Borland Helps Pivot Inc. Automate Software Testing
Borland® Lifecycle Quality Management solution enables securities technology provider to increase test coverage by 50 percent and reduce testing time by 90 percent
Cupertino, Calif. - Sep 25, 2007 : Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL, www.borland.com), the global leader in Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), today announced that Pivot Inc. (www.pivotinc.com), a communications networks provider for institutional investors, has implemented core components of the Borland® Lifecycle Quality Management (LQM) solution to automate and manage the testing phase of Pivot’s software delivery lifecycle.
Pivot uses Borland SilkTest® and Borland SilkCentral® Test Manager™ to obtain the premium level of quality it needs to scale the number of test cases and eliminate its reliance on manual execution of test cases. Borland SilkTest enables regression, cross-platform and localization testing across a broad set of applications, and Borland SilkCentral Test Manager tests cases to requirement specifications. Pivot also utilizes Borland SilkCentral Test Manager as its central interface for managing, executing and reporting on all testing activities.
“Some people say that automation takes too much time, however, the time we invested in the use of Borland’s LQM solution was worth it,” said Mark Towle, Manager of Quality Assurance (QA) for Pivot Inc. “We now have more efficient testing to support our agile development approach, enabling us to deliver higher quality, more relevant and more reliable software to our customers.”
Pivot has automated more than half of its software test cases, delivering increased efficiency and productivity. Test plans that used to take one tester, working eight hours a day, one week to complete manually, now run unattended in just five hours. In addition, with the release of Pivot 360°™, QA teams have been able to more than triple product test coverage, increasing the number of test cases from 1,500 to 6,000 without increasing team resources.
Pivot is an inter-enterprise performance network dedicated to serving the capital markets arena. Pivot boosts customers’ performance by aggregating and integrating information and data across disparate sources into decision-making and trading specific workflows. Pivot increases relevance through structured data, and networking people and services 360 degrees around transactions.
“QA is critical to every aspect of our business — it is a central cog touched by all of our teams to deliver the highest levels of product reliability and performance for our customers,” concluded Towle. “The addition of the Borland LQM products allowed us to far exceed objectives for our quality initiatives. We have increased test coverage by 50 percent and reduced test time by 90 percent, much more quickly than we anticipated.”
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