Customer Profile
St. Jude Medical
Company
St. Jude Medical is dedicated to making life better for cardiac, neurological and chronic pain patients worldwide through excellence in medical device technology and services. The Company has five major focus areas that include: cardiac rhythm management, atrial fibrillation, cardiac surgery, cardiology and neuromodulation. Headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., St. Jude Medical employs more than 11,000 people worldwide. For more information, please visit www.sjm.com.
IndustryHealthcare, Manufacturing
GeographyAmericas
Solutions Products Challenges- Ensure a high level of application quality and data integrity for a sophisticated application used by clinical research analysts to conduct medical studies
- Reduce test cycle times for running functional and regression tests, data verification tests, tests with a user interface and direct-to-database tests
- Establish testing coverage for large data sets
- Eliminate manual execution of regression tests
- Support data verification tests for Oracle10g
- Average of 5 times faster regression testing with Borland SilkTest – tests that took 40 hours using manual testing techniques now take 8 hours with Borland SilkTest
- Data set testing coverage is 20 times greater on average – tests that took 320 hours using manual testing techniques now take 16 hours with Borland SilkTest
- Elimination of manual regression tests and data verification
- Reduction of 3 manual testing resources to 1 testing resource through automating processes with Borland SilkTest including unattended data verification testing and the automatic creation and update of a List of Parameters, including approximately 1500 items, during the software development lifecycle
- Support for user interface and database testing
- Support for parallel test execution