Case Study Application Delivery Management

Migros Delivering faster time to market and cost savings with a ‘cloud-first’ strategy for application delivery management

Who is ? Thomas Bertogg, Head of Release and Test Migros is ’s largest company, Management­ with Migros, explains: “Up until largest supermarket chain, and largest em­ then we had manually managed our application ployer. Structured as a federation testing using spreadsheets. As a result, our test with more than two million members, Migros is management was quite weak, and we didn’t also one of the forty largest retailer in the world. have a good overview of defects in particular. At a Glance Once we implemented the Micro Focus tech­ Flexible Micro Focus Response nology, the solutions served us very well for ■ Industry Retail to ‘Cloud-First’ Approach nearly 10 years. Our SAP implementation grew to over 10,000 users and we leverage most of A long-term Micro Focus customer, Migros first the common SAP modules to run our business: ■ Location leveraged Micro Focus ALM/Quality Cen­ter, finance, human capital management, logistics, Switzerland Micro Focus UFT One, and Micro Focus Busi­ supply chain etc. We are now moving towards a ness Process Testing (BPT) 10 years ago when ■ Challenge full HANA implementation which increases the the launch of large-scale SAP implementation Navigate a hybrid development environment complexity of our test environment.” revealed shortcomings in their existing appli­ with consistent application testing while creating cation testing systems. more transparency and saving costs Migros recently adopted a ‘cloud-first’ ap­ proach to its IT, outsourcing much of its plat­ ■ Products and Services form management to partner ATOS so that it Micro Focus ALM Octane “With excellent support from can focus on its core business and competen­ Micro Focus ALM/Quality Center Micro Focus we have been able to cies instead of system administration. Within Micro Focus UFT One the testing team this meant a renewed focus on Micro Focus Business Process Testing follow our corporate ‘cloud-first’ Micro Focus Connect approach while introducing structuring test management and its method­ ology. In a bid to be more responsive to change streamlined test automation for ■ Critical Success Factors requests, and reduce time to market for new + 100,000 test scripts and 10,000 defect reports increased application quality and releases, the organization moved towards a migrated to ALM Octane improved process governance.” DevOps and Agile way of working. As this is + SaaS deployment supports ‘cloud-first’ corporate not a swift transition it looked for a test solu­ strategy THOMAS BERTOGG tion that could support a hybrid development + Faster time to market with streamlined test automation Head of Release and Test Management model. The team was introduced to the SaaS + SSO for efficient and user-friendly onboarding Migros version of ALM/Quality Center and adopted + ALM Octane supports hybrid development this to eliminate on-premises maintenance, model “ALM Octane is available as a SaaS version, and gives us a way to directly integrate to our growing DevOps world. We work with Jenkins and GitLab and ALM Octane’s support for REST APIs lets us seamlessly integrate these.”

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upgrade, and system administration activities, connect it to ALM Octane, providing state- that make up the Migros family. ALM Octane’s while complying with a new corporate standard. of-the-art test automation in a DevOps envi­ SaaS deployment means that new adopters do ronment. Test automation for the Migros SAP not need to install any client software, making Supporting a Hybrid applications is currently provided through BPT, it far easier to scale and reach new teams. “We Development Model with UFT One managing SAP regression test­ have only been live with ALM Octane for about ing and functional testing for SAP Fiori appli­ Migros learned about Micro Focus ALM Octane six months, and already I’m receiving weekly cations. The SAP Fiori applications are tested through the Micro Focus Embrace DevOps calls from teams asking for ALM Octane ac­ through UFT One’s cross-browser and browser community. ALM Octane ensures high quality cess for their agile projects,” says Bertogg. device-emulation mode. Leveraging the application delivery and continuous integration “Different teams often work on completely browser emulation mode the team saves much via enterprise DevOps and Agile management. different networks, but this is not an issue for time by testing the responsive web design of “ALM Octane is available as a SaaS version, and ALM Octane at all. A big advantage for users Fiori applications on real mobile devices. The gives us a way to directly integrate to our grow­ is the single-sign on we introduced within vision is to extend this automation by including ing DevOps world,” comments Bertogg. “We ALM Octane, by integrating it with our Active it into the continuous integration pipeline. work with Jenkins and GitLab: ALM Octane’s Directory (AD) for credentials authentication. REST API support lets us seamlessly integrate It makes it far easier for users to access and it JIRA, in use with many of the agile develop­ these. We like ALM Octane’s modern look-and- improves our security.” ment teams, will be integrated into ALM Octane feel and the dashboard capabilities. Most of all, too, leveraging Micro Focus Connect. Connect we appreciate that ALM Octane can support a He concludes: “With excellent support from is a data synchronization technology that pro­ fully hybrid development model. Much of our Micro Focus we have been able to follow our vides data and relationship synchronization SAP testing still follows a waterfall methodol­ corporate ‘cloud-first’ approach while introduc­ between products across the software devel­ ogy, while our web applications run using an ag­ ing streamlined test automation for increased opment and DevOps lifecycle. Consolidating ile process. ALM Octane supports both, even application quality and improved process gov­ the environment will bring cost savings, and within the same development projects.” ernance. We have a much better overview of all much-needed transparency and visibility to steps throughout our hybrid software develop­ support regular audits. ALM/Quality Center’s 100,000 existing test ment lifecycle and are able to reduce our time scripts and over 10,000 defect reports were to market.” seamlessly migrated to ALM Octane. This ALM Octane SaaS Deployment ensures they remain available for reuse, safe­ and SSO Support Promote guarding the intellectual and financial invest­ Fast User Adoption ment, and auditing purposes. Soon Migros It is important that ALM Octane offers an easy will look to integrate UFT One with GitLab and adoption path for the many other companies

Integrated 3rd party solutions Deployment environment Development methodology ■ Jenkins as CI application server ■ SaaS licenses for ALM/Quality Center and ■ Hybrid between waterfall and agile ■ GitLab ALM Octane in a ‘Cloud-first’ environment ■ JIRA ■ SAP HANA ■ SAP R/3

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