QA Manager

Agile Software Development

Agile has dramatically changed the way QA departments work. With agile, you and your team to be part of a close-knit group and carry out testing as requirements and code are changing constantly. Traditional automation tools cannot keep up with the constant change and as such become largely redundant. However, with TestDrive-Assist you can enjoy the benefits of limited automation, audit trail, and error reproduction within an Agile environment.

One area where TestDrive-Assist can be surprisingly appropriate is in unstable, changing circumstances. The two most notable situations are the first release of an application and in agile processes.

Paul Herzlich, Ovum

Next Generation Test Automation

Despite the millions spent on test automation tools over the last 20 years, testing is still perceived as a large bottleneck in application development. Our own research suggests that testing can account for 40% of total development time.

To us this is not acceptable. QA departments have been largely let down by traditional automation tools that rely heavily on specialist scripting languages to work.

But now it's time to move software test automation into the 21st Century.

Next generation test automation solutions do not rely on such complex scripting technology - and the advantages are there for all to see:

No scripting language

The technology is built in to the solution, not the script, so a more diverse audience within your business can use them. Test automation is no longer confined to programmers and scripters. Graphical scripts are built based on the user's interaction with the system under test.

Speedy implementation

Gone are the many months of building and preparation before a single item has been tested. With next generation solutions, you can be testing in days, not months and years. This means you can utilise your investment earlier.

Scripts that update themselves when applications change

The intelligent technology behind these solutions mean that they automatically recognise when an application interface has changed and the scripts are updated to reflect the changes. This means that the solutions are completely re-usable, no matter how often the application changes. As a result, the automation zone is no longer confined to those areas of the application that are stable and risk free.

A helping hand for manual testing

Solutions specifically designed to streamline manual testing can give testers a helping hand on all those applications where full automation is not yet appropriate, such as agile.

Broader testing scope - database testing

Data underpins the entire testing process. Poor data will result in poor testing. With growing emphasis being placed on data quality, it is vital that the integrity of your test data is protected at all stages of your testing project. The next generation of solutions can ensure your data is in A1 condition all the way through the testing process.

Projects and Resources

One of the biggest Quality Assurance management challenges is that of allocating the correct resources to each project, and to ensure all projects are on track to meet their goals. You and your team need to be agile, to adapt and respond quickly to ever changing business conditions and organizational priorities. That means they need to be able to communicate and collaborate with each other, regardless of their location.

As the manager you need a clear and simple reporting dashboard where you can keep a close eye on KPIs and produce management reports for closer scrutiny.

Integrated communication and collaboration with Qualify

Make Qualify your communication backbone and allow all team members to centrally manage and monitor your entire manual and automated testing assets, as well as communicate and collaborate throughout the quality lifecycle over one single platform.

With Qualify you have a single point of reference for all your application quality management needs. With fully configurable graphical dashboards, class leading integrated communication channels and multi format reporting, you now have all the information you need to make truly informed application quality decisions.

Total Quality

Our philosophy of total quality recognizes the need to excersise every aspect of an application based upon a reusable knowledge repository. By capturing and sharing the knowledge of all parties involved in the development lifecycle, the effectiveness of future tests continues to incrementally improve.

Meet your planning and management challenges head on with Qualify

A coherent planning and management platform is fundamental to the success of any quality enhancement project. Unless the current extent and success of testing can be properly managed, measured and the results viewed instantly problems will occur.

Our ground breaking Application Quality Management solution, Qualify has been designed around a central philosophy of 'Communicate, Collaborate and Control'. By utilizing consistent, repeatable and standardized processes, Qualify can help you reduce risk, deliver higher quality applications and improve application time to market.

Push your manual testing into overdrive with TestDrive-Assist.

TestDrive-Assist is a totally new concept in testing that offers a significant helping hand for manual testing.

TestDrive-Assist works in the background to softly track every user action at both the visual layer and at the database level, using screen captures to fully analyze page content. These test tracks can be saved to create audit trails of test results or used as a key attachment to created defects. Once saved, they can be opened as full scripts so the reproduction of an error is accurate and immediate.

Anyone can use TestDrive-Assist; you can enjoy the benefits almost immediately. With minimum training, set up and fuss TestDrive-Assist lets you get on with what you do best…test.

Next generation functional and regression test automation

Software Testing solutions need to be dynamic and flexible. They need to be deployed easily and quickly amongst the broadest possible user base and they need to be easy to use and be able to cope with the rapid rate of change that occurs in the modern workplace.

Only TestDrive can deliver all these attributes.

Our totally code-free, state of the art user interface empowers the subject matter experts, enabling them to define and execute sophisticated tests without the need to use any kind of code or scripting. Our ground breaking self-healing script (SHS) technology enables your investment in test automation to rapidly adapt to new upgrades and releases, so you gain time from minimum maintenance and maximum reuse.

Manage and manipulate the underlying database, as well as the visual layer, during testing

Test Data Management (TDM) is fundamental to the success of your data strategy; after all, data drives the entire testing procedure. With bad data comes poor testing, results you cannot trust, and a whole lot of wasted time, money and effort. It pays to get data management right.

TestBench supports AQM with a suite that uniquely controls, tests and manages the data required for effective testing together with the server side effects of the test. Testing on live data is now a thing of the past with the creation of subsets that retain referential integrity, providing a perfect miniature copy of the live environment. Data scrambling and de-sensitivity, along with auto-analysis and data manipulation and extraction reports for auditing means you can be confident your testing processes with be compliant with all your regulatory controls.

This is where software test automation comes into its own.