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Accelerator2 – Sophelle’s Approach to Automated Testing
Formalized testing of retail applications is required to ensure its proper operation and value to its users. As application releases increase in frequency and functionality, the burden of performing the greater number of tests becomes more costly and difficult. Challenges often include staffing effective testers, performing mundane and time intensive tests repeatedly and accurately and testing every release to the system thoroughly. Increased competition in the marketplace demands that retailers continuously upgrade functionality to meet consumer and internal user expectations. Technology advances exacerbate these challenges. Reusable, object-oriented code increases the likelihood that changes in one section of the application can adversely affect other sections.
Automated testing has been used by many retail organizations and its benefits have been proven:
- Faster execution.
- Increased test volume, coverage, and accuracy.
- More efficient development.
- Repeatability and consistency.
- Increased value of manual testing.
- Reduction in testing costs.
To address these increasing testing demands Sophelle has created an advanced approach for automated testing called Accelerator2. Accelerator2 is based on two principles – the Flex Framework and Accelerators.
The Flex Framework minimizes the time and effort required for making changes to the test scripts. Sophelle builds data-driven test scripts using HP/Mercury QuickTest Pro (QTP). By leveraging Excel spreadsheets, business users can add, change and delete test cases without knowledge of the scripting language, thereby dramatically reducing the time and cost of maintaining the scripts.
Accelerators are pre-built tests designed to reduce the time required to get new test scripts up and running. Sophelle is building automated test scripts for many popular retail applications including e-commerce, POS, merchandising, workforce management and warehouse management. We make these Accelerators available to our retail clients through a professional services engagement.
Accelerators are not packaged applications. They are test scripts configured to each client’s particular environment and can be used without royalty or restriction. Accelerators are not software fees, rotalties or recurring maintenance charges (beyond those for QuickTest Pro). There are no restrictions at all on their use. They are part of why Sophelle has built a 12-year reputation among leading retailers for delivering successful, cost-effective results.
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