Original Software sees rising demand to protect mission-critical applications
CIO prayers are answered with the first manual testing solution to support the IBM Mainframe
May, 7, 2008 – Original Software, the automated software testing vendor, today announced the availability of an upgrade for its popular manual testing solution, TestDrive-Assist. Due to increasing pressure on CIOs to reduce risk on mission-critical applications, Original Software has experienced considerable demand to extend its support to the IBM mainframe.
TestDrive-Assist is designed to help business analysts, QA teams and user-acceptance testers in detecting and reproducing errors, sharing knowledge, and producing audit-quality diagnostics and reporting. With less than a ten minute learning curve, users are up-and-running instantly and workload can be reduced by over a third.
“Since its initial launch TestDrive-Assist has supported modern web and client server interfaces but we have been surprised at the level of demand for also testing legacy mainframe applications. Whilst the rate of development on legacy applications has dropped in favour of web interfaces, many of the worlds most critical applications are still based on legacy systems and any changes which cannot be properly tested represent an unacceptable level of risk to today’s CIO.” said Colin Armitage, CEO of Original Software.
The latest version of TestDrive-Assist extends its support to cover 3270 applications, the emulation used on IBM mainframes, otherwise known as the zSeries. A single solution can now be used for assisting with manual testing of Windows and Web applications as well as legacy iSeries and Mainframe green screens. There is full support for the mainframe including screen and input capture, performance statistics, spell-checking, test status audit tracking, test plan import, results storage and reporting.
Original Software will be exhibiting at Star East in Orlando this week, on booth 51, where they will be promoting the latest version of Test Drive-Assist and the launch of ManualTesting.com, a community site with a wealth of free downloadable resources designed to aid users involved with manual testing.
Existing TestDrive-Assist customers on a current maintenance contract will receive this upgrade free-of-charge. It can be downloaded from Original Software’s customer site. Trials of the mainframe enabled product can be requested from solutions@origsoft.com.
