Custom Application Testing

Automated Testing
As IT organizations and software development firms struggle to do more with less, test automation comes to the forefront. Arsin is a recognized specialist in the development of test automation strategy and reusable test automation frameworks that enhance many of the leading third-party test tools and reduce implementation and maintenance cost.

Test automation is often an effective strategy for significantly reducing the manual, repetitive and labor-intensive effort associated with application feature and regression testing. By using a framework that extends leading testing tools Arsin assists QA and test teams to quickly deploy robust and efficient automated feature and regression testing solutions.

The Arsin-developed test automation framework includes a configuration manager, framework entry and exit points, a recovery system, exception handling and an innovative, object oriented test API toolkit that simplifies test case creation and significantly reduces maintenance of automated test scripts. The framework supports use of a common test methodology across the test team. Best practices such as test data / test case separation and XML-based test data representation become an integral part of the test environment. This level of test automation provides significant productivity benefits, as well as increased test accuracy and test execution management.

Arsin implements test automation with the help of third party tools like, IBM's Rational Functional Tester, Compuware's Test Partner and HP's Quick Test Professional and its in-house Effecta Validation Engine and QA Mapper. These tools have helped to reduce testing effort and increase testing scope while ensuring that the overall cost remains unchanged.

Distributed Testing
As more business transactions become distributed across multiple applications and even companies, traditional testing tools focused on one application fail because they lack the ability to model, execute and analyze results from 2 or more distinctly independent applications that all share part of the transaction.

The Arsin ETAP™ (Enterprise Test Automation Platform) framework steps up to this challenge by providing sophisticated services that distribute test case instructions through the network, receive results back from participating applications, and then automatically evaluate the results to decide if a test case has passed or failed. Firms looking to validate J2EE components and infrastructure, complex B2B integration networks, Voice/VXML applications, n-tier "business-layer" components, certify participants joining electronic marketplaces, or verify the integrity of integrated supply or demand chains can use Arsin's expert knowledge and the Arsin ETAP framework to move test automation of distributed transactions into the realm of possibility. ETAP is designed to support automated testing of distributed transactions based on complex standards/technologies like Rosettanet™, Web services (SOAP/WSDL), and messaging technology.