Rally upgrade fixes bugs earlier in agile process
By Robert Mullins
June 5, 2008 —
Rally Software wants developers to be successful when writing software using the agile development process, introducing Rally Quality Manager to help them include quality management testing earlier than customary.
Rally, a privately held, unveiled a new release of Rally Quality Manager Tuesday. Yesterday, Rally revealed that it also received a new round of venture capital.
Quality Manager, claims the company, is able to identify and correct defects during development, rather than waiting until the software is completed.
“We need to move quality away from the back of the bus, where we integrate it late in the cycle, and start bringing that notion forward into the process,” said Ryan Martens, Rally’s co-founder and CTO.
That objective is at the heart of agile software development, in contrast to the traditional “waterfall” process, he noted, pointing to functions Rally added to the features of Quality Manager in this latest release. These include the ability to manage tests across all concurrent projects and schedules, to create test cases directly from software requirements and to record full test histories for monitoring feature or system quality trends. For improved collaboration and communication, Quality Manager now offers dashboards with testing information that can be shared among team members with the aim of resolving defects more quickly.
By waiting until the end to run quality tests on the developed software, the team creates more work for itself, having to backtrack through thousands of lines of code looking for a defect, said Martens.
He compared it to dredging a body of water. “You basically have filled up a huge lake full of specs, and at the bottom of that lake is some nasty [defects], but you don’t know how nasty they really are until you’ve drained a lot of the lake,” he explained.
Instead, Quality Manager tests for quality at each iteration of the agile development process, including regression testing to identify the adverse effect that new code may have on code already written, Martens noted.
Rally is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, selling access to its applications on a subscription basis. Rally Quality Manager starts at US$10 per user per month as an add-on module to Rally Enterprise Edition, its agile life-cycle management platform, which itself starts at $35 per user per month. Rally also offers an agile platform called Rally Community Edition that is free for up to 10 users, but Quality Manager cannot be added to Community Edition.
Fueling its plans, Rally also landed $16.5 million in Series C funding led by Mohr Davidow Ventures, as well as additional investments from existing backers Boulder Ventures, Mobius Venture Capital and Vista Ventures. Rally, which is based in Boulder, Colo., plans to use the additional venture capital to expand its sales operations into the high tech markets of Boston and California’s Silicon Valley.
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