18th December, 2012, – Original Software, the leading Application Quality Management (AQM) vendor, will be seeing in the new year with its latest release of their AQM platform. In addition to a multitude of customer driven requirements, this latest version delivers three key features, which further strengthen the company’s product leadership and supports their mission to deliver the fastest and highest ROI in the automated software quality market.

Firstly, enhanced Multi-Stream Testing (MST). MST has been available for a while with the initial implementation being based on the simple manual assignment of work load. Now, the company has focused on validating correct implementation across diverse platforms. MST is fundamental to automated testing across the application target configurations and it has the potential to deliver vital information when tests fail due to resource contention and locking. “What this latest version delivers”, says Colin Armitage, CEO at Original Software, “is the ability to automatically assign work to each drone PC according to the specified target platform needs, and then to capture full metrics against a common timeline for root cause analysis when problems are encountered. We believe these abilities to be unique in the marketplace”.

Secondly, this release sees enhancements, which are driven by the strict needs of the FDA’s CFR Title 21, Part 11 to meet the needs of electronic quality management systems in the pharmaceutical sector. Qualify, Original Software’s AQM solution, is the collaboration, communication and management platform that underpins Application Quality Management. Its ability to support multiple concurrent development methodologies is making it the platform of choice for companies targeting an agile methodology or replacing the ageing and increasingly expensive HP Quality Centre platform. In this latest release Qualify has also been re-engineered to become browser neutral and tablet friendly. “We see an increasing trend for tablets to become the device of choice for management and executives”, commented Armitage, “and the need to capture secure electronic signatures from busy management via mobile devices is key to proper processes in a cGMP managed environment”.

Finally, Original Software has been overwhelmed by the positive reaction to the ‘taster’ version of its animation capability. In response, the company is releasing a fully featured version that encompasses all the user enhancement requests. “Our customers have benefited by creating movies that facilitate user training, application documentation and communication with third parties. The common theme is that the movies bring the rich content we have available to vibrant life and shortens the knowledge absorption curve.

During 2012, the company saw four major releases of its AQM and 2013 will continue this pace of delivery against its product roadmap.

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About Original Software: (www.origsoft.com)

With a world class record of innovation, Original Software offers a solution focused completely on the goal of effective quality management. By embracing the full spectrum of Application Quality Management across a wide range of applications and environments, the company partners with customers and helps make quality a business imperative. Solutions include a quality management platform, manual testing, full test automation and test data management, all delivered with the control of business risk, cost, time and resources in mind.

More than 400 organisations operating in over 30 countries use Original Software solutions. Current users range from major multi-nationals to small software development shops, encompassing a wide range of industries, sectors and sizes. We are proud of our partnerships with the likes of Unilever, Euronet, Intuit, Pfizer Pharmaceutical (Ireland), HMV, DHL, Coca-Cola, Skandia, HSBC and many others.

Press contact

Maria Martin
Original Software
+44 1256 338 666
press@origsoft.com

3rd December, 2012, – Original Software, the leading Application Quality Management (AQM) vendor, today announced an innovative three-staged approach to help Oracle users reduce the pain of implementing ERP upgrades, while reducing the associated risks. The impact of these ERP upgrades is often huge, while Original Software’s goal is to transform them into an “Easy Repeatable Process”.

“Each of these elements are essential to transform the upgrade landscape”, commented Colin Armitage, CEO at Original Software, “and it is their cohesive integration that is the key.”

The first element is an AQM system that is pre-loaded to reflect the Oracle E-Business Suite upgrade methodology. It provides the essential communication, collaboration and controls for each project. The second element is an impact analysis, so the extent of the upgrade can be rapidly understood, planned and the appropriate resources allocated. The final element empowers manual testers to reduce the impact of this painful activity, supported by an easy migration to test automation to further reduce the workload in the future.

“The Oracle E-Business Suite community faces multiple challenges as they move from Release 11i to 12.x and potentially beyond to Fusion,” says Armitage. “Original Software’s intuitive solution is designed for business analysts, IT and end users. It directly tackles Oracle E-Business Suite upgrade issues, by reducing the impact on the users, lowering the risk and shortening project timescales.”

