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Collaborative requirements modelling
Collaborative requirements modelling and test generation catch bugs and bottlenecks associated with poor user stories. Synchronise your requirements in Test Modeller flowcharts, creating the accurate user stories and rigorous tests needed to develop quality software in short sprints.
Are software requirements damaging your systems?
Today, requirements continue to introduce an unacceptably high number of defects to software development, with remediation costs skyrocketing the longer these bugs go undetected. Critical information about the desired system often remains in people’s heads, or is scattered across poorly integrated artifacts. These user stories, tables and diagrams rely heavily on natural language that is ambiguous, incomplete, and incapable of defining complex logic. Bugs then enter code from miscommunication and misinterpretation, but testing cannot find them early as it derives tests slowly and manually from the incomplete specifications. As fast-changing systems grow ever-more complex, a new and collaborative approach is needed to reduce bug creation and rework.
Requirements modelling for parallel development and testing
Test Modeller provides collaboration requirements modelling with integrated test generation, enabling cross-functional teams to deliver quality software in short sprints. User stories, diagrams, and data in collaboration tools are all quick-to-import, using connectors to synchronise information in visual flowcharts. Ambiguity and incompleteness are quick and easy to spot in the logical models, working collaboratively to add missing paths and avoid bug creation. Once this “shift left” refinement has modelled complete requirements, Test Modeller generates concise, but detailed, user stories into your tools of choice. This communicates the user stories developers need to deliver changing requirements at speed, while enjoying the tracking capabilities of best-of-breed tools.
The same requirements models that drive rapid development generate rigorous automated tests, testing and developing in parallel for truly continuous delivery. Automated coverage algorithms create the smallest set of test cases needed to cover all the requirements, or to target at-risk logic. This avoids test creation bottlenecks, while auto-generating test scripts to avoid the time lost automating tests. Rigorous test automation can instead be ready before a line of code has even been developed, testing rapidly and rigorously to find bugs before the next release. Test Modeller then makes it quick and easy to update user stories and tests at the start of the next sprint, collaboratively updating central models to regenerate linked requirements and tests.
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