor Refactoring for Compare Runs view
  • Query optimisations + minor defect fixes.
For those that missed the earlier announcement - summary of features of TTA is available here, and source code is available on github.


PS: There is a lot of work (features / UI) planned for TTA. If you wish to contribute, we would love your help!!

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

vodQA - Faster | Smarter | Reliable - on Saturday, 19th Oct in Pune

After what seems to be ages, I am very happy to announce the next edition of  
vodQA - Faster | Smarter | Reliable coming to you on Saturday, 19th Oct, 2013 at ThoughtWorks, Pune.


In this edition of vodQA, the focus will be on cutting edge testing technology, which will help us to understand how to be more faster,smarter and reliable in our testing approach. It will ameliorate our testing strategy in a faster and smarter world , following the best practices at the same time. The emphasis will be more on discussing ideas which enable us to test smartly instead of testing more.

We are hoping to target following questions in coming vodQA edition:

- What all things I should start doing to be more effective and impactful Quality Analyst ?

- What all process, tools and techniques I can use to get more faster and yet reliable results ?

- Can I use the tool I am already using in some different way which will make my testing effort more effective, more faster and more reliable ?

- What can I do so that software I am working on is always in production readiness state ?

- Are there any ways in which I can reduce my test life cycle ?

For registration details, click here (http://bit.ly/18LSnjc).

For all past vodQA information, see here.

Saturday, September 7, 2013

TTA (0.5.4) feature information and screenshots

Here are some screenshots from the current functionality supported by TTA v0.5.4.

See the TTA Wiki page or Contact me for more information on TTA.


Manual upload of Test data

Test Pyramid

Comparative Analysis

Compare different test runs

Test Failure Analysis
Integrate External Dashboards with TTA

TTA Statistics page

Saturday, August 31, 2013

TTA - closer to becoming unified dashboard for Test Trends and Status

Test Trend Analyzer (TTA), went live again today !!! We are now at version 0.5.4.

In the past week we have made a bunch of improvements and added new features - Integrating External Dashboard , which takes TTA closer towards being the central dashboard for testing status across the organization.
 
There are a couple of projects within ThoughtWorks using this, and also some other organizations.

Here is the list of new Features:
  • Integration of external dashboards (add from /admin page, see integration on /home page) - this allows one to integrate different existing dashboards into TTA - to make it a one stop place for seeing all Testing related information. Example: You can integrate your defect reports from Mingle / Jira / etc., or, you can also integrate your specific Continuous Integration (CI) dashboard from Go / Jenkins / Hudson / Bamboo / etc.
  • Compare test runs (/compare_runs) - to compare specific test runs --- 
    • what are the common failures, 
    • what are the unique failures, 
    • what failed on date 1, but passed on date 2
    • what failed on date 2, but passed on date 1
  • TTA Statistics Page (/stats) - to know usage of TTA by different projects / teams in your organization
  • Fixes + minor UI modification
Features available from some time:
  • Test Pyramid view (/pyramid) - to see how your project's automation effort aligns with the Test Automation philosophy
  • Comparative Analysis view (comparative_analysis) - to see the trend of your test automation results over a period of time, and if any patterns emerge
  • Failure Analysis view (/defect_analysis) - to make better meaning of the test failures, and help you prioritize which failures should be fixed first.
  • Upload Test Run Data manually (/upload) - to manually upload test data in case if you have not uploaded test data automatically to TTA, but still want to use TTA
 
More information about features, how to use TTA, etc. can be found on this blog, TTA-github, TTA-github-wiki, or by contacting me.