UKOUG Conference is a Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community organised by the UK based Oracle User Group, (UKOUG), and helps users of the full family of Oracle business applications and database software gain greater value from their Oracle investments. It takes place today, through to Wednesday 5th December at the ICC, Birmingham. The event brings together users of Oracle technologies such as JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Siebel and Oracle E-Business Suite, to offer in-depth education and networking opportunities, which will bring an expected 2,000 plus attendees.

Original Software will be showcasing their application quality management solution and at the same time, delegates can receive a personalised upgrade project ROI report and consultation, all on stand 40. Users of not only Oracle E-Business Suite, but also, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft technology, will be able to discover an “Easy Repeatable Process” ensuring a faster, easier and safer upgrade.

For more information about Original Software’s unique approach to Oracle upgrade quality management, please visit: http://www.origsoft.com/oracle

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About Original Software: (www.origsoft.com)

With a world class record of innovation, Original Software offers a solution focused completely on the goal of effective quality management. By embracing the full spectrum of Application Quality Management across a wide range of applications and environments, the company partners with customers and helps make quality a business imperative. Solutions include a quality management platform, manual testing, full test automation and test data management, all delivered with the control of business risk, cost, time and resources in mind.

More than 400 organisations operating in over 30 countries use Original Software solutions. Current users range from major multi-nationals to small software development shops, encompassing a wide range of industries, sectors and sizes. We are proud of our partnerships with the likes of Unilever, Euronet, Intuit, Pfizer Pharmaceutical (Ireland), HMV, DHL, Coca-Cola, Skandia, HSBC and many others.

Press contact

Maria Martin
Original Software
+44 1256 338 666
press@origsoft.com

20th June, 2012, – Original Software, a leading vendor in Application Quality Management (AQM) and Automated Software Quality (ASQ) solutions, today announced its attendance at the Gartner AADI Summit where, the company will celebrate its record for innovation in software quality by hosting an exciting Ferrari racing challenge, to take place on the evening of the first day of the event.

The 2012 Gartner Applications Architecture, Development & Integration Summit is an event that helps to evolve application strategy thinking to ensure that it continues to deliver business value – both now, and in the future. It takes place on Thursday, 21st June to Friday, 22nd June 2012, at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London, UK.

Thursday evening at the “Networking Reception”, Original Software’s stand will be transformed into a hive of leisure activity, with free beer and food. Punters will be able to test out their racing skills on a Ferrari Sega Rally Arcade, where the fastest lap of the night will win two tickets to the British Grand Prix!

Colin Armitage, CEO of Original Software, said: “Our racing theme reflects the speed and control that our solutions can help to deliver software quality projects on time. With more complexity in IT projects and a need to respond faster to changing markets, development and QA teams have had to adapt the way they work. Original Software addresses the need for a more dynamic way of working and for agile test automation.”

Original Software’s team of quality experts will be available for a discussion on booth S16 throughout the duration of the event.

For more information about Original Software’s unique approach to application quality management, please visit: http://www.origsoft.com/gartner

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About Original Software: (www.origsoft.com)
With a world class record of innovation, Original Software offers a solution focused completely on the goal of effective quality management. By embracing the full spectrum of Application Quality Management across a wide range of applications and environments, the company partners with customers and helps make quality a business imperative. Solutions include a quality management platform, manual testing, full test automation and test data management, all delivered with the control of business risk, cost, time and resources in mind.

More than 400 organisations operating in over 30 countries use Original Software solutions. Current users range from major multi-nationals to small software development shops, encompassing a wide range of industries, sectors and sizes. We are proud of our partnerships with the likes of Coca-Cola, Cargill, HSBC, FedEx, Pfizer, DHL and many others.

Press contact
Maria Martin
Original Software
+44 1256 338 666
press@origsoft.com

20th June, 2012 – Original Software, a leading vendor in Application Quality Management (AQM) and Automated Software Quality (ASQ) solutions, today announced its attendance at the TestExpo event where, one of the company’s leading application quality experts, Jonathan Pearson, will be presenting a conference session on the subject of moving from manual testing to automation.

TestExpo is a free event aimed at everyone with an interest in software quality. It takes place Thursday, 21st June 2012, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London. Jonathan Pearson’s presentation ‘Jump Starting Your Quality Automation Strategy’ starts at 2pm and will explore what determines the short and long term success of test automation, what to automate and what to leave as manual and how you can jump to automation in a seamless and painless manner.

