Borland®
SilkTest®
Speeds Quality Assurance for Leading Provider of Advanced Asset
Analytics Applications; Delivers 15 Times Faster Testing and Eliminates
Rework
CUPERTINO, Calif.--Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ:BORL)(www.borland.com),
the global leader in Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), today
announced that SmartSignal Corporation is successfully using Borland®
SikTest® for
automated functional and regression testing to speed quality assurance
(QA) processes and improve organizational efficiency, while addressing
the company’s sophisticated testing
requirements and volume of work.
“It would be impossible for us to maintain
premium quality and service standards without automated testing and the
scalability and flexibility that Borland SilkTest provides us,”
said George Cerny, quality assurance manager at SmartSignal. “Our
QA team can extend the Borland product in countless ways to accommodate
automated testing for the massive variability in our products. SilkTest
has helped us to eliminate rework and speed the validation process.”
SmartSignal Corporation (www.smartsignal.com)
is the leader in advanced asset analytics applications. The company’s
applications predict impending equipment and process failures, diagnose
the causes of failures, and prioritize the severity of failures.
QA is a critical component of the software delivery lifecycle for
SmartSignal's product offerings. Considering the QA team’s
limited resources, operating as a highly efficient organization is
essential to accommodate the volume of work and level of complexity
inherent to SmartSignal’s products. To
maintain premium quality and service standards, automated software
testing is critical.
In addition, SmartSignal’s adoption of some
agile development methodologies, including daily continuous build and
test practices, was placing added pressure on the QA team. The company
needed to automate the testing cycle of its daily iterations in order to
keep up with test cases and validate daily builds.
SmartSignal chose to implement Borland SilkTest, an automated regression
and functional software testing tool and core product component of the
Borland Lifecycle
Quality Management solution. Using Borland SilkTest, SmartSignal’s
QA team has optimized the use of its testing resources to deliver
complete test coverage and support for the quality component of the
company’s agile development practices. The
flexibility and scalability of Borland SilkTest has allowed SmartSignal
to implement automated testing across multiple environments and
platforms as well as third party controls and complex custom objects.
Today, the company conducts automated testing for more than 400,000
lines of code and for complex and extensive test plans representing up
to 4,000 test cases. Each automated test plan constitutes more than 100
man-hours of testing and runs overnight, unattended, across multiple
Borland SilkTest execution machines, to validate daily builds. Custom
test reports are also generated each morning using Borland SilkTest,
providing management with increased visibility into product quality and
release status.
“We estimate that Borland SilkTest has saved
us more than 78 man-days each week,”
continued Cerny. “This translates to fifteen
times faster testing and greatly improved utilization of the QA team’s
limited resources. We simply couldn’t keep up
without the Borland product.”
Additionally, Borland SilkTest has enabled SmartSignal to virtually
eliminate the rework associated with rewritten test cases by enabling
the QA team to test its products across all supported environments,
platforms and locales using a single set of test cases. This has made it
dramatically easier and faster for the company to test its products.
The QA team is also now able to port all of the test plans and test
cases from the previous release of a product to the new product,
virtually unchanged using Borland SilkTest. SmartSignal estimates that
this capability has saved the company literally years of rework, while
also allowing the QA team to spend its time expanding test coverage and
optimizing application quality rather than building and maintaining test
plans.
About Borland SilkTest
Borland SilkTest, a core component of the company’s
Lifecycle Quality Management solution, is a powerful tool for functional
and regression test automation. Intuitive GUI record-and-play
capabilities, coupled with a stable, easy-to-use testing language,
enables users to build functional and regression tests that do not break
with minor changes to the application – a
problem that makes most functional testing tools too costly to
implement. SilkTest delivers time-tested stability and support for major
enterprise environments in a cost-effective package, making automated
regression and functional software testing a key capability instead of
an expensive option.
About Borland
Founded in 1983, Borland (NASDAQ:BORL) is the leading vendor of Open
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions –
open to customers’ processes, tools and
platforms – providing the flexibility to
manage, measure and improve the software delivery process. To learn more
about maximizing the business value of software, visit http://www.borland.com.
Borland, SilkTest and all other Borland brand and products names are
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Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other
countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
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