The end of testing as we know it!

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All organizations are under pressure to reduce costs and improve quality, whilst keeping pace with new technologies and practices. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Cloud are emerging to become the predominant business models and creating disruption in the testing tools market.
The traditional focus has been to test same specific activities (load, stress, functional, regression).
Economic conditions and pressure to improve time to market are placing increased emphasis on productivity and moving away from the shadow of shrink-wrapped software and towards the future of Cloud & SaaS models. With poor software quality leading to user dissatisfaction as well as increased development and maintenance costs, good quality assurance is an essential but costly process.
Therefore, having a well-defined testing software tool and practices to drive software quality will positively affect the overall bottom line of the business.

Unlike traditional tools, Validata SAS validates Core Banking systems, aligns testing to business requirements whilst improving productivity and automation coverage, and achieves reduced test cycle times in all phases of testing. Service offerings and flexible pricing schemes are all part of the unique offering of TestCloud™.
TestCloud™ is a standardized Test ‘Utility’ solution with well-defined best practices, test automation, re-usable test assets and standards, robust defect and change management processes, and enhanced
ROI.
TestCloud™ enables customers to move away from unstable environments, limited centralized governance and high costs of quality, and establish their own test environment in the cloud leveraging pre-built test cases and Validata SAS automated solution that can reduce test effort by a factor of as much as ten to one.

Pay per use model (monthly, quarterly, annually, etc)
Instant testing from everywhere
Low risk commitment
Ease of use
Instant access to pre-built test case library including Country Models and Islamic Banking

Custom Reporting via SLA’s and defect management
The only true Pay-per-use model for Temenos T24™. Optimize IT spending and reduce hardware and license costs.
Shift from capital expenses (CAPEX) to operating expenses (OPEX) model to free capital for more strategic investments.

Phase 1 – On Going
 Due Diligence
 Gap Analysis
 Test Quality Analysis
 Test Case Design
 Manual execution
Phase 2 – Set Up
 Test Automation
 Environment preparation
 Dry Run
Phase 3 – Run
 Impact Analysis
 New Test Case design
 New Test automation
 Environment preparation
 Run 3 Test cycles
Phases 1 and 2 are one off
Phase 3 is replicated for each type of testing (Functional, System, Integration etc.) taking advantage of reusable assets from previous phases and executions

Automation Test Suite Process Flow
Business Requirement Gathering
Test Case estimation / Effort Estimation
Define Project
One Time Setup for any Project
Validata Setup (Typical creation as per Version of T24 to be Tested)
Map Resources
Generate test cases
Set Up Environment Select Adapters
Requirement
Definition
Test case Creation
Input
Statistic Data
Execution of Test Cases
Link test cases via calculation
Reusable for any Geographic release with minor modification
Defect Management T24

Access to a library of pre-built reusable test cases and business workflows, which enable you to jumpstart your testing projects and substantially reduce the effort of testing. These test cases are the foundation for end-to-end automated testing of the complete Temenos T24™ stack from
Country Model Bank, to ISB and Local Code.
 Our testing accelerators allow Validata Test Factory™ 2.0
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.

An Adapter is a component which connects Validata SAS to external systems and data sources to enable quality automated testing:
 Validata SAS 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
MS Project
Adapter
SQL Adapter
SOA
Adapter
Globus
Desktop
Adapter
T24 Web
Adapter
T24 OFS
Adapter
Generic
Adapters
SWIFT
Adapter
ISO-8583
Adapter
Performance
Adapter
SOAP Adapter

Consistent defined Quality for each Release
Reduced defect leakage across the testing lifecycle
Team optimization by utilizing shared services
Predictable service delivery
Business – IT aligned approach to testing
Low risk commitment
Effortlessly Scalable and Easy to Deploy
Improved productivity and standardized processes
Efficient reporting and metrics
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership
Up to 60% reduction in testing execution effort
40% reduction in knowledge transition effort

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Higher system quality achievable trough structured operating model with predictable repeatable delivery process
Better planning though more accurate effort estimation
Rigorous metrics collection across projects supports continuous process improvement
TestCloud™ Benefits
Common Tools &
Infrastructure
Standard
Processes
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Reduced effort through reuse of common frameworks, templates and data repositories
Maximized test automation
Optimize tool licensing requirements
Resources Knowledge
Repository
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Lower labor costs through optimization utilization of offshore resources
Dedicated team builds expertise over time
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Consolidated knowledge repository lowers risks associated with loss of institutional knowledge
Ability to leverage crossproject understanding yields more complete testing

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Typically Three
Test Cycles within Upgrade
# of Test Cycles
200
1 2 3
Validata ATS
ROI within 2 test cycles
4 5 6
Traditional Automation
ROI within 6 test cycles
7
Manual
Testing
Traditional
Automation
Validata Automation
Testing Suite
(ATS)
8 9 10
Total Effort Per Approach (Hours)
(Assumption: 35 Business Processes)

Manual
-30% Faster on test case creation
Functional
Testing
Systems
Integration
Testing
Continuous
Regression
Testing
Limitations
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No Low level testing.
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Lack of
Knowledge and
Complex test transactions and enquiries.
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No qualitative test cases.
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No reusability
-60% Faster than manual
With
Accelerators
Highest
Automation
Required:
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Enquires
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Advanced
Enquiries
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Test Data
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Automatic
Business Rules
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Comparison
Rules
-40% Due to
Test data and scenarios reusability
Highest
Automation
Required:
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Enquires
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Advanced
Enquiries
Comparison Rules
Automatic
Business Rules
-70% less effort by reusing the test artifacts from SIT
Highest
Automation
Required:
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Automatic
Business Rules
Performance
Testing
-60% less effort by reusing the test artifacts from SIT

Manual
Functional
Testing
Systems
Integration
Testing
Continuous
Regression
Testing
Performance
Testing
Same Effort for all Cycles
-70% Faster in any cycle
Cycle 1
Cycle 2
Cycle 3
Cycle 4
-60% Faster on every cycle
Cycle 1
Cycle 2
Cycle 3
Cycle 4
-80% Faster on every cycle
Cycle 1
Cycle 2
Cycle 3
No comparison to manual as it is only automatic

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