Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer Other Advice

MH
Senior Presales Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

From an integration standpoint, it is well-suited for integration into the DevOps or platform engineering pipeline.

I rate Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer an eight out of ten.

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Gireesh Subramonian - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Director at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

For us, the process of implementing it starts with getting in touch with one of our internal teams and giving a business case for why we are going to use this tool and what the users' rights will be: for example, edit or delete or whatever functionalities we require. They will register us for the solution. Once this is completed, it will trigger an email so we can start using the tool. First, we create the backlog.

I work on it from a business analyst perspective and I help the project management team to understand what all the backlogs are that we are maintaining for the upcoming versions. As a business analyst, I note the requirements for the respective backlogs, based on business priorities. Then we pull them into the particular sprints. It will then move to the development team to start looking at each of the user stories. They will divide these user stories into particular, technical tasks.

From the testing team point of view, they create, under the same user story, their tasks and start giving their descriptions, including the defects.

Once it is completed, we have a UAT done and we update the status of each of these user stories as completed, or in progress, whichever is applicable.

Deployment depends on the complexity of the application.

We have 25 to 30 people using it in the current project. In my previous organizations, the same tool was used by more than 125 to 130 people. There are different types of users. Business people are also involved, as well as technical testing people, project managers, etc. Different stakeholders are involved.

We are implementing it in many projects now. It was not being used as much, in practice, in the organization where I am working, but we are now scaling it up to multiple teams, so that everyone will get the benefits. To scale up to different teams may take another year. There are different service lines in the organization and each of them has to adopt this technology. They are slowly picking it up.

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it_user558567 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead QA Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Make sure that you have the right staff with at least some skill sets, if you are looking to purchase a similar solution.

We had already done several POCs in different parts of the organization. Since they were using this tool and we needed to a carry out similar efforts, we just brought it in. Once they select a vendor, other groups just follow since the POC has already been done.

This tool is new for us and it is just that we are still not taking full advantage of it yet.

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AS
Data Insights & Analytics Solution Architect at BT - British Telecom

We're a Broadcom partner. 

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. 

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it_user631635 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Kick it off with users who are excited and interested in making the change. Users who are not on-board with the transition will have a difficult time in making the adjustment to the change in process. Excited, interested users make the best implementers.

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PD
Senior Technology Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Overall, I would rate Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer at eight out of ten because there are better tools available in the market that create test cases in such a way that parameters come out easily. Tools such as Tricentis interact well with virtual data warehouses and are able to get at the parameters.

However, if you already have Broadcom TDM, then Broadcom ARD may be a good fit for you.

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it_user778887 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Group Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Start small. If you want to pilot the solution, because everybody starts with a pilot, pick something that is low complexity and low change, that way you can learn the tool and understand the full breadth of what it offers you, because we made the mistake of trying an agile transformation in one of our highly complex digital solutions. We only scratched the surface of what the tool was capable of because there were a lot of band-aids. There was a lot of, "Okay, let me go do this really quick," and not really understanding what the tool could fully bring and really learning about the tool. Really, just make sure you learn the tool before you start implementing and you will get a lot more use out of it. 

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: price. For our company, it is price. We have to make sure the bucks are worth their bang. Then really, it is the people, like the sales team, the support team, their response times, how friendly they are, and how honest they are because we have found dealing with vendors for two years now and there have been some dishonest ones. So, we really value CA, their teams, and how they interact with their clients. 

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LR
Senior Leader in Software Testing and Process Improvement at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

It is important to ensure that people first understand modeling concepts and the organization's defined modeling best practices before jumping into tool implementation.

It is critical to get management support, as for some people test modeling is a very new way of thinking and they would find many reasons to push back. 

Check CA's videos on modeling available on CA's Youtube channel, before starting to implement the tool itself.

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PB
Front Line Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would advise to use this product, because it is a good way to create models and establish model-based process testing. The optimization technique with integrations is seamless, and a very good tool.

It gives us an idea of creating the visual diagrams, which are quite easy to use. It is helpful in creating our business processes. The optimization technique helps in giving us the minimum number of test cases with maximum coverage.

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it_user779175 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

When looking for a vendor, there are a few key things. 

  • The features of the tool - do we already have something that exists that has that capability today?
  • Cost, obviously - what's the cost? 

Those are the main areas.

I rate it a nine out of 10 based purely on the experience with licensing. If that were resolved it would absolutely be a 10.

Regarding advice to a colleague looking at this type of solution, I would say buy it. Start using it. I would give them an overview of what it does. There are great YouTube videos out there on ARD. That's how I initially learned about it, outside of the conversation with my CA rep. So go look at the YouTube videos, but then get your hands dirty. Get in there and start working with it, because it's really powerful once you learn it.

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it_user602409 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees

You should have a detailed discussion with the vendor as to what your actual requirements are. Also, concerning test data management integrations, there are quite a few valuable features which require TDM so you should consider if you need the full value trail there.

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it_user778866 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of QA with 1,001-5,000 employees

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: 

The tool capability is important, but we also assess the risk of the company. For example:

  • How stable are they? 
  • Are they enterprise-wide? 
  • Do they understand a company of our scale? 
  • Can they scale with us? 

That is really important. 

The second thing I look for is support. It is really difficult to affect change if you are in it on your own trying to get it done. So, having a team there beside you which helps facilitate the change is really important. I think CA has done a good job with that.

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it_user272643 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Quality Assurance at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Because of the amount of time that you have to invest to maintain it and because its not simple, not user friendly, I would rate CA Agile Requirements Designer a 5/10.

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it_user558630 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager Test Engineering with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think that this product is going to be very good, because of the team who develops it. They are trying to identify the important features the market wants and to implement them. They are also researching the best approaches to apply to particular cases.

If you're looking for model-based testing, I would advice to first to take a look at CA ARD. It's not a very complicated solution, so your learning curve will not be too steep. You’ll be able to quickly identify the core functionality. First, limit yourself to just model-based testing, then you can dive deeper and research different integration capabilities, such as how to integrate with automation and data management.

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TS
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

If you are looking to implement model-based testing, reduce the effort required for documenting the requirements, test case creation, automation script generation, maintenance of test cases, and automation scripts, then go for it. It will bring great savings to your organisation.

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it_user779121 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Of Architecture & Industrialisation (Agile/Devops Prg Leader) at BNP Paribas

Start using it now.

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SJ
Test Engineer Senior Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have to become more familiar with the automation part of CA ARD, and then maybe I'll come to the point of saying that it is a good tool which enables you to take your automation, the testing and development, from deployment and designing of your test case, to pushing them into your testing module - whatever tool you are using; that it is an end-to-end solution.

I would rate this solution at six out of ten. I'm working on Tosca, which is also an end-to-end solution for testing, and I see Tosca as a better option to use, except that Tosca is very costly compared to CA ARD. There are other tools as well, like RPA for process automation. CA ARD is lagging in competing with these tools. As an automation tool, it might not be the strongest.

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it_user797937 - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I would say it's an eight out of 10. It's a great solution for its purpose, but I think there are going to be more things which need to be added to it to make it a full-scale solution for the problem that we're dealing with. So, I give it an eight, but a strong eight.

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it_user716553 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Analyst Principal – Activation System Dev at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Take a piece at a time. It can do a lot.

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it_user558099 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would suggest buying this solution.

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