See RSTAR™ in action: Create Executable Test Assign Test Data Execute the Test

RSTAR™ is a central repository for planning, creating, maintaining, and managing your reusable testing assets. RSTAR™ also includes test execution support, tracking of test execution results, defect capture and management reporting. 

RSTAR™ is designed to achieve Full Reuse™ of your testing assets.  It includes:

• Planning support for creating and maintaining reusable tests and test data.
• Execution support for assembling the tests and test data into executable tests.
• Test execution support for executing tests and capturing results and defects for both automated and manual tests.

Moreover, RSTAR™ directly integrates with control programs for numerous automation tools including industry tools (e.g., QTP), open source (e.g., Selenium) and even your own proprietary tools.

RSTAR™ provides a flexible yet powerful framework for Full Reuse™ of your testing deliverables.  Full Reuse™ minimizes the number of manual tests, automation scripts and test data required to meet your test coverage needs.  With fewer test assets to maintain, costs are significantly lower. 

RSTAR™ goes beyond keyword-driven and data-driven testing and provides a new approach – object-driven testing.  The key is reusable test data!  Robust test data – the input and expected results needed by your tests – is critical for effective testing, but is notoriously complex, volatile and difficult to maintain.  You’ve been paying the price of redundant test data, now Mosaic has a solution.

See RSTAR™ in action: Create Executable Test Assign Test Data Execute the Test

RSTAR™ provides an object-driven test framework that:

• Supplements and integrates with your existing framework to provide a management front-end for improved reusability and enhanced management visibility.
   
• Moves your test planning from MS WORD or MS Excel to a new level of reusability, maintainability  and ease of automation.
   
• Enhances your test data management by moving the data from spreadsheets to reusable, maintainable and managed test data by leveraging the power of a database.
   
• Provides a practical, ready-to-implement test automation framework  for a wide variety of automation tools including industry tools such as QTP and SilkTest, open source such as Selenium and Perl or even home-grown varieties.
   
• Simply reduces your testing costs

See RSTAR™ in action: Create Executable Test Assign Test Data Execute the Test

Key Features

• Maintain Reusable Tests and Their Relationships to Test Data.
   
• Manage your tests and test data as reusable assets.
• Add, change or delete tests and test data at anytime.
• Maintain tests and test data centrally.
• Check In/Check Out and APIs to keep test data in sync with your test databases.
   
• Combine Reusable Tests into Larger Reusable Test Flows.
   
• Drag and drop to combine reusable tests into larger and larger tests.
   
• Develop Executables from Reusable Tests and Assign Test Data.
   
• Drag and drop tests into an execution flow.  Assign test data.
   
• Execute Tests and Track Execution Results.
   
• A manual driver provides the test steps and test data and tracks the execution results.
   
• Support for automation drivers in industry, open source or home-grown automation tools to enable automated execution
   
• APIs are provided to update automation results.
   
• Complete execution history -- see execution report example
   
• Import Test Data
   
• Import data from MS Excel workbooks.
• Format test data extracts from your test databases for import.
   
• Track and Maintain Test Data Assignments
   
• Assign 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.
   
• Generate Reports to Manage Your Tests and Test Data
   
• Identify where test data is used.
• Identify test data not in use.
• Generate reports for manual or automated execution, or for reviews/audits.
   
• Readily Implement a Test Automation Framework With a Variety of Tools
   
• Automate your manual tests by coding scripts for reusable test actions.
• Compatible with a wide variety of automation tools; ready-to-implement control programs available for QTP, SilkTest, Selenium and Perl.
• For other tools, easily implement a Control Program with supplied DLLs to drive the test automation.
• Generate robust execution reports.
• Retain the ability to manually execute and review your tests even after automation.
   
• Leverage a Comprehensive Process for Reusable Test Planning
   
• Design tests to be reused across testers.
• Design tests to be directly automated.
• Organize data around the needs of the application, not around the needs of a specific test
• Organize test data for sharing and reuse across testers, tests and automated scripts.

See RSTAR™ in action: Create Executable Test Assign Test Data Execute the Test

The benefits of using RSTAR™ include:

• Lower costs and reduced time to market
   
• Fewer assets to create and maintain because of increased reuse
• Ability to use open source automation tools such as Selenium
   
• Design test data around needs of the application, not the needs of a specific test.
   
• Manual tests positioned for direct automation
   
• Reduced training costs with testing knowledge retained for future releases
   
• Reduced time and effort maintaining test data
   
• Improved visibility into testing status and progress
   
• Ability to know where specific data conditions are tested and which data conditions are not tested