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AchievingContinuousTest&DeliveryforMainframewithCAApplicationLifecycleConductorRoseSakachSr.PrincipalProductManager

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Abstract

AcrucialpartofAgiledevelopmentiscontinuouslydeliveringyourchangeswhilestillensuringtheyareproperlytested.Developersfordistributed,cloudandmobileplatformshaveenjoyedthefreedomtocodeandreleasetoanautomatedpipelineassoonastheycheckin.JoinustoseehowCA'sbestofbreedDevOpssolutionshavebeenextendedtothemainframeandcannowbeusedtoachieveEndtoEndDevOpsformainframedevelopersalongwithCA'smarketleadingmainframedevelopmenttools.

RoseSakach

CATechnologiesSr.PrincipalProductManager


Agenda

WHYAGILE?WHYNOW?

TIME-TO-MARKETISAFACTOROFMAINFRAME

WATER-FALLINGYOURWAYTOAGILE

ACHIEVING“PEOPLEOVERPROCESS”

DELIVERINGATTHESPEEDOFCONTINUOUS

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CustomersareinthemidstofDigitalTransformation…WhyAgile,WhyNow?

DistributedCloudMobile Mainframe

üDevOps

üAgile

WhiletodayDevOpsandAgilepracticesarehappeningonMobile,CloudandDistributedplatforms,weareseeingmorecustomersbeginningtoadoptthesepracticesontheMainframe


WhyAgile,WhyNow?

§ Ameanstoandend,notanend– Collaboration(People)overProcess– DevelopEarly,Often,notIntermittently– ContinuouslyImprove– LeverageHindsight

Practices(trainingplans)designedtohelpproductteams:

“Buildtherightthingattherighttimeasefficientlyaspossible”

TenetsofAgile


WhyAgile?WhyNow?

§ Morework,fewerSME’s

§ Businesspressingformorereleases,moreoften

§ Mainframeapplicationscontinuetotransition– Webfront-ends– Mobilefront-ends– JAVA– Services

§ DeliverytoPRODhasnotchangedin__years

Lookaroundyourmainframeorganization…..


Time-to-marketisafactorofMainframeBarrierstoBusinessAgility

v LongLeadTimesresultsinslowerandlessfrequentdeliveryofchanges.ImpactsTimetoMarket


Time-to-recoveryisafactorofMainframeBarrierstoBusinessAgility

v LongLeadTimesresultsinslowerandlessfrequentdeliveryofchanges.ImpactsTimetoMarket

v HigherMeanTimetoResolution(MTTR)resultsinmoreservicedisruptions,longerrecoverytimesandpoorSLAs. ImpactsReliability.



CAInterviewswithcustomersintheFinancialServices&AutoIndustry

“Manyofourdevelopmentactivitiesarestillon3270(green-screen).Weareinthemidstofskills-transition.Ournewergenerationofmainframedevelopersarenottrainedongreen-screen orCobol.WhilewecangetthemtocodeCobolorlooktoconverttoJava,wewanttoprovideourdevelopersmoderndevtoolkits,similartotheirdistributedcounterparts”

Inthemidstofskillstransition,lackofmoderndevtoolsimpactproductivityandabilitytodeploychangesfaster




“TheareasforMFdevelopmentthatneedthemostattentionaretheprovision ofhighqualitytestdata,thebuild ofthetestenvironment (JCL,Binds,PSBs,onlineconfigurationsandsoon)andtheautomationoftests.Foragivenprogramchangethisiswheremostoftheworkresides andtakesthelongestforaMFdeveloperanddev/testteam,togettoexecutablecodewithgoodquality”

Ittakestoolongtodeliverchangesonthemainframe(averagetimefornominalchanges:8-12weeks),causedbylackoftestdata,testenvironments,dependentapplicationsaccessintestingphaseandautomatedtestscripts



“Wehave100+applications,testscripts,largesetsoftestdata,dependentcomponentsonmainframeanddistributed.WecurrentlyuseanExcelsheetandtrytotrackandmanagetheserelationships.Atsomepointweconstrainourselves,sinceit’stoohardtotrackandmanagethesemanually.Weneedasolutionthatcancatalogandautomatetheseforuseaspartofourtestingactivities.”

Managingandtrackingtherelationshipbetweentestscripts,testdataandalldependentapplicationsisanothercriticalbarrierleadingtolongertestcycletimes.




