Monday, January 26, 2009

New testing tool that aids acceptance testing

This is an extract from an article about a new free software testing tool. The full article can be found at Welt Online:

"Actional Diagnostics can detect issues early in the software development lifecycle such as policy compliance; in addition, software developers can use the product to quickly understand whether a service fits their needs before any code is written. Once services are identified for use, developers can inspect, invoke, test, and create simulations for prototyping and problem solving.

Actional Diagnostics is currently in beta testing with customers and will soon be available as a free download. Developers wishing to be sent an alert when the software download is available can register at: http://www.progress.com/web/global/alert-actional-diagnostics/index.ssp.

Actional Diagnostics helps application developers, client developers and consumers meet the demands of aggressive development schedules by providing code-free problem resolution, deep visibility into service behavior and performance, quality and compliance validation. Existing Mindreef customers will continue to benefit from SOAPscope features including early service simulation, design-time policy validation, and unit, functional, regression, and acceptance test. "

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Data acceptance testing and GIS

This is from an item on GIS User

Laurel Hill GIS has announced the release of GeoData Sentry 3.0. GeoData Sentry is an off-the-shelf automated QA/QC software product for ArcGIS geodatabases. GeoData Sentry 3.0 features a rich set of attribute, spatial and logical connectivity tests. GeoData Sentry's easy to use configuration interface allows for rapid test development and automatic test generation. GeoData Sentry's error reports are designed for ease of use with coordinated HTML files including summary metrics and details of individual errors.

"As GIS becomes mainstream within the enterprise, and organizations serve their data on the web, GIS data quality becomes critical. Advanced analytical uses require high quality GIS data. GeoData Sentry provides a platform for rapidly assessing the overall quality of the geodatabase, whether used for data acceptance testing, data migration testing or on-going data assessment and audits. This version 3.0 release allows for more geodatabase connection options, giving a wide range of geodatabase users the ability to quickly, easily and cost effectively assess the quality of their data." states Matt McCain, Vice President of Laurel Hill GIS.