“Since the first automation tools appeared on the horizon over 25 years ago, software test automation has been heralded as one of the saviours of IT development teams. Yet even in today’s world of pervasive automation, manual testing is still a vital part of the software testing process – 80% of testing is still carried out manually due to the failure of automated testing processes. The vast majority of tools available use scripting language, which is fundamentally limiting, requiring specialist technical skills and can be difficult to find and expensive to hire,” expanded Jonathan Pearson.

Colin Armitage, CEO of Original Software, said: “Even though software test automation has been available for over a quarter of a century, the practice still has many sceptics, and the biggest barrier to adoption remains the level of maintenance required to sustain it. Achieving just a moderate level of automation coverage requires considerable investment of budget and resource. With increasing software development complexity and more and more IT departments taking on an agile approach, traditional test automation has become too cumbersome for most to sustain.”

Since its launch in 1996, TestExpo has grown to become a respected source of testing news and innovation and a valuable forum for debate, discussion and networking amongst testing professionals. It is free to attend, and interested parties should register for TestExpo at: http://www.testexpo.co.uk.

For more information about Original Software’s unique approach to automated software quality, please visit: http://www.origsoft.com/testexpo

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About Original Software: (www.origsoft.com)
With a world class record of innovation, Original Software offers a solution focused completely on the goal of effective quality management. By embracing the full spectrum of Application Quality Management across a wide range of applications and environments, the company partners with customers and helps make quality a business imperative. Solutions include a quality management platform, manual testing, full test automation and test data management, all delivered with the control of business risk, cost, time and resources in mind.

More than 400 organisations operating in over 30 countries use Original Software solutions. Current users range from major multi-nationals to small software development shops, encompassing a wide range of industries, sectors and sizes. We are proud of our partnerships with the likes of Coca-Cola, Cargill, HSBC, FedEx, Pfizer, DHL and many others.

Press contact
Maria Martin
Original Software
+44 1256 338 666
press@origsoft.com

Apr 17, 2012, – Original Software, the leading Application Quality Management (AQM) vendor, today announced an innovative four-pronged approach to help Oracle users reduce the pain of implementing ERP upgrades while reducing the associated risks. The impact of these ERP upgrades is often huge, while Original Software’s goal is to transform them into an “Easy Repeatable Process”.

“Each of these four elements are essential to transform the upgrade landscape”, commented Colin Armitage, CEO at Original Software, “and it is their cohesive integration that is the key.”

The first element is an AQM system that provides the essential communication, collaboration and controls for each project. The second element is impact analysis so the extent of the upgrade can be rapidly understood, planned and the appropriate resources allocated. The third element empowers manual testers to reduce the impact of this painful activity, supported by an easy migration to test automation to further reduce the workload in the future. The final element are sets of pre-built test cases covering the key modules of Oracle E-Business Suite, which have been developed in conjunction with TruTek, a national provider of Oracle training and Oracle consulting services.

At COLLABORATE 12, Original Software in partnership with TruTek, will be hosting a series of presentation topics on Oracle E-Business Suite upgrades, throughout Monday, 23rd and Tuesday 24th, which will be held in the Vista Suite.

John Miner, Original Software Operations Director, Americas, will be presenting a conference session in the Suite, on the subject of application quality management that explores a strategy for testing Oracle upgrades and offers best practice. The presentation: “Mission Impossible? A Strategy for Testing Your Upgrade to R12”, will be held at midday on Tuesday 24th.

“The Oracle E-Business Suite community faces multiple challenges as they move from Release 11i to 12.x and potentially beyond to Fusion,” says Miner. “Original Software’s intuitive solution is designed for business analysts, IT and end users that directly tackles Oracle E-Business Suite application quality issues by ensuring that the implementation or upgrade delivers the business results the company would expect.”

COLLABORATE 12 is a Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community organised by the Oracle Application User Group, (OAUG), and helps users of the full family of Oracle business applications and database software gain greater value from their Oracle investments. It takes place on Sunday, April 22nd through to Thursday, April 26th at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The event brings together three major independent users groups, IOUG, OAUG and Quest, to offer in-depth education and networking opportunities, which will bring an expected 5,000 plus attendees.

Original Software will be showcasing their application quality management solution every hour on booth 1746, where users of not only Oracle E-Business Suite, but also, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft technology, will be able to discover an “Easy Repeatable Process” ensuring a faster, easier and safer upgrade process.

