Finally – In most cases, the main goal was regression testing which led to thinking about what that means, and what value it brings. Among the prospective customers, the focus was on how to determine what to test for, and of course, this is incredibly difficult. You would like to test absolutely everything, but that’s impossible with traditional testing tools. However, among the clients using our test automation solution, TestDrive, this was simply not an issue. They had moved the goalposts by getting TestDrive to tell them about any meaningful difference from the last (live) release. Simply, “What’s different?”. That is very easy to achieve in TestDrive as it captures everything and can hence advise what’s new, different, or missing. If you know this for a new release candidate, nothing will catch you out. It also coincidentally makes maintenance very easy, in fact practically non-existent. If you want to know why ask me.
George Wilson, SVP/Operations Director at Original Software