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A|ication-aware automated test case creation |atform he|s you to maximize business
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|n today's constant|y changing business environment where modern
enterrise deends on software, the abi|ity to re|ease a|ications
faster with wor|d-c|ass qua|ity has direct imact on business
erfor mance. without automation, seed and qua|ity often become
conicting riorities that are subject to trade-o decisions, eventua||y
|eading to fai|ures by oor|y tested a|ications making it into
roduction or re|eases taking a |onger time than anticiated. RP 1est
Automation so|utions extended with acce|eration caabi|ities aim at
the critica| cha||enge of faster de|ivery of high-qua|ity a|ications.
RP |unctiona| 1est Automation acce|eration so|utions address the
time-to-market cha||enges by roviding out-of-the-box test |ibraries
and too|s for faster and easier creation of tests. 8ui|t on the ower
of RP Unied |unctiona| 1esting (U|1) and RP 8usiness Process
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cometitive, are demanding faster de|ivery of qua|ity-assured a|i -
cations. Rowever, a|ication de|ivery is becoming more com|ex
with emerging trends and disrutions around mobi|e, c|oud, comosite
a|ications. Lvo|ving deve|oment rocesses (waterfa||, agi|e, hybrid,
etc.) and distributed software deve|oment, integration teams with
mix of in/out sourced mode|s are a|so adding to the com |exity. As
a resu|t, automated software testing becomes crucia| for de|ivering
qua|ity-assured software at seeds that business demands whi|e
addressing the cha||enges introduced with emerging trends.
Re|iance on recording and scriting rocesses may resu|t in automation
de|ivering fewer benets than exected because rogramming ski||s
may not a|ways be readi|y avai|ab|e and scriting may not a|ways be
eective. Naintenance on these automated test scrits is just as
dimcu|t, requiring a technica| engineer to sift through vo|umes of
undocumented code in order to nd the few commands that need
udating. Lven keyword-based test automation aroaches, whi|e
better than record-and-|ayback, sti|| require the tester to record
the testing rocess or |ay out each ste by hand, |engthening the
time needed to create test cases or to maintain them |ater. A|| of
this adds u to signicant time and cost, reventing many teams
from fu||y uti|izing the advantages that automated software testing
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creating or udating automated tests. c|actory
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aware automated test case creation |atform that enab|es quick and
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users or business ana|ysts. 8y sim|y c|icking on a|ication screens,
c|actory
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automated testing comonents. 1hese comonents can then be
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fu||y automate a business rocess. Shou|d an a|ication change
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and a|y them to the existing testing ows. 1he o|d rocess of
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and to maintain it throughout the a|ication's |ifecyc|e.
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is |isted. 1he user then se|ects the screens for test automation
creation and where the tests shou|d be stored in the RP qua|ity
Center or RP A|ication Lifecyc|e Nanagement reository. A sing|e
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0nce test automation comonents are ready, users can then combine
these together to create test cases using a sim|e drag-and-dro
rocess. Automation comonents are sharab|e and reusab|e, so they
can be inc|uded in mu|ti|e test cases, a||owing users to create many
dierent tyes of tests. 1his means that each a|ication screen
needs to be automated once and on|y once, signicant|y seeding
im|ementation time whi|e reducing associated costs. 8est of a||,
when changes occur to an a|ication screen, a sing|e udate is
needed regard|ess of how many dierent tests use the same screen.
Users sim|y c|ick to re-|earn the new screen, c|ick again to regenerate
the automation comonents, and a|| test cases that touch that
screen are udated, automatica||y.
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Users can a|so combine individua| test cases into |arger end-to-
end business rocesses using sim|e visua|-|ayout techno|ogy.
1o do this, test cases are dragged and droed into a testing ow,
a|so ca||ed a test set, which can incororate mu|ti|e workstations
or virtua| machines. 1his a||ows for the recise simu|ation of |arge
conference room i|ot-sty|e tests, which revious|y required
mu|ti|e eo|e days or even weeks to com|ete.
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0nce an end-to-end test ow is |aid out, c|actory
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data scenarios, which exercise a|| a|ication functiona|ity without
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After the test data is generated, the end-to-end test is ready to be
run immediate|y, or schedu|ed for |ater execution. c|actory inc|udes
an enhanced schedu|er that a||ows test teams to schedu|e mu|ti|e
dierent test ows to run either one time, mu|ti|e times, or on a
regu|ar|y recurring basis. 1est ows can a|so be set to run in a given
order, with |ater test ows starting as soon as ear|ier ones com|ete,
in order to make maximum use of testing resources.
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ana|yzes the testing data, which is
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test in the ow is executed in order to roer|y uti|ize its secic
data. 1his is done for each execution of a test case, a||owing for a
sing|e c|actory
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test to cover a|| of the dierent ways that a given
business rocess can be erformed. 1his signicant|y reduces the
number of test cases needed to rovide comrehensive testing
coverage for an a|ication, reducing both im|ementation time and
maintenance costs. 0ata-driving the tests a|so reduces com|exity
and strong|y increases ease of use by a||owing end users to work
with automated testing in the same way that they erform manua|
testing today, but one ste easier: Se|ect the data that matches the
system requirements you are |ooking to test for, then |et the system
gure out how to run the tests from there.
whenever se|ected test ows are executed, through tight integration
with RP ALN and RP qC, fu||y custom reorts can be generated
automatica||y and de|ivered to secica||y designated end users.
key features and benehts
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Lasy test creation techno|ogy a||ows creation, customization, and
maintenance of automated tests without the need for any scriting.
1herefore automation of tests can be achieved with the existing
functiona| sta.
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scrit. 1his a||ows tests to be created and maintained in a fraction of
the time of rior test automation so|utions, increasing test coverage
and driving business va|ue.
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