Validata Advanced Testing Suite (ATS)

The leader in Automated testing for T24

Validata Advanced Testing Suite

Validata Testing Approach

Validata Testing Methodology

Product Overview

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Business Challenges

Traditional test automation systems originated in a world that moved at a much slower

pace, where waterfall development was the only game in town and no-one attempted to

tackle automation of fast moving, mission-critical applications – they knew that the

technology simply couldn’t keep up.

These products all get their capabilities from powerful scripting languages, something that

sounds good but has become a horror in the real world, requiring a cult of highly skilled and

highly paid test automation engineers to communicate with the complex and mysterious

deity, the test automation tool.

Business Challenges:

Need to test complex interaction between processes and systemsGeneric model for the organisation – encompassing all applicationsMultiple location supportMultiple team support (over multiple locations) e.g. TAM, Test CentresMultiple environment support (for multiple applications)Referential integrity across environmentsEnd-to-end regression testing

Validata Advanced Testing Suite (ATS) provides a full end-to-end automated testing capability that adapts easily to changes in the application under test, ensuring higher quality and reduced costs and effort.

Validata ATS is a truly integrated and business process management solution.

Validata ATS is the first model – driven test automation tool for Functional, Technical and Continuous Regression Testing.

Validata focuses on the analytics (the context and the content) thus providing root cause analysis linking requirements and testing. Full reporting is on-demand from the Executive Dashboard Module.

Project Success

Throughout many projects involving many applications and integrated systems, the differences between the intended methodology and the practical delivery of a solution are greatly underestimated.

Our unique approach offers a Truly Integrated Testing Framework to ensure our clients can implement Validata ATS seamlessly and with immediate effect.

Validata Group believes in delivering true business value. Our approach, whilst technology driven, is focused on the businesses needs by:

Enabling business change without business disruption Aligning the business with IT

Benefits Faster Cost Efficient Smarter Simpler Agile Consistent

Business Outcomes Faster-to-Value Enhanced ROI Fast to Market Optimized Resources

StaffCapexOpex

This way, usual stated benefits can be aligned to quantifyable business outcomes

Testing Techniques:Model Driven Data DrivenKey Word Driven

Risk is the possibility that future events may cause adverse effects. Risk management is a discipline for understanding and mitigating these possibilities.Risk mitigation and compliance reduces costs and protects reputation. In the current business climate both “cost containment” and “reputation management” are high on Boardroom agendas.

VALIDATA stores and links Risk related information to calculate risk assessment metrics.

Risk Management in VALIDATA is utilized in impact production reports and on demand regression testing.

VALIDATA’s risk-based approach to testing ensures that operational risks are identified and prioritized to ensure the issues are fully addressed.

Many financial institutions are now regulated to demonstrate that not only are their business applications tested but that their operational processes are also aligned to the systems they use. Validata ATS is providing Business Process Testing, through its Business Flow Modeller (BFM) module.

So, Validata BFM enables end-to-end testing aligned with the business processes.

This way, Validata user can ensure the qualitative and quantitative coverage of testing.

Business Flow Modeller provides the ability to import business workflows from external systems such as ARIS Workflows, store, edit and visualize them in Validata’s repository. Once the Business Process have been captured we are able automatically to generate test cases and link them with the related business processes.

Business Process

Test CasesTest Cases

Validata

CRMLoan

OriginationBanking

Application G/L

Businesses that need to test complex interactions between processes and systems often find that their testing capabilities are not as robust as they would want them to be.

Significant benefits are to be found using a rigorous approach to clearly define the boundaries of both processes and systems that need to be tested effectively.

Businesses that need to test complex interactions between processes and systems often find that their testing capabilities are not as robust as they would want them to be.

Significant benefits are to be found using a rigorous approach to clearly define the boundaries of both processes and systems that need to be tested effectively.

Unlike other testing tools available, in Validata ATS, in order to create the Test Cases, the Application Model as well as the Test Data remain separate from the Test Case structure. All information is brought together during the execution time and run against any test environment.

Faster, easier and more efficient maintenance is achieved when changes occur on the application or the test data level without effecting the total test case structure and providing to the user maximum flexibility and re-usability.

