Test Automation Simplified for Windows, Linux and UNIX

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Test Automation Simplified for Windows, Linux
and UNIX
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Agenda

• Current QA Challenges
• Automation with SilkTest
• Creating, Executing and Maintaining Automation
• SilkTest Value Proposition
• Introducing SilkTest 7.6
• Simultaneous, Distributed and Non-Distributed
  Testing
  
• Supported Environments and Technologies

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Current QA Challenges

• Reduced testing teams
• How to do more with less while meeting quality
  expectations?
  
• Unpredictable costs and schedules
• How to meet faster release cycles without
  compromising quality and budget?
  
• Rising complexity of software configurations
• How to optimize test coverage with smaller
  teams?
  
• Loss of customer loyalty
• How to meet customer requirements for
  functionality, quality and reliability?
  
• History of failed test automation
• How to build reusability maintainability into
  the testing process?

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SilkTest Value Proposition
ONE powerful test automation environment
Create, execute and maintain long-lasting
automation ONE robust and extensible scripting
language Build scalable, reusable test components
earlier in the development lifecycle
ONE script for testing multiple applications, op
erating systems, and technologies simultaneously
Capture deeper, granular pass/fail results from a
single transaction that spans multiple machines
(true distributed testing) Drive multiple user tr
ansactions against the application at the same
time
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Building Automated Tests with SilkTest
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Executing Automated Tests with SilkTest
Agent technology for complete end-user simulation
of your most complex, real-life business
transactions Simultaneous testing for efficient
usage of hardware resources and increased
productivity Runtimes for cost-effective test e
xecution and reporting Auto Recovery System for
24x7 unattended testing Direct Database Acces
s Verification for ensuring transaction
integrity
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Maintaining Test Automation with SilkTest
Object-Orientation scripting language provides a
powerful mechanism that insulates tests from
application changes. It also provides for a
single point of control for changing the
automation, allowing users to easily and quickly
find where change needs to be made.
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SilkTest User Interface and Agents
Windows
Windows
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Introducing SilkTest 7.6

• SilkTest 7.6 extends its value proposition to
  Linux and Solaris, enabling
  
• More automation
• One script can be used on more platforms
• More distributed testing scenarios can be
  automated
  
• More time and cost savings
• Faster time to market

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SilkTest User Interface and Agents Today!
Windows
Windows
Red Hat Linux
Solaris
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SilkTest
Optimize the quality of Windows, Linux and
Solaris platforms with ONE powerful functional
test automation environment
Increase Productivity Reduce risk of costly fai
lures Reduce testing cycle times while increasi
ng test coverage
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Deep Dive Into the SilkTest Value Proposition

• Simultaneous testing
• Distributed testing
• Non-distributed testing

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Simultaneous Testing

• Simultaneous testing means
• Running tests on different machines at the same
  time, where the application on each machine is
  either the same or different
  
• There is no interaction between the test cases or
  the machines
  
• Typical motivation to perform simultaneous
  testing is when testing multiple localized
  versions of an application or testing the same
  exact application on different platforms
• The driver for doing simultaneous distributed
  testing is speeding time to market

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Distributed Testing

• Distributed testing means
• Much the same as simultaneous testing, with one
  major difference
  
• There is interaction between the test cases or
  machines
  
• Typical motivation to perform distributed testing
  is to test multiple, simultaneous accesses to a
  database record to test for proper record
  locking/access
• The driver for doing distributed testing is the
  applications behavior

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Non-distributed Testing

• Non-distributed testing means
• Running tests on a single computer system
• The computer system can be either local or
  remote
  
• Remote testing means that you connect to some
  networked machine to run the test
  
• Typical motivation to perform non-distributed
  testing is to simply test a single user scenario
  
• Non-distributed testing scenarios may end up
  transitioning to simultaneous testing to shorten
  the overall testing cycle
  

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SilkTest Built to Meet Your Testing Needs

• Ideal product architecture
• Single host software component for controlling
  separate agent component
  
• Separate agent component is installed on each
  test machine
  
• In the box infrastructure
• Scripting language
• Recovery system

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SilkTest 7.6 Supported Environments

• Windows
• Solaris 9 and 10
• Red Hat Linux Enterprise Workstation (WS) 2.1 and
  3.0
  
• Motif 2.1 and 2.2
• Combo Box
• Notebook
• Tree View
• List View
• Java

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Whats Next for SilkTest for UNIX

• Firefox
• Other Widget sets (Qt)
• Other flavors
• Novell Suse Linux
• HP-UX

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Product Demonstration

• Simultaneous Testing
• Application built using different UI
  technologies
  
• Motif on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0
• Win32 on Windows XP
• Demo will show
• First, sequential test to get the idea
• Second, simultaneous test to show reduced testing
  time