For more information about Original Software’s unique approach to Oracle upgrade quality management, please visit: http://www.origsoft.com/solutions/oracle-software-testing/

7 March 2012, – Original Software, a leading Application Quality Management (AQM) vendor, today announced an innovative partnership with TruTek, a consulting/training organization specializing in Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) of applications. For the first time, Oracle customers challenged by EBS upgrades can take advantage of a complete solution combining TruTek’s Fast Start Test Packs and services with Original Software’s AQM solution.

The partnership will deliver comprehensive planning, execution and management of all Quality Assurance activities for Oracle products. Mike Swing, CEO at TruTek adds: “We have a wealth of experience in the Oracle EBS environment and have built up valuable test assets and knowledge to make upgrades less painful. The Original Software solution enables us to deliver this knowledge to clients in a reusable form with our Fast Start Test Packs, and the ease of automation means we can help clients get quick wins.”

The Oracle EBS community faces multiple challenges as they move from Release 11i to 12.x and potentially beyond to Fusion. This workload is over-laid by the regular and time consuming effort involved with applying and testing patches for the Oracle E-Business Suite. The clock is running because, as Oracle offers extended support until November 2013, they have made it clear that upgrading to R12.x is an essential step to maintain support and enable further upgrades.

“Our customers are telling us that the amount of effort required to upgrade to EBS Release 12.x is a substantial increase compared to previous upgrades. It is time-consuming and costly,” says Colin Armitage, CEO at Original Software. “A large part of the work is in the testing and validation phases, which is likely to need to be repeated anywhere from five to ten times during the upgrade process. Once the upgrade is complete, the need for testing doesn’t go away – customers need a solution that they can use over and over as new versions are released by Oracle.”

Original Software’s code-free approach is especially suitable for this challenge because it was designed with End Users and Business Analysts in mind to avoid the need for specialist skills like those required for Oracle’s own offering, OATS, and other similar tools. Mike Swing adds: “The code-free nature and user friendliness of the Original Software solution suite was an important factor in our choice to partner with the company. I’ve not come across such a perfect fit for Oracle EBS testing in my 20 years of experience working in the Oracle space!”

Together, Original Software and TruTek will help Oracle E-Business Suite users build an effective “application quality eco-system” for the Oracle E-Business Suite. “TruTek’s expertise in Oracle, together with our capabilities in software quality, will support customer requirements to lower the operational costs for upgrading Oracle EBS Suite Release 12 and the ongoing Application Quality Management requirements of Oracle EBS customers,” concludes Armitage.

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About TruTek: (www.trutek.com)

TruTek is a national provider of Oracle training and Oracle consulting services, specializing in the E-Business Suite and the Oracle Database. Founded in 1991, TruTek offers Oracle database and E-Business Suite consulting, training and remote services, supporting Financials, HR Payroll, Supply Chain and Procurement. TruTek has also carried out many implementations and upgrades from Release 11i to Release 12. TruTek has a robust R12.1 Upgrade methodology and offers technical R12.1 upgrade training for the DBAs and the R12.1 New Features for Financials for functional analysts.

About Original Software: (www.origsoft.com)

With a world class record of innovation, Original Software offers a solution focused completely on the goal of effective quality management. By embracing the full spectrum of Application Quality Management across a wide range of applications and environments, the company partners with customers and helps make quality a business imperative. Solutions include a quality management platform, manual testing, full test automation and test data management, all delivered with the control of business risk, cost, time and resources in mind.

More than 400 organizations operating in over 30 countries use Original Software solutions. Current users range from major multi-nationals to small software development shops, encompassing a wide range of industries, sectors and sizes. We are proud of our partnerships with the likes of Coca-Cola, Cargill, HSBC, FedEx, Pfizer, DHL and many others.

Press contact

Maria Martin
Original Software
+44 1256 338 666
press@origsoft.com

Sherri Dudley
Sales Director
801-486-6655
sherri@trutek.com

Feb 2, 2012, – Original Software, a leading Application Quality Management (AQM) vendor, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX), to support a strategy of building an AQM Centre of Excellence for the provider of genome-wide analysis tools. Original Software’s solution suite has been selected because of its ease of use and ability to support the FLEX technology that is used within Affymetrix’s hosted HR application.

