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About Quality Assurance Testing
Today, more than ever, companies engaged in software application development face increased competitive pressures in a global arena. Tolerance for product failure is virtually zero. Software quality assurance testing involves the entire software development process - monitoring and improving the process, making sure that any agreed-upon standards and procedures are followed, and ensuring that problems are found and dealt with. It’s clearly oriented to “prevention.”
Testing involves operation of a system or application under controlled conditions and evaluating the results. In other words, if the user is in interface A of the application while using hardware B, and that user does C, then D should happen. These controlled conditions should include both normal and abnormal conditions. Testing should
intentionally attempt to make things go wrong to determine if things happen when they shouldn’t or things don’t happen when they should. This is the aspect of quality testing that’s oriented to “detection.”
Organizations vary considerably in how they assign responsibility for quality assurance and testing. Sometimes they’re the combined responsibility of one group or individual within the company. Also common are project teams that include a mix of testers and developers who work closely together, with overall QA processes monitored by project managers. It will depend on what best fits an organization’s size and business structure.
Why Do Things Go Wrong in Your Software Development Environment?
There are several common problems in the software development process:
Poor requirements - If requirements are unclear, incomplete, too general, and not testable, there will be problems.
Unrealistic schedule - If too much work is crammed in too little time, problems are inevitable.
Inadequate testing - No one will know whether or not the program is any good until the customer complains or systems crash.
“Featuritis” - Requests to pile on new features after development is underway; this is extremely common.
Miscommunication - If developers don’t know what’s needed or customer’s have erroneous expectations, problems can be expected.
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What are some recent major computer system failures caused by software bugs?
In August of 2008 it was reported that more than 600 U.S. airline flights were
significantly delayed due to a software glitch in the U.S. FAA air traffic control system. The problem was claimed to be a ‘packet switch’ that ‘failed due to a database
mismatch’, and occurred in the part of the system that handles required flight plans. Software system problems at a large health insurance company in August 2008 were the cause of a privacy breach of personal health information for several hundred thousand customers, according to news reports. It was claimed that the problem was due to software that ‘was not comprehensively tested’.
A major clothing retailer was reportedly hit with significant software and system problems when attempting to upgrade their online retailing systems in June 2008. Problems remained ongoing for some time. When the company made their public quarterly financial report, the software and system problems were claimed as the cause of the poor financial results.
Software problems in the automated baggage sorting system of a major airport in February 2008 prevented thousands of passengers from checking baggage for their flights. It was reported that the breakdown occurred during a software upgrade, despite pre-testing of the software. The system continued to have problems in subsequent months.
In some cases an IT organization may be too small or new to have its own in-house testing staff even if the situation calls for it. In these circumstances it may be appropriate to instead use contractors or outsourcing, or adjust the project management and
development approach (by switching to a licensed or hosted QA/testing solution).
What Quality Assurance Testing Solution is Best for You?
If you’ve determined that it’s appropriate to investigate the next steps to bring a QA test solution to your organization, here are some key considerations to keep in mind:
A lot depends on the size of the organization and the risks involved. For large organizations with high-risk (in terms of lives or property) projects, serious management buy-in is required and a formalized QA/Test process is necessary. Where the risk is lower, management and organizational buy-in and QA/test implementation may be a slower, step-at-a-time process. QA processes should be * * * * * *
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balanced with productivity so as to keep bureaucracy from getting out of hand. For small groups or projects, a more ad-hoc process may be appropriate, depending on the type of customers and projects. A lot will depend on team leads or managers, feedback to developers, and ensuring adequate communications among customers, managers, developers, and testers.
The most value for effort will often be in (a) requirements management processes, with a goal of clear, complete, testable requirement specifications embodied in requirements or design documentation, or in ‘agile’-type environments extensive continuous coordination with end-users, (b) design inspections and code inspections, and (c) post-mortems/retrospectives.
Other possibilities include incremental self-managed team approaches such as ‘Kaizen’ methods of continuous process improvement, the Deming-Shewhart Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle, and others.
Common Features of Software Quality Assurance Testing Solutions
The newest on-demand solutions deliver an expanded test platform, eliminating up-front license fees and protracted implementation periods of traditional QA and proprietary test solutions. On-demand QA Solutions leverage open source frameworks and are delivered in a software-as- a-service (SaaS) model, enabling web development operations of all sizes to benefit from them.
Quality assurance solutions address the challenges posed by today’s web
applications, which increasingly depend on aggregating third-party functionality at the point of delivery - the browser. The implementation of new client-side delivery tools and the proliferation of alternative browsers have given rise to a host of variables - including operating system, geography and connection speed - that can affect the performance of an application.
The proliferation of browser and operating system platforms, accompanied by the
explosion in web-based applications, is driving the need for enhanced quality assurance tools. Web application developers need the tools to perform complex QA tasks in
parallel across multiple browser/OS platforms and ensure a high level of application performance before release.
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Quality Assurance Solutions
Industry vendors now deliver quality assurance solutions that let users load-test applications under real-world peak loads using real devices connected to the Internet. Quality assurance tests can now be performed that realistically emulate the profile and load characteristics of a customer’s actual production user base.
You can now test your web site under a production load in an authentic environment prior to releasing it to customers. And you can do it in a single click. This and the other new on-demand QA Solutions reflect the fact that a quality web experience starts long before applications are deployed.
