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1Commercial Testing Tools and its real benefits
Commercial Testing Tools and its Real Benefits
A Presentation by Ramesh Krish, CTO - Indium Software (India) LimitedEnhancing Product
Quality
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Commercial Tools
Originators having commercial interest in the product
Any better way to explain?
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Types of commercial Tools
Functional Testing QTP, RFT, TestPartner, EggPlant etc
Performance Testing LoadRunner, QA Load etc
Test Management Quality Center, QA Director etc
White box Testing DevPartner, IBM Rational etc
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The benefits…
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Technology
Ever changing technology Just when you thought you
have a solution – here comes a new technology
Case Adobe Flash 3rd party .NET controls
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Support
Authority to look-upto Support from experts Case
No help in ‘help’ files or ‘user’ guides – issues with the way the tool was capturing dynamic images
Solution warranted R&D Tool experts worked with the
team for a work-around towards a solution to the customer
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People
Availability of large talent pool Training institutes keep up to the
pace of tool advancements Case - challenges we face on a
daily basis Customer wants additional
resources at a very short notice
Attrition
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Patches/Hot fixes
Credibility is a big issue for vendors Defects/short-comings are addressed in
the tool on priority Quick-aid Vs Surgery Case
Web + Citrix protocol• Leading performance testing
tool• Not able to iterate the scripts
more than once Hot fix by the vendor
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Community
Have a long history of community Does not have to invent the wheel
again & again Right from preparing for an
interview (either side of the table!) to delivering a project successfully – help comes from all directions
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Ease of use
Coherent Management Structure Well-defined and controlled upgrades Migration paths for products Non-developers too can use the tools
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The Upside
Technology Support People availability Patches/Hot-fixes Strong community Ease of use
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The Downside
Tool license cost License policies Compatibility with OpenSource
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@Indium
10 years in Testing business Use most of the commercial tools Have OpenSource CoE for Test Automation Offer tool mix to give maximum benefit to the customer
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Thank YouRamesh Krish
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