Agile Software Development - Group Assignment

Spira Team By Infectra

Team 4 Members :

 Swetha S - 19BCS030
 Swathi Subramaniam - 19BCS032
 Swetha S - 19BCS047
 Dhivya T - 19BCS052
 Sibi Chandran-19BCS003

What is SpiraTeam?
SpiraTeam is a quality application lifecycle management system that
can manage your tests, requirements, releases, issues and tasks in
one integrated platform. Take control of the development of your
different projects as well as software testing lifecycles with this CRM
tool. The web-based solution gives users integrated dashboards of
different project health and status information, letting them to stay
on track with their projects. SpiraTeam has reporting dashboards to
allow businesses to track business projects in one consolidated view,
something that has been customized for agile methodologies and
even your legacy or hybrid waterfall projects. SpiraTeam has been
designed mainly to support agile methodologies including Kanban,
XP, Scrum, DSDM, and AUP, assuring teams they can manage all data
in one environment. In our SpiraTeam reviews you’ll learn more
about the software’s benefits, pricing, technical specs and more.

SpiraTeam is an integrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

system that manages your programs and portfolios, requirements,
releases, test cases, issues, baselines, workflows, and tasks in one
unified environment. With integrated customizable dashboards of
key project information, SpiraTeam allows you to take control of
your entire project lifecycle and synchronize the hitherto separate
worlds of development and testing.

Best For
Project managers, business analysts and QA managers looking for
integrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) systems to
manage their entire program from requirements, through testing to
delivery.

SpiraTeam Pricing Overview

SpiraTeam pricing starts at $42.00 per feature, per month. They do
not have a free version. SpiraTeam offers a free trial.

SpiraTeam Features

Main features of SpiraTeam are:

 Fully-integrated web-hosted document management system
 Capture requirements as well as decompose into detailed tasks
 Allocate requirements to developers depending on detailed
task estimates
 Track bugs, risks, enhancements, and issues
 Manage requirements test coverage
 Powerful web-hosted user interface that also includes mobile
support
 Full audit history of all the changes that have been made in the
system
 Web-based graphs and reports in MS-Office and HTML formats
 Prioritize as well as schedule requirements for
releases/iterations
 Create, edit as well as execute test-cases

Other Features include:

 Administrator Level Control

 Approval Workflow
 Audit Trail
 Backlog Management
 Brainstorming
 Change Management
 Collaboration Tools
 Compliance Management
 Content Management
 Daily Reports
 Dashboard
 Defect Tracking
 Dependency Tracking
 Discussions / Forums
 Document Management
 Gantt/Timeline View
 Iteration Management
 Kanban Board
 KPI Monitoring
 Milestone Tracking
 Multi-board
 Percent-Complete Tracking
 Portfolio Management
 Prioritization
 Progress Tracking
 Project Management
 Project Planning
 Release Management
 Release Planning
 Requirements Management
 Requirements Review
 Roadmapping
 Sprint Planning
 Status Tracking
 Supports Scrum
 Task Management
 Test Case Tracking
 Ticket Management
 Time Tracking
  User Level Management
 Version Control
 Workflow Management

Pros

 "The ability to copy test cases from project to project is a huge

benefit to us. Export and Import add on for Word is a great tool
that has been used by a number of our teams."

 "I've implemented Exploratory Testing, so test scripts are high

level one-liners, reading more like a checklist than a typical
Step 1, Step 2, Step 3 style of test scripts."

 "Easier and more user-friendly to use than HP ALM/QC, whilst

offering a similar level of comprehensive features, for a lot less
outlay than HP's ALM/QC, IBM, CompuWare etc."

 "The overview of all products is elementary and is very well

solved in SpiraTeam. The selection of connectable test software
is very good."

Cons

 "However we miss some specific functions. Therefore we

need workarounds or specific implementations."

 "The one negative for us was the lack of a sortable backlog

for scrum. I was not able to find a way to rank items in a list
to create the order for the backlog."

 "Lack of knowledge on my part of networks and servers

made various steps hard to comprehend, without
assistance."
  "In the past upgrading other vendor tools has been a deal
breaker when it failed. A tool should be able to upgrade
itself without throwing any SQL errors or similar."

SpiraTeam Benefits

SpiraTeam is a web-based collaboration solution that gives users an

integrated application lifecycle management solution to manage
tests, requirements, plans, tasks, bugs and other issues in one
environment, and assuring 100 percent traceability starting from
inception to completion.
Among the many advantages we cite in our SpiraTeam reviews is
that it can manage the requirements of your company with
confidence using SpiraTeam, as it allows you to quickly manage your
requirements and user stories in one consolidated requirements
matrix. SpiraTeam allows your business to drill down from the
captured requirements to check the test cases that have validated
the functionality, or the status of the logged defects.
Tired of managing project requirements or test cases using outdated
methods such as documents and spreadsheets? Use SpiraTeam to
improve your company’s testing methods and eliminate the shackles
of outdated methods.
The tool also gives the capacity to manage the list of versions or
releases of the software being developed. Each release can in fact be
broken down into smaller work units called Iterations or Sprints.
The tool also allows you to schedule assignments with team
members or load balance the task resourcing allocations. Your team
members can provide work progress updates based on their actual
and remaining effort. This ability provides business owners or project
managers with real-time visibility on the work progress and early
signs of schedule overrun, if in case.
SpiraTeam offers an efficient bug tracking solution to manage entire
testing process.
In addition, SpiraTeam has an online document management system
that allows project members to submit documents in a centralized
and safe location, plus additional support for documentation
taxonomies, meta-tagging, built-in version control, and folder
organization.
SpiraTeam also has an integrated instant messaging capability.
SpiraTeam offers complete support for various mobile devices such
as smartphones and tablets. It has a mobile web interface available
on a large number of platforms and devices, such as Windows Phone
8, Android (Nexus, Galaxy), and iOS (iPhone, iPod, iPad). The tool in
addition has efficient email integration capabilities

Technical Specifications

Devices Supported

 Web-based
 Android
Customer types

 Small business
 Medium business
 Enterprise
Support Types

 Phone
 Online
SpiraTeam Integrations
The following SpiraTeam integrations are currently offered by the
vendor:
 HP® LoadRunner
 Froglogic® Squish®
 SmarteSoft™ SmarteScript™
 FitNesse
 IBM Rational Functional Tester
 Badboy
 Neotys NeoLoad
 Microsoft Visual Studio
 Sparx Enterprise
 IBM Rational RequisitePro
 VersionOne
 Bugzilla
 HP® QuickTest Professional® (QTP)
 SmarteBear™ TestComplete™
 Selenium
 Rapise™
 Ranorex
 TestingAnywhere
 Micro Focus™ TestPartner™
 Apache JMeter
 Eclipse/Mylyn
 IBM® Rational® DOORS®
 Jama Contour
 JIRA