Crawl, Walk, Run The only practical methodology to address 100% of testing needs.

For many reasons, full automation is often not the answer to your testing problems. You may have very heavily tested, complex business-critical applications where the prospect of full automation is simply too daunting; you may be approaching testing for the first time and want to dip your toe before diving in completely or with new functionality or a new application you may simply find automation not appropriate right now.

Up until now there has been no sensible alternative to full automation - it has been "all or nothing"...until now.

With Crawl, Walk, Run you can tailor solutions to your requirements

Crawl

There are some simple and fundamental steps that everyone can take to make their software testing lives easier... An effective plan of your testing activities will enable you to take control and manage the whole testing process. Our planning solution TestPlan will promote efficiency, communication and structure, enabling your testing process to mature and gain knowledge and experience. Better organized testing results in fewer errors and less effort in reaching higher quality applications for your business.

Manual testing still accounts for more than half of testing carried out today. Imagine the time and cost savings if you could cut your manual testing time by half? With TestDrive-Assist, our revolutionary active support solution for manual testing, you will benefit from powerful tracking functions that are non-intrusive and feel more natural. Developers can correct defects much faster, as the problem can be simply re-created, while the results can eventually be used to build fully automated tests.

Implementation can be as quick as one day, and you can be saving time and money tomorrow! With the initial successes you will enjoy in the "Crawl" phase, you will have more time to continue process improvements which in turn will allow you even more success and more time.

Walk

Walk Once the testing fundamentals of planning and manual testing have been addressed you should be in a position to move to the "Walk" phase.

Test Data Management (TDM) is fundamental to the success of your test strategy, and is an area where technology can often deliver a fast payback. Effective test data extraction from live databases will allow you to do meaningful tests on real data without compromising live information.

Our TestBench solutions have unique database and server integration capabilities. This enables central storage of all test scripts, results and data on Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and IBM DB2 databases. It means that testing resources can be accessed and shared by the entire QA or user testing team - and your server becomes a repository of your team's testing 'knowledge'.

Such control of test data ensures that every test starts with a consistent data state; and with strong data sampling, manipulation and archiving capabilities you will benefit from faster, more accurate testing with reduced disk space requirements.

Run

The final step in our methodology is the transition to full automation. Effectively deployed software automation solutions can have a significantly positive effect on functional and regression testing timescales. We deliver a unique solution that solves the twin issues of complexity and maintenance - areas where other vendors have failed. Our totally code free, state of the art user interface empowers the subject matter experts, enabling them to define and execute sophisticated tests unhampered by complex and arcane programming languages. Our ground breaking self healing technology enables you to re-use your testing investment for new releases and upgrades of your application - allowing you to benefit from minimum maintenance and maximum reuse.

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