Researchers around the world use Affymetrix technologies to better understand the role that genes play in disease, the effectiveness and safety of therapies, and many other biological factors that affect human well-being. As a company whose mission is to revolutionize how the world benefits from genetic information, Affymetrix took a similar approach in choosing its software testing partner.

“We deliver a number of business services to our research customers and internal lines of business, and we wanted to build an AQM Centre of Excellence that would ensure that the quality of these services was secured with one solution across all the business applications that we offer, said Mike Vedda, CIO at Affymetrix. “Time to market is key in maintaining our competitive edge, and I didn’t want the team having to get to grips with multiple tools for all the different applications we have.”

Padmaja Surapaneni is the Director of IT at Affymetrix and is responsible for managing the QA processes and best practices for the various IT application groups. “We have four core business applications, the most important of which is our customer facing eCommerce application. Our Human Resources application is a hosted service built using the Adobe Flex framework. With weekly updates and non-technical users in HR carrying out the testing, it was important that the software we chose not only supported this new technology, but was also very easy to use. Original Software fit both requirements with its code-free approach to testing and support for Flex,” said Surapaneni.

Maintaining compliance with FDA Quality System requirements is business-critical to Affymetrix and was an important factor in selecting a software testing solution. Quality documentation is produced and managed within its content management application, SharePoint. Surapaneni explained: “All our Quality documents are stored in SharePoint, and any changes to our content management application have to be thoroughly tested. I was particularly impressed with how Original Software was able to execute PDF comparisons as part of the test to ensure that our compliance audit documentation was not corrupted.”

“The other vendors just failed to meet the technical requirements of creating and executing test cases over the various application technologies under test. The solution from Original Software was by far the most flexible and easy to use,” added Surapaneni.

Implementation started in August 2011, and Affymetrix is using Qualify, a complete Application Quality Management (AQM) solution, to help unite all aspects of the software quality lifecycle and provide an integrated approach to the company’s quality process across its different business applications.

Affymetrix is also implementing TestDrive-Assist and TestDrive, which are fully integrated solutions that allow it to manage the journey to automation in a seamless and painless manner. TestDrive-Assist, discreetly captures tests while they are performed, including what is happening within the application. It also provides an audit trail and clear information for reproducing bugs. Its ability to automatically migrate these tests to an automated test script in TestDrive is a unique and powerful enabler for Affymetrix who wants to move to automation quickly and easily.

Vedda concludes: “I’m certain that our time to market will be improved as a result of using the Original Software’s solution suite. We’ve calculated an ROI of 18 months to be prudent, but I’m convinced that we will get a far quicker return due to the ease of use and speed at which testing will be carried out.”

About Affymetrix: (www.affymetrix.com)

Affymetrix technology is used by the world’s top pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and biotechnology companies, as well as leading academic, government and non-profit research institutes. More than 2,000 systems have been shipped around the world and more than 23,000 peer-reviewed papers have been published using the technology. Affymetrix is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., and has manufacturing facilities in Santa Clara, Cleveland, Ohio, and Singapore. The company has about 900 employees worldwide and maintains sales and distribution operations across Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

19 December 2011 – An IT adaptation of a popular children’s Christmas story has sparked much interest within the software testing community today. The famous story by author Dr. Seuss*; “How The Grinch Stole Christmas”, was given a modern IT revamp by leading Application Quality Management (AQM) vendor, Original Software, in a bid to highlight the way many businesses are forced to gamble with software quality.

According to Original Software, the difficulty of executing effective software testing has left businesses significantly exposed to the risk of gambling with their software quality. Taking risk is a necessary evil in order to obtain competitive advantage, especially in today’s economic climate. However, unmanaged risks in software development can have disastrous consequences. Application failures can lead to a loss of external and internal confidence, cause damage to brands and ultimately have a negative effect on revenue streams.

Borrowing the theme of the Grinch, Original Software offers pragmatic advice on achieving software quality, whilst illustrating the negative impact that current testing tools have had in the application quality lifecycle. Publishing this advice in the form of an “Original Insight”, the paper tells the story of the Grinch with a modern technological twist.

The newly entitled story: “A Tester’s Winter Tale – “How the Grinch Stole Scripting!” is aimed primarily at QA Management and focuses on software test automation. The opinion piece explains how removing the burden of code-based scripting, makes automation more widely achievable even by subject matter experts, and not limited to just developers and testers. The impact on IT development teams is reduced and in short, quality can become less of a risk.

