If you are currently in the happy place where everything is working, systems and people are in sync, software builds on time with no bugs and you have an unlimited budget, then please close my message and stay in that place, I'm truly happy for you.
If not, I would like to take a moment and share my thoughts with you about process, deliverables, development and quality assurance. For many years, we have been searching for answers on how to deliver defect free software on time and more efficiently without breaking the bank. From what I see, it is pretty obvious to anyone who is running the IT project, the right tools and the right people are the key to a successful implementation. When we implementing the right tool, we almost immediately ask ourselves if it's fit to our process, our culture.Does this tool do exactly what we need it to do? How much is it going to cost us to customize the tool to fit into our processes and organization? When we think about implementation, the question about right people is more important than ever. Do...
Microsoft SharePoint Integration with automation tools.
June 14, 2010
Introducing STAR Bridge for Microsoft SharePoint
Integrate your automated testing with Microsoft's powerful application, SharePoint.
STAR provides the integration and services to create the necessary modules for increasing your efficency and lowering cost in your SDLC.
Test Module:
Test Cases
Test Lab - Test Sets
Test Scheduler
Test Result Dashboards
Defect Module:
Defects
Defect Linkage to Test and Requirements
Defects Dashboards
Requirement Module:
Requirements
Requirements Linkage to Test and Defects
Requirments Dashboards
All of this utilizing Microsoft's Sharepoint Services, which may already exist in your organization, at a low cost of implementation and utilizing many of the commercially available automated testing tools to include offerings from Hewlett Packard, AutomatedQA and IBM's Rational product lines.
STAR HAS A SOLUTION FOR YOU! STAR has partnered with AutomatedQA to bring you an Application Lifecycle Management and Automated Testing tool. Software Planner and TestComplete provide a feature rich, cost effective set of tools to move your development and testing to the next stage. Our partnership ensures close collaboration and integration between a management tool, automated testing tools and our framework.
Anatomy of an Automated Testing Framework by Steve Miller
July 2, 2009
Why Automate Your Test Cases? Many companies run their regression test cases manually, so when does it make sense to begin automating your regression test cases? It makes sense to automate your test cases when you can no longer run the regression test cases on each build created. For example, if you are doing daily or weekly builds of your code to quality assurance and you cannot quickly run your regression test cases with each build, it is time to consider automating them. Automating your test cases provide these benefits:
Quicker Releases – By having your regression test cases run automatically, your software quality team can concentrate on testing new features of your software and less time regressing existing features.
Higher quality releases – Your software releases will have fewer bugs and require less customer support because they will be of higher quality.
Happier Customers – Your customers will be happier and more willing to serve as testimonials for future prospects.
What is an Automated Testing Framework? Most automated tools require the test engineer to understand a scripting language (VB Script, Java Script, etc.) to write their automated test cases. These tools usually have the ability to create the scripts...
Webinar: 'Streamlining the Software Development Lifecycle
June 17, 2009
I thought you might be interested in a webinar we are presenting this Thursday. The webinar is entitled 'Streamlining the Software Development Lifecycle'. It is presented jointly by Software Planner/STAR and Automated QA (an automated tool vendor). In the webinar we will present: 1. How to use Software Planner to manage requirements, manual test cases and defects. 2. How to use AutomatedQA's TestComplete (http://www.testcomplete.com) to manage automated test cases. 3. How to integrate TestComplete's automated testing into Software Planner where you can see run history via the dashboards. 4. How to schedule automated tests from within Software Planner so that they run unattended. 5. How to inspect Software Planner's dashboards for both manual and automated test progression.
The webinar is Thursday June 18, 2009 (noon Pacific time, 1 p.m. Mountain time, 2 p.m. Central time, 3 p.m. Eastern time). If you are interested in viewing the webinar, sign up here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/745211610.
At STAR, we've been working with many automated tools over the last decade to include WinRunner, QTP, LoadRunner, Rational Robot, TestPartner, Silk and open source tools. From my personal experience, many companies that buy automation tools for automating there QA processes will stop using them as soon as they lose key personnel or they hit a major road block with their product. The question is, why is there no standard test automation tool, something like "silver bullet" to solve our testing problems and bring happiness to the Quality Assurance world? Why do so many companies believe that test automation implementation will cost a fortune or they go with open source and eventually stop using the tool base on the lack of professional support? Well, we know that the customer would like go with most popular and widely used automation tool to be able to obtain or retain more talent in organization, not losing their ROI. Looks like QTP from HP is "the most widely used" tool in the market, they holding the biggest share in the area of automated tools. However, many test automation issues remain un-solved.Again, people have been sold on record and playback features with next...
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