Business User

Quality Software Testing

Your Goal: As a Business User you are competent in using your business system or application and rely on its stability to assist you in your day-to-day working life. You have an in-depth knowledge of the software you use and understand where it can be improved to assist you further.

When you find a software error or find an area which can be improved and request a new software build, you must first extract this information from the system and then report it to back to your company's development team. This ensures that the software quality of your products is improved and provides a better offering to your customers and prospect and remains competitive.

Your Challenge: To create and run reports, which accurately shows a software fault or need for improvement and report back to your development team.

Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft Word documents should be familiar territory for you, especially when you have been tasked with testing your application and you then discover a software bug.

The slow process of screenshot copy and paste is the tool you have been equipped with and you hope that there are not too many bugs to record! There is no substitute for manual testing, but copy and pasting screenshots takes its toll and yet you are the best person to test your company's latest software build, designed for your job function. Spending time to help out the QA team on top of your daily jobs may at times be tough, but with Original Software's TestDrive-Assist your time spent manual testing can be significantly reduced.

Should Business Users Write Code?

For some Business Users, writing code for their application is part of their job function. But should it be?

You may be a Marketing Manager in charge of the corporate website and know everything about your website but does that make you an expert in HTML, maybe not? There are many companies who take this approach in order to keep projects in-house and under control, not to mention saving costs, the problem with approaches like this is that it ignores the fact that there are often fewer checks on quality before the application gets deployed to where it can do damage.

Applications that are written this way often lack, version control, backup and restore, quality assurance testing and proper deployment procedures. If you are a Business User in this situation, what do you do to improve your software quality, manual testing? But does it have to be so... well... manual?

Imagine what life would be like if you could cut the time you spent on manual testing by half. With Original Software this dream is now a reality with the revolutionary TestDrive-Assist, a solution specifically designed to assist manual testing.

Push Your Manual Testing Into Overdrive

Even in today's world of high automation, manual testing is still a vital part of the testing process. But does it have to be so manual?

Manual testing is carried out by a variety of people, from developers and QA through to Business Analysts and end users and helps discover defects related to usability testing and user interface testing areas.

It will not surprise you to know that manual testing is the oldest form of software testing. It may surprise you however, that despite the rise of software test automation solutions, manual testing still accounts for at least 80% of all testing carried out today.

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. Defects can be corrected much faster, as the problem can be simply re-created, while the results can eventually be used to build fully automated tests, leaving you to get on with what you do best!