Solutions are now available that provide cross-browser functional QA testing of applications. Users can load scripts of business transactions recorded using the leading open source web-testing frameworks. Once loaded into the system, these scripts can be played back manually or on a scheduled basis against the desired combination of browsers and operating systems. In addition to providing a pass/fail determination of the web application’s functionality, a product can capture screen shots and movies of each test. This unique capability enables developers to see precisely how an end user would experience the application, which is critical for the latest generation of Web 2.0 type applications.
Top 5 Quality Assurance Testing Solutions
You have many options when selecting a software quality assurance test solution. To make your search a bit easier, we’ve featured some of the leading software QA vendors in this paper. Review these companies, and you’ll be well on the way to finding the right QA testing solution for your company.
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www.techexcel.com | [email protected] I 1-800-39-7782
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Offers an advanced modular ALM system, the segments of which can be seamlessly integrated to establish higher levels of traceability.
Easy to administer: no programming needed.
Integrated defect tracking, QA test management and automated testing. Scalable to thousands of users.
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TechExcel software is targeted to mid-size and large teams (20-1000+) of developers.
SElECT CuSTOmErS: Sony, Activision, Electronic Arts.
About TechExcel
TechExcel unifies the enterprise by bridging the gap between product development and service/support. This end-to-end environment empowers companies to optimize the relationship between these important organizations without sacrificing autonomy or business processes, and it provides a collaborative environment that saves time and resources.
TechExcel’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions enable enterprises to focus on their strategic goals of product design, project planning, development and testing by providing a collaborative and “knowledge-centric” environment.
Traditional approaches to ALM stipulate that every phase of software development, from product concept to strategy, planning to implementation, and finally to verification and delivery, relies on separate tools and processes. TechExcel DevSuite is built around the best-practices insight that knowledge is central to any product development initiative. By eliminating the silos of knowledge that exist between different teams and in different locales, DevSuite helps enterprises dramatically transform their development processes, increasing efficiency and the overall quality of their end products. This strategy helps teams communicate better and reduce their cycle times, allowing the right products for the right markets to be developed in the shortest possible time.
Products in TechExcel’s ALM suite include:
DevSpec - Manages requirements, specification and knowledge
DevPlan - Manages timelines, resources and dependencies
DevTrack - Manages tasks, issues, and bugs
DevTest - Manages test cases
TechExcel Key Strengths
Highly configurable tools to manage every kind of process. Best practices enforced through use of software.
Scalable to thousands of global users.
Easy to administer and configure: no programming needed.
Rapid Return on Investment (ROI): with the combined power, flexibility, ease-of-use, and competitive pricing, DevTrack gives you the best value.
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Increase developer satisfaction with subscription notifications and better process control. Fast deployment with easy installation and automated upgrades.
Intuitive user interfaces reduces training time and gets users up to speed faster. System customization to suit individual demands: easily configured workflow rules that can be changed to control the business processes based on your organization’s mission. Resolve issues efficiently with greater teamwork and collaboration between different users, teams, and even customers.
Ensure no bug ever falls through the cracks with auto-routing and escalations. Universal access to DevTrack Web from any location using almost any browser.
TechExcel Technology
Client:
Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows NT .0 or above Pentium PC with 26MB memory and 200MB free disk space Microsoft .NET framework 2.0
Server:
Windows 2000, Windows NT .0 Server or above
Pentium PC with 12MB memory and 00MB free disk space Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) .0 and above Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Supported Web browsers:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and above Netscape 6.0 and above
FireFox 1.0 and above
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TechExcel Software Highlights
TechExcel DevTest Studio
From test case creation, planning and execution through defect submission and resolution, DevTest Studio tracks and manages the complete quality lifecycle. DevTest Studio combines the award winning test management features of DevTest, the market-leading defect tracking features of DevTrack and TestLink for test automation into one specially priced, integrated solution.
Gain control over product quality with real-time test results reporting, tracking and analysis that let’s you know what has been tested and what still needs to be done. Improve test standardization, re-use, and revision control using a centralized test library. Increase your team’s productivity with reduced data entry, definable test interfaces, and process automation.
Ensure ultimate accountability for all test phases with detailed histories of test cases, data and test results.
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www.tricentis.com | [email protected] | +3 (0)1 263 2 09 - 0
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Achieve test coverage of up to 95% Increase test automation up to 90% Reduce costs by 50% or more Reduce your time-to market
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TRICENTIS addresses the market need for a next-generation, cost effective software testing and quality assurance solution. Based on its flagship product TOSCA Testsuite, TRICENTIS empowers organizations to easily test business-critical enterprise
applications, leveraging non-technical testers with Business Analyst skills, to achieve the highest level of coverage and at low costs previously unheard-of.
TOSCA is ideal for industries with workflow business processes, many operating
engines, browsers and smart devices such as in Banking, Insurance, Financial
Services, High Tech, Telecom, Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Utilities, Public Sector and other leading industries requiring the highest quality of software testing.