“Original Software offers a solution that is not code-driven and requires no programming skills by users. This empowers all users to define and execute their tests without the need to use any kind of code,” says Colin Armitage, CEO at Original Software. “The application quality management process becomes even more efficient, enabling businesses to increase their test coverage during the delivery of business critical projects. This latest Original Insight was welcomed by the testing community during last week’s Special Interest Group on Testing, which took place in London. Not only does it communicate the benefits of using code-free automation, it also adds a little seasonal fun to the subject in the lead up to the holiday period,” adds Armitage.

“A Tester’s Winter Tale – “How the Grinch Stole Scripting!” is available for download at: http://www.origsoft.com/grinch.

* Originally from the children’s story by author Dr. Seuss, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”

Press contact
Tulin Pledger
Head of Marketing
+44 1256 338 689
tpledger@origsoft.com

15th December 2011, – In its annual round up and planning for the year ahead, Original Software, a leading Application Quality Management (AQM) vendor, renowned for its innovative technology, reveals how it continues to break the mould in application quality, by driving down the cost and risk of software delivery projects. Several customer examples confirm how the software vendor has helped deliver a proven ROI in months rather than years.

Coca-Cola, a global leader in the beverage industry, often reluctant to comment on the IT suppliers it uses, needed a solution which would enable them to build rapid and maintainable automation. It found this unique combination with Original Software and in a partnership which has continued for over 8 years. Gerald Weichselbraun, Quality Manager, at Coca-Cola Computer Services said: “The Original Software solution enabled the QA team to create a wide range of automated tests and help maintain the high quality of the BASIS application used by many bottling plants around the world. Around 130 Test Cases with about 3000 Scripts comparing 200,000 individual screens have been recorded over time and are readily available to run business process related tests in a short time. It has saved the team many hundreds of man-hours and means that BASIS can be assured to a level just not possible manually, supporting Coca-Cola’s mission of delivering quality to their business partners in a timely manner.”

RSC Equipment Rental serves as a vital and trusted partner for thousands of customers in construction, industrial, petrochemical, governmental, and manufacturing businesses across the United States and Canada. With Original Software, RSC is now automating over 30% of its test cases and executing its regression tests almost 3 times faster. Cynthia Pangan, QA and Change Management said: “It used to take approximately 10-15 users and 2-3 days for each to test each release. With TestDrive, we are now able to accomplish this with 1 user in 1 day. We have gone from a product release cycle of once a quarter to once a week. If we did not have TestDrive, there is no way we could get all that testing done manually within a week.”

The testing market place is crowded with smaller, niche, code-driven open source testing vendors and a handful of large multi-nationals, with the ability to charge enormous amounts for maintenance renewals. Original Software reports that it is bucking the conventional tester wisdom that says it’s difficult for business to achieve quality with a trusted partner.

NYSE Euronext is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. Paul Cassell, Vice President of QA, said: “In terms of the perfect vendor, I’d much rather have a small contact group. It makes me feel really comfortable working with Original Software – they can answer both the business and technical questions that I might throw at them without having to go through ten people.”

Taking risk is a necessary evil in order to obtain competitive advantage, especially in today’s economic climate. However, unmanaged risks in software development can have disastrous consequences. Application failures can lead to a loss of external and internal confidence, cause damage to brands and ultimately have a negative effect on revenue streams. One of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world turned to Original Software to help combat the risks associated with its fast adoption of new applications and technologies. “The solution from Original Software has helped us to significantly reduce the business risk of poor quality. Prior to using TestDrive, we didn’t have the time or resource during each release cycle to test over 200 mortgage application scenarios – the testing simply wasn’t being carried out. Now with Original Software’s help, it takes us just 4 hours to run test cycles, and that’s a massive improvement on not doing any!”

Quality needs to be addressed at all layers of the business application. The Original Software solution suite enables users to check every element of the application – from the visual layer, through the underlying service processes and messages, as well as into the database. Original Software offers a solution that is code-free and requires no programming skills by the users. This philosophy empowers all users to define and execute their tests without the need to use any kind of code and is particularly useful when business users carry out User Acceptance Testing of business-critical ERP applications such as Oracle or SAP.

