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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™.
- Create test cases that are easy to maintain and reuse!
- Get control of dynamic and hard to manage test data!
- Start creating automation you can maintain and manage!
The cost savings can be substantial. Click here to see some of the benefits our clients have realized from our full solution.
How?
Mosaic has implemented a complete test architecture for HP Quality Center that provides the reusability necessary to tackle the high cost of testing. This architecture leverages the reusable test planning provided by Quality Center and adds the capability for reusable managed test data.
DSTAR™ is a QC add-on tool that enhances the QC suite by making test data maintainable and reusable. DSTAR™ manages the test data for both manual tests and QuickTest Pro (QTP) scripts. In addition to managing the test data, DSTAR™ also comes with a complete Reusable Test Planning Process and a ready-to-implement Test Automation Framework for QC.
Why Test Data Management?
Inability to manage and maintain the test data required by tests is the key reason automated and manual regression test beds fail. Test data for most systems today is complex, prone to change and plagued with sensitivity issues. Most testing approaches including HP QC bind data to the tests, decreasing the ability for reusability and severely challenging the ability 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™ 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 in HP Quality Center
- View the test data assigned to a test in HP Quality Center
- 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™ Comes with 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 using HP Quality Center 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
- 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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