TestDrive-Assist
Dynamic Manual Testing
TestDrive-Assist provides you with a rich environment for manual testing, but the bigger payback is how it facilitates adoption of full automation.
Paul Herzlich
Software Testing Tools Analyst
Ovum 2009
Despite the proliferation of automated software testing solutions, manual testing still accounts for at least 80% of all testing.
Automation can only be justified where repeatable consistent tests can be run over a stable environment. When this is not the case, then testing teams almost always revert back to manual testing.
TestDrive-Assist from Original Software is more than just a helping hand for manual testers, it's been shown to cut up to half the time spent engaged in manual software testing.
A Fast Start To Automation
Because TestDrive-Assist requires such minimal training and set up time, it is an ideal entry level product for those testers who may not yet need or want full automation, but want some way of capturing their work and improve their efficiency. It is the only software testing solution to monitor applications and provide screen, input, database and test status information for manual tests.
Cut Time Spent Manual Testing!
TestDrive-Assist is a totally new concept in testing that with powerful tracking functions, operates in a non intrusive and natural fashion. Testers can detect and highlight defects fast and efficiently. This means defects can simply be reviewed at a touch of a button, whilst the results can eventually be used to build fully automated tests.
TestDrive-Assist automatically recognizes when registered applications are launched. It then softly tracks every user action at both the visual layer and at the database level. For iSeries and Oracle users, all database updates/additions/deletions, can be tracked and recorded. In addition rules can be placed on these updates allowing for greater confidence of data integrity.
Manual testing is here to stay! Here are some reasons why...
Business critical / heavily tested software:
With constantly changing applications, automation can simply be too daunting.
New to testing:
Those that are new to testing may not want to dive right in to complex automation tools.
Full automation simply not appropriate:
You may be testing new functionality, or a new platform/OS, or there maybe insufficient time and/or skills to develop test scripts. TestDrive-Assist can offer major time and cost savings in these areas.
Agile development:
With Agile development techniques, there is no place for traditional automation tools because they take too long to set up and need to be re-scripted after the first change of the application.
Whitepaper
Download our whitepaper 'Testers Do Not Grow On Trees'.
Explore the continued reliance on manual testing in software quality and asks if there is a way to make manual testing less... er, manual.
ROI Calculator
Why not find out how much you can save with our Manual Testing ROI Calculator?.
By considering project costs, current testing practices and timescales we can estimate the potential savings your orginization could make with TestDrive-Assist.
