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 Reduce Testing Costs? Yes, You Can!
Testing costs too much and takes too long. Can anything be done? YES! The key is full reuse™.
Today’s test automation frameworks claim reuse with data-driven or keyword-driven approaches. Yet these reusable assets are then bound to non-reusable test data killing their reusability.
DSTAR™, Mosaic’s Data Store for Testing and Automated Regression, eliminates this premature binding by managing the test data as reusable assets in a database. This enables full reuse™ of all your testing assets: tests, scripts and the test data facilitating:
- Test cases that are easy to maintain and reuse!
- Control of dynamic and hard to manage test data!
- Automation you can maintain and manage!
The cost savings can be substantial. Click here to see some of the benefits our clients have realized.
Why Test Data Management?
The inability to manage and maintain test data is the main reason automated and manual regression test beds fail. Test data is complex, prone to change and plagued with sensitivity issues. Most testing approaches, including HP Quality Center (QC), bind data to the tests too early. This limits reusability and significantly increases the costs to maintain and manage the test data. DSTAR™ tackles these issues by decoupling the data from the tests and by managing the data in a database environment where it can be readily managed and controlled.
DSTAR™ currently interfaces as an add-on to HP Quality Center and it will soon interface with other tools through Mosaic’s Reusable Software Testing and Automation Repository (RSTAR™). By managing the test data as reusable assets in a database and delaying binding to tests until execution, DSTAR enables the reusability of your manual and automated tests and allows these assets to be shared and easily maintained.
DSTAR™ supports data import, maintenance and assignment manually or through API’s. It also includes an integrated test automation framework and management reporting. The automation framework supports direct automation of the manual tests, eliminating the rework inherent in most automation approaches. The management reporting provides visibility into test condition coverage and test data usage not available with MS Excel and QC data tables.
DSTAR™ Key Features
- DSTAR™ Organizes Your Test Data as Logical Datasheets in a Database
- Manage your test data as a testing asset
- Add, change or delete test data at anytime
- Organize and reuse test data
- Maintain test data centrally and share it across testers
- Check In/Check Out and APIs facilitate maintenance to keep data in sync with your test databases
- DSTAR™ Imports Test Data
- Import data from MS Excel workbooks
- Format test data extracts from your test databases for import
- DSTAR™ Tracks and Maintains Test Data Assignments
- Assign available test data to your tests
- View the test data assigned to a test
- Modify test data assignments any time prior to test execution
- Easily iterate tests by assigning multiple sets of data
- DSTAR™ Provides Reporting to Manage Your Tests and Test Data
- Identify where test data is used
- Identify test data not in use
- Generate reports of the tests and their currently assigned data for manual execution or for reviews/audits
- DSTAR™ Comes with a Complete Test Automation Framework
- Automate your manual tests by coding action scripts for reusable test actions
- Use Mosaic’s Master Control Program (provided with DSTAR™) to execute your automation tests with the data assigned through DSTAR™
- Generate robust execution reports
- Retain the ability to manually execute and review your tests even after automation
- DSTAR™ Includes a Comprehensive Process for Reusable Test Planning
- Design tests to be reused across testers
- Design tests to be directly automated
- Organize test data for sharing and reuse across testers, tests and automated scripts
Who Can Benefit from DSTAR™?
Manual and automated testers will find DSTAR™ essential for creating, updating and executing reusable tests. DSTAR™ will also enhance the ability to easily run regression tests and keep them in sync with the test databases. Business analysts with data-intensive or reusable use cases will also benefit from DSTAR™.
DSTAR™ System Requirements
- Quality Center 9.2 or above (for QC Add-on version)
- QuickTest Professional™ 9.5 or above (optional – we can customize to another automation tool!)
- Oracle 10G or above, or SQL Server 2000, Service Pack 3 or above
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