Category: Test Automation

Running UFT Tests in ALM from Jenkins

Using Jenkins to Run and View UFT Tests in ALM As a follow-on to our recent post about setting up Jenkins to execute tests built with Micro Focus UFT and LeanFT, this article will outline the process for running and viewing UFT tests in Micro Focus ALM. (See Running Test Sets from ALM on the… Continue reading Running UFT Tests in ALM from Jenkins

Using Jenkins to Execute Tests Built with Micro Focus UFT and LeanFT

Increasingly, I am seeing companies use Jenkins to execute tests for UFT and/or LeanFT, two automated testing tools from Micro Focus (formerly HPE) that can accelerate quality and release cycles compared to manual testing. This is a sensible approach, given that UFT and LeanFT, when run with Jenkins, can streamline the continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline.… Continue reading Using Jenkins to Execute Tests Built with Micro Focus UFT and LeanFT

SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA – Why You Want It and How to Approach It

When SAP unveiled SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (S/4HANA) in February 2015, the release marked a major leap forward for enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools. With this innovative computing platform, SAP released sweeping improvements that dramatically accelerate the visibility and usefulness of business information for enterprise decision making and positive change. Benefits of the… Continue reading SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA – Why You Want It and How to Approach It

Performance Assessment – Collaboration

Learn to Collaborate Communication breakdown is not unique to IT. Somehow, most IT organizations create towers. Maybe this happens to reduce the number of status meeting or to allow for a tree-shaped management chain. When leadership creates these separate teams, the intention is not to prevent the individual contributors from collaborating and working efficiently, but… Continue reading Performance Assessment – Collaboration

Using Modern Automated Testing Tools to Verify Mainframe and Midrange Batch Functions

Automated software quality (the process of having software test other software in an unattended fashion) has become a key player in the continued rollout of agile development processes whose target is “better software, faster.” Technical articles, open-source utilities, and licensed software solutions abound for desktop and server operating systems. But, what about classic System i… Continue reading Using Modern Automated Testing Tools to Verify Mainframe and Midrange Batch Functions

Data-Focused Test Strategy for New Data Warehouse

As part of a workshop discussion someone posed the following example to our group of test professionals and asked how we would solve the following problems. I am paraphrasing. How do we insure data quality and integrity at the application programming interface (API) level in the new data warehouse? Note that the solution below is… Continue reading Data-Focused Test Strategy for New Data Warehouse

Grid-Tools Webinar: Quality Data for Quality Testing

We have a natural instinct to improve, automate, and make ourselves more efficient in our daily tasks. Take washing our clothes for an example. For years, washing clothes was a mundane task involving a washboard and hours of manual labour which rarely resulted in a high quality clean. Today, we automate the process using a… Continue reading Grid-Tools Webinar: Quality Data for Quality Testing

Cover the Data Coverage Gap with Data Scripting in GT Datamaker

Talking about testing, most of the time we are used to working with sets of data that will be used over and over again. Then a refresh comes to the environment, and again we will have the same data, maybe some changes or addition will come but it will be the same. Most of the… Continue reading Cover the Data Coverage Gap with Data Scripting in GT Datamaker