Intuitive Tools Help Reshape QA Testing

Author: Chris Kenny
QA Testing Tools Editor

For high-tech equipment manufacturers, there's no doubt accurate and efficient QA testing is vital to releasing high-quality products and staying competitive. This obviously puts QA professionals in the hot seat. Time-to-market is everything, and moving from manual testing to the use of faster, more intuitive tools is the name of the game.

And, it's no secret that most manufacturers are challenged with finding and retaining testers with solid skills and scripting experience. And even then, the reality is bringing new testers up to speed takes significant time and resources. Training, learning new scripting/language skills, and developing effective knowledge sharing techniques are just some of the looming challenges. Not to mention keeping up with new features and frequent software updates on every device — all driven by the reality of shorter release cycles and higher quality expectations.

It's these challenges that prompted Fanfare to create iTest Personal, a new, innovative tool that allows QA testers and developers with less experience to drive the QA process and become productive in less than an hour — without any scripting knowledge.

Fanfare Gets Personal

Fanfare's iTest Personal is built on real-world input from individual QA testers and features easy-to-use tools. For instance, iTest seamlessly creates a report that details every action Fanfare Gets Personal or command and the corresponding device response. It also provides an entire QA team with visibility into which tests were performed and how the device performed. These types of features deliver efficiency and improve the entire testing process like never before.

While the creation of iTest Personal was clearly motivated by Fanfare's vision to increase QA productivity, credit must also be given to a special group of "insiders" — Fanfare customers. Their calls for tools that make the QA process more efficient are truly addressed in this innovative product. For example: iTest facilitates the handoff between testing and development groups by creating executable reports that go directly to development to allow bugs to be reproduced, identified and fixed at the same time.

Key Benefits of iTest Personal

Improved QA Efficiency

With intuitive tools that allow anyone with minimal training to "capture" and document interactions with a set of devices
By offering visibility of complete activity history — so any user can go back days, weeks or even months to create and view reports

Better Communication Between Developers and Testers

By automatically creating powerful, comprehensive activity reports that are actionable scripts (or a test) that can be used to recreate a defect

More Effective De-bugging Process

Through reports and easy-to-use communication tools that build systematic, real-time confirmation, communication and problem resolution

With a full range of intuitive features — and list of benefits that includes slashing costly training time — it's clear that iTest Personal is the innovative tool the QA testing industry has been calling for. Try it for yourself, and see how much easier both QA-related communications and your process can be.