Validata

Validata DatabaseT24 Rx Under Test

Execution

T24 Application Data Model

Test Data (created or imported)

Test Cases designed for use with any T24 Release

Validata ATS offers an end-to-end test data management solution which is flexible, fast and easy to use. Test Data Manager not only creates or generates synthetic data from scratch, it can also create subset databases, de-identify (mask or obfuscate) your existing data and bulk up data for performance testing.

Most IT departments make direct copies of their production systems for non-production. This inefficient (and expensive) process lacks focus and increases test cycles immeasurably. As production databases slowly grow, the longer it will take to make a complete system copy. As a result, your test team struggles, you come across compliance challenges, your hardware costs rise and the overall quality of your testing (and test data) remains poor.

Validata ATS has the ability to perform Parallel Testing on multiple environments using the unique test engine adapter

Validata ATS consists of several modules which manage and monitor an End-to-End project from Planning, Preparation, Execution, Analysis till Project Readiness.

Meta Data Model Driven testing from clients application End-to-end Testing driven from Business Processes, Requirements and Change Requests Manual and Automated testing Integration Testing with associated systems, such as: SWIFT & ATM Full incident management capability, audit trail and history reports Comprehensive tool-based approach for SOA testing. Risk Management Data Privacy Built Reusable Test Assets

Instant Traceability Reports

Integrated Defect Management System

Storage of all Projects Assets in one repository

Business users can now be directly involved in creating Test Cases with the minimum effort. No need for technical knowledge is required.

Team productivity is now boosted up its limits!

Simple and Fast test steps creation Composite screens support Automatically generate required steps against

actual results comparisons Easily select the correct T24 Versions for testing New drop down selection of T24 modes Visualization of the T24 screen version Automatic validation of the Test data during the

test case creation Automatic import test data from T24

environments Enhanced automatic calculations engine Automatic verifications of T24 status records Custom verification rules supporting data

transformations and override messages Improved interface to support T24 enquiry

testing User friendly GUI

Capabilities Benefits Test case productivity improved by

80% compared with the previous interface

Test case quality improved by 60% Test cases creation deskilled by

76% Reduces the learning effort by 82%

( assuming that the user has minimum T24 knowledge)

Test Data management improvement by 50%

Automation level reaches 85 % in a common project

Higher user productivity and support of automated testing through the Script Librarian feature

Fully integrated with Temenos T24

Cross

Platform

Testing

COB Testing

Daily, Monthly, Quarterly

Online

Testing

Batch Offline

Testing

Script less

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Friendly

Easy & Accurate Result Analysis

Reduced execution time, risk, cost and effort

Perform Continuous, Flexible and Scalable On demand Performance Testing

Validata MSG provides an innovative automated testing framework with best practices and proven methodologies for testing of SWIFT, ATM, SOA and

generic interfaces.

Banking Application

Mapping

Formatting

Carrier ControlCarrier Control

SWIFTSWIFTTELEXTELEX

DE.MAPPINGDE.MESSAGE

DE.MAPPINGDE.MESSAGE

DE.FORMAT.****DE.O.HEADER

DE.FORMAT.****DE.O.HEADER

DE.CARRIERDE.CARRIER

DE.PRODUCTDE.PRODUCT

Validata MSG verifies that the transaction in the Banking application has been generated according to the incoming swift message type and the proper mapping SWIFT rules

Automation Test Suite Process Flow

Business Requirement Gathering

Validata Setup (Typical creation as per Versionof T24 to be Tested)

Define Project Map Resources Set Up Environment Select AdaptersRequirement Definition

Test case Creation

Generatetest cases

Input Statistic Data

Link test casesvia calculation

Execution of Test Cases

Defect ManagementT24

One Time Setup for any Project

Reusable for any Geographicrelease with minor modification

Test Case estimation / Effort Estimation

Our testing accelerators allow Validata ATS to jump start our clients implementation by having up to 80% of the core Test Cases and Test Steps available immediately testing begins.

The structure provides a ‘ready-to-use’ set of test scenarios, grouped into logical functions and based on the major banking business functions (i.e. Loans, deposits, FX...), providing re-usability.

Reusability is the key driver in reducing costs. As a limited amount of customization will be required, the cost of implementing Validata is significantly reduced.

Significant investment has been made in both the development of product functionality and relevant content, re-usable test cases to be packaged and delivered to clients as part of the

overall product solution , to ensure full test coverage when it counts!

