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Agile.Now Factory

Stable version 2.3.0 (Compatible with OutSystems 11)
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Agile.Now Factory

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Transform your OutSystems development experience with Agile.Now Factory! Seamlessly manage projects, automate testing, and deploy applications faster. Enhance productivity, ensure top-notch quality, and expedite your app releases. Download it now from OutSystems Forge and elevate your development game!
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For developers and project managers working with OutSystems

Agile.Now Factory is designed for developers and other project team members who build software applications on top of the OutSystems platform. It provides tools for unifying development processes across multiple teams in your organization.

The Agile.Now product family scales up the productivity of low-code projects throughout the entire execution process from software design, specification, development, testing, to deployment and production.


Click and watch this short video to discover what Agile.Now Factory is all about and how it can help your teams succeed!



Agile.Now Factory

Agile Now Factory is a product to automate, streamline, and accelerate the development of OutSystems applications throughout their lifecycle, from project definition to production deployment.



Project Management

FEATURES
  • Agile.Now Factory Project Management tool provides seamless integration to project management tools such as Jira and Azure DevOps
  • It synchronizes and automates project workflow across all stages of application development, including applications, modules, components, as well as teams and IT users
  • It tracks release deployments and manages teams activites working on the project
BENEFITS
  • Increase productivity, stability, and traceability throughout the Agile development process
  • Enable continuous delivery at higher quality with an improved level of professionalism
  • Communicate in an aligned manner between teams about ideas, processes, and technologies
  • Reduce effort and cost


Automated Testing

FEATURES
  • Agile.Now Factory Automated testing is integrated into various automated testing frameworks such as GhostInspector and Tosca.
  • It orchestrates and traces automated testing everything from the creation of test folders, suites to full test execution within the testing frameworks.
  • It enables you to run tests directly from the UI and notify the team of test results and directly link the issues to the project management tool.
BENEFITS
  • Leverages the quality of the deployed software, unifies processes and eliminates inefficiencies
  • Reducing delivery lead time and speeding up time-to-market


Automated Deployment

FEATURES
  • Agile.Now Factory Automated Deployment tool is seamlessly integrated into Outsystems Lifetime, which is the centralized console to manage the infrastructure and security.
  • You can set automated behaviours easily, for staging the application development processes resulting in maximum reliability and full control over development progress and delivery flows.
BENEFITS
  • Enables best insights, visibility and control over the full life-cycle of the application development process.
  • Eliminates disruptions and inefficiencies by aligning application development practices with operational activities across teams. 


Agile methodologies using low code platforms for iteration, for CI/CD

We are clearly seeing the impact of low-code on development environments and DevOps. Low-code began with small applications, and while DevOps-style teamwork and workflows may not be needed there, as the use of low-code platforms becomes the norm for critical enterprise projects, DevOps will be a necessary element. This is where low-code is having a more obvious impact; Agile methodologies using low code platforms for iteration, for continuous improvement, and for continuous delivery. These applications aren’t one-and-done. They need to be maintained, improved and delivered, again and again.

Agile.Now Deployment Pipelines

Deployment pipelines help enterprise low-code teams build an efficient and reusable process by maintaining development, test, and production environments. Application developers can incrementally transition a new or updated application between environments, reconfiguring them with the appropriate functionality, data connections, and permissions. Agile.Now pipelines are very easy to use and take only few minutes to setup. No previous expertise or coding skills are required.

Communication between the teams

The implementation of the DevOps approach presupposes that developers, QA engineers, and system administrators now work in alignment with each other. The ongoing communication between the DevOps practitioners allows for fewer bugs missed and faster preparation and delivery of new software pieces to production.

Increased test automation

Continuous testing is one of the key components of the DevOps approach. To achieve it, testing is automated with the use of specialized tools, e.g., Selenium, Ghost Inspector, and Tricentis Tosca which are designed to automatically perform various types of tests (such as unit, functional, integration testing) and promptly notify the DevOps practitioners on detected bugs.

You Should Adopt Agile.Now Factory If:

  • You have the lack of a good project foundation, preventing scalability in an efficient and secure way.
  • Items are untraceable, since the project backlog is detached, not knowing what has changed and by whom.
  • No automated testing, as in general testing is done ad-hoc, creating serious quality problems.
  • No CI/CD practices or framework.
  • Lower productivity and less reliable software. Developers spend more time on infrastructure and configuration and less on delivering business value.


Contact information

agile.now@esystems.fi or web site

Support

eSystems Nordic Oy - https://www.esystems.fi

User manual

Knowledge base inside of application or support portal

Release notes (2.3.0)

This release note highlights only the new features in Agile.Now Factory. The release includes a number of minor improvements and enhancements which are not listed in detail in this article.

  • Streamlining issues and modules association
  • Compelling module association for issues
  • Module change notification pop-up menu
  • Issue details - new "Release" tab
  • Technical debt information on Issue details and Module details
  • Configuration - Integration to OutSystems AI mentor
  • List of assignees and filtering option
  • Tracking module version deployments
  • User setting
  • Development environment probe


Read the entire release note here


License (2.3.0)

https://www.esystems.fi/en/agile-now-license

Reviews (3)
by 
2023-10-05
in version 2.3.0
I downloaded former version. Very good automate tool but only for companies with most developers. Very useful if processes with many tools must be created (project management with Jira, extern testing tool and other). 
by 
2023-10-05
in version 2.3.0
Interesting tool. Closes some gaps Outsystems traditionally had and automates processes across multiple components needed in development process. Integration with Jira and GhostInspector is cool. Finally a proper quality management!
by 
2023-10-04
in version 2.3.0
Definitely a best tool on OS platform to help keep quality of product and backlog, automate and control CI/CD pipeline.
Great UI, integration with Jira and much more, very well designed and documented.
When we started using it, it was a big step forward in our project!
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