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HPE ALM beta

HPE Application Lifecycle Management software

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Technology users across the globe are unrelenting in their

demand for faster delivery of engaging applications and
software functionality while expecting high-quality and
excellent performance. Speed, quality, and scale must be
balanced and achieved to stay ahead of the competition.
HPE Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software
is a functionally rich, single, open platform and repository
for your application teams to plan, define, build, test,
track, and accelerate delivery of high-quality applications.
The software drives innovation and enhances customer
satisfaction, while also providing your teams with real
visibility across all enterprise projects, and the complete
application lifecycle.
Achieving success in a bimodal world
While business pressures may drive many IT organizations toward faster release cadence, Lean,
and more Agile-like development processes, some groups have developed processes and
practices that already work very effectively, without requiring significant change.
In 2015, Gartner introduced the concept of bimodal IT, whereby they assert that organizations
may opt to run in two distinct modes to support their business demands. Mode 1 organizations
require little application development process or tooling changes and already do a good job at
satisfying their business goals. Mode 2 organizations require a much faster and regular delivery
cadence, involving more Agile frameworks and may include concepts such as continuous
delivery, DevOps, and others.
Goal

Approach

Governance

Culture

Cycle times

Mode 1

Reliability

Waterfall, V-model,
high-ceremony
frameworks

Plan-driven,
approval-based

IT-centric,
removed from
customer

Longer cycle times

(months+)

Mode 2

Agility

Lean, Agile,
low-ceremony
frameworks

Empirical,
continuous

Business-centric,
close to customer

Short cycle times

(days, weeks)

Source: Emerging Mode 2 Practices in Bimodal Governance, Gartner, January 2016

Figure 1: High-level comparison of the two modes as cited by Gartner

HPE ALM software is a market leader and has supported software application lifecycle
management for over a decade, and continues to support Mode 1 clients in their delivery activities.
Now, in the beta version, HPE Software is introducing a new set of HPE ALM capabilities that
represents the next generation. This HPE ALM product helps organizations to not only support
Mode 2 activities and processes but also aid in the transition to these areas. This new set of
software development capabilities is optimized for the speed, quality, and scale challenges of
organizations adopting Lean and Agile delivery practices, as well as delivering software through
DevOps pipelines.
Currently in beta, HPE ALM is inviting customers, like you, to take a look at what we are building
and delivering to help teams and organizations work in a faster-paced application delivery
environment. We deliver high-quality products consistently.

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HPE ALM
ALM

Plan

Define

ALM beta features

Test

Track

Plan

Define

Build

Test

Track

Release pipeline

Common platform

Testing products
Figure 2: The HPE ALM beta release supporting both Mode 1 and Mode 2 teams

HPE ALM beta features

Plan: Predictable application delivery needs awareness of progress and alignment with
goals and milestones, as well as the ability to access updated information without relying on
error-prone manual data gathering. The HPE ALM beta release allows teams to assess the
status quickly within their context and access the right data to make the correct decisions.
Define: Understanding the business needs is the most critical piece of data any project
team can have. The HPE ALM beta release has integrated the Agile user stories and backlog
management directly into the ALM software platform. With this, the teams can quickly
document the business needs and map it to supporting artifacts in the software development
lifecycle, such as defects or tests.
Build: High-velocity teams realize that quick understanding of what went into a build and
where to triage is an effective means to faster application delivery. The HPE ALM beta release
integrates directly into your Jenkins build environment, so you can quickly view release and
quality pipelines, as well as adjust as new or changing validations and regression tests are
created.
Test: Quality is critical in any application being delivered to support your business. The
HPEALM beta release provides the ability for teams to author tests using Gherkin, which
assists in the conversion of automated scripts and manages the execution of your test suites.
Whether youre planning your tests within the context of a continuous integration pipeline or
executing regression tests on the fly, with the HPE ALM software you can view aggregated
quality within the context of your entire application.
Track: Whether you want to log a defectquickly and easilyduring a regression test, or
review the status of a test or user story, the HPE ALM beta release provides information tailored
to your context. Customizable reports, graphs, and dashboards help the team stay on top of
critical items and with prioritization.

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Embracing open source: The HPE ALM software continues to embrace open source standards
and tools within the framework. With the beta release, you can author tests using Gherkin,
support test automation management of Selenium scripts, which is based on a GIT architected
back-end platform, and tightly integrate with your teams Jenkins build environment.
Business rules: To allow teams that provision workspaces and environments quickly as well as
simplify the administration of the system, HPE ALM is introducing visual business rules. This
helps teams to control access, enforce process and workflow, and to align with team priorities
quickly. The most beneficial process assistance comes through productive guidance, rather than
obstructive blocking.
Asset sharing, re-use, and tagging: Being able to share similar artifacts between teams or
projects doesnt just help save time and lower risk, but is a very common reality for many teams
today. Using applications modules within HPE ALM, teams can easily assign tests, defects, and
user stories to a specific application release, and can use custom tagging that quickly filters and
views items across the lifecycle.

Also Available Now: Predictive ALM Technology Preview

Predictive ALM: HPE Quality Center (QC) and Application Lifecycle Management are large
data repositories and, for most organizations, represent an untapped gold mine of insight. While
they are not capturing the same volume of data as highly trafficked social media sites, QC and
ALM contain large amounts of minable data.

We invite you to look at our public beta of

HPE Application Lifecycle Management,
opening in March 2016. Sign up at,
saas.hpe.com/signup/try/alm-beta
And read how you can help prepare your
existing QC or ALM environment to be
ready for Predictive ALM at:
bit.ly/1S6s0OU

When you consider the metadata associated with every requirement, test, and defect across
many projects, you quickly achieve a significant amount of data that is ripe for analysis. For
most organizations, this is dark data. Many people even think of it as overhead, i.e., archived
projects that must be preserved for audit trail or compliance. Rather, we would like to propose a
different perspective.
All of your organizations existing projects including requirements, tests, test runs, defects,
state updates, code check-ins, and more are some of your most valuable and unused resources.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has introduced a technology preview showcasing algorithmically
driven prediction for application lifecycle teams; we call thispredictive defect convergence.

Learn more at

hpln.hpe.com/contentoffering/predictive-defect-convergence

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