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Zephyr forVarious QA Methodologies 
Zephyr with its flexible design, easily fits and enhances any test methodology that you might be using as part of your software development lifecycle: Waterfall
 
, Agile
 
, V-Model or a Hybrid.  Zephyr is organized into multiple, logical areas - Department, Projects, Releases/Iterationsand has applications in each area that allow for the rigidity of a process flow while keeping theoverall model flexible to accommodate changes. This approach leads to effectivemanagement of every aspect of your testing department, while giving enhanced productivityand efficiency gains to all members of the department in their day-to-day activities.
 
Zephyr as applied to Waterfall
The Waterfall approach to software development has the following salient aspects:
 
It boasts a structured, well documented and disciplined process
 
While being non-iterative, it allows multiple projects to run in parallel
 
It is predictive and largely used for more stable projectsFor its part, Testing has its own stage within this process and benefits largely from the above.Using Zephyr as a Test Management System in such an environment is very beneficial and the above diagram shows the correlation between the various stages and the appropriateapplications within Zephyr.Zephyr is contextual based on the organization of projects and the releases that it contains.This allows for multiple releases (major, minor, patches etc.) to be planned, executed andtracked in parallel. All test cases, documents, schedules, execution, reports, metrics anddashboards are kept contextual to a particular release and accessed appropriately.
 
 
Zephyr as applied to Agile
The Agile approach to software development has the following salient aspects to it:
 
It boasts an adaptive, fast process
 
Consists of multiple iterations (1-4 weeks) with each iteration being a software projectin itself, producing fully functional software components
 
Continuous communication, re-usability and a final releaseZephyr is contextual based on the organization of projects and the iterations that it contains.A loose process can be applied and all test cases, documents, schedules, execution, reports,metrics and dashboards are kept contextual to a particular iteration as part of a larger releaseand accessed appropriately.
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