Well it was a long weekend just passed in Australia (Queens Birthday - not her real one), and I had decided to spend some of my holiday time getting up to speed with developing apps inRally.
So it was Sunday morning at home, I'd made arrangements not to be disturbed and sat down at my desk with a warm coffee in hand. I start out with the online tutorial series Building a Rally App and just as I get into it I realise - I don't have a Rally login to do the examples! Being the long weekend I'm not going to get any until Tuesday.
The examples require you to connect to their online Rally instance in order to work. Since the firm I consult for has a Rally instance hiding behind a firewall and I'm at home with no VPN connection - I'm going to be outta luck :-/
Staring at my screen for a few minutes brainstorming a workaround, I decide to take the long shot and email David Thomas at Rally - presenter of the tutorials. I outlined my predicament (long w-end in Australia, no Rally access) and asked if he had by chance a 'guest' login I could use.
Well, in a matter of minutes I get a response with credentials for a temporary Rally instance. Turns out David was 'kicking off RallyON in DC' and was available late Saturday night to help me out!
Email response reads:
Yep. Been there. Happy to recover the buzz kill.
:) dave
Almost at the same time I get an email from Nat Tanner our Rally rep who also offered to help too!
So I was a very happy Rally customer and made great progress. After having a good play making an app, I can say I am pretty impressed with the engineering behind the Rally app platform which is built on the Secha Ext JS framework. In that time I was able to build a small app that will hook into our test automation framework.
Here is a screenshot below. Basically I modified the iteration planning board to have a new status bar per story. The intention is to show status lights for each automated story test.
So it was Sunday morning at home, I'd made arrangements not to be disturbed and sat down at my desk with a warm coffee in hand. I start out with the online tutorial series Building a Rally App and just as I get into it I realise - I don't have a Rally login to do the examples! Being the long weekend I'm not going to get any until Tuesday.
The examples require you to connect to their online Rally instance in order to work. Since the firm I consult for has a Rally instance hiding behind a firewall and I'm at home with no VPN connection - I'm going to be outta luck :-/
Staring at my screen for a few minutes brainstorming a workaround, I decide to take the long shot and email David Thomas at Rally - presenter of the tutorials. I outlined my predicament (long w-end in Australia, no Rally access) and asked if he had by chance a 'guest' login I could use.
Well, in a matter of minutes I get a response with credentials for a temporary Rally instance. Turns out David was 'kicking off RallyON in DC' and was available late Saturday night to help me out!
Email response reads:
Yep. Been there. Happy to recover the buzz kill.
:) dave
Almost at the same time I get an email from Nat Tanner our Rally rep who also offered to help too!
So I was a very happy Rally customer and made great progress. After having a good play making an app, I can say I am pretty impressed with the engineering behind the Rally app platform which is built on the Secha Ext JS framework. In that time I was able to build a small app that will hook into our test automation framework.
Here is a screenshot below. Basically I modified the iteration planning board to have a new status bar per story. The intention is to show status lights for each automated story test.
Thanks again to the Rally staff for helping me out on a weekend!
Michael
Michael
