Test Automation is for Everyone

Editor's Notes

1. Test Automation is for Everyone August 23, 2017 • 10:00 am - 11:00 am CDT Do you have to learn code to create test automation? The answer is no. The latest technology enables business and QA teams to ensure enterprise application quality using easy to maintain, plain English tests. Powerful automated business process discovery, risk based analysis and lights-out regression tests can then be used to extend automation and create additional value – all without code! Join Worksoft at August 23rd at 10:00 am CDT to learn how you can: Create a business driven test automation strategy Enable business analysts and QA teams to easily create automation Quantify the value of test automation with real world examples
2. There is a lot of buz in the industry today regarding the role of testers in the future and what skills they need.
3. Mind-set: Doing things manually has always worked, why change Automation requires a documented understanding of what needs to be tested New skill sets are needed to create automation Automation libraries need to be maintained Past automation efforts have fallen short of expected results
4. Worksoft solutions are really intended to focus and help enable you in that journey to Agile. We’ve aligned our solution to the core areas that are involved in change management – The Business, Dev/QA, and Operations. At the business level we need to understand what are the critical business processes. What does the business want things to look like after the change has been implemented. Being able to automate the discovery of business process and then generate documentation to enable clear communication between the business and the technical teams is a huge agile enabler. If we look at the Dev/Test side we’ve typically in the past typically done things in a Waterfall fashion, build out documentation, create test requirements, create matching test cases, but what if we could do all of those things in parallel at the same time enabling exploratory testing and automating those captured test cases. We’ll talk more about this. How we can do some of these activities in parallel to help shorten lifecycles or shorten time spans, right, and be able to meet tighter timeframes and to get more of an Agile approach. Finally then there is the operations side of the house. How do we test on a regular basis repeatedly and rapidly.
5. So if I go back and I look at some of those challenges that we had across typical SAP projects, I can align Worksoft products to address a number of those. Analyze can be used to understand and automate the business process, Certify for being able to generate test automation, Execution Manager for being to execute lights out and at scale. We’ll go into these in a little bit more detail later.
6. Worksoft has been around a long time. We’ve got great customers that we work with, but it’s good to have feedback from external parties. IDC actually did a very nice study and showed that Worksoft extends automation and drives business agility. The ROI for end-to-end implementing something like Certify for Automated Testing and the Impact Analysis is 273 percent. For the compiled customer, the net present value was $11 million and payback took about 12 months, and it’s because they could actually increase automation so they actually are doing more testing before they go to production. (I know a lot of people test in production; it’s great. we call that end users.) The compiled company improved their productivity because they’re not spending time manually testing things. They let the computer do that and focused on building automation; and also some defects were cut by 44 percent, because the problem is when you get a defect in production, you’ve got 10 groups on the call trying to figure out what the problem is and how to remediate it so there is a lot of time wasted doing that. From their standpoint, they’re actually looking for more seamless automation and fewer starts and stops in their aggression testing, which obviously Worksoft fills that gap. We have tests where 50 to 80 percent of their regression tests were actually automated.