SElECT CuSTOmErS:
Allianz Suisse, Barmenia, BMW Group, Bunnings Warehouse, Commerzbank Group
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About TriCEnTiS
Since 1997, TRICENTIS has offered cross-industry expertise in all aspects of software testing and software quality assurance. Our fl agship product TOSCA Testsuite enables companies to develop, test, deploy, assess and modernize business-critical enterprise applications. TOSCA is ideal for industries with workfl ow business processes, many operating engines, browsers and smart devices such as in Banking, Insurance, Financial Services, High Tech, Telecom, Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Utilities, Public Sector and other leading industries requiring the highest quality of software testing.
In 2012, TRICENTIS announced the completion of multi-million Euro growth financing led by ViewPoint Capital Partners. The investment will primarily be used to strengthen sales and marketing efforts worldwide and accelerate market reach in new territories. Building on a strong customer base and vastly increasing market demand, TRICENTIS will expand its presence in Europe, the US and in Asia Pacific.
TriCEnTiS Technology
TOSCA’s market proven technology enables two unprecedented paradigm shifts:
1.) Technology-enabled testing methods that massively reduce the number of test cases while increasing test coverage and
2.) a unique model-based approach to software test automation, enabling automated test cases in plain English.
This eliminates the massive maintenance requirements of conventional script based test automation, thereby reducing redundant testing efforts with lower costs and improved time to market. With a strong footprint in the banking insurance, and enterprise sectors, TRICENTIS has revolutionized software testing for many of its regional and global customers.
TRICENTIS offers a complete solution, business and technical, including strategy, integration, extension and infrastructure. From the initial installation of TOSCA Testsuite to its implementation into your project and system environment, they provide support
with technical and business solutions as well as best practices. They also provide
a comprehensive, multi-stage training and Get Certified program for customers and
partners. The content of their training courses will be tailored to your requirements.
By successfully completing our comprehensive certification program, our partners are thoroughly familiar with the ideal way to implement TOSCA.
The following companies have been awarded the status TOSCA Certified Implementation Partner:
TriCEnTiS Key Strengths
Owing to its unique architecture, TOSCA Testsuite allows you to automate existing manual test cases – and transform them into automated test cases. By drag & drop an existing manual test case is automated. Automated tests in TOSCA Testsuite can be created and executed without any technical skills.
As a side benefit of dynamic steering, the test becomes what it should always have
been: a business-based task. TOSCA OneView allows the creation of automated test cases that can be reused on different platforms, like Mobile/Smart Devices, and provides comprehensible integration with popular ALM systems, such as HP, IBM, JIRA, Polarion, SAP and others.
The TOSCA Family
TOSCA Testsuite: TOSCA Testsuite is the basis for all TOSCA testing solutions and delivers test management and automation, risk-based testing and test case design, reporting, dashboards and much more.
TOSCA@BigData enables the quick and cost effective set up of comprehensive,
efficient testing of your data warehouse and business intelligence systems.
TOSCA@data: Test Case Design and the use of synthetic test data allow you to achieve
significant cost reduction.
TOSCA@SAP enables highly efficient and advanced test processes in SAP environments.
TOSCA X-Browser: With TOSCA you can create test cases for any browser and run them on all supported browsers. We call this “Build once and run.”
TOSCA Mobile: Automate Your Mobile Device Testing for over 3,000 Mobile and Smart Devices.
TOSCA Agile provides ideal coverage of the key elements of agile development for early automation and meets all the technical challenges.
ALM Integration: TOSCA’s powerful AddIns enable the integration of ALM systems such as HP, IBM, Polarion etc. and/or defect management systems such as JIRA etc. within days.
TOSCA Key Features
Automated and manual tests Test data management Test management
Integrated methodical test case design and requirements management Business-based test automation
Automated Web Testing Smoke Testing
Regression Testing
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Automated Mobile/Smart Device Testing
Flexible reporting functionality creates the appropriate reports for various demands Modular architecture: easy to customize and extend
Web access (via a web-browser) without active-X components
Multi-user with integrated check-in and check-out mechanism as well as versioning Traceability from requirements through test cases to execution results or defect status De-coupling of test tracks by allowing business-based test cases on an interface or protocol level
Calculation of test coverage and risk based testing Sophisticated recovery functions
TOSCA Integration
Functional tests for GUI and non-GUI applications and hardware components Cross-platform test cases (end-to-end)
Easy integration with ALM tools (requirements and defect management) JAVA Application Testing
Silverlight Application Testing
Third party .NET Supported Testing WPF Testing
Bi-directional communication with MS Excel and MS Word PDF comparison
Integration with HP, IBM, JIRA, SAP, and many more
TriCEnTiS product Highlights
Model-Driven Testing with TOSCA
TOSCA is a third-generation technology using a model-based approach, unlike first and
second generation technologies such as record/replay tools, or tools that require test
automation frameworks (script-based technologies). Some of the core business benefits
of model-based testing over script-based testing are: Lower total cost of ownership
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TOSCA uses a non-graphical model as an enabler for efficient test automation. The
TOSCA model is derived from the software build itself (in particular its interfaces) and presents an abstract interface catalogue (system model), making it possible to write test cases that are independent of the choice of underlying software technology and that are maintained in a human-readable “business” language.
