Zephyr benefits
Written by Ivo Verlaek Monday, 12 September 2011 18:16
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Benefits How Zephyr can make a difference
Zephyr has been recognized by Amazon, UnderTheRadar, the Gartner Group, Forrester Research and Always On for its innovative test management platform, its enterprise class platform, slick UI, flexibility, integrations, methodology support, organizational strengths, breadth of reporting options, and simple licensing model.
Highlights
| Modern Enterprise Class Platform | Test Methodologies |
| Slick Web 2.0 UI | Organization |
| Flexibility | Reporting and Metrics |
| Integrations | Simplified Licensing |
We invite you to review these in detail.
Modern, enterprise class platform
Zephyr is a complete software stack using the latest and greatest technologies that come from the open source community and from our own intellectual property. There is no need to purchase additional software, including application servers, web servers, database servers, reporting servers and so forth. The software has been built for testers by testers, so everything that a tester needs is elegantly organized into a single workspace. This workspace enables the tester to do everything from one UI as opposed to having to launch and login to multiple different tools over the course of a day. Finally, the architecture allows for a first-of-its-kind push based reporting mechanism which makes it easy for the team to be confident they have the most up to date information.
Slick Web 2.0 UI
Zephyr has been built using Adobe's enterprise class Flash platform. The application is a Rich Internet Application (RIA) leveraging the latest in Web 2.0 technologies.Zephyr is a true windowing environment that assists in the productivity of the team since multiple windows can be open, as opposed to having to go back and forth using links within some applications.
Flexibility
Zephyr has no rivals when it comes to the flexibility that is offered. This flexibility was developed from the very beginning to solve some of the biggest frustrations in QA tools. Zephyr enables users to choose any browser they would like to use and makes it extremely simple to test any browser configurations. Additionally, Zephyr may be installed in Windows or Linux worlds.
Integrations
Zephyr is intentionally designed to integrate with any number of tools. Since the entire team cares about the quality of the software, the entire team needs to be able to share and integrate their assets with the test team. These tools include defect tracking tools, requirements management tools, and any automation tools or scripting languages. For teams who want to be able to customize Zephyr to even greater lengths, there is a full range of API's in the Developer Zone.
Test Methodologies
Zephyr is for any development paradigm. Organizationally, teams may elect to use different methodologies for different product lines or even projects. Zephyr is completely agnostic. Customers use Zephyr in Agile projects, Waterfall projects, Hybrid projects or even V-Model efforts. Teams are able to implement their process within Zephyr.
Organization
Zephyr make is possible to reuse testcases and test assets easier than ever before. Its organizational features allow teams to easily divide information into releases and projects as well as a global repository. Typically, when teams start with a new project as much as twenty percent of the time is spent looking for historical data with the intent to repurpose, or time is spent reinventing and rewriting information that is in the repository. With Zephyr's powerful search functionality and organizational strengths, teams are able to save significant time and money.
Reporting and Metrics
Zephyr takes reporting and metrics to a new level with its unique push based technology. Since every change to any test asset is automatically pushed to every team member who is logged into the system, everyone has real time information about productivity statistics and quality statistics. Zephyr's game changing technology means that every decision will be an informed one using live information instead of data that was obtained hours or even days prior to critical meetings. Dashboard information may be shared internally between teams as well as externally with third party development partners and customers. Teams may elect to add metrics to the dashboard with a click of a button. Zephyr introduced a first to QA teams - dynamic trend reporting. Static trend reports have been possible in legacy systems, but with Zephyr, teams have the ability to dynamically choose what information and timeframe for the trend charts on a moment's notice.
Simple licensing model
It is easy to subscribe to Zephyr. Teams have the opportunity to license the software for global teams with a concurrent global license. Teams also have the option to license the software for individual named users. Zephyr provides choices. Similarly, teams may elect to license the software for annual terms, several years or purchase perpetual licenses.
Summary
Zephyr's customers appreciate and praise the software for its current innovation, and contribute to the feature rich future roadmap. We invite you to contact sales to try the software for yourself!
