Automated Smoke Tests (Mercury)

Submitted by rsanders on Tue, 2010-09-21 08:02
Category: 
Delivery Management
Project Completion Date: 
October, 2008
Industry: 
Retail
Business Challenge: 
Retail firm requested MATRIX to provide services to automate 17 key use cases to provide an end to end smoke test of Genuine Parts store Point of Sale (POS) TAMSII through an automated tool (Mercury). There were limited Mercury skilled automated test resources and a strict deadline for Release 1.19.50 of TAMSII
MATRIX Solution: 
  • Provided a team of off-shore automated test coders to create Mercury automated test scripts
  • Automated 17 Use Cases completing the automation of the TAMSII Smoke Test in time for QA2 deadline
  • Reviewed Use Case documentation and updated for completeness, where necessary
Results / Benefits: 
  • Reduced smoke test timeframe from approximately 5 days to 3 hours.
  • Completed smoke test automated scripts within timeframe