Business-Based Test Cases
TOSCA’s heart and soul is the unique “Business Dynamic Steering” concept, which allows you to design and specify manual and automated test cases in a purely business-based way. And, more importantly, the automated test cases can easily be MAINTAINED non-technically by the testers. TOSCA allows software quality assurance in projects with limited resources tight deadlines and cost pressure – for older and established – as well as for the latest technologies.
www.IBM.com | I-877-26-377
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Large market share & large base of developers familiar with IBM solutions. Supports a wide variety of testing scenarios - manual to complex automated paradigms.
Open APIs deliver customizable test management. * * * HEADQuArTErS: Armonk, NY OWnErSHip:
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IBM’s clients include many different kinds of enterprises, from sole proprietorships to the world’s largest organizations, governments and companies representing every major industry and endeavor.
SElECT CuSTOmErS:
1-800-FLOWERS.COM, uBee, Bank of Russia, Geisinger Health System, Servimatica S.A., Trustmarque Solutions.
About iBm rational Testmanager
As a world-class IT leader, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) develops and manufactures information technologies, including computer systems, software, networking systems, storage devices, and microelectronics worldwide. Its Global Technology Services segment offers IT infrastructure and business process services, such as strategic outsourcing, business transformation outsourcing, integrated technology, and maintenance. The company’s Global Business Services segment
provides professional services and application outsourcing services, including consulting and systems integration and application management. Its Systems and Technology segment offers computing and storage solutions, including servers, disk and tape storage systems and software, semiconductor technology and products, packaging solutions, engineering and technology services, and retail store solutions.
IBM’s Software segment primarily offers middleware and operating systems software comprising information management software for database, content management, and information integration; lotus software for collaboration, messaging, and social
networking; rational software, a process automation tool; Tivoli software for infrastructure management, including security and storage management; Websphere software for Web-enabled applications; and product lifecycle management software. The company’s Global Financing segment provides commercial financing to dealers and remarketers of IT products; lease and loan financing to external and internal clients; and sale and lease of used equipment.
IBM serves banking, insurance, education, government, healthcare, life sciences, aerospace and defense, automotive, chemical and petroleum, electronics, distribution, and communication markets. The company was founded in 1910 as
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company and changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation in 192. IBM is based in Armonk, New York.
iBm rational Testmanager Key Strengths
Rational TestManager is IBM’s central console product for test activity management, execution and reporting. Built for extensibility, it supports everything from pure manual test approaches to various automated paradigms including unit testing, functional regression testing, and performance testing.
About iBm rational Testmanager
Rational TestManager is a solution designed to help project teams manage testing - from initial test case planning, to test development, execution of the tests and analysis of the results. Rational TestManager is meant to be accessed by all
members of a project team, ensuring the high visibility of test coverage information, defect trends, and application readiness.
Rational TestManager is freely available to all users of IBM Rational Functional Tester, Rational Manual Tester and IBM Rational Robot. And because of its value to development teams, it is also included in the IBM Rational Team Unifying Platform. To improve productivity by consistently leveraging best practices, efficiently
communicating information across the team, and analyzing and managing the impact of change as you track product defects and issues, IBM has assembled the Rational Lifecycle Package. This bundle includes IBM Rational ClearQuest, IBM Rational Method Composer and IBM Rational RequisitePro software.
iBm Technology
Rational TestManager, through a unique integration with VMware server virtualization software, simplifies and automates one of the true headaches for QA teams -
configuration testing. The entire process is automated. Once configuration images are created and stored in the GSX Server library, no manual work is ever required. Testing can be done serially or in parallel.
Based on server statistics gathered by the GSX Server, TestManager determines on the fly how many configuration images can be run in parallel on the same machine. TestManager is able to differentiate one image from another and can thus run different test sets on each image - maximizing the usage of existing hardware resources. Test execution information is recorded to the TestManager test logs in full, eliminating opportunities for data loss or confusion about which software tests were run where.
iBm rational Testmanager Highlights
Rational TestManager
Provides support for all test types. Lets you plan, manage and execute functional, performance, manual, integration, regression, configuration and component testing from the same interface.
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Gives QA leads, project managers and business analysts a comprehensive view into all of the test activities and test results for the application.
Delivers customizable test management. Open APIs in Rational TestManager let users build support for new test inputs (e.g., system requirements from a third-party tool) and test types (e.g., home-grown unit tests).
Provides support for local and remote test execution. You can run tests on the local machine or on remote machines in the test lab. Parallel test execution is limited only by the number of system resources at your disposal.
Lets you establish and manage traceability. Requirements are linked to test cases, ensuring proper test coverage. In addition, suspicion analysis ensures that when requirements change, test cases traced to the requirement are automatically flagged as possible candidates for modification.
Ensures detailed test evaluation. An integrated log viewer constructs a log for each test run, including test status, environmental information and additional informational tags such as runtime analysis information gathered by Rational PurifyPlus.
Gives you the capability to generate meaningful reports. Includes a series of
predefined graphical and textual reports capturing the crucial aspects of application quality and test completeness. Special reports exist for performance test analysis, including correlation reports combining response times with resource utilization metrics from remote machines.
Ships with a flexible reporting engine enabling the creation of custom reports required by your organization’s internal development processes.
Provides deep integration with Rational’s Team Unifying Platform tools. Out-of-the-box integration with Rational RequisitePro ensures seamless traceability between requirements and test cases, resulting in clear test coverage metrics and sensitivity to requirement modification. * * * * * * * *
www.hp.com | 1-877-686-9637
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Enterprise-level J2EE platform.
