Customer Profile
Varian Medical
CompanyVarian 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.
IndustryHealthcare, Manufacturing
GeographyAmericas
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
- 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
