Amdocs Quality Engineering

Enabling full traceability through development

According to David, by deploying OpenText Software Delivery Management alongside Ginger, AQE customers can build full traceability for all software elements–from requirements through to testing and release, regardless of the number and variety of test systems involved.

He said: “OpenText Software Delivery Management is a real enterprise-class tool for managing testing. With the OpenText solution, we and our customers can achieve full traceability from start to finish in one place. It gives software testing and quality engineering teams the same kind of value that developers get from a tool like Jira.”

Simplifying testing against real mobile hardware

With the option to integrate OpenText Functional Testing Lab for Mobile and Web with Ginger, AQE customers can also directly control physical devices managed in their own data center or that of a third party. In practical terms, this makes the testing of mobile apps much more rigorous because software can be tested against a real device with all its complexity rather than a simulated device.

Speaking about how OpenText Functional Testing Lab for Mobile and Web makes it easy to connect to and control devices from a remote location, David noted that “you can then control things like toggling Wi-Fi, taking pictures or video, requesting GPS coordinates and so on. This is why we recommend this as a tool to help our customers ensure that their mobile apps will run without issues on the target devices.”

Accelerating complex tests with service virtualization

Finally, AQE customers with complex and/or composite applications can choose to use OpenText Service Virtualization with Ginger to accelerate testing. Normally, when a component undergoing testing is reliant on other services or components, setting up and executing tests can become complicated and slow. When this happens, the testing team, to avoid risk to production services, will usually set up stubs or mocks to replace the connected services.

David highlighted the value of this approach: “With OpenText Service Virtualization, companies can record typical system interactions and use these to create virtual services automatically. During testing, the component interfaces with those virtual services, which can simulate exactly the behavior and load that would normally occur. And with the OpenText solution, you can easily modify the recorded service or write code to augment it. This is why we encourage customers to choose OpenText Service Virtualization,” he concluded.