Includes requirements management, release and cycle management, test plan, test lab, defect management, and dashboard modules.
Out-of-the box capabilities for SAP, SOA Oracle, and Web application security quality management.
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HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers - from individual consumers to the largest businesses in virtually all industry sectors.
SElECT CuSTOmErS:
Orange County Choppers, Western Australia Department of Education and Training, MICROS-Fidelio EMEA, University of Central Florida, France Telecom, Nies/Artcraft, Houston Trust Company, Austin County, HOPS, Chemtronics.
About Hewlett-packard
HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers—from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services, and IT infrastructure, HP revenue reached $107.7 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended January 31, 2008.
The company’s corporate headquarters are located in Palo Alto, California; but it is truly a global interest, with 311,000 employees doing business in more than 170 countries around the world, and 69% of its revenue coming from outside the United States. Mark Hurd is currently company chairman, chief executive officer, and president.
HP is a global leader in a number of markets, including: #1 in LaserJet and inkjet printers, #1 in x86 Windows®, Windows, UNIX® and Linux servers, #1 in notebook and desktop PCs, #2 globally in workstations. No other company offers as complete a technology product portfolio as HP. Looking ahead, the company remains committed to remaining a global leader in providing infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world’s most powerful supercomputer installations.
Hp Key Strengths
With the HP Quality Center solution, you can more effectively govern your software quality processes and automate QA testing across your IT and application
environments designed to address the wide-ranging challenges that your quality assurance professionals face.
By leveraging consistent, repeatable and standardized software quality processes, HP Quality Center helps your quality assurance teams turn quality into a competitive advantage.
HP Quality Center offers a single, web-based application that supports all essential aspects of test management. It provides a consistent, repeatable process for gathering requirements, planning and scheduling tests, analyzing results and managing defects and issues. This software enables your organization to digitize specific quality
processes and procedures within the larger application lifecycle.
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technology that hides complexity inside, where it belongs, so its customers’ lives are enriched and their IT experiences are simpler, smarter, and more manageable.
HP is a leading technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. The company is at the forefront of exploring how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams.
HP’s 2007 Fortune 00 ranking was No. 1.
Hp Technology
The HP Quality Center foundation is an enterprise-level J2EE platform that serves as a central repository for all quality assets, houses centralized workflow rules, and facilitates collaboration among all parties involved in the quality process. In addition, HP Quality Center includes fully integrated dashboard technology that provides an executive-level view of the entire quality process across multiple QA initiatives.
Hp Software Highlights
HP Center Management for Quality Center Software
Lets you effectively manage requirements throughout the application lifecycle.
Provides leading-edge capability to prioritize testing priorities based on business risk. Gives you the capability to access testing assets anytime, anywhere via a browser interface.
Provides the ability to create an end-to-end quality management infrastructure. Gives your professional team the ability to manage manual and automated tests. Lets you perform accelerate testing cycles by scheduling and running tests automatically, unattended, 2x7.
Offers the capability to manage multiple versions of requirements, tests, test scripts and business components.
Gives you the power to enforce standardized processes and best practices. Lets you analyze application readiness at any point in the testing process with integrated graphs and reports.
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Free 30 day product trials of SilkCentral Test Manager, SilkTest, and SilkPerformer
Recent acquisitions of Borland Software and Compuware ASQ catapult Micro Focus into a leadership position in the Testing and ASQ market, particularly as Micro Focus combines the “best of breed” features from both product lines Strong integration between tools – in house, third-party and open source Strong support for Web 2.0 and rich internet applications testing
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SilkCentral® Test Manager™ SilkTest® and SilkJ™ SilkPerformer®
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Micro Focus offers innovative solutions to help organizations better control, measure and manage application delivery, by automating testing and quality processes across every phase of the software delivery lifecycle
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JDA. Blackboard, Intuit, Wells Fargo, eBay, Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit (German unemployment agency), and Trend Micro
About micro Focus
Micro Focus International plc (Micro Focus®; LSE: MCRO.L) provides innovative software that allows companies to develop, test, deploy, assess and modernize business-critical enterprise applications. Micro Focus’ software enables customers’ business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. Micro Focus has more than 30 years of
expertise, more than 18,000 customers and over two million licensed users, including 91 of the Fortune Global 100 companies.
Micro Focus’ strategy combines organic development with selective acquisitions. Since 2006 the company had made seven acquisitions that have allowed it to extend into logically adjacent market segments in order to further develop its customer proposition and extend its product portfolio.
The recent acquisitions of Borland Software Corporation and the Testing and ASQ business of Compuware Corporation give Micro Focus a leading market position in the highly complementary Application Testing / ASQ market.
micro Focus Key Strengths
The Silk™ Suite provides comprehensive functionality, superior process and methodology support, easy integration with existing IT environments (no “rip and replace” necessary) and is particularly well suited to support the testing of Web 2.0 and rich internet applications.
The company prides itself in focusing on the interest of its customers first, not the platform or service agendas promoted by many IT vendors. Micro Focus is the only major player in this space exclusively focused on software.
Micro Focus is committed to extending integrations between tools – in-house, third-party and open source – to automate, support and improve the software delivery process. Micro Focus has historically been recognized by the industry for excellent customer service.
