Conformiq Tool Suite Helps Your Business

Testing is a significant cost driver in software intensive product development, amounting to 30% to 90% of the development budget. The most crucial part of the testing process is test design - the task of defining how your product is tested. In many companies test design is still carried out manually, even though it could be also automated.

Testing has two parts: first design tests; then execute them. Many companies invest in automated test execution, usually known as test automation, but test design is almost exclusively manual. Manual test design incurs high personnel costs and the risks of having incorrect or missing tests. These affect your bottom line as well as your brand image and sales performance, as missing tests lead to defects and customer complaints.

Conformiq Tool Suite can help you to create competitive advantage by improving the testing process using automated test design reducing your risks and improving the productivity of your teams.
Conformiq Tool Suite really automates test design. There are other solutions on the market that improve productivity in test creation, for example by record-and-replay or by providing nice test case editors, but our unique approach actually automates the thinking behind test design.

We automate not only writing tests but also inventing them. Thats why, on the average, our customer benchmarks show above 500% productivity factor in test design.
That is 400% more productivity, or 80% less costs for test design. At the same time, our customers report reduced test lead time, less escaped defects, and even higher productivity increase for subsequent product releases.

How does it work? We empower your testing teams with a technology that derives tests automatically from assets we call system models. Your engineers create the system models based on the same documentation they used before for manual test design, and our technology generates tests from the system models. The tests run on the same test automation infrastructure that your team has used so far.

The initial productivity gain of automated test design is even amplified in subsequent product releases and iterations

This means that some of your testing experts stop writing detailed functional test plans and test cases by hand. Actually, they create assets called system models. These are in practice code following Java syntax and optionally state chart diagrams. Their purpose is to describe how that part of the system that you need to test works. The models can be on higher or lower level of abstraction depending on the testing focus, and they can describe the desired functionality to a greater or lesser level of detail.

In our automated test design™ methodology, test experts create system models from which Conformiq Tool Suite generates test plans and executable test cases automatically.

It is a manageable, contained change in the testing process that does not affect other teams or stakeholders adversely.

Because we focus on test design, not on test execution, our technology leverages all the existing test automation investments and does not replace them. As a matter of fact, the better test automation you have already in place, the more benefits you can get from our technology.

We offer our state-of-the-art automated test design technology to your organization with a competitive price tag and an investment pay-back time of less than one year. We provide flexible licensing options and understand the budgetary pressures of software companies these days.
In our automated test design™ methodology, test experts create system models from which Conformiq Tool Suite generates test plans and executable test cases automatically.
Our technology can empower you to reach your test coverage and test quality results without adding personnel, and to deliver testing that is above the bar.

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The main benefits of Conformiq Tool Suite to your team are:

BETTER TEST COVERAGE:
Conformiq Tool Suite generates test cases using a systematic algorithm which does not accidentally miss test conditions. It designs error condition tests, corner case tests and tests that access your system through multiple interfaces in precisely crafted sequences. This leads eventually to higher confidence in testing and reduced number of escaping defects.

FASTER TEST DESIGN:
Instead of writing test plans and test cases by hand, your engineers create a model and the rest is automatic. On the average, our approach shows 5X productivity improvement in customer benchmarks while meeting or surpassing previous levels of test coverage. In addition, when you share models between teams or product iterations, you can reuse model parts in a way that is not possible with hand-written test cases.

HIGHER TEST QUALITY:
Computer-generated test cases are consistent in presentation. Conformiq Tool Suite also calculates automatically traceability information which helps you to correlate the individual test cases with the functional requirements from which they were derived. The high and consistent quality of the generated test cases also speeds up post-execution test result analysis, as analyzing and debugging failing test cases becomes easier.

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EASIER TEST MAINTENANCE:
When system requirements change, it is faster to update the model and regenerate the tests than to go through and modify all the existing test case libraries.

BETTER COMMUNICATION WITH DESIGNERS:
The model is common ground between your team and the system designers. In practice, test teams start often to experience more high quality communication with the design teams during the modeling process. We offer our state-of-the-art automated test design technology to your team or organization with a competitive price tag. We provide flexible licensing options and understand the budgetary pressures of software companies these days. This is an opportunity for you to significantly improve your teams performance. Catch up with the backlog. Meet your coverage goals. Surpass the expectations and deliver even higher quality testing.

Forrester Study: Conformiq Tool Suite Increases Software Test Process Efficiency

(Saratoga/USA, January 2011)

According to a Forrester study a Conformiq customer reports a Return on Investment of 396% and a payback period of 3.5 months for the automatic test case generator Conformiq Tool Suite.
When designing and executing new test designs, the organization experienced a 30% efficiency gain for the engineers working on the project. The company experienced the following benefits: improved test suite maintenance efficiency, greater test coverage, earlier-identified faults, improved agility in responding to customer requirements, feedback into the functional design process, increased employee motiviation, and decreased documentation overhead. During the interview Forrester identified numerous benefits like labor efficiency gains for new test designs and for test design reuse.
Forrester Study: The Total Economic Impact Of Conformiq Tool Suite

last updated: 17.05.2011
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