Customer Profile

Varian Medical

Company

Varian Medical Systems, Inc., of Palo Alto, California is the world's leading manufacturer of medical technology for treating cancer with radiotherapy and neurological conditions with radiosurgery. The company is also a premier supplier of X-ray tubes and flat-panel digital subsystems for imaging in medical, scientific, and industrial applications. Varian Medical Systems employs approximately 3,600 people who are located at manufacturing sites in North America and Europe and in its 56 sales and support offices around the world.

Industry

Healthcare, Manufacturing

Geography

Americas

Challenges
  • Reduce regression test cycle times.
  • Establish better testing coverage for data sets.
  • Eliminate manual execution of regression tests that do not change from build to build. (For example changes or upgrades to the operating system require that all tests be rerun, even if application functionality has not changed).
  • Support .Net and C# development
  • Support testing on remote hosts
  • Support enterprise quality initiatives
Results
  • Average of four times faster regression testing with Borland SilkTest.
  • Data set testing coverage three times greater on average.
  • Elimination of manual regression tests for tests that do not change from build to build.
  • Improved support for enterprise quality through the ability for Borland SilkTest to support and integrate with Varian’s enterprise quality strategy
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Quality is at the heart of our business. Both the industry we’re in and the strict compliance regulations we must deal with, such as SOX and HIPPA, require us to aim at delivering zero-defect products with high traceability. The ability to link requirements from inception through testing gives us a high level of confidence that we’re delivering a quality product that’s built to specifications. To do this in the past, we had to manually connect our engineering and testing processes, and the different systems used by those teams. Having a fully-integrated solution to automate this makes our processes much more efficient. - Logesh Dorairaj, lead infrastructure architect for software quality engineering (SQE), Varian Medical Systems