The Silk Suite offers a flexible licensing structure suited to meet the unique needs of various types of customers and implementations.
Internally, Micro Focus is doing requirements driven testing as well as employing an Agile methodology to bring new and innovative releases to the market.
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micro Focus Technology
The Silk Suite from Micro Focus is a suite of testing products that provides QA and development teams with a comprehensive approach to software application testing. It allows organizations to centrally manage manual testing and automated functional and performance testing of a wide variety of applications including Web-based, Java, Microsoft .NET, and native GUIs and supports both traditional and Agile development methodologies.
micro Focus Software Highlights
SilkCentral Test Manager
Allows existing test assets to be managed under a unified test management framework
Eliminates re-work associated with project changes and exploits test asset reuse across the team
Integrates and aggregates test results from existing test frameworks and tools
Provides a single investment that will sustain a quality program across all projects and teams
Increases efficiency and reduces costs through native support of VMware® Lab Manager™
Enables live, quality monitoring of Agile and traditional project activities for co-located and globally distributed teams
Improves manual testing with a simple, scalable manual test client that guides testers through the process and assures consistent, repeatable data collection and reporting Delivers advanced reporting, including project status, requirements and test coverage, quality trends, milestones, test type and defect trends
Provides custom dashboards and reports with cross project, quality metrics that allow management to make informed, go/no-go decisions
Provides context sensitive reports based on current “in flight” user activities -
dynamically generate “one-click” reports specific to requirements, test plans, and test plan execution
Code coverage technology links tests with code they actually touch, enabling better choices on what to test and revolutionizing the decision process for tests to modify due to code changes
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About micro Focus
Provides trending and analysis data to track the progress of all quality initiatives across multiple teams, technologies, and platforms across a global computing environment
Integrates with VersionOne and Rally
SilkTest
Offers visual test creation, test execution, test analysis, and extensibility Offers strong capabilities with regards to testing AJAX and other rich internet applications
Provides recovery system for 2/7 unattended testing
Provides basic workflow for instant productivity and data driven workflow for testing business logic functionality using externally stored data
Enables code completion for rapid test customization and automation infrastructure development
Offers project workspaces for organizing and sharing test information
Provides a GUI abstraction layer for easy-to-maintain reusable tests and scripts Offers an extensible and easy-to-maintain scripting language
Provides agent technology for enabling individual tests to span distributed machines Provides truelog-technology for visual front-end diagnostics of script actions from the end-user perspective
Integrates with SilkCentral Test Manager for advanced, process-oriented test management and issue tracking
Provides new, next generation open agent providing support for Flex/AMF3 and Windows-based applications
Offers built-in support for testing Adobe Flex applications using Internet Explorer, Firefox, and the Standalone Flex Player Adobe AIR
Offers an improved User Interface
Provides animated Run Mode to provide ‘slow motion’ playback of test scripts Offers an Eclipse plug-in SilkJ with Java as a scripting language
Provides dynamic resolving which enables an object to be located without reference to a windows hierarchy * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
About micro Focus
SilkPerformer
Provides load-testing automation as well as performance diagnostics for Java and .NET environments through dynaTrace integration.
Enables ease of use with step-by-step workflow wizards
Accurately assesses application performance, scalability and reliability characteristics before deployment
Creates realistic, reproducible load test scenarios to cover all critical use cases and requirements
Isolates and resolves the root cause of performance problems in cross-platform systems quickly and easily
Lower IT infrastructure costs through tuning and accurate capacity planning before deployment
Creates tests and executions with SilkPerformer’s intuitive interface, or leverage the Eclipse IDE or Visual Studio .NET
Tests a wide range of enterprise environments with versatile, sharable, multi-protocol virtual-user types
Reuses test cases in different environments and scenarios without changing test scripts
Analyzes load tests in real time to avoid invalid test results that require time-intensive test-case reruns
Provides a technology tier-based licensing format, with Micro Focus offering concurrent and node-locked virtual user licenses based on the technology under test. The categories include: Web (HTML, Flex, Ajax, etc), Standard (Java, .NET, databases, etc), and Premium (SAP, Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Citrix, and other packaged applications) * * * * * * * * * * *
www.smartesoft.com | 1-12-782-909 | [email protected]
HigHligHts
Provides the fastest and easiest software testing suite available in the marketplace
Rapidly growing company
Offers 4-5x better Time to Quality rating than competitors (per customer feedback)
High Return on Investment * * * * u.S. HEADQuArTErS: Austin, TX OWnErSHip: Private FOunDED: 2007 SOFTWArE SOluTiOnS: SmarteScript Smarte Studio SmarteLoad
Smarte Quality Manager SmarteX SmarteTime SmartePak * * * * * * * CuSTOmEr FOCuS:
Small, medium, and large enterprises in the following industries: Energy, Healthcare, Medical Technology, Retail Systems, Financial Services, Banking, Insurance, Software, Travel & Leisure, Defense, Aerospace, Software Consulting, Federal, State and Local Government
SElECT CuSTOmErS:
BP, American Airlines, Frost Bank, Spectra Energy, Clearwire, Dresser, Emerson, DirecTV, NASA, US Strategic Command, FEMA, State of Washington, State of Indiana
About SmarteSoft
SmarteSoft, Inc. offers an integrated suite of test management, functional test automation, and performance test tools and services. Headquartered in Austin, TX, with offices in multiple locations in the U.S., Europe, and Australia, SmarteSoft products bridge the gaps between Software Development, Quality Assurance, Business Analysis and Deployment.
