GITC Q-2370
Ana Moran, Senior Project Manager, CITEC
Test Together - Automated software testing solution
Free your time with a software testing solution over 300 times faster than testing by hand and so easy that you can use it straight away. With the time and money you'll save, Test Together pays for itself.
What is Test Together?
Test Together is a unique service utilizing the skills of experienced test designers and Data Together's proven methodology to create a suite of automated tests that verify your software does what you expect it to.
Inadequate software testing leads to significant future costs and often damages the reputation of your business. The later a defect is detected, the more expensive the necessary rework to rectify it will be. When customers experience software that isn't reliable, they often question the reliability of the whole business.
Test Together will quickly identify system defects. Also, it will easily measure progress of software development. You will see the number of successful tests increase.
What do you get?
You will get a comprehensive test plan and easy to use software that you can run at anytime to immediately deliver a test report and defect report. The test plan is easy to read so all stakeholders can be confident the software is behaving as they expect. The test report gives a summary of all tests, so you can easily see what part of the software works and what doesn't.
The defect report is specific and concise so developers can rectify defects more efficiently, therefore saving you money.
What about changes?
According to Lehman's Laws of Software Evolution, "Systems that are used must change or automatically become less useful".
With Test Together, your automated test suite is designed to easily accommodate changes to your software, so the tests will be updated quickly when you need it.
Also, test suites are designed to be extensible, so they can be modified independently, without needing the expertise or tools of Data Together.
Comparison with other automated software testing tools
Typically, the more features in your software testing tool, the more expensive the price tag and the more complex it is to use. Before being able to use the expensive software testing tool, you must wade through a complicated manual of technical information or attend a training course where you are bombarded with information and walk away still only being able to use a small fraction of what you've purchased.
Instead, Data Together's Test Together automated software testing solution, uses Data Together's expertise and tools to deliver an automatic test suite powered by inexpensive open source technology that can be deployed in your environment. It is so easy to use, that you can quickly execute your automatic test suite every time your software or environment changes.
With any automated testing tool it is essential to have a flexible test suite design that can handle changes in the future. Data Together understand this and design all test suites with the flexibility today to protect your investment for tommorrow.
Ideal solution for regression testing
How many times has a change been made to your software to add a new feature or fix a bug, and as a result, something that was previously working no longer works as intended?
Regression testing is the process of testing all functionality in a system to ensure that it works as expected. If you do not perform regression testing, then your system could fail upon upgrade.
Regression testing when performed manually is time consuming and often overlooked, particularly when changes are considered minor. However, with Test Together you can now have the added security of regression testing every release or upgrade, without the added expense. You simply run your automated test suite, and in a matter of minutes can verify that all the functions that used to work before the upgrade, still work now.
Thinking about upgrading the servers or environment that your software is installed on? With one quick test run, you can be confident that your software is still functioning correctly, and enjoy the fact that Test Together has saved you even more time, to do with as you wish.
It pays for itself
Defects are often discovered during testing and software is often updated, so you can expect to run your test suite many times over. Automated tests are run with very little manual overhead. This means that you relieve your staff of the burden of performing mundane manual testing, and better utilise their skills elsewhere. As a comparison, a test plan that took two weeks to be performed manually was able to be performed in fifteen minutes by Test Together's test running software. This is a 99.9% saving!
We find that, on average, Test Together has paid for itself, after just two or three test runs.