application lifecycle management (alm) methodologies and tools roundtable
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Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Methodologies and Tools Roundtable. Peter Mellow , VP ADP Development Sunil Belgaonkar , Software Architect . Agenda. Purpose and Goals Development processes and tools Agile Development process and tools Application packaging and deployment - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Click to edit Master title styleApplication Lifecycle Management (ALM) Methodologies and Tools Roundtable
Peter Mellow, VP ADP Development Sunil Belgaonkar, Software Architect
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Session ID: Session Title
Agenda
Purpose and Goals Development processes and tools Agile Development process and tools Application packaging and deployment Wrap up and next steps
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Application Lifecycle Management
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Purpose Of The Meeting
Get a broad understanding of the challenges Discuss different processes and tools used by customers Define scope of tools and development methodologies Where do we go from here?
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Welcome and Introductions
Please provide your name Goals you would like to achieve from this
meeting?
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ALM Components
• Requirements management• Architecture • Development, Build and Testing • Issue and resource tracking• Release management• Deployment
• What else?
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Session ID: Session Title
Agenda
Purpose and Goals Development processes and tools Agile Development process and tools Application packaging and deployment Wrap up and next steps
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Development Process Workflow
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Source Development Tools Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge Web tools Other Plug-ins e.g. Source code generators etc…
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Version Control Revision control, also known as version control or source control is the
management of changes to documents, programs, and other information stored in file system
Best Practices:• Set up change notifications• Version control is not a backup system• Use branches• Write good commit messages
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Version Control Tools ComparisonTool Availability Eclipse Plug-in OpenEdge
supportVendor
GIT Open Source Yes No
SVN Open Source Yes No Apache
CVS Open Source Yes (As part of normal eclipse)
No GNU
Mercurial Open Source Yes No GNU
Team Foundation Server Commercial Yes (Teamprise) No Microsoft
Round Table Commercial Yes Yes TugBoat
AccuRev Commercial Yes No AccuRev
PerForce Commercial Yes No PerForce
Clearcase Commercial Yes No IBM
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Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently. Each integration is verified by an automated build to detect integration errors as quickly as possible.
Best Practices:• Maintain single source repository• Automate build process• Commit changes to mainline everyday• Build mainline on integration machine• Keep the build fast• Test in a clone of production environment• Automate deployment
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Continuous Integration Tools Comparison
Tool Vendor Availability SCM Support Build Tools Plug-in availability
Jenkins/ Hudson Eclipse/Oracle Open Source Yes Ant, Maven Eclipse
Cruise Control GNU Open Source Yes Ant, MS Build Eclipse
Go Thought Works Commercial Yes
Team Foundation Server
Microsoft Commercial Built-in MS Build Visual Studio
Bamboo Atlassian Open Source / Commercial
Yes Maven, Ant, MS Build
Eclipse, Visual Studio and IntelliJ
Electric Commander
Electric Cloud Commercial Yes Eclipse and Visual Studio
CodeBeamer Commercial Yes Ant, Hudson and Maven
Eclipse and NetBeans
Team City JetBrains Free / Commercial
Yes Eclipse, Visual Studio and IntelliJ
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Testing The process of validating and verifying that a software program / application /
product:– meets the requirements that guided its design and development;– works as expected; and– can be implemented with the same characteristics.
Types of testing– Unit Testing - individual classes and methods– GUI Testing - interactive elements– Smoke Testing - software will not crash outright– Integration Testing - modules tested as a group– System Testing - compliance with requirements– Regression Testing - new errors resulting from ongoing changes– Load Testing - measuring response under load– Usability Testing - usability of the application– Security Testing - prevents unauthorized use
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Software Testing ToolsTool Purpose Availability OE Support Vendor
Valgrind Memory leak detection/profiling
OpenSource No Open Source
Selenium Web OpenSource via browser Open Source
GUIdancer GUI Commercial - Bredex
QTP GUI/Web Commercial Yes HP
Visual Studio Test Pro GUI Commercial - Microsoft
WinRunner GUI -
log4j Execution Tracing Open Source No Apache
WebUI Test Studio Web Commercial via browser Telerik
xUnit Unit OpenSource via oeunit Open Source
jProfiler Performance Commercial No Ej-technologies
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OpenEdge Focused Development Tools
Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge– Eclipse based IDE or modeling and writing ABL applications.
RoundTable– RoundTable is a software configuration management and source code control solution focused
on OpenEdge applications.
Build/Compile– PCT (Progress Compilation Tools) is a set of ANT tasks, designed to build OpenEdge
applications.
Unit testing – It is a method by which individual units of source code are tested to determine if they are fit for
use. There are two xUnit based frameworks, oeunit and prounit available for OpenEdge.
Static program analysis – ProLint is a language parser and set of customizable source code analysis rules for detecting
problems and standards violations in ABL code.
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Development Tools Discussion
What development tools (for different technologies) are you using in your environment?
What other plug-ins are you using in your environment? Does it meet your needs? Is it integrated into your build process?
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Version Control Discussion
What version control product are you using in your environment? Does it meet all your needs? Is it integrated into your development tools? Is it integrated into your build process?
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Continuous Integration Discussion Does your development process include continuous integration? Are you using a continuous integration product? Are your other development practices built on the benefits/hurdles of
your build process?
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Software Testing Discussion
Topics to discuss Unit Testing GUI Testing Load Testing
Questions What testing tools are you using in your environment? Does it meet all your needs? Is it integrated into your development tools? Is it integrated into your build process?
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Session ID: Session Title
Agenda
Welcome Development processes and tools Agile Development process and tools Application packaging and deployment Wrap up and next steps
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Agile Development/Manifesto
Style of software development that emphasizes customer satisfaction through continuous delivery of functional software.
Based on a variety of iterative development disciplines including extreme programming (XP)
Agile methods put developers to work in small teams to tight budgets and short timescales
Agile Principles:
• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan
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Agile Best Practices
Common Coding guidelines Code Refactoring Code Regression Testing Continuous Integration Test Driven Development Active Stakeholder participation Pair Programming Take a breadth-first approach Smaller is better
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Discussion
What agile methodologies have you adopted?
What benefits have you seen?
Do you follow one of the standard agile systems such as scrum, XP, AUP, DSDM, FDD or another one?
Are you using an ALM tool that assists with your agile methodology?
Have you provided any formal agile development training to your developers and product owners?
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Session ID: Session Title
Agenda
Welcome Development processes and tools Agile Development process and tools Application packaging and deployment Wrap up and next steps
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Application Packaging
Application packaging is the process of identifying application components and determining how the components should be installed and configured on client workstations.
Best Practices:• Avoid hard coding of paths• Provide uninstall capability• Provide rollback mechanism• Provide silent installers
“Enterprises that do not dedicate resources to packaging applications will fail at software distribution…”
(0.8 probability)— Gartner Group
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Software Deployment
The general process that has to be customized according to specific requirements or characteristics to make a software system available for use.
• Synaptic Package Manager
• Advanced Packaging Tool
• Portage
• Cygwin
• Web Client Application Assembler
• Windows MSI
• InstallShield
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Discussion
How do you do packaging?
How do you do deployment?
What packaging/deployment tool are you using?
How “hands-on” are each of the steps?
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Session ID: Session Title
Agenda
Welcome Development processes and tools Agile Development process and tools Application packaging and deployment Wrap up and next steps
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Next…
Where would you like to go from here?
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Goals of working group
Identify key tools by understanding different processes
Recommendation for the tools Document best practices / non-practices