Automated Testing for IBM i
- 1. Certify CPA Global – February 2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
- 2. Overview • Established in 1998 • Founded by industry thought leaders - Previous founders of AutoTester, first PC-based test automation tool - Linda Hayes, CTO is author, columnist, speaker with 20+ years experience • Innovator position - First to market with code-free automation - Patent pending API for extensible execution approach • Headquartered in Dallas, Texas • Field offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston • Investors: • Austin Ventures, Austin, Texas; $3B under management • Crescendo Ventures, Palo Alto, Minneapolis, and London; $1B under management • Seasoned management team • 100+ employees 9/29/2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 2
- 3. Time to value • New idea • Market Opportunity – Market share • Business Process redesign • Software needs to be developed • How long can that take? - Requirements - Analysis, Design, Code - Test - Release • Make it shorter, is the business demand 9/29/2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 3
- 4. Business Case For Change Business risk is increasing • Market pressure drives schedules • Functionality, complexity expanding • Applications exposed to customers Manual testing can’t keep pace • Time, resources and skills are limited • No reusability means decreasing coverage • Time, turnover cause loss of knowledge Production data must be obfuscated for testing • Compliance • Outsourcing/offshoring Automation is only answer • Increase coverage • Reduce time, resources 9/29/2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 4
- 5. Testing Costs Too Much Time & Money 25% 25% Requirements Requirements Analysts 35% Testing 17% Testing Analysis Cost & Time Savings 35% Design & 40% Design & Development Development Scripting / Manual 9/29/2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 5
- 6. Certify Reduces Time to Market Scripting Tool Requirements & Design & TestScript Development Execution Analysis Development Requirements & Design & Analysis Development Test Development Execution Time 9/29/2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 6
- 7. Customer Case Studies Before: One application took four Training months to test with scripting 2 weeks training per user on script programming language 80% Time savings & productivity gain Today with Certify: 32 are 2 days class training per user tested in four months No programming Design 3 months to learn how to design a reusable testing system Scripting tool after 2 years work: 1 week to design processes, cycles, schedules & recordsets Reusability built into the repository Only 2 out of 12 Member QA team could use script tool Development 2 weeks script coding time per screen to validate all fields No business analysts could use scripting tool. 4 hours to import screens, validation built-in “Q/A is a bottleneck.” No coding required Today with Certify: Maintenance 4 hours per screen change, for impact analysis & modifying 12 out of 12 member QA team using Certify screen code 50+ Business Analysts & users using Certify 20 minutes to import new screens Impact analysis & script update is automatic 9/29/2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 7
- 8. Example Customers 9/29/2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 8
- 9. Architecture Worksoft Certify Server HTML User Application Development Mainframe Dynamically Learned by Generic .NET Certify “Standard” Interfaces VB Centralized Java Collaboration Interfaces Database XML (coming) QA Customized for Custom Each UI Control Non-Standard SDK Interfaces User Profiles Permissions Application Maps Projects PeopleSoft Application Processes Requirements Process Flows & Process Results SAP Application Maps Attributes (coming) Enterprise Business Variables Apps Reporting Data Oracle (coming) 9/29/2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 9
- 10. Summary Value add QA • Greater application quality • Faster time to market • More enterprise visibility Tighter integration with business • Subject matter experts fundamental to the process Faster delivery cycles • 80% less training required • 92% faster design • 95% faster test development • 97.5% more efficient maintenance 9/29/2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 10
- 11. Value Proposition Worksoft radically alters the economics of quality. • We empower wider participation in automation • Remove technical barriers • We expand test coverage • Cross-application, multi-platform • We reduce the time and cost of implementation • Documented 32X increase in throughput • We reduce the lifetime cost of ownership • Buy versus build 9/29/2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 11
- 12. Certify Reduces Testing $ by > 60% Manually Create Update Test Plan Scripts Automatically Create Update Execute Define Test Test Plan Test Scripts Cases Test Cases Circle of Pain Develop Debug Test Test Script Framework Execute Define Test Cases Test Cases Code/Modify Record Test Script Test Script Exclusively technical resources Business people 9/29/2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 12
- 13. Certify Testing Differentiators • Empowers all members of the quality process - Development, QA, BAs and subject matter experts • Ease of Outlook – power of programming - Simplified interface, abstraction layer masks advanced engineering • Store application knowledge in repeatable tests - Convert experience into cumulative assets release to release • End-to-end testing across platforms - Test entire business process across Web, IBM i, mainframe, Java, .NET, VB, SOA, etc • Enables concurrent test development - Develop tests before code delivery to reduce time to market • Open support for tools, language independent - Patent pending No other solution can deliver these benefits 9/29/2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 13
- 14. Worksoft Certify Architecture Open Architecture Leverages Existing Tools, Skills 9/29/2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 14
- 15. ADC Austin Value Add • CA 2E Screen Import • CA Plex Interface • Experience with API / Customization • Adding components, specialized map import • Training around to CA 2E/Plex User • Experience with migration of CA 2E 9/29/2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 15
- 16. Key Differentiators Worksoft Certify makes it easy to • Collaborate • Manage your test process across the enterprise • Organize all your test assets in a single, shared repository • Document your tests and results in a standard format for compliance • Automate • Automate your tests without coding • Update your tests instantly and automatically • Execute end to end, seamlessly across platforms • Accelerate • Automate more tests and applications in less time • Enable shorter cycle times with greater coverage • Deliver better applications faster No other solution can deliver these benefits 9/29/2009 © 2009 Worksoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Worksoft and Worksoft Certify are registered trademarks of Worksoft, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 16