Point 2 Technologies, Inc.

Point2 Technologies, Inc. is a global leader in the development of complex capital asset management services for the heavy equipment and real estate industries. Software from Saskatoon, Canada-based Point2 puts sophisticated inventory management, large-scale branded marketing tools, and advanced customer relationship management into the hands of non-technical users.

Challenge

For more than two years, Point2 tested its software using the Mercury Quick Test Professional™ (QTP) solution from Mercury Interactive. However, scripts and tests took too long to update with each new release of the testing application. QTP also proved unstable, delivering different results from the same script. Having lost confidence in this testing software, Point2 decided to compare QTP’s results to those of the Worksoft Certify® automated testing solution. The primary objective of this comparison was to determine whether the company should switch to the Worksoft Certify solution.

Points of comparison included speed of test creation and maintenance, tester sharing issues, test organization and reporting capabilities. To make the comparison, Point2 tested CatUsed software from Caterpillar, Inc., one of the company's major licensees. Peoria, Illinois-based Caterpillar is the world’s largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines.

Solution

Worksoft Certify trumped Point2's existing QTP testing solution across all areas of comparison. Worksoft Certify was implemented to improve test creation and maintenance, content sharing issues and reporting.

• The strength of Worksoft Certify centers on its ability to generate and maintain browser test objects and to efficiently search, replace, add or delete objects in the SQL Server backend database.
• Worksoft Certify has a central repository that facilitates team collaboration and version control, without requiring additional software.
• With Worksoft Certify, Point2 can define requirements and always have all application objects available for test generation.
• Worksoft Certify's reporting capabilities allows Point2 to track test progress and share it globally.

Results

The Point2 Testing Team believes the results indicate that the Worksoft Certify solution will promote faster development, improve maintainability and stability, and provide a more collaborative and scalabe test environment than their prior solution. Over the long term,Worksoft Certify's built-in functions for interacting with dynamic objects should increase the robustness of Point2's tests, decrease maintenance and allow testers to increase the number of test cases and improve regression coverage.