SmarteSoft was founded by a group of test automation and performance test experts to advance process of comprehensive software testing. They developed very easy to use, fast to learn, and fast to implement and maintain test automation software tools. The result is an integrated suite of software test products that can quickly be adopted by novice users, but also offer powerful functionality and automation to experienced testers.
To further enhance its offerings, SmarteSoft provides consulting services via a global team and a network of partners with deep expertise in every aspect of manual and automated testing. Customers include companies of every size -from Fortune 100 to mid-sized to small startups - and from almost every industry. Any company that develops, deploys and/or manages software applications can benefit from SmarteSoft’s products and services.
SmarteSoft Key Strengths
Offers the easiest to use and fastest to implement and maintain test automation suite on the market
Highly Versatile – suitable for both novice users and experienced automation engineers
Provides synergy for development, quality assurance and business analysis teams Includes automated generation of English test case documentation for easier regulatory compliance
SmartSoft Technology
Environments: Web, Desktop, Mobile, Point-of-Sale, Embedded, Mainframe
Application Platforms: All Microsoft .NET compliers, Microsoft Visual C++, Intel C++, Microsoft Visual Basic, Java, Flash, Flex, Microsoft Silverlight*, Microsoft Access*, Microsoft InfoPath, AJAX, IE, VB6, Console
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SmarteSoft Software Highlights
SmarteScript
The first comprehensive functional test tool that does not require programming skills Intuitively learns the windows and objects used in an application, allowing users to create “test skeletons” for each business process
Provides automated documentation by generating test cases for each script, and test cases are continually updated to reflect any changes in the scripts
SmarteStudio
Designed for developers, Smarte Studio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for creating automated unit and system tests, and is user extensible
Merges innovations in record and editing technology with a dynamic debugger, Microsoft’s JScript interpreter, and powerful automated reporting
Offers its users the ability to record their interactions with an application, save them as a script, and edit them as needs change
Prevents developers from having to re-write scripts for each individual test—a next-step move which will save users on both time and effort
Can be extended by the user to automatically recognize objects which Studio does not recognize out of the box. This enables extension for custom or non-standard environments, and emerging technologies. Any extensions made by one user can be shared with any other users via common libraries.
SmarteLoad
A load test tool that offers automatic load test script generation, data-driven automation, multi-level grid driven automation, simulated load synopsis, and more Can leverage existing automated functional tests to give users a jump start on performance testing projects
Automates the entire process of parameterization, correlation, and load testing to deliver comprehensive, reliable results
SmarteQM
Integrated QA Test Management System that allows users to take control of the project lifecycle and synchronize the previously separate worlds of development and testing * * * * * * * * * * * *
About SmarteSoft
Handles requirements management, release management, reporting and analysis, test case management, and incident and defect tracking
SmarteX
A cost-effective solution for performing functional and regression testing to workgroups and test labs
Key features include the Grid Visualization Engine, automatic test measurements, automated window/object image capture, a scalable regression manager, and an automated report writer
SmarteTime
The SmarteSoft scheduling tool that is network- and storage-aware Users can set tests to occur overnight or to avoid planned maintenance
Cuts staffing costs by automatically scheduling test executions to start each time a software build is done
SmartePak
Extends testing capabilities with a selection of four prepackaged options: SmartePak2, SmatrePak, SmartePak10, SmartePak2
SmartePak2 includes: 1 license of SmarteScript, 1 license of SmarteX, 2 licenses of SmarteQM, a free training session
SmartePak includes: 2 licenses of SmarteScript, 3 licenses of SmarteX, 1 license of SmarteTime, licenses of SmarteQM, and 2 free training sessions
SmartePak10 includes: licenses of SmarteScript, licenses of SmarteX, 1 license of SmarteTime, 10 licenses of SmarteQM, and free training sessions
SmartePak2 includes: 10 licenses of SmarteScript, 10 licenses of SmarteX, 2 licenses of SmarteTime, 2 licenses of SmarteQM, and 10 free training sessions * * * * * * * * * * *
www.parasoft.com | [email protected] | 888-30-001
HigHligHts
Parasoft helps QA and development teams prevent software errors and continuously test logical units of the application.
Parasoft helps QA testers or business analysts focus on validating end-to-end business scenarios as an iterative process, not a quality task at the end of a development cycle.
Teams use Parasoft to continuously validate all critical aspects of complex transactions which may extend through web interfaces, backend services, ESBs, databases, and everything in between.
The entire quality process is supported by an infrastructure that automates key tasks, tracks project status, and provides instant access to the information needed for smart decision making and process improvement.
* * * * HEADQuArTErS: Monrovia, CA OWnErSHip: Private FOunDED: 1987, California CuSTOmEr FOCuS:
Parasoft is designed to meet the needs of a variety of companies from start-ups to Fortune 00 enterprises. Parasoft has more than 10,000 customers worldwide, and services 8% of the Fortune 00.