“Themanagementofthetestenvironmentforfuturere-usetodoadditionalqualitytestinglikeperformance,scalability,securityandlackofreleasemanagement/orchestrationisakeychallengeforus.Wedothisverywellonthedistributedside,butnotonthemainframe.Itaffectsouroverallmobiletomainframedeliverywhenonesideofthehouse(distributed)hasautomateddeliverystagesandtheotherside(mainframe)isdoingthingsmanually,thusslowingdownouroveralltimetomarket”

CAInterviewswithcustomersintheFinancialServices&AutoIndustryLackofreleaseorchestrationandabilitytoreuseoftestenvironmentstoconductseveraladditionalqualitymeasureslikeperformancetesting,enterprisehardening,securitytestingisakeybottlenecktofasterMFApplicationdelivery


Water-fallingyourwaytoAgile

§ TypicalLinearProgressionOfChange– Development

§ Skillsets,Culture,CodeCharacteristics,AgileIterations– Delivery[prod]

§ Cross-enterprisedependencycoordination– Test

§ DataAvailability,Plans,Scripts,Automation– Deployment[testarea]

§ Configurations(Environment&Data),Availability,Cost,SMEdependency


Development Deployment&OperationalTesting

ChallengestoDeliveringInnovations…Continuously

Developers ReleaseTeam

Operations

TESTBUILD DEPLOY

Testers

OPERATE

DeploytoProduction

CulturalBarriers,

LargeCodeMonoliths

ConstrainedEnvironments

TestEnvironmentProvisioningChallenges

ManualTestingandScripting

IncompleteTestCasesandData

Cross-EnterpriseDelivery,

CoordinationandVisibility

LackofIntegratedToolsets

IDLETIME DELAYS

Code/Integrate/Build

Functional&UATesting

PerformanceTestingdefect

RE-WORK

defect defect

DELAYS DELAYS

RE-WORK


Achieving“PeopleoverProcess”

§ ImagineatransformedjourneytoPROD– WorkitemmanagementinAgiletoolstriggerSCMcontainers– DevelopersarepositionedtointeractwithmodernIDEsmarteditors– CheckINs becomeapush-buttontriggertoautomatically

§ Build§ Deploy§ Test

– Qualitygates,TestData,Testconfigurationsarepredefinedanddynamicallyconfigured

– Defectsareautomaticallycreatedwhentestsfail

BringingContinuousTestandDeliverytoMainframeDevelopment


Achieving“PeopleoverProcess”

§ ReconsiderHistoricalProcessesfromanAgilePerspective– Review,revise,modernized

§ Howmanytoolsrequireapprovals?§ Howmanytestsneedtorunforaniterativechange?§ Whichenvironmentscanbevirtualized?§ Whatdatacanbeactionable?§ Howmanypeopleneedtobenotified?

BringingContinuousTestandDeliverytoMainframeDevelopment


IntroducingMainframeDevOpsSolutionCAoffersSolutionsin4keyareastofosterprinciplesofAgileandDevOps

ContinuousMonitoringContinuousTestingAgileDevelopment ContinuousDeliveryDevelopandmaintainmainframeapplicationswithagileandmodernmethodologies,toolsetsandcodinglanguages

TESTEarly&Often

DEVELOPSwiftly

DEPLOYReliably

OPERATEEfficiently

ContinuousFeedbackLoop

Reducetestcycletimesandcostsofmainframetestingforbettertimetomarketandmainframeeconomics

Removethebarrierstobusinessagilityonthemainframe,withautomationtoreducetimetomarketandmanageskillsgaps

UnifymonitoringandperformancemanagementacrossmobileandmainframeteamsforbetterMTTRandlowerskillscosts


DeliveringatthespeedofContinuous

§ Directintegrationtoagiletoolsfromdevelopertools– CAEndevor®SoftwareChange

Manager– CAAgileCentral– CAApplicationLifecycleConductor

DevelopSwiftly

UseCase:AsanEnterpriseApplicationDevteam,weneedtheabilitytoeasilymanage,develop,andmaintaincrossenterpriseapplicationsusingdiverseteams,differenttools,ondifferentplatformstomaximizeproductivity,qualityandMTTR.



§ AutomateandOrchestrateDelivery– ReleaseAutomationforZ– CAApplicationLifecycleConductor

DeployReliably

UseCase:AsaMFDevOpsteam,weneedtheabilitytoautomateandorchestrateacontinuousdeliveryprocesssubjectingtheapplicationtokeyqualitymeasureslikeIntegrationtesting,UAT,System&performancetesting&preproductionvalidations,sothatwecandeploychangesquicklywithhighquality.

ZeroTouchDeploymentforz/OS

ContinuousDelivery

Pipelineforz/OS



§ DynamicallyConfigureEnvironment

§ Automaticallyprovisiondata

§ CatalogandManageAssets– CAServiceVirtualization– CATestDataManagerfortheMainframe– CAApplicationLifecycleConductor

TestEarlyandOften



§ Continuouslyfeedbacktokeystakeholders– CAApplicationLifecycleConductor

OperateEfficiently

AsanMFDevOps(ApplicationDev/test/Ops/Sec)team,weneedacontinuousfeedbacklooptoidentify,captureandnotifykeystakeholdersaboutcriticalOps,Sec,Test&Deliveryproblemssothattheteamscaninspectandtakecorrectiveactionsandrespondrapidlytocriticalbusinessissues.


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