There is no doubt that the mapping of the route a test must take through an application, along with its driving data and validation, is a complex process. The traditional approach taken to address this challenge has been to require the testers to learn a scripting language based on one of the programming languages in common use.

Complex scripting languages, although standard, entail serious limitations.

  Firstly, they require constant training and retraining of dedicated staff in order for them to become proficient. This takes time and costs money, while being largely unproductive.

  Secondly, they immediately make the tools either unavailable or unattractive to non-technical users - the QA and end-users who have to play such a crucial role in the testing and user acceptance program.

Thirdly, as soon as these highly-trained staff move on, the knowledge moves with them...

All of this points to one thing. Not only will you have made a significant investment in the technology, and even more in trying to train your staff to proficiency. You are now left with a product that has become shelf-ware and a return to manual testing.

But what if you could do all your testing without ever having to take recourse to a scripting language? That is Original Software's approach.

There is no scripting language to be learnt with our products, and there never will be. The user is totally protected from the complexities associated with such languages and interacts through a simple point and click interface.

And yet the power and flexibility offered by a scripting language has been completely retained - a powerful level of script controlling that meets the needs of the most technically advanced QA teams. This includes self healing script technology, vastly simplified script maintenance, setting up and running scripts with variable data, running sequences of scripts to cover an entire business function, and much more.

Code free testing will revolutionise the way you approach your testing. It is available in the following Original Software solutions:

  GUI application testing

  Web application testing

  IBM green-screen application testing

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