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Testing Moves Beyond QA

By David Worthington

January 28, 2008 —

StackSafe today launched Test Center, a virtualized staging and testing solution for IT operations teams to test changes against. The premise is that test teams will better understand the impact of changes before committing them to production environments.

Test Center supports typical testing activities such as application assembly and validation, compliance reporting, diagnostics and root cause analysis, emergency change testing, performance tuning, production changes, patch testing, risk assessment, and regression testing.

Dennis Powell, senior product manager of StackSafe, said that it extends testing intelligence into IT operations, and allows IT teams to “speak the same language” as developers, by helping them understand the approaches and issues associated with software development.

“Operations testing is nowhere near as mature and efficient as what QA groups do,” Powell remarked.

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Paper trails sometimes cover QA, but quality efforts fall down on manageability Test case management applications are not widely used, so many organizations are still using manual systems, according to a survey from Seapine. This leaves many organizations with poor test documentation and a reliance on manually compiling test data, if they can gather any at all.

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