SElECT CuSTOmErS:
Bank of America, Boeing, Cisco, Disney, HP, IBM, AT&T, Motorola, Nokia, Charles Schwab, Intuit, DreamWorks, Chrysler, Verizon, Wal-Mart, Oracle, Pfizer, US Navy, Capital One, NASA
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About parasoft
For over 20 years, Parasoft has investigated how and why software defects are introduced into applications. Our solutions leverage this research to dramatically improve SDLC productivity and application quality. Through an optimal combination of quality tools, configurable workflow, and automated infrastructure, Parasoft seamlessly integrates into development environments to drive SDLC tasks to a predictable outcome. Whether users are delivering code, evolving and integrating business systems, or improving business processes—draw on Parasoft’s expertise and award-winning products to ensure that quality software can be delivered
consistently and efficiently.
Parasoft solutions are adopted by top companies because they enable an end-to-end quality process that begins with a requirement and ends with the audit of a business process. By automating development and quality tasks stackthrough all phases of the SDLC, the solutions significantly reduce the risks associated with developing new or changing applications. These solutions address multiple layers of the application and address application development risks such as:
• Security • Reliability • Performance • Maintainability
• Process visibility and control
parasoft Key Strengths
End-to-End Testing - Promotes rapid, incremental development of test suites that verify end-to-end operations, which may span across the messaging layer, ESBs, the Web interface, the database, application servers, and EJBs. This ensures the reliability of the underlying implementation.
Application behavior virtualization - Automatically emulates the behavior of services, then deploys them across multiple environments—streamlining collaborative
development and testing activities. Services can be emulated from functional tests or actual runtime environment data.
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Load/performance testing - Leveraging existing functional tests, verifies functionality and performance under load. Support is also provided for load testing non-Parasoft components such as JUnits or lightweight socket-based components, and for detecting concurrency issues.
Manual testing - Adds consistency and repeatability to the manual testing process; also enables change-based testing by identifying the manual test cases impacted by daily source code modifications.
Advanced web application testing - Guides the team in developing robust, noiseless regression tests for rich and highly-dynamic browser-based applications.
Security testing - Prevents security vulnerabilities through penetration testing and execution of complex authentication, encryption, and access control test scenarios.
Runtime error detection - Automatically exposes defects that occur as the application is exercised–including race conditions, exceptions, resource & memory leaks, and security attack vulnerabilities
Specialized platform support - Accesses and executes tests against a variety of platforms (AmberPoint, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle Fusion, Progress Sonic, Software AG/webMethods, TIBCO).
Broad protocol support - The test client can send and receive messages over the following protocols and messaging APIs: HTTP, IBM WebSphere MQ, Progress SonicMQ, RMI, SMTP, Tibco Rendezvous, .NET WCF, EJB, JMS, ISO 883. Other messaging APIs or test actions are possible via a framework that allows extension of the solution’s built-in transports and protocols.
parasoft product Highlights
End-to-End Testing allows QA to rapidly construct easily maintainable end-to-end test suites that cross application layers, SDLC phases, and testing methods:
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With a single test suite, you can continuously validate all critical aspects of complex transactions which may extend through web interfaces, backend services, ESBs, databases, application servers, and everything in between.
“Unit tests” can be created as soon as a single “unit of work is completed, then this test suite can be incrementally enhanced to verify additional components as they are added, test the integration of components, and audit end-to-end business processes that span across composite applications.
The same end-to-end test suites that are created for functional testing can also be leveraged for security as well as load testing—and all of these tests can easily be integrated into a robust regression testing suite.
During test execution, you can visualize and trace the intra-process events triggered by tests, facilitating rapid diagnosis of problems directly from the test environment. You can also continuously validate whether critical events continue to satisfy functional expectations as the system evolves.
Behavior Virtualization (intelligent stubbing) capability enables QA to rapidly and easily replace dependent systems, methods, or components that would otherwise inhibit your ability to effectively exercise the end-to-end business process. It features:
Intelligent stub construction
Easy stub extensibility and configuration Ability to use the stubs under load
The solution’s extreme extensibility and easy customization allows you to stub any component or protocol that is creating a dependency problem in the test environment. For example, you can:
Monitor what happens inside an ESB or another system as it is executed and create stubs that emulate the monitored behavior.
Emulate the other components that the bus is talking to—for instance, a CRM application, or a partner’s service which in turn calls a Software as a Service application.
Use unit-level stubbing to emulate the application logic’s calls to other applications, legacy systems, etc.
Configure the test scenario to set up and clean up test data on the actual databases * * * * * * * * * * *
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so that the actual data set is not impacted by test transactions.
Simulate the behavior of a user interacting with the system via a browser.
QA Test Management is greatly enhanced and facilitated. Parasoft provides visibility to the results through its own test management and reporting capability. Users can correlate test cases with requirements and bug tracking systems, automate test execution, and obtain consolidated results in multiple formats or within the test management framework the team is already using.
Parasoft test cases can be mapped to specific requirements in test systems such as HP Quality Center, IBM TestManager, and Microsoft VSTS. Once a test case is mapped to a requirement, the testing of the requirement becomes as simple as clicking a button inside the test management system and reviewing the results there.
parasoft Technology
Parasoft ADP services integrate and automate your SDLC to ensure that quality software can be produced consistently and efficiently. The resulting automated infrastructure improves development productivity and forms the foundation for a sustainable quality process.
