20-Year Testing Veteran’s Blog to Focus on Smart and Successful Automation
Worksoft, Inc., a leading provider of solutions that accelerate deployments of SAP® applications, today announced that its founder, Linda Hayes, is hosting a blog to address the benefits of automated testing. Hayes, founder of three software companies, plans to leverage her more than 20 years of testing experience to explain how to make testing easier and more successful for others. Read Worksoft founder Linda Hayes’ Test Smarter blog at http://worksoftinc.blogspot.com/.
“Worksoft is built on the vast software testing experience of Linda Hayes, a published author and well-known expert in the software quality market,” said Bruce Johnson, Worksoft CEO and president. “Linda founded Worksoft with a scriptless testing framework that is unique for automation when she realized that traditional play/record technology generates code that gets out of sync when the software is changed,” Johnson said. ”Today, Worksoft has a suite of automated solutions for impact analysis, testing automation, load testing, performance tuning, and more - all built on our scriptless framework that has been successful adopted by many of the Fortune 500 and 1000 companies looking to maintain their competitiveness in difficult times,” Johnson said.
“My hope for this blog is to save others from learning lessons the way I did - the hard way - by sharing my experiences,” said Linda Hayes, Worksoft founder. “It’s sad to say, but testing has failed to keep pace with software development, but we can now build systems in a fraction of the time we did 20 years ago, but today, in most cases, we still test the same way we did back then,” she said. “We have to get smarter about testing and the only way to do that is to change our thinking by challenging some basic assumptions—and that’s what this blog is focused on achieving,” Hayes said.
About Linda Hayes
Hayes has more than 20 years of experience in software quality and is the founder of three software companies, including AutoTester, the first PC-based test automation tool, and Worksoft, Inc. -- an innovator in SAP test automation. She holds degrees in accounting, tax, and law, and is a frequent industry speaker and award-winning author on software quality. She is a regular columnist and contributor to www.StickyMinds.com and Better Software Magazine, as well as a columnist for Stickyminds,Computerworld and Datamation. Hayes is the author of the Automated Testing Handbook, a contributor to Testing SAP R/3: A Manager’s Step by Step Guide, and is the co-editor of Dare to be Excellent on best practices in the software industry. Her article “Quality is Everyone’s Business” won a Most Significant Contribution award from the Quality Assurance Institute and was published as part of the Auerbach Systems Development Handbook.
About Worksoft Certify™ Life Cycle Management Solutions
The Worksoft Certify™ Life Cycle Management Solution provides unmatched technology to maximize value of ERP investments by minimizing risk and leveraging information in ERP and peripheral systems. This patented methodology allows for point-and-click usability, so tests are easily defined, executed, and managed directly from configuration blueprints. Unlike traditional code-based automation approaches, the Worksoft Certify Life Cycle Management Solution store all assets as data that can be quickly configured, analyzed and maintained without need for technical skills or custom code. This innovative approach can accelerate the time to deployment of rollouts, modifications, upgrades and service packs by up to 60 percent, while improving operational reliability; providing a detailed audit trail of validation results for compliance; and capturing reusable business process knowledge for training, documentation and reporting.
About Worksoft, Inc.
Worksoft pioneers innovative approaches to software quality testing, and is a premier provider of lifecycle automation solutions for use with SAP® solutions to reduce the total cost of ownership for users. Worksoft’s unique “scriptless” or code-free approach to creating and maintaining test cases speeds the rollout of SAP solutions by up to 60 percent; shortens time-to-value by improving reliability of business processes; and meets compliance, training and reporting requirements through the auto-generation of documentation and capture of reusable business process knowledge. Worksoft's customers include industry leaders in manufacturing, financial services, government, healthcare, retail and transportation. Worksoft was founded in 1998 and has its headquarters in Dallas, Texas.
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