ProTesting

Test-Automation

Automated tests increase your performance during development and thereby enhance the security of your systems. Last but not least: They improve the quality of your software. Cost pressure and tight time frames determine everyday life in many companies. Not infrequently, these unchangeable parameters are at the expense of testing. Dissatisfied customers and increased maintenance costs have effects with enormous consequences. Automated tests protect and create secure conditions. Test automation offers the possibility to perform a large number of tests in short periods of time and at the same time increase the test coverage of your software systems. While regression execution is performed automatically, your test and development team can devote themselves to new functionalities that add value for your own customers.

Background: Manual tests are time-consuming - and often error-prone. Test cases, where only a few attributes change, do not just cost valuable time, but above all a great amount of money. For highly qualified tester engineers, tasks which are constantly repeated are frustrating and without any significant challenge. Test automation increases the performance potential of your test and development teams and implements repeatability while improving the precision of your tests. In terms of test coverage, your applications benefit greatly from automated solutions. You can take into account a wide range of application scenarios, validate boundary and edge cases, and ensure cross-device and cross-browser compatibility.

Process-Automation

Behind the unwieldy sounding term "Robotic Process Automation" (RPA) lies an instrument for more safety and greater competitiveness. Put simply, our measures in the field of RPA are aimed at making manual activities more efficient and thus more effective. In concrete terms, this means that manual activities on the computer are automated by software robots. Predestined areas of application for RPA are repetitive and rule-based processes or tasks that are currently still performed by your employees. In RPA, software robots take over the roles and tasks of the employees. From now on, they act independently with other software systems.

To prevent misunderstandings from the outset: software robots do not physically exist. Rather, they are software applications that perform human interaction with the respective applications in an automated manner, i.e. all manual, recurring tasks that your employees perform with mouse and keyboard can also be performed by the software robot.

RPA works rule-based. Against this background, the use of RPA is particularly suitable for structured processes. Recurring rules and clear instructions for action are elementary characteristics of these processes.

Possible areas of application of RPA are, for example:

• Processing of returns without increasing costs or causing delays
• Improved customer support through fast processing of customer inquiries
• More effective account management (invoicing, accounts payable/accounts receivable, goodwill processing)
• Reliable logistics and supply chain management (placed, shipped, delivered)