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Company Main Objective: To do functional testing of their application (client server system).

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Core Topic: Functional testing using automated tool.

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Key Issues: Invoking the application through telnet and do the testing.

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Problem:
As the development was in Unix, and the testing tool did not support Unix, an approach of invoking the application through telnet from the windows environment was to be followed.

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Approach:

The support for this was sensitive because of the time factor involved with the release of the product and as the testing aspect was not fully covered.

Considerable amount of time was taken to help them understand the concept and the various aspects of testing when there is a change of OS for the testing tool.

The concept of socket based recording was implemented for this particular case thereby invoking the application which was in Unix through Telnet and then testing for the same in the windows environment, thus gave them handholding throughout the entire phase of testing as they were using the manual method prior to this high level testing had been introduced.

The onsite scenarios with the client were also helped to be managed, thus gaining confidence with the client about the predictability of the release.

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Results:

By this methodology there was considerable cost reduction, minimized time for the same by almost 40%, thus gaining good mileage, and a complete traceability between requirements, test case and test results was widely understood and accepted.

Thereby increasing the business relation with the client finding the concept to be interesting, helping to map the entire life cycle using the automated tools and get across the performance bottlenecks.