Craig Armstrong, IT Project Manager at Wales & West Utilities was quoted as saying at the start of 2011: “Our testing process has to be as seamless and pain free as possible, so integration of the tools was another key factor in our decision making. We were extremely impressed with the level at which Original Software’s solution suite was integrated. This will enhance the user experience and provide an end-to-end solution for our application quality strategy. Our business resources are called upon to complete User Acceptance Testing as and when required. Since testing isn’t their primary role within the organisation, we needed a solution that offered our users an intuitive experience. We reviewed all the leading vendors in the market place, including HP, for a solution that would help ease the burden of our applications testing. The Original Software suite of testing solutions ticked the “ease of use” box like no other application suite we reviewed within the testing application market.”

Qualify is a complete Application Quality Management (AQM) solution, uniting all aspects of the software quality lifecycle from requirements through to deployment. It provides an integrated approach to solving a company’s quality process and management challenges.

TestDrive-Assist and TestDrive are fully integrated solutions that allow companies to manage the journey to automation in a seamless and painless manner. TestDrive-Assist, discreetly captures tests while they are performed, including what is happening within the application. It also provides an audit trail and clear information for reproducing bugs. Its ability to automatically migrate these tests to an automated test script in TestDrive is a unique and powerful enabler for customers wanting to move to automation quickly and easily.

Original Software can also manage the test data environment with TestBench. The solution addresses the validation of database effects during a test. TestBench ensures that for any test, whether manual or automated, the database effects form part of the results of the test execution. It also helps with compliance, as the need for data privacy extends beyond production systems to test data as well.

“It’s great to hear these success stories across a range of industries, applications and technologies,” concluded Colin Armitage, CEO at Original Software. “What is really interesting is how each of our clients view the benefits they have gained in different ways. For RSC it has enabled them to remove a road block from their development process and speed up their time to market. While our banking client has been able to achieve a depth and breadth of coverage that is impossible to achieve through manual testing alone.”

15 November 2011 – Original Software, a leading Application Quality Management, (AQM) vendor, announced today that Qualify, its solution for managing the quality lifecycle of any application, has added Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010, to the list of 3rd party point solutions that it works with. TFS is a Microsoft tool used to support Visual Studio .Net developments. Qualify already integrates with defect tracking tools, such as Bugzilla and JIRA, as well as the open development platform, Eclipse.

“The majority of our customers operate in a cross-platform environment and we are often being asked to integrate with the other tools that they already have in place,” says Colin Armitage, CEO at Original Software. “Microsoft has delivered a strong solution for use in development work tasks, code creation and source control, but TFS is simply unable to scale beyond small development teams into a multi-project, multi-platform, resource management centre like Qualify can.”

Qualify brings effective Quality Management right into the heart of the software delivery process. The solution unites all aspects of the software delivery lifecycle from requirements through to release. It is also fully integrated with Original Software’s manual and automated test execution solutions for the user interface and database layers. Qualify encompasses requirements, planning, scheduling, resource management, test execution, defect management and reporting in one platform, ensuring collaboration and communication between and within various teams and projects. The methodology agnostic and entirely code free solution, which is also great for an agile environment, also comes complete with a smart phone interface, allowing instant access to cross-project information from just about anywhere.

The solution sits above TFS, offering a single collaboration and management platform. Users can view all aspects of their multi-project, multi-team and cross-platform development streams. Where there is a .Net development infrastructure, users can see a totally integrated view of their TFS work items and status, update them in place and expose the information to all interested parties.

Armitage concludes: “All our solutions are code-free and easy to use and we are finding that customers are embracing this code-free approach in order to empower their QA teams, rather than add additional maintenance burdens, via coded methods, to an already stretched software delivery team.”

The Qualify module for TFS is available now. More information about the solution can be found here.

About Original Software: (www.origsoft.com)

With a world class record of innovation, Original Software offers a solution focused completely on the goal of effective quality management. By embracing the full spectrum of Application Quality Management across a wide range of applications and environments, the company partners with customers and helps make quality a business imperative. Solutions include a quality management platform, manual testing, full test automation and test data management, all delivered with the control of business risk, cost, time and resources in mind. More than 400 companies operating in over 30 countries use Original Software solutions. Current users range from major multi-nationals to small software development shops, encompassing a wide range of industries, sectors and sizes. We are proud of our partnerships with the likes of Coca-Cola, Cargill, HSBC, FedEx, Pfizer, DHL and many others.

Press Contact
Tulin Pledger
Head of Marketing
+44 1256 338 689