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1. Case Study: Sandhata
Introduction
This case study of a small business professional services company is based
on a February 2014 survey of Service Virtualization and Automated
Integration Testing customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.
The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their
confidentiality.
“game changing!”
“Challenges
Explored service virtualization and automated integration testing to solve
the following challenges:
Quality issues/defects found in production
Use Case
Uses the following IBM products to address software testing and quality
management needs:
Rational Test Workbench (includes Rational Integration Tester)
Rational Performance Tester
Rational Test Virtualization Server
Developing the following applications with service virtualization and
automated integration testing:
Web applications
Service oriented architecture
Mainframe back end systems (CICS, IMS, etc.)
Packaged applications (SAP, Oracle, etc.)
Applications as part of their company’s overall DevOps strategy
Used the following prior to adopting service virtualization and automated
integration testing:
Manual testing practices
Open source and/or home grown tools
Using the following middleware solutions to build their applications:
IBM WebSphere
TIBCO
Software AG
SAP XI/PI
Results
Purchased IBM over the following competitors to address their service
virtualization and automated integration testing needs:
Computer Associates / ITKO
Hewlett Packard
Parasoft
Chose IBM service virtualization and automated integration testing
solution over other offerings for the following reasons:
Broadest support for the technologies in their environment
Superior product functionality
Ease of use
Speed / ease of implementation
Realized the following benefits using IBM service virtualization and
automated integration testing:
Achieved faster project delivery / more on-time delivery
Created higher quality / fewer defects found in productio
Improved developer and tester productivity
Increased capacity to take on new projects for the business
Reduced overall testing costs
Achieved the following benefits with IBM service virtualization and
automated integration testing:
accelerated project delivery: 51-75%
decreased defects in production: > 75%
improved test environment set-up: 51-75%
improved team productivity: 51-75%
increased project capacity: 51-75%
reduced cost of testing: 51-75%
Company Profile
The company featured in
this case study asked to
have its name publicly
blinded because publicly
endorsing vendors is
against their policies.
TechValidate stands behind
the authenticity of this data.
Company Size:
Small Business
Industry:
Professional Services
About Service
Virtualization and
Automated Integration
Testing
IBM’s DevOps offering,
which includes guidance
and software tools, can
help an organization
assess its own operations
so it can reconfigure its
workflow in a more fast-
paced devops style.
Learn More:
 IBM
 IBM DevOps
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Source: TechValidate Survey of a Small Business Professional
Services Company
 Validated Published: Mar. 17, 2014 TVID: 47B-9E3-B98
Research by