Extend your test coverage with Validata ATS!

Validata ATS acquires appropriate information from the software application under test using our unique adaptor technology

Our adapters enable the mapping between Validata objects and system under test objects

No development / scripting is required

An Adapter is a component which connects Validata ATS to external systems and data sources to enable quality automated testing:

An Adapter is a component which connects Validata ATS to external systems and data sources to enable quality automated testing:

T24 OFS Adapter

T24 Web Adapter

Globus Desktop Adapter

MS Project Adapter

SOA Adapter

SWIFT Adapter

ISO-8583 Adapter SOAP

Adapter

Generic Adapters

SQL Adapter

Performance Adapter

Catch defects early during targeted integration / regression testingChange analysis impact reportAbility to integrate with external systemAudit, trail and history reportingAlert mechanism based on user customized workflowsMonitor defects found through the Executive Dashboard and user-

customizable reports, offering full visibility

Catch defects early during targeted integration / regression testingChange analysis impact reportAbility to integrate with external systemAudit, trail and history reportingAlert mechanism based on user customized workflowsMonitor defects found through the Executive Dashboard and user-

customizable reports, offering full visibility

Validata ATS provides an integrated Defects Management system that stores defects identified from every execution. It also manages the changes to requirements and processes and as soon as the fixes

are available, redirects a new cycle of testing based on the impact analysis reports provided.

Validata ATS provides an integrated Defects Management system that stores defects identified from every execution. It also manages the changes to requirements and processes and as soon as the fixes

are available, redirects a new cycle of testing based on the impact analysis reports provided.

Get real time on demand reporting

Develop these reports for internal use

Build in your own KPI measurements

Understand where your project is heading

Achieve end-to end traceability across multiple projects

Efficient Testing

• Reduced Testing time - - Less time to develop, Shortened application life cycle and Faster time to market

• Reduced QA Cost - - Upfront cost of automated testing is easily recovered over the lifetime of the product. The cost of performing automated testing is much lower, many times faster and with fewer errors

Effective Testing

• Greater Coverage -The productivity gains delivered by automated testing enable more and complete testing. Greater coverage reduces the risk of malfunctioning or non-compliant software

• Improved testing productivity - Test suites can be run earlier and more often

Improve Process•Consistent test procedures - Ensuring process repeatability, resource independence, eliminates manual errors

•Replicating Testing - Across different platforms is easier using automation

•Results Reporting - Automated testing produces convenient reporting and analysis with standardized measures allowing more accurate interpretations

Better Use of resources

•Using Testing Effectively -Testing is a repetitive activity. Automation of testing processes allows machines to complete the tedious, repetitive work while resources are diverted to perform other tasks

Test team members can focus on quality

ManualTesting

# of Test Cycles

Total Effort Per Approach (Hours) (Assumption: 35 Business Processes)

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Traditional AutomationROI within 6 test cycles

Validata Automation Testing Suite(ATS)

Validata ATSROI within 2 test cycles

Typically ThreeTest Cycles within Upgrade

Manual Functional Testing

Systems Integration

Testing

Continuous Regression

Testing

Performance Testing

-30% Faster on test case

creation-60% Faster

than manual

-40% Due to Test data and

scenarios reusability

-70% less effort by

reusing the test artifacts

from SIT

-60% less effort by reusing the test artifacts

from SIT

LimitationsNo Low level testing.Lack of Knowledge and Complex test transactions and enquiries.No qualitative test cases.No reusability

With AcceleratorsHighest Automation Required:EnquiresAdvanced EnquiriesTest DataAutomatic Business RulesComparison Rules

Highest Automation Required:EnquiresAdvanced EnquiriesComparison RulesAutomatic Business Rules

Highest Automation Required:Automatic Business Rules

Manual Functional Testing

Systems Integration

Testing

Continuous Regression

Testing

Performance Testing

-70% Faster in any cycle

-60% Faster on every cycle

-80% Faster on every cycle

No comparison to manual as it is only automatic

Same Effort for all Cycles

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Infrastructure

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Test Case Creation

Automation Design

Run MTC% Reusability

Automation - RUN 2

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Test Case Creation

Automation Design

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Automation – RUN 3

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